I joined Tara Faughnans block studies this year and I am so glad that it did!!
Now I do admit that I don’t have as many completed projects as I would like. I do have something started from each month.
This month’s prompt with guest instructor Jen Carlton Bailey of Bettycrockerass. Her block Shattered along with her suggested Palette have brought excitement and fun into my January piecing time!
I do love piecing curves! I was very tempted to order her Curvy templates and might still at some point.
When I discovered that I already had the templates needed for the block size (thanks to Daisy of WarmFolk and a workshop that I took part in a few years ago) shown I went with that!
The scraps left over from one of the steps were fun to piece together!
Finishing the block last night made me want to dive into making more and I am sure that I will!
We have been gifted, in my opinion anyways with an extra long stretch of summer weather! With that though the bears in the area continue.
As much as I love walking out here and especially on my own at my own pace…though I love running into my friends and visiting too…I know myself and an encounter with a bear would be hard to overcome.
Instead I am playing at other ways to work on my fitness and yesterday my Dad gave me a step!
For many years when my girls were small I took step aerobics 3 times a week and loved it! Now I have a step and found an instructor that I like on YouTube. We have a treadmill and I can use it but I find it boring…
I have always loved fitness and know how important it is as I age and if I am going to be able to do all the things that I hope to do in these next decades of my life I need to be fit!
I am also reading this book…which really encourages retired people to consider exercise their new job….though I am not retired!
My Dad has adopted healthy living and fitness into his life even more so these last years and at 88 yrs he has spent his summer actively enjoying golf and his bike and is always reading, learning and trying new things.
On another but related subject I had been on the fence about joining Tara Faughnans Block Studies Collective this season.
My biggest issue was the time as I am a full time longarm quilter and I love piecing and have no shortage of projects or fabric for that matter.
So what made me decide to jump in? At my brother’s 60th birthday dinner on Sunday I mentioned it and the response was so positive, have fun and keep learning, go for it! The Block Studies Collective is about play and exploration, playing with colour, all things that I love.
Also winter is coming and with that a lot more time for quilting! Tracking shows that my palette arrives tomorrow so last night I pulled some scraps out and played at the end of my day! So many ideas and so much fun!!
On last thing about this season…a friend and I were saying to each other how tired we feel making the what’s for supper decision these days… I have been making that decision for most of my adult life. She had recently started ordering Hello Fresh. Two of my daughters have used it before and enjoyed it so…
That one was a favourite among several favourites, it’s been a fun change. We only eat in restaurants and very seldomly when we travel, and this has added so many great prompts for future meals!
Wendy’s Quilting and Life 