Some more blocks

A few more blocks for the long-ongoing Om Nom Nom quilt:

Jellybeans in two color combinations: pastel (fruity?) and primary colors (classic flavors?)



I know these prints came from a big packet of candy-themed fat quarters I bought quite a while back, when I was first planning the quilt.

And two more blocks: chocolates (I also have this one in a white-chocolate colorway) and lollipops:



I had forgotten how block-by-block quilts can be kind of fun; you can sew bits and pieces and do a few seams as you have time. I'm now looking at a Jacob's Ladder pattern and thinking it might be fun to do as a block-by-block quilt using my 1930s reprint fabrics, or maybe Civil War reproduction fabrics.


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I went to bed last night shortly before 8. I don't know why but once in a while I will get a day when I get home and I am just EXHAUSTED.

I suppose it could be a combination of:

1. working out
2. doing a few soil samples (I have allergies to molds, and allergies make me tired. I wear a mask but I know some molds can get through that, I'm unwilling to suit up with a full respirator kit)
3. Faculty meeting with some low-level distressing information (And a reminder, yet again, of how some people can apparently blithely break the rules and face NO consequences, and then those rules come down even harder on those of us who have been following them...grrrr. No, not anyone in my department was the rule-breaker, but we're going to feel the pain caused by someone else's actions - or rather, lack of action, because it involved someone NOT doing something we are expressly MANDATED to do.)
4. Teaching a 75 minute lecture followed by a 2-hour lab, both of which I was on my feet for the entire time
5. Once again, the building is very cold. I suppose it takes more energy to thermoregulate when the classrooms are 55 degrees.

It was hard for me even to work up the enthusiasm to practice piano when I got home. Or to cook much of a dinner. (I made green beans, a salad, some sliced fresh strawberries, and cheese rarebit over toast, so I guess I wound up doing all right).

So I went to bed and read on a book I was supposed to have read (it's a book one of my students is doing for Directed Readings, which I had never read before). I kind of had to bluff my way through our meeting yesterday and I hate doing that, so I pulled the book out and resolved to read it all (it's not long) before our next meeting. (It's about ethnobotany so it's not a particularly difficult read for me; I know most of the stuff in it already). 

I think I need a treat, even though I'm looking at my upcoming tax bill (one other thing I did this week was to re-do my Federal taxes and do my state taxes.) and twitching. I do think I will go to the quilt shop and see if they have the hexagon-piecing papers - I've been going through my scraps and have found that the scraps from the aqua and red quilt (pictures of fabrics at the bottom of this post) will work well with some of the leftover Denyse Schmidt fabrics, and I'm sure I have other bits and scraps that will coordinate, so I'm planning a scrap one-patch hexagon quilt (or maybe pillow top, if I get sick of working on it). I'm sure I have other odds and ends of fabrics

I never throw scraps larger than about 2" square away; I can't bring myself to - I remember a time when I was a grad student and had little money for quilt fabric, and I think about how "fabric will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no fabric" - so I have a pretty extensive scrap bag. And I have lots of "undesignated" fat quarters that I could take a small patch out of to use, and a few leftover 10" squares from "layer cakes" and other odds and ends.

(My mother is the same way about fabric, and she even used to save the basting thread she pulled out of things to baste with again - she said she remembered when she was a child and having to wait for her mother's cast-off basting thread to sew doll dresses with. Of course, that was during and right after WWII, so rationing probably played a role there)