I tried

Friday after work I had to run some errands - Home Depot, Aldi, and Earth Fare - so by the time I got home I wasn't much in the mood to do much. Saturday I thought the plumbers were coming so I was up early to get a bit more cleaning done. I as waited on the plumbers I fell asleep in my sewing chair. I guess because I couldn't find the half sheet of plywood I needed, the plumbers didn't come. I didn't get much of anything done the rest of the day.

Sunday I got moving. I had 28 Harley t-shirts that I cut up and pressed on the interfacing. That took me most of the day. I hung a few on the design wall and the rest are in a pile ready to be used. I leave plenty of extra fabric around the motifs for flexibility since I am not sure what size I need them to be yet.

I have quite a pile of leftover bits from cutting up the t-shirts. These make great rags. I will keep some for myself and take some to work where the guys always need rags.

This will be the fifth Harley quilt I have made for Andrea's poker run which she has in honor of her daughter that died in a car accident. This will be the 10th anniversary of her passing. Every year I have t-shirts pieces that are leftover so I keep them for the next year. Here is my pile of leftovers which some may make it into this year's quilt.

I didn't get any of the commission t-shirt quilt quilted. I just couldn't muster up the energy on Saturday to work on it. I did get my sewing machines switched out. The machine I got back from getting the walking foot fixed works like new. So quiet and smooth.

Here is what the blocks look like for my AHIQ hourglass quilt. I am using the six-minute circle technique to set the hourglass piecing inside the various colors of gray I am using. In the picture it is hard to see the variation of color - there are a couple of grays that look like they are the same. I am going to have to dig thru my solids again to see if I can find some other grays that are between the medium grays and the very light gray. I have no idea how big I will be making this quilt.