My plans for this extended 3 day weekend – quilt, go out for breakfast (which I’ve already accomplished along with a trip to the bookstore and quilt shop), quilt some more, go out and get a new lamp for my sewing room tomorrow and buy a friend an turtle sundae to celebrate her birthday, quilt, bake some bread, quilt, quilt and maybe quilt!
The holiday blocks I put up on the design wall Monday have not been speaking to me so I shoved them aside and moved on. Four little snowman blocks -left overs from a project – wanted to be set into a wallhanging. I love to hand applique so often get carried away before I realize I’ve made more blocks than I need but I always find a use for them …. eventually. So I set those four together last night. Just as soon as I finished, I found one more … now where was he hiding the first time I want through that box. Well, he gets to be a separate little wallhanging that will go on a wire hanger I have with a star on the top. I used the same striped border fabric on both, just different sections of it – and yes, all those fabrics came from the stash. The trip above the little wallhanging is a tube of fabric I made form the border stripe that I will use for tabs to attach the finished wallhanging to the wire hanger rod.
I’ve pulled out several other items that will make other cute little wallhangings or potholders – you can never have too many of those since all the women in the family love getting them so they are great quicky gifts – so I may get some Christmas gifts ready in the process.
Finally finished sewing down the binding on six little wallhangings this past week in the evenings. One is for a mini quilt swap I need to get mailed out next week, one went to a friend today as her birthday gift (and dang, I’ll have to take a photo next time I’m at her house cause I forgot to take one before I gave it to her) and the rest will just go in the finished pile. I’ll post photos later… I’ve got to get some bread started and clear a path between sewing table and iron and clear away the mess from last night’s sewing marathon – I started at 7 p.m. and finally decided I should head to bed about 1:30 a.m. but much progress (and mess) was made.
Justquiltin with Denise Russart 