July & August 2006

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July 2006:
        Happy 4th of July!  I  am working fast and furious on my quilt again after taking part of the summer off…I will update my progress in the August newsletter.  See you then!

August 2006: 

Good-bye August!  Oklahoma has been in the throes of one of the hottest summers on record with 36 days so far over 100 degs…...WOW!!  August 5^th was the Three Year Anniversary of working on my quilt.  Time flies!!!   I have spent most of August working fast and furious to try and catch up from my lack of progress during the early summer months.  As of August 31^st I am on row 137 with 21 rows left to sew on the top.

My husband and I decided to do some calculations as to amount of time spent on the quilt to date.  He "Timed" me to see how long it takes me to sew each square - I sewed 4 different squares and was timed on each square, then we took the average of all four squares and came up with 1 minute per side.  There are 160 rows in the quilt top - each row containing 140 one-inch squares.   So….  136 completed rows sewn x 140 squares = 19,040 squares x 4 minutes per square = 76,160 minutes divided by 60 minutes = 1,269.33 hours spent sewing the squares…these hours do not include time spent prepping the material (ironing, cutting, laying out the pattern, etc.) which we estimated added an additional 24 hours for a total of 1,293.33 man hours!!!  Once again I do not have an updated picture but will try to get one taken by the end of October (maybe the final picture!)  See you next month!!