I knew the schedule at work was about to ratchet up and boy did it.  I was lucky if I had 30-60 minutes after work each day to spend on this quilt.  A lunch break was a distant memory.  It will be like that for the next 3-4 weeks but it should calm down again after that.  That’s just the way my job is.

What I haven’t worked on this week at all is the Splendid Sampler.  I’d had an idea in the back of my mind that I’d like to try a feathered star sometime.  Then I saw the cover of this month’s magazine.  Then I saw last Sunday’s block for the Splendid Sampler and thought that sure looked like a feathered “something or other” to me and promptly set it aside.  Some day, not in the near future!

What I have been doing is quilting, quilting, and more quilting.  I decided to do an all over pattern of 5 pointed stars on the quilt.  I typically will do any stitch in the ditch work first to help keep the 3 layers together but that didn’t happen this time because there is literally none of it.  What I did was stitch star after star after star all over the quilt.  Then after I took  look at it, I realized the stars really didn’t stand out very much so I spent the rest of this week echoing inside all the stars I’d already quilted. I’m finally done with that and just finished sewing the binding on.  I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now!