So instead of typing a nice blog post last night showing you the results of my weekend of sewing like a mad woman, Gorgeous Man and I played pass the screaming baby. She was like I’ve never seen her before, and it took nearly 2 1/2 hours to settle her down. I know we are very spoiled and a lot of babies are like that all the time, but WOW. Finally worked out that she must be teething, and once she had the teething ring she calmed down quite a lot.
By the time she was soundly asleep in our room we were too scared to go to bed in case we woke her up for round two, so we ended up sleeping on the camping mattresses in the living room. I’m a little zonked today 
This morning she has been back to her usual happy self, which is a huge relief!
OK, on to the sewing. You all know I have organised a quiltathon for my guild. Well I thought we’d all just turn up and sew, but the guild wanted to be more organised than that and so we have been making blocks in advance. Last weekend I worked on these:
and this weekend I worked on these:
There’s all sorts of fabric in these, all of it was donated by the women in the guild,
polycotton, local quilting fabric that everyone used before the US imports became available, furnishing fabric, sheeting, good quality quilting fabric and so the list goes on. Because I am cheap frugal, I also unpicked the trimmings from the white blocks to add to the black ones. I’ve still got more of the black to trim down.
I’ll be taking the extra white strips to the next guild meeting to see if I can get a few more ladies to sew some blocks before the day. I’ll spend next weekend sewing too and then take whatever is left over to the guild meeting and hand that out too. September 15 is the big day of the quiltathon and then my association with the guild will end for the year.
I had to go to the committee meeting (even though I have resigned) because I said I’d finish the quiltathon off. Well that was interesting. They all had their printed agenda’s that had be sent out 6 days before the meeting. 
The meeting confirmed my desire to leave the committee. There are some very nice ladies on it, but one of them was particularly hostile. OK, enough ranting about that…The quilt blocks are pretty.
Finally to finish: Reason #46 why you need a stash of fabric (yes Kate, I admit I have a stash)
Baby barrier to stop the child going into the entry way (that we never use) and playing with the cat food/litter.
Oh that black stripe looks fabulous!
Double sigh – why can’t you just show up & sew strips onto a base? ACK!
agenda 6 days in advance – double ACK!
Cute kid barrier – I’m going to have to get clever once we get there – because any baby barrier would also in effect be a cat barrier – not a good idea.
I hear you on the teething bit. NOT fun! We just had our first bout of it and could not figure out why our happy-all-the-time-child was so miserable. Then, 3 teeth showed up. Whoops.
Your strip blocks are so lovely – the black ones are so striking. Sorry about those teeth ….. try VIDOL powders for her. They worked so well for my son that I got my Mom to bring me some when DD was born. I don’t know what the active ingredient is but they worked and gave baby and Mom a lot of relief.
Your little girl is getting cuter by the day!
Oh, I have got to remember to show that picture to Niek – I store my floss in thosee kind of boxes (I am not admitting to how many I have) as a justification! LOL!!!
So, GG had a rough night? I’m not snickering, really.
I’m glad for you and GM that these episodes are very, very rare. Me, I’m enjoying all heck out of Arden who is (so far, knock wood) a True Easy Baby. After our last two, I take nothing for granted! LOL
Your blocks look great! Love the ones with the black stripe best! Very striking!
Sorry to hear of your evening frustrations with GG. Teething can be such a pain for some children, others, it doesn’t even bother them… kind of weird…
I bet you feel good to have that confirmation of your decision to step back from the guild board hey!? Makes you feel like you have made the right choice for yourself…nothing to feel guilty about…
Happy stitchings!
I adore your sqaures! Absolutely beautiful. Poor lil babe – teething is hard, for everyone.
Your scrap quilts are looking wondeful! I’m very impressed that you were able to use less than quality fabrics to make such pretty quilts!
So sorry to hear GG is teething – I hope that it goes quickly!
Your blocks are lovely. They will look fabulous when stitched together!
I found your comment about being frugal (not cheap) quite refreshing because I too obsess a bit about not wasting fabrics.
Teething is hard. Each child does it differently, but if you think that those teeth have to get through the gums it’s no wonder there’s a lot of ups and downs!! I swore by Vidol powders for DS1 although DS2 didn’t like them as much (think they are just powdered paracetamol, but better than anything you get here!)
Keep smiling, because you are right some poor Moms have those kind of days ALL the time!
Glad GG settled down and is back to her normal self. One of mine was terrible teething so I do sympathise! Love all those blocks you have made…
I would have slept in the lounge as well!! Poor thing!!
I can’t quite work out why you have to do so much sewing before the quiltathon, but I am glad you have because I love looking at them.
Enjoyed the backpack pics as well-she is SO cute, Tracey
Teething sucks! I hope she won’t suffer too much.
The blocks look fantastic.
After all the work you are putting I really hope the quiltathon goes really well.
I have found in life that what goes around comes around, which here in the UK that if you are nasty to someone you will get nastiness back at some point!
Oh, those crying jags are SO hard:-(
Beautiful quilts!!!
I don’t know which I like better!
I love your stash doubling as a baby gate – inspired!
I love both sets of string blocks! I gave a talk at a guild last night and was SO surprised when they presented me with HeartStrings blocks – I have enough for a donation quilt!
I love how the black sets off the colors in the blocks!
I love your string quilts. I am always working on one, but has never made one in black. I have to give it a try.
From a South African living in the US