Better Approach for the HSTs

I was not particularly happy with the mash-mash of fabrics in the previous post. So I spent a morning sorting out the "lights" and the "darks."

You can see the result in these twenty-five HSTs on the design wall.

And then a little here and a little there, I paired and pinned nearly 300 pairs of aboriginal fabrics (shown here in the plastic shoebox).

I need about 80 more HSTs with the black and white alternate.  I have 20 pieced and the rest ready to pair and pin.

Coddiwomple can now return to leader-ender status while I get back to piecing blocks for Razzle-Dazzle.

And we had to say a sad farewell to our mature front yard tree this week -  a victim of Oak Wilt.  

For those who might not be familiar with this term - Oak wilt is considered to be the most important disease of oaks in the eastern United States. Few other diseases encountered in forestry can kill large mature trees as quickly as oak wilt. The disease is caused by a fungus that spreads through a tree’s vascular system. In response, the tree plugs up its vascular system to stop the fungus from spreading, but this also inhibits water movement, so the tree wilts and dies.

(If the video doesn't play properly, you can watch it HERE instead)

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