Packed weekend

The weekend started off with mowing the grass Friday night after work. An hour and fifty minutes later I was done. I didn't do any trimming. I did mow around this patch of groundcover - I forget the name of it - because the bees were enjoying the flowers.  Once the flowers die I will mow it, but in the meantime I have this lovey patch of purple.

I didn't feel like sewing once I came in from mowing so I worked on merging Lana' floss with mine. Guess what? All the DMC floss did not fit in the double sided box. Lana had some colors I didn't have, I had some she didn't have, then there was a lot we both had. I can't imagine I will have to buy any floss for a long time except for black. Neither one of us had much of that. I did have room to put the Cosmo floss in the single box along with the few skeins of Leo and Roxy floss. Here it is all sorted and organized.

I took the car Saturday morning to get the oil changed and a headlight bulb replaced. They no longer have a car wash, but they give you a free carwash coupon for a new place right down the street. My car was DIRTY so I headed over there and what fun! It was like going thru a disco inspired carwash! Different colored lights as you are pulled thru and the most colorful soap! Doesn't take much to entertain me! LOL!!

After I got home I started working on the handles for tote bags. One hour and 25 minutes later I had 52 handles pressed.

It took another hour and 10 minutes to stitch the handles.

I took a break and repotted some plants, did some dishes, packed up my sewing machine to ship it to get it repaired

and spend an hour and a half hand quilting 2010 which would be my half hour a day for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Here is part of what I quilted

I decided to work on sewing the t-shirt quilt together. On Sunday after I got back from running some errands I finally added the top and left side border to the t-shirt quilt. I got the other two borders ready to sew on, but I forgot to take a picture. Here is at least the picture with the two borders sewn on.

I knew what backing I was going to use for this quilt so I cut it to size and sewed it together.

I also finished the spider cross stitch piece.

I switched from working on the quilt to go back to the tote bags. I need to press over the tops of the bags to finish the edge where the handles will go. I pressed over 2" and then folded it so I had a double 1". It took me a half hour to press 17 bags then I just finished the rest in a few minutes here and there. I am now ready to assemble the first 26 bags.

My neighbor stopped over about 7 last night and brought me three things that need repair work - lining in a ski mitten, hole in leggings, and a missing hook. Nothing big, but I will have to find the time to squeeze this in.