Blocks made and another show

All the blocks are made for the red zig zag top. Here is what it looks like now

Of course I have lots of extra blocks!

In the middle of the day I had a show to work for my nephew. It was outside at the art museum. The load-in and out were fairly easy and thank goodness we did get a nice crowd. I had left the house at 12:30 and we were done about 4:45. I needed to run a couple errands after the show so I got home around 6 PM.

Back to the red zig zag quilt top

I decided I wanted to get this top done. That meant I needed to make more blocks. The point of making this was to use up the blocks I had which I did, but I need more!

I got the 3" wide strips cut. This is a mix of fabrics that are in the top and small bits in the red pile that need used up.

I am out of white strips so I will go thru these pieces and cut the smaller pieces into 3" strips.

Here are the strips sewn together so far. Next is to press and cut them into 5 1/2" blocks.

Yes, I will have more blocks than I need to finish this top, but I will just add those to the pile of blocks I already have from the last production of these blocks.

It's done!

I finished the leather jacket last night and I did a happy dance! I can't wait to hand it back to the owner.

Now that I am free of that, what's next? I think I will get back to the baby quilts and using up those scraps. I also had a request for two smaller flannel quilts so I may start on those. Have a great weekend!

Put on my big girl pants and got back to the jacket

It was time to get back to the leather jacket. First, I machine basted the sleeve lining to the jacket. Next, I sewed the cuff on the right sleeve, then topstitched the cuff. Once that was done, I added a strip of leather to the bottom edge of the cuff where the leather was in poor condition or missing.

I needed to deal with the torn leather at the sleeve seam.

I decided to put a piece of leather over the area then sew it down to reinforce everything. I had to free motion stitch the patch on since there was no way to turn the sleeve. Good thing I have had lots of practice FMS!

I am happy with how it turned out. Now I just need to sew the cuff on the other sleeve and patch that same place and the jacket will be done!

Moving slow on a Tuesday.

I was so tired yesterday no sewing happened. I did gather up recycling and trash for pu this week and went to see my stylist again. She said my head looked better, but it is not quite ready for any major TLC. She thought I could benefit from using a hydrating shampoo and conditioner, so I bought what she recommended.

I did get a bit more straightening up done. I have been saving the cardboard trays from the carbonated water I buy.

They are nice for holding small projects in process. When I am done with them, they can go in the recycling bin.

Pouches- done, comforter - done, and more!

I was trying hard to keep my energy levels up for day three of the long weekend. First thing I attacked was getting the curved topped pouches made for Wanda as a thank you for the tote bag fabric. Wanda had sent me a third of a yard of this grape and wood slice fabric plus an already quilted piece of fabric.

She said she had gotten the fabric quilted but hadn't gotten around to make the pouch. I trimmed out the pouch to size so now it is done.

For the 1/3rd yard, I was able to get a large and a medium pouch.

There was a good-sized piece left over, but it was not big enough for even the small curved top pouch. Instead of adding to my scrap pile, I layered the pieces and trimmed as little off as possible to square up the piece.

This is the pouch that was the result. I will get these shipped today.

Next I headed outside to mow and trim the front and one side yard. After that I went back to the comforter to continue repairing it. After a couple hours, the comforter was done! It is all boxed up and ready to ship today. I did spend a bit of time cleaning up in the studio - wastebaskets needed emptied and it needed a vacuuming.

I headed out to get gas - I had less than 1/8th of a tank - then went downtown to the protest. I took my drum and refurbished mallet to go make some noise. The crowd was small compared to other events. The mallet worked great and I met some nice people while I was there.

Once I got home, I was pretty tired. That drum got heavy quick even though it was only a three-block walk. I needed to repair two pairs of pants, so I got that done and called it a day. I was tired.

The leather jacket is sitting at the sewing machine. The cuffs are so much softer since I soaked them in that conditioner. So overall I did pretty good on my list for the 3 day weekend. I want to get the jacket done in the next couple of days.

Quilt top done, more tote bags, mallet fixed up, and a finch

I kept busy yesterday. I got the courthouse steps quilt top done. The blocks were trimmed to 12 1/2".

Here are another 5 drum head tote bags and 11 regular sized tote bags done. Theae took a lot longer to get done than I thought they would. I think I spent about 5 hours on these.

My nephew gave me a mallet for my drum which I will be using today at the protest. Here he was showing them to me.

I gave one a haircut and then wrapped a few layers of felt to fix it up.

Caught a quick photo of a yellow finch having a lunch of coneflower seeds.

The table is now cleaned up so I have space to work