Everything From Home

This year keeps getting more surreal. They have reopened most businesses in my state, only to close down bars again as coronavirus cases increase by thousands per day. I think they gave up. They decided it was too costly to close everything down so they are opening up regardless of the consequences. The protests against police brutality continue, and people are tearing down monuments to white supremacy as businesses reconsider racist branding. My office hasn't reopened, we are all still working from home. I expected none of this.

Instead of working on UFOs, I started 3 new quilts. I finished piecing this Carpenter's Star variation wall-hanging, but I haven't basted or quilted it yet.



I am still piecing a zigzag border for this Bonnie Hunter pattern ('Rectangle Wrangle'). I decided it needed a double zigzag, so I still have a lot more work to do on it. Pieced borders take a lot of extra time, but they add so much to a simple pattern like this one.



I don't have any photos of the third quilt I started. I'll post some later; I am still working on a pieced border for it. I need to start machine quilting again.