Broken Dishes
4 inch finished blocks
I now have 61 Broken Dishes blocks. My goal is 300. I know I have more blocks to add to the mix. I have a box of Broken Dishes in all different sizes.
You may or may not remember that recently someone sent me a whole lot of 2.5 inch unfinished HSTs and HST parts. Right now I am working with the HST parts as leader/enders. I sorted the parts by color and then sorted out pairs. Then I matched up pairs with a similar set of pairs.
I then used some light pairs within the HST parts to complete the HSTs but quickly ran out of light HST parts. So I have been cutting sets of four light HST parts from scraps with my Easy Angle ruler. This is the kind of stack I have next to my sewing machine for the first round of leader/enders. When I match up my light HST parts with the ones given to me I match up the corners of light/dark and then sew along the diagonal of the light one. Basically that makes it so I hardly have any squaring up to do. I just need to trim dog ears. But when I use light pieces from the parts given to me those do need squaring up.
I've webbed a lot of tops this month so at the end of each column added to the web a set of four HSTs for a Broken Dish block was sewn together.
Then they go into a bin for ironing and trimming. Then they go through as leader/enders again to make the Broken Dishes blocks.
These are the bags of HSTs that had papers attached. I have now removed all of the papers and the bag on the left have been ironed. I'm not going to do anything with these until I reach my goal of 300 Broken Dishes. I might need to sort through these for pairs to make more Broken Dishes. However, I think most will go into making the traditional Depression Block to finish at 8 inches.
And sew on...
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Packing up today to leave tomorrow between 5-5:30 for a trip to University of Iowa for John's surgery. I expect to be gone for a week.
Tuesday September 01, 2026
MANDIBULECTOMY
INTRAORAL LESION EXCISION WITH OR WITHOUT ALLODERM
TRACHEOTOMY
Performed by Zaid Al-Qurayshi
11 comments:
I hope all goes well tomorrow with better than expected results. There shouldn't be much traffic that early on the road.
You have a lot of your followers wishing you and John a successful surgery.
🙏🏽 Laura
Prayers for a safe trip and all the best people on your team! Take care.
My thoughts are with you and John. May all go well, please God.
I basically do the same process with my HST blocks. They go through the different stages in group too. Take care. 🧡 ;^)
Prayers for a successful surgery and easy recovery. Hope you feel the support from your followers on this journey.
A New Hampshire admirer is holding you and John up in prayer.
Sharon M
Praying the best results from surgery and a smooth recovery.
I hope all goes well with the surgery and recovery.
Fabulous leader ender project.
prayers and good wishes!!!
You and John will be in my thoughts this week. If you have any spare moments to think about something else, you can contemplate designs for those broken dishes units.
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