Stitchin' Friends: Determination Quilt

DETERMINATION is the name I am giving this quilt. I am used to getting up each morning and enjoying some coffee and doing some quilting. This broken wrist has put a kink in my morning fun time. After doing a lot of reading, studying up on EQ8, being on the computer with facebook, blogs and games, I was determined to come up with ways I could make a quilt.

I have this tub of 2 1/2" squares I use when teaching Cathedral Window quilts or Hexagon EPP quilting, so I decided to just start making 4 patches I could use when I make this quilt I designed in EQ8. This takes 152 4-patches. That should keep me busy for awhile.

A couple days later, they were done, and needed to be squared up......but try as hard as I could, I could not use a rotary cutter with one hand :(

So my wonderful, thoughtful, smart and PRECISE husband to the rescue. Using a 3 1/2" square ruler, he squared up all the 4-Patches, He also cut 310 3 1/2" squares and then cut them diagonally to make the corner squares, and once I get the corners sewn on, he is squaring those up to a 4 3/4" unfinished size block, using the Creative Grids Square in a Square ruler. That is what he is doing in this picture. He has already cut the 3 1/2" x 86" strips I needed to go between the vertical rows of 4-Patches.

I think he got tired of all my muttering and "southern sighs" because I could not master one handed rotary cutting. Or maybe he just did not want to see me cut off a finger. Either way, I think he is enjoying helping :)

I am a blest lady!