Bowl cozy

 For bowl cozy #2 I went up a size template, and made the darts shallower. I also only used one square of wrap n zap.

 It looked so big, yet held the bowl just fine. I think I'm going back to 2 squares of wrap n zap. 

I've been using the treadmill 5-6 times a week. 12 minutes at 1 mph gives me .2 miles, or about a thousand steps. It's .2 miles to the first cross street from the house. I'm reasonably happy with the progress. 

Moving along

 Manda and I decided to name the wallhanging The Rainbow Connection because, Muppets!

Next up, bowl cozies! This first one came out smaller than I expected, I think I'll try making the darts shallower. Jules has already claimed this one, and Manda sent me a list of colors she wants! I'm going to need more Wrap n Zap. 

 

Today is the last day of the season for Weber's Drive In, so we went yesterday for lunch. Great smashburgers! 

It's been so chilly that I had to switch to long pants! 

It's done!

 I did three strips today!

 Orange!

Pink!

 

Red!

Ta Da! They are just hung with binder clips, so not all are straight, and they are not equidistant to each other. I just wanted a pic of them all together, how they will look on Manda's stairs. 

I'm happy with how the strips came out. I did each strip a color, so it kind of gives a rainbow effect. Plus, it should help with the acoustics at Manda's house. 
 

 

Yellow

 The yellow strip is done! John Deere fabric, for my son in law Ben!

 And I can't remember if I posted green, so here it is:

 Ben is from Nebraska, and the John Deere is a running thing we have. 

I just have orange, pink and red to go. 

Backing

 Now I'm working on backing the strips. I decided to start with the shortest first, the purple, to make sure my technique would work.

 It worked, yay! So then I went to the longest, the blue.

 I'm backing with the color of the strips.

I started the greens, but found an error. I had two blocks with up and down strips together, so I took it apart and fixed it. I decided on a backing fabric, then ran out of steam and stopped for dinner. 

And more strips

 Sewing the strips has been addicting! And the piles of scraps are not going down!

 Pink!

Red!

And, last but not least, purple!

I recognized so many of the fabrics, but there were some that I had no clue what they were from. I started quilting in 2003, the year Eddie was born, and I think some of the scraps are from those early years, others very recent. 

I did ten minutes on the treadmill today, as well as my home PT, and my legs are tired! But I feel stronger! So now it's time to sit and rest for a while.

Next step, backing each strip.
 

More strips

 Manda's wallhanging is  progressing so nicely!

 Blue strip is ten blocks. Green strip is 9 blocks.

Yellow strip is 8 blocks. Orange strip is 7 blocks.

Next up, pink will be 6 blocks, red will be 5 blocks, and purple will be 4 blocks.

I'll do all the backings at the same time. 

And I think the scraps are multiplying in their containers.