Hello, Old Friend

After many, many months of inactivity, Lake Effect has once again come out of storage!

I bought the pattern and fabric for Lake Effect way back in 2017. It was then that I also began glue-basting the hexies. In about October 2017, I dubbed this quilt a '10-year project.' 

And as things stand today in 2023, I would say I'm gonna' need every one of those 10 years!

This current surge of attention has been devoted to adding rows around the center panel. When I was over 2-years into making this quilt, I realized a HUGE mistake I'd made. I was using smaller hexies than the pattern called for. Golly, that amounts to needing a lot more hexies. 

The timing of all this works out well; because I've so recently been working on Grandmother's Flower Garden hexies, I am a lot faster at attaching these than I used to be. Adding entire rows is not nearly the daunting task I'd been fearing. Hah! A silver lining!

This quilt will have lived a whole life just in the making at the rate I'm going! But you know what!? I am still going on it, and an occasional break from it seems to rejuvenate me into big spurts of energy. Ten years. Yessireee, I believe I can do it.

Happy Quilting, Friends!