DJYota's Crafty Endeavors

This was me at the beginning of spring break....blissfully turning my thoughts away from teaching and grading and towards a plethora of British murder mysteries on Amazon Prime and mindless basting of over 500 Christmas hexies. Part way through that lovely break, the outside world was poking in on us.  Word came down that our district was going to initiate school closure to flatten the curve of the virus.  So the craft joy went away and our two-teacher family turned our focus on revising our fourth quarter units for online instruction.  Stressful, but do-able once I located on-line sources for   The Crucible and The Lord of the Flies that my students could access. Our family has decided to take this Colorado order to self-isolate and stay at home super seriously.  I didn't need much prompting since I have such an unpleasant memory of contracting the Noro-virus that hit our school district in November, forcing an early Thanksgiving closure of all the s...

The Little Miss Sawtooth journey continued...in no particular order. The further I progressed into the blocks, the more challenging the fabric combo choices became. I think Miss Isla had me the most flummoxed.  She was definitely the most frustrating! Pretty florals, but...no. Love the pretty pink roses, but the turquoise and blues...another no. Setting on the table in the afternoon sun, this one showed some promise... but once I stitched it up, it just seemed so...blah. Then the Amy Butler fabric gave me the "Pssst!" from the shelf while I was perusing star point colors, and...a star is born!  Love Miss Isla! Miss Olivia came together rather quickly without too much indecision.  She started with the blue star points on the flying geese, and I decided to pull a bit of the chartreuse Moda print back in for a pop of color. Miss Aliyah went through some transformative stages as well.   Florals, florals, which florals to choose ...