March 5, 2013

Today I came up with a plan!! I had run out of the background fabric but had bought some more fabric that I thought would work. So I found the fabric I had bought and came up with a plan to cut out all the background pieces. I had to cut out 400 small triangles and 80 large triangles. I cut the strips and started to cut the large triangles and got them all cut out. Then I started on the small triangles and cut out about two thirds of them. Then I was done for the day. When I am done cutting out the small triangles I plan to find the stash of printed fabrics I have and start cutting out the large and small triangles of them. Tom's quilt is a charm quilt of "T"s where each "T" is a different fabric. I have 20 more large blocks with four "T"s in each block so I have 80 different pieces to find. When I am done cutting out all the fabric then I will start sewing them all together. I hope in the end it will make the process go faster. My only regret is that Tom isn't here to pick out the fabric he likes.  I would also like the pieces of fabric to reflect his life. I'm going to keep pondering this.