Sunday Sundry - Vol. 32

The Hands2Help charity quilt has made some headway this week.  

I did take the seam ripper to those couple bass-ackwards blocks and put things  right.  Then I redistributed the final blocks so the plain red didn't scream "obvious" among the other red prints.

Sewed the top together on Friday night while listening to an interview on public radio with Wendy McClure, who has written a book entitled The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie.  I used to read Wendy's blog many years ago when she was chronicling her weight loss journey, before she wrote her first book, I'm Not the New Me.  So my ears perked up when I heard her name as the author being interviewed on the radio, and also because I've been a big fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books myself.  In fact, when my daughter was about 10, we spent the winter reading through all the Little House books together and then visited some of the places described in her books that summer.  That included Pepin, Wisconsin and Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where we saw an outdoor play based on the books right there on the banks of Plum Creek.  A year or two after that, on our way to visit my folks in Arkansas, we toured the Wilder home in Missouri.  Anyway, it was an interesting interview, and I'm definitely going to check out her book.  She has a witty and often irreverent style of writing, so I'm sure it'll be a fun read.

Back to the quilt, I put the backing together Saturday.  I admit, it's kind of a hodgepodge, and I had to do some weird creative piecing in an effort to get it the right size, but I think it'll be just fine once it's all quilted and bound.  That's what I'm telling myself, anyway.

I had to get batting at Jo-Ann today, so I thought I'd also see what the fuss was about with the Denyse Schmidt fabric that's been popping up like dandelions all over the quiltosphere.  Well, it was all gone at this store except for a little bit left on a couple skinny bolts that, had I not read the label, I would have completely passed by.  It had little flowers on a dusky blue background, nothing that particularly grabbed me, so I was happy to leave it behind.  Now, had they had the red/pink dots or the blue/green dots in that line, it may have been a different story (though I may have spared you the photos).

In any event, there was 50% off the clearance fabrics, so I snagged a few yards for the stash.  A couple batiks, a pink floral, and some cute blue birdies came home with me!

How about some music to wrap things up on the first Sunday Sundry post in many weeks?  I heard this artist this past week as I walked through the room where Norm was watching VH1.  Loved the throwback sound.  I thought the singer looked familiar, then recognized him from the early '90s group Tony Toni Tone' (Remember If I Had No Loot?).  This song is from Saadiq's 2008 album, "The Way I See It."  My blog name was derived from a twist on that phrase!