More thread beds finished!

I was pushing hard last evening and met my goal of finishing those 10 thread beds. I am so glad I bought The Hulk! It makes it so much easier to install those snaps quickly! I am now 39% done with this first batch of 66 thread beds.

Here they are in the bin which is filling up quickly!

Thread beds progress. RIP Frank.

I got busy last evening and now have 10 thread beds ready for pressing the self-binding and final stitching. I had to quilt them then add the flannel to get them to this stage.

I was sorry to hear Frank Beard passed away. I have always liked ZZ Top's music; it is just fun. No messages, just fun songs.

Thread bed progress

I wasn't too ambitious when I got home from work. I was tired and watched an old movie. I finally got my second wind and trimmed the zipper pockets.

After that I went and sewed together two more thread beds. So now I have 16 out of the 66 I had cut out done. That's 24% done!

I have the lining and outside fabric layered and marked with tape for the next two thread beds.

Surprisingly yesterday was a bit slow at work. I had a pot of a succulent that had multiplied and needed to be split. Now I have a whole little garden! The cuttings all had a lot of roots so I hope they all take.

Oh I have been busy!

I finished those 8 thread beds.

Friday the band headed to Allegan Michigan for a show. We stopped in Kalamazoo on the way so the guys could have their picture taken in front of the original Gibson guitar factory.

Six and a half hours after we started on this trip, we arrived in Allegan. We were about an hour and a half early. Michael had factored in some extra time in case of a problem with road construction or a mechanical issue. This gave me time to walk around town, which doesn't happen often. Allegan is a cute turn of the century town with a downtown that they are revitalizing. There were lots of cool architecture and little shops. It was all I could do to not buy a plant from one of the stores.

The venue was along the Kalamazoo River. The area looked like it had been recently renovated and it was so nice! Views of the river

A beautiful metal sculpture that the branches moved in the wind. I want one of these for my front yard!

A big gas fire pit.

A four swing structure. I want one of these with a fire pit in the middle for my backyard!

And a splash pad! It was hot so I took a walk thru the splash pad a couple times. Yes, I was fully dressed and didn't care! The water was ice cold and it felt so good!

We had a nice crowd

and the crowd included a Viking wedding party that was having a girl's night out.

We had left for this trip at 8:45 AM Friday and I got to bed Saturday morning at 5 AM. I sleep 3 1/2 hours and I was up, slow, but up. I just couldn't sleep anymore with the daylight. I had been binge watching Marshalls in the van so I watched the rest of the first season. About noon I got moving and worked on thread beds. Started on the next group and finished those six on Sunday morning.

My bin of thread beds is filling up!

I needed more felt pieces, so I cut up the remaining yard and a half of felt I had

I needed some flannel pieces too so I cut up the flannel Cherie sent me, interfaced those and cut them to size.  This is only part of the flannel.  I just cut enough to keep me moving forward for now

I did some laundry, cooked some food for work, and got started on the next batch of thread beds. These twelve will all use pink thread. I have the zipper pockets made and they just need trimmed to size.

The last thing I sewed Sunday was altering this dress. It was easy and didn't take too long. I put a couple darts in the back beside the zipper to take out the fullness and a bit under each arm. I still need to sew a hook on that fell off.

Sunday morning there were at least 6 male and a couple female yellow finches eating the coneflower seeds. I got a good picture of one of them. They are so pretty!

8 Thread beds almost done

The next step for the project bags was to get all the quilting done then add the flannel. The flannel is nice to stick the loose threads to after you pull stands out of the section of thread that was cut off the skein or bobbin. Next, I positioned the zipper pocket and pressed the self-binding on four of the eight thread beds. I use small binder clips to hold the binding in place especially the corners which I miter. The binder clips are cheaper than those plastic ones that are sold and they work great. All that is left to do on these four is to top stitch the binding and add a snap.

The other four are ready for the binding to be pressed.

Thread bed progress

I made good progress on the next group of 8 thread beds. The zippered pockets are sewn together and trimmed to size.

The next step is to quilt the fleece interfaced lining pieces with the outer fabric. Two are quilted and the rest are marked with blue tape and ready to sew.

Back to project bags

I was so tired when I got home from work it was hard to get motivated to sew. I did manage to get these two project bags done

I finally got my second wind about 6:30 and worked on the next two project bags. The print batiks are from Wanda. There was enough fabric for one project bag and two thread beds out of each fabric.

When I had my big weekend of cutting, I ended up with 12 project bags and they are all now completed! There will be more to come. Like Vicki of Colorways by Vicki Welch said that my motto is why make one when I can make 100!

Since I have black thread on my machine, I will be working on the thread beds that take black thread. I will just work my way thru the rainbow!