It's a Modern Affair

Chicago last week was amazing. The show seemed a little smaller than usual but the products did not disappoint and the plastic has been well and truly flexed! The weather was almost unbearable as they see a huge heatwave over there - the temperature was around 100 every day and the humidity almost unbearable. However, we survived and have returned batteries recharged & ready to go!

I was itching to stitch when I came back, so after the jetlag calmed down, I found time yesterday evening to pull out some of my "put away for best" fabrics from Pat Bravo's "Modern Affair" range (I've gone with the oranges, greens & greys, leaving the blues for another day) and made a start cutting out 3 1/2" squares to make a quilt using Lily's fabulous LynneBobSquarepants block (quite an apt block to start making, seeing as my two have just "discovered" Spongebob and are mildly obsessed

This is where I was at last night - further progress has been made today with the first block having been stitched & further HST's stitched ready for the next couple of blocks. It was only when I started to trim the HST's ready to do the layout below, I seemed to vaguely recall how much I hated HST's at the end of the Joel Dewberry Modern Meadow quilt. Hey ho - I love the finished result so am sure it will be the same again this time (although last time I was working with larger squares on a smaller quilt - go figure!)

The trimming shards - boy, how time consuming is that?

The layout of the finished block (which is now together)

I have also pieced a back for the Joel Dewberry quilt - once it's sandwiched I shall take a pic (if I remember & the weather holds!). Which reminds me - we had a wasps nest in the back garden under the decking of the kids' playhouse just before I went away. A fabulous pest guy came & injected it but it looks like he didn't get the lot as I saw quite a few wasps scurrying down there again today - must call tomorrow to see if he can come back. What a pain!