My snow day activity

 Finished shovelling the walk so rewarded myself with a cup of coffee and some Youtube quilting videos.  Normally I wouldn't spend 45 minutes watching anything on Youtube but this was well worth the time spent.  This is a great jelly roll or strip quilt that you sew up in strip sets and rearrange to come up with a very pleasing pattern called Walking Trails.  I think this looks best if you stick to three colours:  two darks (or mediums) and a light.

For those who have a Stripology ruler it's worth watching the cutting at the beginning of the video to see how she uses her ruler.  My sister just gave me hers and I have been using it a lot.  When I tried it out at her house a year or so ago I didn't find it very easy to use but she really can't do any cutting now so I reluctantly took it off her hands thinking I would pass it a long.  I got it out to give it another try for cutting the mystery quilt I am doing with my online Virtual Quilt Group and there's no way I will be parting with my Stripology ruler now.  I loved the tips for eliminating dog legs in strips and also for using the ruler for squaring up blocks.

It looks like a complicated block but it is just a simple strip set cut into squares with a couple of easy cuts and then rearranged.  

I thought this video tutorial was well worth the time investment.