What the Heck?

Well, I marked the quilt I was working on Bernie and had intended to fire up the long arm, but then, squirrel. 

What's this all about?

What?

And how about this?

Ooookayyyyy???

Here's the deal. I saw a YouTube video on the Handi Quilter site a few years back. Kim and Kristina were demonstrating how to appliqué on the long arm (rather than having to do all of that on your domestic). Kristina showed a quick blip about a cathedral window she did and then the video was quickly over.

The community outcried for Kristina to do a little more in depth dive into how she did her cathedral window and about nine months later, they indeed did a video on this method of making a the one she quickly showed us previously. I have had the background for this for months, and am just finally getting into setting it up. Jim figured I needed to cut 640 'petals' for what I mapped out here. I have a little over 200 cut. 

My wrist was telling me that was enough so then I moved over to starting those strips from the three jelly rolls I purchased a few weeks ago. 

Here's where I left off around 7:30 last night...

Ready for pressing and getting together

There are fifty strips here (well, one is on the pressing table waiting). All the seams need to be pressed and then I have to join them in the order they are laying here on the cutting table. This is all I'm planning to do today other than getting things around for retreat later tonight. We can't arrive before 6:00 so I have all day to play. The weather is cooperating in that it's supposed to rain all. day. long. Welcome "real" fall.