Bangs McCoy

Can’t leave well enough alone

January 28th, 2007

I left for church early (with baby Jamie) for a meeting with the Young Women class presidency. I planned to take the Jimmy, but couldn’t get it to start - the battery was completely dead, so I took the Mazda instead. Bryan and Rees met us there. As long as Rees has a runny nose, he doesn’t go to nursery. Today he stayed with Bryan and the young men, and then I took him and Jamie home during Sunday school for lunch and naps.

During naps, I made some progress on my current quilt project. I started out with the “Dancing Stars” pattern from Open Gate several months ago. I chose similar pinks and browns for my quilt. My blocks were done, and almost completely assembled into the quilt top, when I decided to change it (what’s new?). I wanted a less busy, more traditional-looking quilt that incorporated a good amount of muslin. I toyed with some different ideas using the same fabrics, but I ended up deciding to use the same pattern, using muslin in place of a lot of the pink. This allows the stars to really look like stars. This also means that I don’t have to undo the individual blocks I made, just the block assembly.

For the past few days, I have been unpicking. Today I was able to finish unpicking the quilt top down to the blocks, and separate them out. With my new design, I have enough pink blocks to do three quilts. I then cut all the muslin squares I need for one quilt top. Now I need to work on adding brown corner points to my muslin blocks.

After naps, we went out to jump-start the Jimmy, but couldn’t get it to work. We hooked up the battery charger and moved all the seats to the Mazda. Then we went to Bryan’s parents’ house for dinner, where we had very good chicken cacciatore. We hadn’t really had a nice visit there since around Christmas. Rees had a lot of fun playing with Grandma and Grandpa.

When we got home, the Jimmy battery showed a full charge, and started right up. Not sure what drained the battery in the first place…

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