like sands through the hourglass

Wow, I got so much done during the Austin Modern Quilt Guild retreat last weekend! In an effort to avoid an overly lengthy post, I'll just show you one project today, and I'm linking up with Workshop in Progress. I meant to post this on Wednesday, but it slipped my mind with the many trips my poor car has had to make to the mechanic.

how many hours does it take to make 80 quilt blocks?

So keeping a time log has been an interesting exercise. If you read that last sentence and thought it sounded about as exciting as busting out the seam ripper or basting a quilt, just click away from this post now.

Last we left off, I had cut all my strip sets into 320 quarter-square triangles. I spent half an hour pairing those triangles up to be sewn (and owning Jeopardy — there was a category about Texas today!)

harsh clock

I, just like many of you, I'm sure, repeatedly get asked "How long does something like that take you?" Now, my usual answer is something to the effect of: "I don't really time myself. I do this for fun, and I don't want to turn it into a chore." But over the holidays I got asked that question so many times, I actually started to get curious. So when I started working on my doube hourglass quilt, I decided to pay attention to the clock — or to how many episodes of This American Life I listened to while doing something.

Here are the somewhat depressing results: