The last week was very wet. Our part of the world was hit by a zinger of a cyclone. Caught out on the streets during the first deluge, I decided I would not venture forth until the whole thing passed and the sun came out to dry up the world. This helped me to get a good, early start on one of the commissioned single quilts. After some debating, I settled on waterwheel and star blocks. Twenty 9", 9-patch blocks each.
I decided to speed piece and paper piece the patches. The 3" half-square triangles- 80 of them - took me about two hours to do, including printing out the templates for speed piecing and rotary cutting the fabrics (I cut an extra half inch around which helped in pinning it to the template). The 80 3" strip-pieced blocks took another 2 hours, including pressing them out.
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