Betta Late Than Nevva

Tonight was our monthly meeting of the Bearpaws & Hollyhocks Jo's Little Women Club. I'm seriously behind on this project. How behind? Well, tonight we talked about part four--the final part of the quilt--and I hadn't even started. Yep, pretty far behind! And it's funny because this is a quilt I really like! Want to see what it looks like?

So when I got home tonight from club, I finally started it.

I didn't get very far, but then again, I figure it's not too bad for just a couple hours of hand applique.

My friend Pam joined Jo's Club this year, and when I heard she was joining, I told her the new members had to bring cookies to the meeting. And she DID! Well, that was some months ago, and sadly, she no longer believes me when I tell her she has to bring cookies. Nevertheless, I tried again today and she brought a bag of store-bought cookies. Do you think that counts? Yeah, I suppose we'll give her credit--she's a sweetie!

I was also behind in another monthly class I'm taking, Clues in the Calico. I got caught up on that one, though, last week. This project is a mystery of sorts--we find out month by month what we're supposed to add to the quilt.

The first month, we were supposed to make the broderie perse center star block (broderie perse is a method of cutting a printed motif from fabric and appliqueing it to a background). This month we were to add the half-square triangle blocks. I guess it probably wouldn't surprise anyone that I changed mine a bit. The original had the half-square triangles all going in the same direction around the quilt, but I liked them split in the middle and going toward the corners. I also had so much fun adding the broderie perse center that I added four more to the corners. For this quilt, I pulled some old Robyn Pandolph fabric from my stash and threw in a few other fabrics just to make it look a little more scrappy. It's fun to finally be using some of the fabrics I've been holding onto--I think this line is one of the first I "collected" in my first couple years of quilting!

Also something I finally got to--blog reading. This morning I went through my blog list and visited many of you. I guess I tend to be something of a lurker, though--I love to see what everyone's been up to, but unless I really have something to say, I don't always comment. It was a lot of fun visiting, though! There's so much going on out there! I still have a few more visits to make and I hope to stop by and "see" those bloggers in the next few days.

Finally tonight I wanted to thank you all for the name suggestions for the quilt. I can see it's going to be very hard to pick one as you're all so very good at naming quilts! I sure appreciate the help because my brain wasn't cooperating.

Until tomorrow . . . happy quilting!