Midweek: pneumonia front + the corollary, and the flimsy

Yesterday we experienced a weather phenomenon called a pneumonia front.  From AccuWeather:   A pneumonia front is a localism originating from the midwestern U.S. that describes when cold air over Lake Michigan rushes inland, causing templates to drop dramatically. The rapid decline in temperature can also be accompanied by clouds and rain showers.

When I was on the trail it was 80 degrees -- a lovely spring afternoon.   We got home and in minutes the temperature dropped to 60! 

Clockwise:  wild strawberries, blue-eyed grass, starry false lily of the valley, wild geranium (aka cranesbill), apple blossom.

A butterfly (at the vegetable/flower shop).  A snail along the trail, first I've ever seen.

# # # # # # #   On to the quilting front:

You know the saying, "Measure twice, cut once."   My corollary is, "Design twice, sew once."  

I did not follow that advice with this project.  I thought there'd been enough of the gray stripe I chose for sashing.  I cut all that I had (3-1/2" x 8-1/2").  I sewed sashes and blocks to make rows.  I sewed the horizontal sashes (stripe plus red) -- until I ran out, 8 sashes short.   I had another gray in the same tone, but not a stripe, and it looked....out of place.  I determined three options:   (1)  make the quilt smaller (5 x 6 blocks rather than 6 x 7), (2) use the out-of-place gray, (3) rip and re-sash.   

I chose (3) with a gray-on-white print (actually one of the bed sheets I got at the thrift shop last week) 

Blocks are 8" finished.   Flimsy is 60 x 80.    6 yards by weight.

Pattern:  Geo Chic by Homestead Hearth in McCall's Quick Quilts, D/J 2014. 

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  Thanks for the shout-out on today's WWL!