This is most of my fabric collection on the comic backer boards. I ended up using about 250 boards, give or take.
Pretty sweet, right? It does not include my fabric panels, the cuts of fabric larger than 3 yards or smaller than a quarter yard, or fabric other than quilting cotton.
After all that ironing and folding, I ended up sewing with some scraps of solid color fabric that were too small to wrap around boards. I had seen Jenny Doan on the Missouri Star Quilt Company youtube channel making a kind of block called Jacob's Ladder. I decided to try it. It's a takes a lot of small pieces and more concentration than I have at the moment.
On of those blocks is correct, one of them is the partial mirror image of the correct block. I'm not about to take the incorrect one apart, so there it is. I had enough fabric to make six blocks. Six blocks this size is not enough for a quilt, so the blocks I've completed will become "orphans" for now. (Orphans is the term used by quilters for one-off blocks or leftover blocks that don't immediately have a use. I have a lot of orphan quilt blocks. I will eventually use them for something though. They'll get made into book covers or zipper bags or will be incorporated into one of my hodgepodge/"mojo" quilts. Some will sit quietly in drawer keeping other orphan blocks company. That's okay, too.)
Aside from sewing, I've been reading. I started a book by Alice Oseman called Loveless, but then ordered Prince Harry's autobiography Spare which is interesting enough that I've temporarily abandoned Loveless.
What else has been going on?
I had a CT scan last week for my ear. I was supposed to have an MRI as well, but that did not go according to plan, so now I have to talk to my doctor and get some valium or something else so that I can try again. I was okay-ish about getting into the MRI machine until they put the cage-like covering over my face, then I started freaking out. That was no fun. The radiology tech told me that about 15% of people have the same reaction and can't complete the MRI.
The problems with my ear continues unabated. Fun.
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