100. Odds and Ends

Well here it is, block 100. Why did I choose “Odds and Ends” for my final block? After all, this is it. This is the final block in my Bible Sampler Quilt project. I should be saying Ta Da! Well I’ll tell you. The reason was, this project is far from finished. There are odds and ends to attend to before I can call it DONE.

And this rings true with the Bible as well. Although I just read through it, every word, from beginning to end, I will never finish it. Holy scripture is a living word; to plumb its depths would take more than my lifetime. I am myself at odds and ends, and the “cure” is to stay in His Word, and follow His words.

I’ve actually been making odds and ends progress behind the scenes:

I am now in the process of tacking the blocks . . .

I chose to tack this quilt because 1. Ideally, it should be handquilted or custom quilted, which is not going to happen, 2. If I pantograph quilted it, I wouldn’t be able to live with myself, and 3. It’s not like it’s going to be thrown around at a picnic on the beach. Tacking in a three inch grid should hold it together well enough.

So tacking seemed to me to be the most traditional, and least-intrusive-to-the-designs quilting choice.

My goal for the challenge will be to finish up the tacking. There’s ten blocks across ten rows, six tacks per block. Shouldn’t be too hard.

I know what you’re thinking: How is she going to quilt the triangles? Like Scarlett O’Hara, I’ll think about it tomorrow.

But today is the day to set goals. Head over HERE to see what others are doing for their One Monthly Goal.

In the Swedish Death Cleaning department, I’m also going to attend to the odds and ends in that bin which is still underfoot. Come to find out, it held more than my year in Europe. So for August I’m going to deal with the rest of its contents and get it gone. There’s VCR tapes, cassettes, some pictures in nice frames, and who knows what all. I guess I’ll find out.