With the one-half foursquare triangles I made yesterday, I could populate a modest country. There are 256 inwards all. If that sounds tiresome to you, but imagine how my truthful cat felt.
I worked on them the whole live-long day, taking breaks for tiffin and...well, you lot know. By day's end, I had sets from 4 out of 5 fabrics.
Only this coloring was left to do...36 of these.
We had dinner, together with Mike had approximately things to practise outside. As for me, I actually wanted to complete them, together with therefore I went dorsum into the sewing room together with finished off the concluding of them. Here is the population of my petty country. What advert shall I rank it? And what flag shall it have?
Okay, therefore 256 one-half foursquare triangles volition brand sixteen star blocks similar the i you lot run across below. I was considering the best agency to chain slice these.
Since I request a much larger move infinite to lay out all 16, I decided to stack them on the lid of i of my bins for slowly transport. When all sixteen were stacked up, I had i HST left over. Of course of report I did.
If I'd miscounted somewhere, I would convey expected to convey at to the lowest degree 2 left over, right? Since each petty foursquare makes two, it didn't look possible I could convey but i left. Obviously, I'd messed upwards inwards my stacking somewhere. As I was falling asleep concluding night, I figured I could become through these pairs 2 past times 2 to observe the errant one. It was the offset affair I did when I got upwards this morning, afterwards getting a loving cup of coffee. You don't think I could confront this challenge without coffee, practise you? Well, practise you?
Okay, therefore I went through them 2 past times two, together with I flora i to a greater extent than extra that didn't tally the offset one. Which meant, of course, that I had to become through them yet again. Finally, they're all matched upwards together with placed correctly. I think.
If this all sounds terribly tiresome to you, imagine how my other truthful cat must feel.
When she's sleeping, it's sometimes difficult to say which terminate is head, together with which terminate is tail.
Mike was nevertheless busy, together with therefore I decided to cutting the 12 circles for the yo-yo's. I remembered that I convey i of those Olfa circle rotary cutters. I won it at approximately indicate inwards time. If you've never seen i of these contraptions, you lot tin sack sentry how it industrial plant inwards the video below. If you lot can't run across the video, together with therefore click right here.
Since I won mine, I convey it whether I wanted it or not. Personally, I'm non certain it's especially helpful, but I used it anyway. It's a petty scary together with unsafe together with it seems similar a perfectly skilful agency to cutting yourself. Nevertheless, hither they are...all round, together with everything.
And that was the terminate of my sewing day. Looking at this, it seems all sunny together with bright...and I was pretty darned happy to convey all those HST's finished. Yoinks.
Today I convey to caput to downtown Portland for a dental appointment. Many years ago...like perhaps multiple decades...a molar chipped for no discernible reason. My dentist at the fourth dimension reminded me that my teeth were, um, something similar 40-50 years old, together with they were showing their age. (Thanks for the reminder.) So he pose a composite on it, together with I forgot all close it. Until a twosome of days agone when the composite chipped off, together with my sometime chipped molar was at that spot to remind me that fifty-fifty my composites are getting old. There's no honour for your elders whatsoever more. Have you lot noticed that too? So anyway...I'm getting it fixed i time again. Maybe this i volition outlive me.
Also, it's a twenty-four sixty minutes menses for going out on the boat. I dubiety at that spot volition hold out much sewing, if any. Sad face. Tomorrow I'll hold out picking upwards apples for making applesauce. Also, the farmers are offering volume tomatoes for the side past times side twosome of weeks. I convey but i calendar week to practise whatsoever to a greater extent than canning earlier nosotros request to larn ready to move out on our upcoming trip. I idea long together with difficult close the tomatoes, together with decided to larn 25 lbs. of "seconds." I'll role them for making manifestly sometime canned tomatoes...nothing fancy. My weekend move is cutting out for me. Maybe side past times side calendar week I'll convey approximately to a greater extent than fourth dimension for sewing those stars together.