Yesterday, I realized that my $5 quilt block group meets today. No worries, I thought, I’ll just make it when I get home. Except, I didn’t make it when I got home, or even before I went to bed. Emotionally drained from a roller coaster week, I just couldn’t drag myself to the studio to do anything, let alone stand there, cut fabric and jump up and down to run back and forth the ironing board. So in typical Quilt Girl fashion, I put it off.

Too Early

When Chris’s alarm went off at 5 am this morning, I thought, I should probably get up and make that stupid quilt block. Yes, I actually thought, “stupid quilt block.” Because to me, pretty much everything is stupid at 5 am. Have I ever mentioned that I’m not really a morning person? Well, I’m not, which is why I think everything is stupid at 5 am. Almost as soon as the thought had crossed the transom of my mind, I fell back to sleep and didn’t wake up again until 7am.

At 7 am, I thought, pfft … who cares? It’s only $5 to buy it if I don’t finish it. I don’t want to get out of bed; I’m so cozy. But at 8 am, my brain woke me up again, poking at me with, “Hey, stupid. If you get it made before 10:00, you can get the March block FOR FREE.” Ugh, I hate it when the logical side of my brain kicks in before I want to do anything. So I got out of bed and came downstairs, only to plant my ass on the couch because I forgot to put the Diet Coke in the fridge last night. I NEED my caffeine, so I put a couple cans in the freezer and waited.

But my brain was not fooled. It KNEW I wasn’t doing what I needed to do, and so the nagging persisted until I finally came in to the studio around 8:30 and pulled out the block I needed to make for today. Without caffeine, I might add. Lack of caffeine might be why this month’s block has a couple of mistakes. Or it might not, but I think I can hide them when I put the whole quilt together.

The Quilt Block and My Thoughts

 

This is not my favorite block of the series, to be honest. I don’t think there’s enough contrast in the fabrics to make the pattern stand out. The shop owner did acknowledge last month that the batik set didn’t work as well as she’d hoped. When putting the block together, the quarter square triangles seemed … weird, I guess. I don’t know if it was how I cut them or what, but when sewing them to the half square triangles, the quarter square set seemed to be almost concave.

Still, I did learn a new way to make the quarter square triangles, and the March block employs them as well. That means I get another chance to get them “right” and to maybe figure out what I did wrong. My plan is to go ahead and make that quilt block today or tomorrow so I can have it done. I don’t really want to go through in March what I went through today. 😀