To Do Tuesday # 77

After seven gray and drizzly days, the sun came out today and we had to turn on the air conditioner! Like they say in Texas, and probably every state in the union, if you don't like the weather, wait a minute. I wanted to work in the garden, but it's a muddy mess out there, so I continued to sew.

Last week's goals are done!

✔ Make 28 half string blocks and 7 string squares
✔ Buy enough muslin to finish blocks

(I found another yard in my stash, so didn't have to buy any muslin. Yay!)

✔ Quilt 7 square blocks and 7 pinwheel blocks
✔ Make 4 lap bibs (1 Xmas)

At the bottom of this post is one of the bibs I made in 2018 for my mother-in-law when she was in a nursing home. She used it in the dining hall once and then decided she would rather eat in her room than with "those crazy people." LOL. She didn't care if she dropped food on her clothes if she never left her room. After she passed, I put the bibs in the car so I could use them if I ever ate in the car. Little did I know that Covid would end our dining in restaurants and any meal eaten out would be eaten in the car. And then I found out that these scarves don't work well when not eating at a table. Car seats lean back more and these didn't cover the lap at all.

We also discovered that restaurants don't give out knives, even when asked for one, and it is really hard to cut meat with a plastic fork. So what I needed was a bib that didn't look like a bib, covered my lap as well as the front of my shirt, could be used as napkin but also keep liquids from soaking through, could hold silverware, would fit in the glove compartment, and stay folded and compact so it wasn't in the way. This is what I came up with this week. I used quilting cotton on the front and homespun on the back. The homespun is softer and more absorbant than the quilting cotton. It works, but I'd like to make it cover the lap a bit more.

Now Goals for January 26, 2021

• Make six more scarf bibs
• Finish quilting Jacob's Ladder
• Rip out the stitching from one pinwheel block so I can reuse the backing
• Quilt the string block on the new square in a square block

That doesn't seem like much but if I get more done, I'll consider it a bonus.

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