counting, & winter wonderland again

Snow came to visit again today...

and it sure is a beautiful 4 to 6 inches!

I think it's a very nice way to welcome 2014,

and nice that I didn't have to go out and drive in it.

Nicer still that I could stay in and do some more hand stitchin'.

I have started stitching in my

'connecting squares'

for my Lucy Boston blocks!

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Lucy Boston - Patchwork of the Crosses
with 'connecting squares'.
I'm using a steel-y blue/grey fabric
that is Quilters Linen by Robert Kauffman

I started cutting the little squares needed and
I count
(yes, that's my own personal OCD - counting)
16 - one inch squares needed per Lucy block.

My mind breaks it down to 4 each 

for the top and left sides of each block,

plus 2 for each of the four corners...

so that when all the blocks are done in this manner

they will abut nicely!

So, that's about 1000 -  little 1 inch squares
when you add in the final right and bottom sides.

I took the finished, muslin-bordered blocks and put them out across my bed, and just as I have been thinking, it will take 8 rows of 7 blocks each - for the total of 56 blocks.

So my 2013 goal of

one LUCY block a week

netted me 52 blocks,

and has me right where I thought I'd be

as I welcomed in 2014!!

(The remaining 4 blocks needed 
I will make after
I mock-position my finished blocks
to see if I need to "fill-in" a missing color way.)

So, that's my plan :)

And, now that I've counted all those one inch squares needed,
I'm wondering why I haven't been doing some of them all along...

Back to stitching (and counting :)
Hope you are having time to stitch in the New year, also!