Adventures in Paper Piecing

21 Ready to Applique!

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A quick follow up to the post from June 28 Getting Down to Business. I’ve been working on finishing up my pesky English Paper Piecing hexagon flowers quilt that I began in 2016 (because I am weary of it!!!)

Made more progress – I have 21 blocks ready for the sewing machine to applique the flowers to the background denim fabric, then trim to 6.5 inches by 6.5 inches.

(So happy about my progress I took two photos!)

Once the 21 blocks are done I will add them to the rest of the blocks (currently 65) on the design wall:

AND that will bring me to a total of 86 block completed! Only 13 more blocks to go after that! (I can see the finish line, I can see it!) for 99 blocks for my 9 by 11 blocks setting.

Okay I will continue plodding along to get this quilt tope D-O-N-E!

Postscript

I also wanted to follow up on the Postscript section from the post Getting Down to Business, where I discuss my challenge with running out of media image space on my blog after 13 years of blogging and paying for an upgraded plan.

I recently discovered something very cool (and sort of unbelievable): the Denver Public Library lets patrons print out up to 100 photocopies a day for free. Yes, you read that correctly – 100 copies a day!!!

Here is what it says on their website:

So it sounded too good to be true and I suspected it was 100 pages per library card or something like that, total, for your lifetime! So I called the library and verified it is 100 pages per day!

I am still in disbelief as I used to pay 25 cents per copy at my other library system.

So I have the option of printing out in black & white OR color, old pages from my blog if I want to make some type of book of my old posts! Also they have mobile printing and I can upload documents from my computer and then retrieve them at the library!!! (Is this all a dream?!?!)

I love having this option available as I still work on figuring out what I want to do to decrease my media files stored on my blog (I got to clean house in some capacity!)

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16 thoughts on “21 Ready to Applique!”

  2. Aren’t public libraries just the most glorious places?!! I like your solution to archiving older posts.

    The hexagon flowers are looking good. I was wondering why you didn’t seem to have enjoyed sewing them, then scrolled down and saw how many you’d made!!

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  5. I am glad you are having someone long arm this for you (is that how you say it) and that is REALLY cool that the library is so generous in their printing allowance. The funny thing is – I bet folks do not really tap into that perk. Everything is so digital. I belong to a small photo club and when we have to print copies – it can cost 5 to 10 dollars per copy – and so that is a great perk for residents

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