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.