Today was quilt class day and I had got caught up in another project and not completed my homework. At 8 last night I decided to get it done. Well, three hours later, defeat was staring me in the face. There was no way I was going to be able to make those pieces go together in a nice flat quilt block. Getting the star done worked fine, but when I tried to add the outside white pieces, it would start to bubble up in the middle big time.

Sooo . . .using my photoshop skills I created a paper piecing pattern for the silly thing and took it from there. Of course, it was not as simple as that. It took about hour to make the pattern and then a couple of hours to sew two of them up. AT 3 in the morning, my bed was calling and could not be ignored. This morning I finished them up and made it to class without a minute to spare. Taught me a lesson for sure.

So, now I am doing next week’s homework TONIGHT - no waiting til the last minute. We have class on the first and last Friday of the month so there is only one week between the last class of the month and the first class of the next month. Our homework for next week is to get all the inner blocks sewn together, adding strips here and there to make them all fit. Dayton likes how it goes so far and decided to take a nap on it. So, how is one to do homework when the cat likes to sleep on it?

You can see some of the blocks though - those star thingies are what gave me such a problem last night. Dayton seems to like the Carolina Lily the best though. Didn’t our teacher do a great job of putting together blocks for the quilt? She is awesome. You can see a little of what she does on her website at http://www.judysteward.com/ The photos on the website do not do her quilts blocks justice.