"I'm going slightly mad" AKA Red and Blue makes Purple

Life is getting really manic at the moment - I thought I was picking up the school secretary job quite well, but the end of school year procedures have left me stunned - exporting children (!) and importing the new starters, plus parents of 4 year olds wanting to look around the school, other parents who don't plan on accepting their child's place, but have no intention of actually telling us, added to sports day, end of year production and the normal day to day sick children, missing lunches and blocked toilets - by 20th July I will certainly have earned my six week holiday!!!!

I've been working on the Purple Present quilt, but today my language turned blue, and my face was red.  I  was using a design that I think of as Vanishing Orphan Patches: the initial 9 patches are made with random (or orphan) blocks in the corners, and plain squares in the middles.  I was actually making my 'orphan' blocks but the principle is the same.  Once the large 9 patch blocks are made they get cut into 1/4s and trimmed and then reassembled in a pleasing arrangement

I know that if I use 2.5 inch strips to make small 9 patches for the orphan blocks they come out at 6.5 inches, so I cut my plain blocks to that size too, and calculated back to make pinwheels the same size - except the pinwheel calcs went wrong and they were 1/4 inch too blinking small grrrrr!

So lots of waste purple on the work bench, but I have completed the blocks and pinned them ready for sewing into strips tomorrow

Now off for Baileys :-) (Thank you Jackie!)