All the 12" blocks are done! It's beginning to look like a real quilt although also strangely like the Minecraft-themed Halloween fabric we sell at work. Up next: sashes (connector strips), cornerstones (connector blocks), borders, and then I can buy the batting and start putting it all together. Since the whole point of this project is working my way through my overflowing wool stash, it seemed unwise to buy a bed-sized piece of fluffy wool and then have to find a place to put it while I finished the rest of the quilt.
I've hit a wall on the cigarette pants--there's definitely too much room in the upper thigh, even though it was perfect in the muslin--???. Oh well. I keep coming back to it, slowly working my way through a step or two, testing out some possible solutions and then discarding them. I have to remind myself that this is how lots of my favorite clothes started out, and that necessity is the mother of invention. In the meantime, it's been very satisfying to do lots of small straight seams with no fitting, no curves, no geometry. Sometimes you just want to sew a precise 1/4" seam allowance you know?
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