I know, it seems like I’ve done nothing on this project all month. It’s true that we’ve been having extra family time this summer (a good thing), which leaves less time for quilting (a bad thing). Also, I had a nasty head cold for half of July, and the snot fog discouraged me from doing anything that required using sharp implements.

In the meantime, though, I’ve made some improvements to the blog. In the bottom left corner* you’ll notice a link to subscribe to Dear Paulette, so you can be notified via email whenever I post a new article.

That’s right, you don’t have to constantly check and see if I’ve been slacking or not. Just assume I am slacking until you get an email about a new post.

I also spent some time messing around with the home page. I changed the number of posts on the home page from 10 to 12, so there wasn’t always one lonely post in the bottom row. That was an easy fix (my favorite kind of fix).

The order of the posts on the home page was unfortunately not so easy to fix. I could not figure out why the posts were sorting in such a weird order. It seemed like the three newest posts went left to right in the top row, and the second row had the next three newest posts, but they weren’t always sorted left to right.

Eventually I determined that they were sorted by vertical location, so the newest post in the second row will always go under the shortest post from the first row (so it can be in the highest vertical position of the second row).

Apparently, this is a desirable style … I blame Pinterest. What happened to good old chronological order, folks?

I considered going all OCD and making sure that my preview text was exactly the same length for each post, so that everything would be vertically-aligned and it would have no choice but to be chronological … ultimately I decided that was a lot of work, and I wasn’t that dedicated to it.

Rest assured, though, that I am dedicated to this quilt, and have been making slow progress on another block. See Exhibit A below.

Exhibit A shows my workspace with a definitely partially-completed block on it, plus MacGyver, who is keeping me company while I work.

You may notice that the partially-completed block in Exhibit A has a whopping 49 pieces in it. Because naturally, when one is busy with work and family, and battling mucus, one chooses the block with the most pieces of all the blocks in the entire quilt.

Note that I’m not 100% sure that the previous statistic is accurate. Partway through looking at all the blocks, my nose started running again, and I never got back to my fact-checking. If there are any blocks with more than 49 pieces, suffice it to say that there sure aren’t many.

And yes, I noticed that even Richard Dean Anderson looks exasperated at my lack of progress. Be patient, MacGyver; I can’t just duct tape the pieces together.

 

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