It's a Flimsy! Spider Webs

 Spider Webs

64.5 x 86

An old UFO has now moved forward to flimsy stage! 

I MIGHT be able to piece together all my remaining spider web fabrics for a backing. 

I used the Spider Web templates at Quiltville.

  I used 1.5 inch scraps. 

 When I do get to quilting it I'll quilt in some spider webs like I did on the one I made previously for my grandson. 

I feel like I need to start building an Ark.  It has rained almost every day in May.  Every once in awhile the sun comes out for a few minutes and I go for a walk through the flower gardens and catch a glimpse of some rain soaked flowers like this poor tree peony already loosing petals.  {sigh}

We are experiencing a severe thunderstorm right now. Guess I'll go sew. 

Some Assembly Required

 I now have 48 Spider Web blocks! 

An empty shoe box of 1.5 inch strips or 26 more Webs for my target of 48 was my OMG (One Monthly Goal) for May.   I made all my Webs and almost emptied the shoe box too. The remaining strips went into the bright strings box to be used in a couple of other UFOs. 

 This week's 16 blocks are on the left. The pile of previously made blocks are on the right. 

A total of 48 blocks...192 wedges...2112 pieces (if my pencil and paper math is correct).

It's about time!!! I started these webs back in October 2015 but ran out of 1.5 inch scraps a couple of times along the way.  When I decided to move this UFO forward this month I had 22 blocks and a shoe box full of 1.5 inch scraps accumulated over a few years to work with. 

Now there's some assembly required. 

Maybe I'll have a top completed for the next Wednesday Web report. Or this might be the last Wednesday Web report. Time will tell. 

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Wednesday Webs

And now there are thirty-two webs. 

Sixteen more to go. 

Wednesday Webs

 Down came the rain and washed the spider out.  

While waiting for the sun to dry up all the rain I made a few Spider Web blocks. 

These are made from 1.5 inch strips and not strings. In the past  (2012) I made a Spider Web quilt for my grandson using various sizes of strings so I thought I'd try something different for this one.  I started making the blocks in 2016 and used up all the 1.5 inch scraps I had at that time so put the Spider Webs in a shoe box and waited for more scraps to happen. 

 I now have a total of 22 blocksand have a goal to make 48. 

Scraps have happened over the years and I plan this month to either use up all the 1.5 inch strips in the shoe box OR make 48 blocks -- whichever comes first. 

So in May I'll have a weekly Wednesday Web update and not a Midweek Chain Report. 

And since this is a May goal why not declare it as my OMG. 

48 blocks or an empty box? Which will it be? 

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