Quilt update

So I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago, but then I guess I didn't save it, which about the way things are going these days.

I was saying how I noticed that it had been a year since I started the post about the quilt, and I haven't made much progress.  Of course, I have had surgery and a granddaughter and a son's wedding and all that since then, but still not much progress.

But I was inspired to do some work on the quilt.  I remember laying in bed thinking about it, and thinking I was done with the four big squares and I needed to figure out how to do the flying geese and combine them all together.  Then I went and got out all my stuff, and realized that I wasn't finished with the four squares.  I was finished with three squares, and I still had to finish the fourth one.

So I got all the squares matched up and sewed them together.  All 123 of them.  And I ironed them all out nice and flat and I was feeling awesome about it.  Then I laid the new square beside the other three squares and stopped feeling awesome.  They weren't the same size!  My new square is a good two inches bigger each direction.  OMG.  How did that even happen?  I didn't do 1/4" seams on the other squares?  Geez louise.  So I put it up and wrote a blog post and forgot to save it.

So today I decided to work on it again.   I just didn't have it in me to do that big square again, so I decided to do some flying geese and do the big square later.  So I figured out how to do it, and made one test one, then cut some more material and made a few more.  Ironed down the first squares and started to sew them together, and the needle fell out of my machine.

I've tried to put it back and I've tried a different needle, but I can't make it work. 

I'm going to read a book now.  I think I still know how to do that.