Another baby quilt top sewn and marking the damage

The other baby quilt top is now sewn together. It measures 39" x 52".

I spread out that comforter and marked 12 places with safety pins that need fixed.

I recognized this fabric. It is from the mid to late 70's.

Mowing and sewing

I have been keeping busy. Friday evening, I mowed and I was drenched with sweat by the time I got done. I only mowed the front and one side yard just to spruce the place up. I did have a visitor and he didn't seem all that scared of me.

One of the African Violet plants gifted to me in February bloomed! I was surprised. I have do find a bigger pot for it. The pot I have is a two-part unit. I will have to do some research on African Violet pots.

I spent Saturday working on making half and half blocks for the pink, brown, and gray baby quilt. I went digging around and found more scraps. Here are the leftover blocks I will save for the next quilt.

Then I have all these scraps that I will sew together and turn into half and half blocks. Any end cuts too small I will make 4-patches out of them.

The pink quilt top is now sewn together. The finished quilt will measure approximately 40" x 45".

I had another pile of scraps I worked on and turned them into 23 four patch blocks. If feels good to get all those piles of scraps turned into useful parts!

Scrap four patches, pressing fabric, and fleece

I was still a bit tired last evening so I decided to just work on easy stuff. I sewed together the rest of the pieces from that pile of cut offs. I found a few more pieces that were big enough to trim to half and half blocks for zig zag quilts.

The half and half blocks are trimmed and about half of the four patch are trimmed.

I need to get my big table cleared off so I pressed the pile of washed fabrics that had been sitting for about two weeks.

My two bolts of iron on fleece showed up. I found a really good deal on ebay. I use this for making my project bags now instead of woven iron on interfacing. It gives the project bags a bit more heft.

I don't need to go anywhere this weekend that I know of right now so I will be working in the studio. I would like to get a baby quilt quilted and get this comforter fixed.

I will make a quick trip to the grocery store post office if I get the comforter done so it can be on it's way back to its owner. Have a great weekend!

7th finish for 2025

Yes! I finally got the homespun quilt done! I was so tired yesterday from the show, but I was determined to get something accomplished. The quilt turned out 72" x 90".

I spent some time getting my sister's birthday present done, wrapped and mailed. I will show you that once she receives it. I also cut out more tote bags. The 13 I had gotten done and took to the show in Erie was enough and there were a few left over. We have 4 more shows yet this season so more bags will be needed.

Tuesday's adventures

The band had a show in Erie Pennsylvania. I made cookies in the morning to take.

I got 5 more tote bags done before it was time to head out.

I did see two yellow finches eating the coneflower seeds.

It was a two hour drive to Erie and we hit some hard rain a couple of times

It was a beautiful venue right on Lake Erie. There was a big crowd and even boats pulled up to listen.

It was hot and my face felt like it was on fire. We had a fan, but the heat and humidity was oppressive. The trip home seemed like longer than two hours. I got a shower and hit the bed at midnight.

Tote bags and digging in a bin

I got the eight tote bags sewn together.

A friend had given me two pieces of lining fabric thinking I maybe coulld make tote bags out of them. Well I cut those out last night and got 5 bags. I decided to used leftover handles for a few of them.

I have a bin of strips. I thought I would look in there to see if there was anything I could use for finishing up that pink, brown, and gray baby quilt and I found some good stuff!

We won't even talk about all the blue striped pieces I found - LOL!

Cooking, shopping, playing in the studio

I spent a fair amount of time cooking and doing dishes to keep two bellies full for a busy weekend. I was given 5 booms for several of the meals - that is like 5 stars. Saturday there was a lot of shopping going on so we needed our energy! Here was our haul

I washed all the clothes so they could be taken home and hung up. One pair of cute jeans needed hemmed. The stars are appliqued with the edges frayed.

Then there was a pair of pants that was dropped off that needed hemmed.

Made a big batch of taco seasoning to send home with them.

A broken necklace that needed repaired

A box of thread I bought on ebay arrived. It was a really good deal for 200 spools.

so I empytied a shelf in the studio

My helpers sorted the thread by color and put them on the shelf

Then we made chocolate covered Nutter Butters and Golden Oreos.

Next my helpers sort a stack of leftover pieces from zig zag quilts by color and size. I want to use up these leftovers and see if I could get a couple baby quilts and get rid of the pile. They had to sort the blocks that measured 5 1/2" square from all the other blocks that were bigger or smaller.

They moved the blocks to the floor and started putting them on the design wall.

Here is one of the quilt tops. I would have never thought about arranging the color like this! How fun is that?

The other helper is all about pink so she tried and tried to arrange the blocks in all kinds of crazy ways before I had to simplify it for her and we laid them out like this.

Well there wasn't enough pink and brown blocks so now she was making me work to put together scraps to try and fill this top out. I found one long strip of a pink print so I added the white and got another six blocks. Then I pieced together the pieces that were too small into four patches like this.

Here is where we left off on this top. I am going to have to do a bit more digging around to finish this top.

I still have quite a stack of blocks for at least one more quilt top and a stack of smaller pieces to make into four patches.

My nephew's girlfriend texted me and said she sold a lot of merch at the show last week. It was a show that required an overnight stay. I don't go to those shows because there is not enough room in the van for everyone. She said she hoped I would bring some more tote bags to the next show. Oh my! I dug around in the fabric storage room last night and found a 4 yard piece of fabric I was good with to cut into bags. I got 8 bags; that is at least a start.

Lastly, I did get a bit more of the binding sewn on the homespun quilt. I have about 60" on one side to stitch and then binding will be done.

Let's just say I was TIRED last night and passed out before 8 P.M.