After a bit of a poke around in the die bin, tried this size for another DJ B1.

What is it about this block?  I swear I forget how to appliqué circles every time I try it.  lol

The choice of fabric may have been influenced a bit by the lunar eclipse.  😉  Did you watch it?  We had thick cloud cover, so I flipped between NASA and a few observatories on YouTube.   The first thing i thought of when i saw Morocco was what a fabulous color it would be for quilting fabric.  lol My favorite was California's firey red.  

I have the Skyview app on my phone.  It identifies stars, constellations etc.  If it's a clear night I'm usually out in the yard, holding my phone up checking out whatever is up there with the night sky.

 This is my sewing set up.  It may not be glamorous, but it works!  It's really handy being portable.  A few minutes here and there add up.  

The only thing it needed was a pincushion, so of course I had to make a new one with the reject from A1. 😉  

It was sewn a tweener when I was making a new belly band for Bailey.  There 16 days until the event we have a booth at.  Hence, the few minutes here and there of any kind of sewing.  By the time I'd got to stuffing the pincushion, I'd forgotten there was an opening at the bottom and put a hole in the back to turn it through.  Of course, it was a potential replacement for A1.  BEB thinks the block is either cursed or vindictive.  lol

This is the thread for sewing the buttons on B1.  I could have used black or red, since it doesn't show that much.  This thread was much more fun....pretty and silky.  I don't have a ton of fancy threads for machine quilting, but every one is varigated.

The details.  

 Progress on A1.  Frixon pens are great when I do daft things like draw the sewing  lines for the triangles on the front of the fabric.  

Waiting for a seam roller to arrive in the mail.  Finger pressing doesn't give enough of a crease.  Tried it with my nail, but that put weird tiny puckers in the seam.  

We got our booth number today.  The pic is one of the bracelets I've made.  It's my fave, so I'll be making one for myself in a while.

 

Grey's incubating Aphrodite and Heracles eggs.

We knew one was close to hatching.

We just didn't realize how close until last night!  

Such a tiny baby!  Grey had his hands full as I set up a temporary house, as they're super fast and jumpy when they're babies.

I'm a bit nervous about handling something so small, because.....

......I'm more comfortable handling something this size....that doesn't run and jump!  lol

The triangle die.

This may be The One.  Just need to work out the color placement and values.

It's from this book that was published in 1999.  

The back of this die is clear, which is wonderful for fussy cutting.  Thinking about alternating between colored and neutral blocks. Maybe a 30 by 30 wall hanging.

This is the square die.  A granny square wall hanging is a possibility for one of them.  A flick through my quilt books is on order!

  

This is the last of the big scraps that need to be cut up.  The yellows are ready to go.  The bags are sorted by color - green, blue and multicolored.  There's also a bag of Christmas scraps.  Those will probably be cut into squares for a separate project.

The red scraps are done.  203 squares, 54 triangles and 64 tumblers.  The rest of the yellows are pressed, starched and ready to get off the ironing board.  The dies are ready to go and some of the fabric has been trimmed to fit the dies.   

 Bailey out on his morning constitunal.  We headed up to the corner......

Then back down into the bottom and over the bridge for a bit of rock flipping down at the creek.  The only thing I found was a worm.  Maybe next time it will be a salamander.

BEB thought it would be a brilliant idea to design a new cord wrapped bracelet......17 hours later has nothing worthwhile, but is still going.  Stubborn is her middle name.  lol  She thinks she's (finally) nailed it.  She's used high dollar tools to make a surgeon's knot.....quilted placemat, sewing pin and magic tape.  If this doesn't work, you'll be able to find her under the sewing machine table curled up in the fetal position hugging a few fqs of William Morris fabric.

 Making a pincushion with the little hexie set that wasn't used in the DJ block.  I saw a quilt made out of this pattern.

I made a ton of four hexie sets in the middle of the night when i couldn't sleep over the last couple of years.  They're all one inch and made from scraps.  They're all glue basted, as it was a mindless project that I didn't want to put any thought into.

The pile is constantly added to and never goes down.  That's not a complaint.  Making hexies is a project of it's own.  lol

A three inch pineapple log cabin pincushion made from scraps. 

How many pincushions is too many?  One more than I have.  lol

Tipped out an office rubbish bin that's full of of small scraps.  This will make a ton of inch and half inch hexies.  I need to get cracking on these.

12 down.  Many more to go.   It's a mindless, but fun project.  When it's done, the jar will be neatly stacked with red, neutral (it was going to be white, but there's not enough scraps) and blue yoyos.  Saw Kim Delhi do something similar with hexagons.  

Where would we quilters be without snap lock baggies?  

Printed a few copies of the blank quilt layout.  This one shows the blocks that have been printed.  There's also one for templates and another for completed blocks.  This is a quicker way of keeping track of where everything is at than having to turn on the computer every time I want to check where I'm at.  

Dug out this square set.  The largest is five inches, which is the block size without seams.  Some of the other squares may come in handy, too.

The Frixon pens are going back into the stash.  They'd be great if I finger press, but I don't.  I've lost count of the number of times I've used them, pressed with the iron and the lines disappear.  You'd think I would remember.  lol

I love this print.  If I had enough, I'd use it for the whole background.  I'll sprinkle it through as much as possible, instead.

I don't enjoy stitching reverse applique, so I decided to use junk mail templates instead.  They looked a bit big. 

They were.  I'd used the DOTTED seam allowance as the template cutting line.

After swapping out the buttons for a different fabric  for a better color combo, messing with the positioning of the buttons and swapping out the background fabric, I decided I really don't like the block.  

Fiddle faddled around with fussy cutting new hexies. Then shredded them while removing the cardstock.  The fabric was stuck down like I'd used super glue instead of an Elmer's glue stick.

This isn't my first glue stick rodeo.  I always glue baste pieces this small (1/2 inch).  It was a new glue stick, so tried it on a different fabric.  That one detached easily.  Tried it again.  This time slathering it with glue.  Nope, nope, nope.  Popped off dead easy.  It was the super shreddy fabric not the glue.  

I was ready to leave it until the next day as it was getting late.  Then BEB appeared, sporting a colorful cape and wearing her underwear on the outside, shouting "this is a job for Superquilter!"  and something about being able to leap fat quarter bundles in a single bound.

She messed with it for a while, until I said it was beyond help. She even tried melting the glue on a low iron setting and thread basting.  

She popped onto Jamie Wallen's YouTube channel while starting again with different fabric.  Seems watching him quilting was too much of a distraction.  The result is in the pic.  Oops!

She didn't make an appearance in the morning.  After sleeping on it, I thought a tiny appliqué would not look right.  So, started again with different templates.  

Ready to thread baste.  This is the first time using mylar templates and using a lozenge shape.

I tried making a shape similar to  snowball, but the folds were turned the wrong way.  I'll get more practice in a future quilt.

Pinned it out on the light box and marked out it to make it easier to line up.  After a bit of trial and error, it was pinned....to the back!

A bit more adjusting and it was done!  I'm happy.  One down, 168 to go!  lol