Weekly update: TV, totes, and a new start

 We have one TV. It's in the basement family room that is mostly my studio. There's a comfortable armchair where my husband sits. I sew.

Our new TV was delivered on Wednesday. It hadn't occurred to me that the maple washstand that served as the stand for the 12-year-old 19" TV would not be large enough.  My family's kitchen table from the 1950's was pressed into service. (It ceased being used as the kitchen table when we moved in 1962. It was in my dad's basement workshop until my sister and I cleaned out the house in 2002. It's been in my basement laundry room.)   I now need to find places to put the things that were on top of and under that table.

Here's the table in use.  (My mother in 1955, my sister in 1958.)  It's hard to imagine our family of four sitting around that little dinette table, even when my sister and I were small.

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I've made three tote bags from the purple and green BOM blocks that I showed last week. More precisely, I have made three tote bag outsides and three sets of handles.  I need to quilt the bag outsides, cut and attach linings, and put them all together.  Each of the three uses two blocks, which means I have six blocks to find uses for. I'm kind of stuck on designs at the moment -- and the bright lime/purple combination is losing its appeal because there is so much of it. I'll set all that aside for a few days.

I've begun the next project: a quilt for a colleague whose baby is due in November.  A recent review of quilt magazines led to tearing out patterns (and pitching the remainder).

This is from a back issue of McCall's. The pattern is by Gerri Robinson.

Here's the I Spy version so far. I'm going to make 36 blocks.  [Novelties are cut 4-1/2 x 6-1/2. Sashes are cut 2-1/2 x 6-1/2.  Thus the blocks are 6 x 8.]

Monday linkups:
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