Dipping into a patient project

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Lavender in its tote; letting it breathe a bit is a good thing.

The last two nights I've stitched on my Lavender quilt. Like actually sewing together blocks, whoa! I don't know the exact impetus, but I pulled out the tote, rummaged through it, then went to work.

A pretty nice way to become reacquainted with this project that I started three or four years ago; I do have a recipient in mind, but it won't be gifted for a few years, which lends itself to a lengthy life in a tote.

Not a great way for a quilt to linger, but....

What I like about this quilt is the ease of making the blocks, although basting four-inch triangles requires a little bit of glue stick in addition to the thread basting. Yet once that part is done, and I *think* I have enough triangles prepped, then half-hexagons are added, no bending of papers. And in stitching those blocks to additional triangles, four and two-inch sized, still no bending of papers! Well, a little will be incurred when I sew rows together, because ages ago I added a small triangle to what would be the following row. I don't like unpicking EPP, so I'll maneuver around it when I do attach these rows to one another.

The small green triangle on the right is the one I'll need to work around, one of these days.

There's not a lot of fancy manipulating, just loads of colour alongside low volume prints. An array of low volume, let me say; I like mixing up the quiet fabrics. I made this design in a sampler quilt, fell in love with it, then set about ordering enough triangles to make an entire quilt in this pattern. It's had its own tote since I got busy with it, the tote residing in the living room, but other shinies have muscled their pretty ways ahead of it. Yet I hadn't forgotten it, and two nights ago, out came that tote, one row about half done.

Now I have a second row started, but seeing it will probably be ten rows, no twelve rows in length.... That's a lot of stitching to remain. Patience is this quilt's middle name, but that's an English paper piecing virtue. And thankfully it's one I've had practice with, hehehe.

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