In The In Between Times -

Wednesday was full of finishing up inn laundry, making beds and getting all things ready for the arrival of Susan’s Retreat group who began to arrive just before 3pm.

It was a run around of a morning – including getting the remaining pressing stations fixed – but in the in between times – there was a bit of time for cutting and pressing.

What’s under my needle now, you ask?

More triangles.

I love all patchwork units from four-patches to nine-patches to flying geese..but I think the most versatile of all units is the humble half-square triangle.

So here’s a bit of what’s going down in the studio – as I said – in the in between times.

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Okay. This is going to be fun!
But don’t I have a lot of other things that are going on behind the scenes right now, too?
Yes – but this can be a bit of a reward – in the in between times!

The main objective for this project is to first off – give some breathing room to that overly stuffed full blue strips drawer.

To specifically grab those strips that are short, don’t play too well with others, and just need to go –

And I am challenging myself not to think to hard – not to focus on the prints themselves, but to go for variety in all directions.

Messy pile of unrelated blue strips –

Other than the fact that they are all navy-ish.

Where I’m at so far.

Tile floor inspired. I’m calling this one Waterford as it reminds me of our trip to the Waterford Crystal showroom in Waterford, Ireland this past June.

Of course, this one has no deadline, and I’ll be working on it – in between things – over the next long while.

I’m headed to Kenya a week from tomorrow!!!! I’M NOT READY! But I will be.

And this will wait.

These are done!

Under this new layer, simply attached by staple gun, is the old layer, two layers of warm & natural batting and a piece of plywood cut the same size as the table top.

The pressing stations were purchased at Rural King, but Harbor Freight has somethin similar.

I used industrial strength peel-and-stick velcro on each end of the tables to hold the pressing boards in place.

After I took these photos I did put a layer of freezer paper on each pressing station – something I remove and replace with each new retreat group so everyone gets a clean, fresh pressing surface.

This whole recovering thing was supposed to be a quicker job than it turned out to be, but I’m pleased with the results.