wrap up...

I feel like I got a lot done this week, despite being sick.
Once I got everything done that I HAD too for Christmas, I got excited to finish a bunch of things that have been collecting dust.... and to start a little something new...(above)
All my unfinished little blocks, squares from scraps...It's all going into this kitchen sink quilt.... Whatever is laying around here, will go into this scrappy quilt....

All ready for binding....

Bind.....

Bindings set.

Flimsy finished...(FINALLY! ....WOO HOO!!)

B stayed home again today, coughing like mad...
But thankfully she was well enough yesterday to make it to her School Holiday Sing along...
Her school makes bags for Gods Love we Deliver, so that they can distribute food to the folks who need, using the bags our school decorate. Until we give them the bags, the decorate our meeting house... Isn't it fun? It fills the room & hearts with love.

Have a lovely weekend!
Happy Sewing!

V

STUFF

My blocks for the Bee Balm quilting bee are coming in, and so I am trying to square them out keeping them the wonky flare to them as possible. I can't wait to have this quilt done... it's been so much fun!
I sent a variety of strips of fabric and the beginning square, and asked that they use all the fabrics... So that is where the little one s came into play.
I 'll use them in the borders to go around all the big ones.... I even asked for all the little bits of unused bits as I hope to put ever last bit on the fabrics into the quilt...

Look at some of the tiny pieces I got back!
wish me luck!

Amy asked about the Tile quilt (click for more images) blocks and how I did it.
I keep a bag of tiny scraps, that are just to small or wonky to cut into squares, and I really just picked stuff out of my scraps and tiled them, or laid them out around the block,

fused them with a tiny piece of fusible web just to hold them in place,

and needle turned appliqued the pieces down. They go very quick.

I also peel the fusible web off before I finish sewing them down because I want them to be a little puffy when I am done...
You can pack them in as tight as you want as the pieces get much smaller as you sew them down.

I could have put more in the blocks I did but I was also focusing on the back ground fabrics to come through... So I left them a bit sparse....

Let me know if you start a project like this, I would like to make another after I finish this one!
Maybe will do another quilt along.. what do you think?

Great way to hit the scrap bin...

I quilted and bound this quilt yesterday.

Half way through sewing the binding it got it's first use...
I pulled it up and went to sleep for a hour and half...

It works well! ;-)

Of course B is back in school today,
And I AM DOWN FOR THE COUNT....
figures right? Mommy syndrome....

Kids get sick, mom's get sicker... ;-)

Santa, if you need a new Rudolph this year,
My nose could guide your sleigh!

Or, I could do one of those cold medicine commercials where
the nose runs away from the scratchy tissue....

sigh.


HAPPY SEWING!

V