Ponder, Texas is located at Latitude 33.179134 and Longitude -97.287601. Ponder is in the Central (GMT -06:00) time zone. Telephone area codes in Ponder include 940. This hometown does use daylight savings time.
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Texas Historical Commission. [Dimmit County Courthouse, (East elevation)], photograph, 1977; (texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth685140/: accessed November 17, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Historical Commission.
The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1966 - The Portal to Texas History
Main Title: The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1966
Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1966, newspaper, March 3, 1966; Archer City, Texas. (texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth708702/: accessed November 17, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.
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I hope this post finds you well! I’ve been offline for the past few days. It started off with a medical emergency for a family member – but if there’s a bright spot in that story, it’s that I had time to take my bag of stuff to work on patchwork of the crosses while I sat in the waiting room for hours. And hours.
That’s really the great thing about English paper piecing; it really is so portable. I try to have enough fabric basted so that I can sit down and just sew but in this instance, I was doing a little bit of everything. I had 3 different people ask me what I was working on, 2 of which were quilters.
One woman told me about her mother making quilts out of clothes that were no longer fit for wearing, etc. The memories had quite an impact on her, decades later (the woman appeared to be in her 70’s or 80’s).
Then the second time I got into a discussion was with a couple; the woman (also appearing to be in her 80’s) still hand pieces her quilts. She went to a LQS recently to find someone to hand quilt it and was told no one does that any more and that everything was done by machine. In the end, she has a friend who lives in Beaumont who still does hand quilting so that’s where her quilt is now.
I encouraged her to join a quilt guild in her area and told her about the social factor as well as the guest speakers. And I’m pretty sure she might try her hand now at making a Lucy Boston quilt!
The latter part of the week was spent on a planned road trip but it also meant we left town before I found out what Thursday’s block was. I happened to look onine that evening and…it was English paper piecing. Really? Really??? ‘Cause I could’ve brought that with me and had it done before I ever got home, just working in the evening. So I spent what little free time I had on making another sashing piece for the patchwork of the crosses.
When I got home, the first thing I did was to print out the templates without noticing I’d left the settings at a 50% reduction. This week’s blocks have hexies that are a mere 3/8″ in length on any given side, which meant I accidentally printed the template for 3/16″ size hexies. No way! Fortunately I caught that mistake immediately. I printed out the templates since I don’t have any that size and then figured I’d stiffen the pieces up, so I cut some freezer paper and kept ironing and ironing and it wasn’t sticking. What on earth? Why won’t this stuff stick to my paper? Oh yeah….I’d picked up the wax paper instead of the freezer paper. Hey that’s great. Now I have this stuck to the bottom of my iron. I remembered seeing a trick about how a dryer sheet is great for cleaning off the bottom of your iron.
That probably actually works much better if your iron isn’t hot. Because otherwise…it’s pretty much going to melt the dryer sheet. Don’t ask me how I know that.
I finally figured out the easiest way to cut the templates out was to make crooked rows if you will out of the template pattern. Cut to the left, then cut to the right and then snip that row into individual pieces. That took entirely too long to cut all those out and I’m sure you probably heard me yell “I didn’t need to even cut all those hexie templates out!” when I in fact realized the pattern included a lot more than 42 pieces in it. I should have counted as I cut them out.
As you can see, I did in fact get 42 tiny little 3/8″ hexies cut out, basted and sewn together. I was busy talking to the daughter and got a little crazy glue basting it on, so that’s what the wet spots are on there but they’re gone now. I wish now I had put this on a darker cream fabric because the centers blend in too much to the backgound fabric, even though those are 2 different fabrics.
That’s 35 blocks completed. Today’s block is called Dashing by Chocolate so I’ll get it knocked out later today hopefully.
I’m planning to paper piece it so I loaded it into EQ7 so that it will be ready to go once I have time to work on it. One of the other advantages to doing it this way is I can also see the most logical order to sew this.
In the meantime, I did manage to make some progress on the mariner’s star as well as some quilting on the Bloom block, but nothing to significant for either just yet.
Love your hexis. I have managed to put interfacing on my iron in the past, that is not fun to get off.
I wasn’t very patient when I realized I’d cut out about double the templates that I actually needed – haha!
I’m a telecommuter. That’s a 25-cent word for saying I work in gym shorts, t-shirt and no makeup. It requires a lot of self-discipline and it’s definitely not for everyone, but after something like 8 or 9 years I can say I’m well suited for it. I don’t have the TV on, dirty dishes pile up in the kitchen sink like at anyone else’s house who works in an office. 99% of the time I’m self motivated to think of work and do work a full day.
But today…well I had a new long arm waiting for me. Mr. “Put It Together” left about 7pm last night and no kidding – I think by 7:30 or 8 I had the quilt fully loaded and ready to go. I found out the hard way there’s a super secret second on/off switch. Knowing it was coming, I had watched multiple videos on loading the quilt. I even came up with a shortcut way of loading the batting that I haven’t seen posted anywhere else.
If you have a long arm then this hopefully will make sense. First, I loaded the backing at both ends and left it loose so it draped in the middle. Then I loaded the top. I had already put my roll of batting on the pole near the floor when I realized if I leave it on the roll and just leave extra slack….I don’t have to cut it off before I start. I can leave the batting on the roll!
The clock ticked slowly until lunch time today and then I almost literally ran to the machine. My first few stitches were bad enough that I took the seam ripper to it. But before long, I could see the pattern that started to emerge. I’m quilting a couple of quilts that have Star Wars fabric in them, so stars seemed like a good pattern to quilt. I decided edge-to-edge was probably a good idea the first few times around.
I’m headed out of town for a long weekend, so no quilting for me! Oh and I decided this year I’m doing Bonnie Hunter’s mystery quilt. She posts the first block(s) the day after the US Thanksgiving with weekly posts. I think it runs through maybe mid to late January so it’s not a long time requirement. This one is free, free, free and can be made using scraps – so who’s on board to do this with me!
I saw someone recommend a quilt shop that pulls suggested fabrics based on the colors she suggests so I took the easy way out and ordered from them this time. There are mustard yellows, darker and lighter purples, forest greens, the neutrals and 1 constant. I was originally planning to use batiks but having someone pick the fabric for me was too good to pass up.
You go, girl!!!!! Luv the stars w/ the center curl. Since I use a Sweet 16/sit-down, pantos aren’t “in the cards” for me and ‘stars’ are the one shape that would be nice to do well (I have done them fairly consistently with freezer paper pieces!). Am totally thrilled for you!!!!
How exciting! And yes, I’m doing Bonnie’s mystery. I’ve pulled all the fabrics except the dark and light purples from my stash. Apparently, I don’t use those colors much so I’m going to have to go shopping for fabric. Poor me! Congrats on the long arm, I’m trying to just be purely joyful and not a bit envious That’s hard work.