Today is a " meh " Day

When I know I have appointments and things to do that will interrupt my day it's hard to really get into much.
I finished DJ block 24, ( yea me ) and I started "tarting up" my 25 trees.
Yesterday I took the plunge and bound the edge with black and a silver flange. It's not perfect. I always have trouble matching that flange edge when I join the two ends.

My intentions are to cover this piece with small small birds and animals. I stitched a couple of blue birds........they're ok but I lost interest. Maybe it has something to do with the idea that I was planning on around 100. Well I have time for that.

 
Then I had the brain wave to add some apple trees.

 
And them I thought some acorns or oak trees...with a few squirrels. Okayyyyy ...

Now I just want to eat.
Time to go out! 

6:00 PM ( Hubby's cooking ) I just finished this green wedge.  (23)

It occurred to me, during my philosophical musings, ( you spend a lot of time in your head working on these blocks ), the concept of women's education being lesser than men's. The maths? It was subtle. The centuries and decades women sewed clothing, and quilts they dealt with sums, fractions, geometry, tessellation, rotation and drafting. 

Think about it.

25 Trees Quilted

I finished hand quilting these trees yesterday. And I feel confident enough that I won't do a shabby job on my DJ quilt. I certainly learned a lot about my hand stitching technique as well as the significance of the 1/4 inch seam allowance.

We often forget the significance when we machine sew and quilt. But when it came to hand stitching there was a great difference in the ease of stitching and the ability to make small stitches when the seam allowance protruded into the stitch line. All those untrimmed paper piece folds in the tree construction. I didn't faithfully trim them all. And I paid.

When things were good, I could get my stitch length down to 12/inch. If I had to stitch through 4 or more layers....I had to work to maintain 8/inch. That's how we learn.

I had intended to go over all my block while I assembled the quilt and now I'll do so with a sense of purpose, reduce the seam allowances to an even 1/4 inch where ever possible.

And this morning I completed the first corner block. I started this last night at our meeting. 24 left!