And that's how it is done!

200 DONE! Yes, I got the last 23 finished! Woohoo! I am happy to have met my goal. Now I know I will have plenty for everyone.

But wait - there's more! I finished the four scissor pouches to go with the matching project bags and thread beds for the four designers.

But wait - there's even more! I finished six scissor pouches to go with the thread beds for table gifts!

I have been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out how I am going to get the seventh scissor pouch when I only have enough of that gold sampler fabric for half a pouch or at least I thought. This morning I was straightening up my table a bit and organizing what projects that still need finished and I think I figured out a solution. Meanwhile, this is what my table looks like. It's not as messy as it looks because I know where everything is!

I will show you my solution as soon as I get farther along with finishing up projects. I had bought 6 yards of that tan sampler fabric and a bolt of the gold sampler fabric (I had used some of it before I started this round of projects) and here I am scrounging for scraps to try and complete projects! LOL!!!

Six more done

I sewed those last 29 scissor pouches together. After that I turned 16, pressed them, then topstitched. I was running out of time so I punched the holes for the snaps in 6 and finished stitching those. I now have 177 out of 200 done or 88.5% done!

Here are the 10 ready to have the holes punched, snaps installed, and then the final stitching.  I will easily be able to get these done tonight.  

I packed up the remaining pouches that need turned to do the turning at lunch today.

Last evening the postman delivered a package which turned out to be a birthday present! Yes, this is my birthday season. I put it like that because you don't want to be exact on social media with personal information. This was such a lovely surprise from the daughter of a blogging friend! There was a sweet card.

She made this cool bag for me! We lean politically the same way and it totally cracked me up with the MAKE ME appliqued on it! I love it!

The other side is a bit racy.  It is all about not complying in advance.

If that wasn't enough, Melissa crocheted me this lovely piece. I will have to find a special place for it.

Big weekend!

I worked hard this weekend on the scissor pouches. I now have 171 out of 200 hundred done or 85.5% done! I got 104 done this weekend.

Here is the box of pouches. With using a box instead of a plastic bin, I can leave the empty box which will be one more thing I don't have to bring home.

I have the final 29 ready for sewing together.

This pile of 10 is for the little gifts I am putting together for the designers and the table gifts. They are sewn and ready to turn.

Friday we had a luncheon for the guys. It was a little treat to thank them for the hard work of getting all the steel from the bridge cut up and removed. This picture was taken after most of the guys had already been thru the line. We didn't have much food leftover which was good! There was pulled pork, brisket, sausages, pulled chicken, mac and cheese, baked beans, cornbread, green beans, and chocolate chip cookies.

More scissor pouches

Eleven more scissor pouches are done! That makes a total of 67 out of 200 or 33.5% done.

I pressed all the turned pouches and topstitched everything I had ready.

Here is the stack of 45 ready for holes for the snaps, then finishing so you know what I will be doing this weekend! LOL!!  Yes, in the background are more scraps that I will be cutting.

Have a great weekend!

Scissor pouches done and in progress

I put my nose to the grindstone last evening and got 36 scissor pouches done. I am now 28% done which means 56 out of 200.

I also got that small group of pouches that were staged next to the sewing machine sewn together. I will turn them right side out at lunch today.

Scissor pouch progress and a car

My day went off track yesterday, but that happens. I got a call from my son that his car was on it's last leg and he had found another car. I ended up having to drive to the dealership in rush hour traffic on the interstate which scared the heck out of me and it was to a place I have never been. I hate that. I can't believe it takes 3 hours of paperwork to buy a car! And yes, it was dark driving home. Ugh!

At lunch I did get a pile of scissor pouches turned.

I only had about 45 minutes to get anything done before I had to leave to go to the dealership. I did get the interfacing pressed on a few pouches

and I got a few more cut out.

I have a lot of stuff going on at work and all I want to do is just take a day off or at least a half day.

Thread bed progress and flowers are still blooming!

I managed to get 33 scissor pouches turned right side out yesterday. When I got home, I folded in the opening and gave all 33 a good pressing.

Next I topstitched the one side and the point, punch the snap holes, and installed one half of the snap. Here is the stack ready for the next step which was folding, inserting the label, and stitching. 

I decided to stitch all the pouches with light gray thread. Since I am needing to get these done, I figure I would save a lot of time not changing thread colors. So far the gray looks fine.

I got 10 done last evening. With the other 10 that were done, I now have 20 out of 200 or 10% complete.

To keep ahead of having pouches to turn at lunch, I have this pile of scraps

that I started cutting more pouches. I have them laid out with the interfacing that needs to be pressed still.

A lady that worked for the same company as I recently resigned. She had 15 thread beds and 39 project bags that remained unsold at her retreats and she sent them to me. I will add these to the pile I am taking with me to my retreat. Some of the project bags had a second small bag in them. I had forgotten about those. I now make the thread beds instead of the small bags.

I did stop and look at my flowers on the way to the mailbox last evening. The coneflower is a volunteer that popped up this year so it is a late bloomer. There will be more flowers if it doesn't freeze.

The California Poppies are still blooming too!