Weekly update: not much to report

I made 80 Double X blocks.. I thought I had  decided on a double-sash setting. That is, I will make sets of four and sash around each set. But I have another idea in the works!

Remember that I'm trying to use up -- exhaust -- clean out the 30's stash. All that's left of the yellow (inner sashing) are two 6" strips and a few 1.5" squares!

(Yes, I know I could give away / swap / sell the 30's stash. But that would be giving up.)






The guild round robin is in the fifth round so the tops are getting bigger. I was going to add a checkerboard outer border. I contemplated cutting down the previous contributor's elaborate braid border but thought better of it. (I don't want to insult her.)  I looked at it again and realized that the bluebirds in the center [contributed in the second round] need a place to roost.  I'll make a flower basket (the white blobs are flowers traced on fusible web).






DH had a very bad spell while I was in Denver. He was discharged from the hospital on Saturday to a local nursing home (10 minutes away) for physical therapy to get steady on his feet.  I've been juggling my schedule to be with him, especially at dinnertime. He's been sundowning (end-of-day anxiety).

Monday linkups:
Design Wall Monday
Monday Making


P.S.  A long-time member of our church passed away. Her executors let the church women take things before they had the house cleared out.  We had a silent auction after church yesterday. I got this quilt for $20. I was excited at first -- vintage!  But upon closer examination (coarse stitches, lumpy batting) I think it's a Chinese knockoff.