The right tool for the job - part #2

I think the picture speaks for itself. These tools are now indispensable to many quilters. Years and years ago I saw a tumbling blocks quilt and thought I would like to make one. I cut out a cardboard pattern and started tracing it on all different scraps of fabric. Then I cut many of them out. With scissors. I never finished the tracing and cutting. I never made the quilt. Somewhere in my garage there is a box of fabric scraps. All shades of blue. In the box is a cardboard template and some fabric cut into diamond shapes. Someday I might make a tumbling blocks quilt but it won't be done that old way. If I attempt to make one it will be using a pattern that calls for rotary cutting. I'll bet there are still many quilters that use the 'old' patterns and methods. I applaud them. I don't want to join them though. I would be discouraged and give up and my box of blue scraps would have lots of company.

I look forward to advances in the tools we can use to make quilts easier and quicker. I am so thankful for how far the craft has come already.

I am praying for my family and guests that have gone backpacking. I am not sure if they know that there are thunderstorms forecast for tomorrow.