March 2020 sewing

Working from home, now three weeks in, has meant that I seem to have had less time for sewing, but maybe that is an illusion.  

The pandemic numbers are rising, slowly here thankfully, but alarmingly elsewhere.

This was the list of the planned sewing for the aborted long weekend away.  Yes, I had worked out roughly how long each partial project would take, as I didn't want to run out!

 

 These were the project boxes for the list, almost all were cut or in strips.

I didn't get even close to the sewing machine until the Saturday afternoon, can't remember why, but eventually since then each project has had it's turn to be moved on a little.

First on the list were the March blocks for Good Hope Quilters'Guild Mystery 2020.

 The above cut pieces turned into these blocks. I really like them!

Teal was March's colour of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 

Framed Nine-Patches (numbers 65 to 76...getting close to the 99 needed), although they don't look too Teal-ish in this photo, each print has some darker teal on it!

Four more Scrappy Slabs.  These are the thirtheenth set of four, need seven more sets.

 Postage Stamp blocks.  I don't know how many of these I will need, but these 3 x 8-inch, 1x 6-inch and 5 x 4-inch blocks bring the total number of blocks to 102 blocks. And I think I like them on-point.

Teal kite shapes. Definitely teal, not the more blue they seem!

  

And, yay, a finished top.  My Bonnie Hunter Frolic re-engineered.  About 67" x 80"

And have started sewing up the remainder of the blocks but playing with

 a different layout, and edging.  Some way to go on this still.

This is Claremont Main Road at 2pm yesterday when I ventured

 out yesterday, after a week at home to forage for food buy milk.

 Almost devoid of traffic, it is normally one

 of the busiest intersections in the area, and not a minibus taxi to be seen.

  Good to see the now mandated country-wide lockdown is being observed.

 And, from that list, although I did work on the Dress-Up Orphans (no pictures), I decided to abandon the purple split 9-patches, and never even looked at the Jack's Chain blocks.

But it is the start of another non-socialising week-end / week  /month, so maybe some more to show in due course.  Lots of Netflix viewing or BBC Radio Comedy to sew along to.  

Off to sew!