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Humble Shaded 9 Patch.  From a box of scraps, and some 2 1/2" strips.  I used Karen Comb's book,  Combing through your Scraps, to help plan a design so I wouldn't have to get up and down from the floor/rug.  This finishes at 60" square.   Yes, one mistake .  I liked it that way, just to be stubborn.

I am quilting non-glamorous swirls in the dark areas and a wandering leafy thing in the lights, starting in the middle dark, then stopping at a border area to change thread.  I guess my  concentration skills applied only to ...

My finish for the week is all the diamonds for my sea swept quilt are done. They haven't been trimmed in the picture, but, I am ready to start the assembly today at our quilt group. I made 10 a day after coming home, and, I finished trimming yesterday.

Oh my - my retreat story. I just couldn't find a project to work on except my sea swept quilt. And I was closing in on finishing all the blocks I would need. But, I thought it would just take a couple of hours. Silly me, thinking I needed another project.  Just as I finished sewing 388 triangles to 97 diamonds, and began to trim them, Someone asked me what I was making. So I showed her my snails trail blocks and how this was the sashing.   And, Oh no,  they were too small for the block. I had chosen ...