August Activity

There was a lot of activity in the sewing room today.

Pulling this, cutting that, hunting for other things.

I did do some actual sewing.

I got the main part of the birdhouse block for Spring on Bleeker Street done.

I need to do the butterfly applique and some stitching and it will be good to go.

Also finished cutting out the moose for Have a Holly Jolly Christmas over at Sew Fresh Quilts. 

Just a pile of moose bits at the moment, but Saturday will be here soon right????

And then I collected a pile of stuff for August neutrals for the rainbow challenge.

Not much actual cutting out there yet, but I am ready to go.

I got distracted by a giant pile of Christmas fabric.

I pulled this pile.

 

It is a start for this quilt a long that Joy is hosting.

I know--I am starting something else, but look how cute it is.

And I am finishing up the other Christmas quilt soon.

Well, at least I am finishing up the top. That counts right???

 I have found a whole bunch of other things that I want to do lately as well, but I am trying to control myself.

I know there is a pineapple quilt in my future.

I also have a million UFO's screaming at me.

I am guaranteed not to be bored at least!

Happy in my insanity!!!

L,A-

 

Bye Bye July!!

Sewing has been a challenge this month with all the extra time at work, but I did not do too badly.

Took a quick picture of all my finishes.

Quick, because nothing wanted to stay on the wall.

I forgot to put all of the pinwheels up there that I did for my Bleeker Street quilt, but hopefully soon I can get a picture of all of my progress to date.

These are my most recent finishes:

One more after this one--the mistletoe moose and then I can put it all together. Woo Hoo!!

And a gray kitty!!

 Two more for the first quilt and then I can start putting it all together. I was going to do both at the same time, but I decided to do one to make sure I liked the locations of all of the left and right facing kitties before I did the second one.

These are definitely an ongoing project!!

There will be another project starting soon.

As soon as I sort through ridiculous amounts of Christmas fabric. Too many choices.

Because the fact that I have 88 UFO's that I have been ignoring, is no big deal right?????

Stay cool everyone!!

L,A-

 

What I Did Today

I woke up and hit the sewing room hard.

Can't believe the end of July is coming up soon.

So, I made two cats, a reindeer, a rainbow block and 3 complete pinwheels.

There is a pile of cut out pinwheels that will hopefully get worked on this week.

 

One more long week at work and then maybe I will get more done. We shall see.

Witt got a new kitty TV, so he shares time between the sewing room and his window in the bedroom now.

It was really hot out today--I think even the birdies were hiding.

 

Hope everyone is staying cool and if you are somewhere that is cool--could you send some my way please?

L,A- 

Slow Blue Sunday!

Can't believe it is the 9th already.

I lost June altogether and now July is running away too.

I did manage to get two blue rainbow blocks done today.

And I finished the rest of the blocks I was working on for Bleeker Street.

I have a lot of stitching to do before this month's progress report for Bleeker Street, so I need to keep it handy at all times.

Also worked on some of my kitties and I have more rainbow blocks and my reindeer cut out for Holly Jolly Christmas.

Hoping that with everything prepped, I can get some things done with all of my extra work hours.

My helper was not very helpful today.

He ended up moving everything out of his way and taking a nap right where there used to be a neat pile of fabric.

No one told him that I didn't need help making messes. I can do that all by myself.

And usually do!!!

 Hope everyone had a great weekend!!

L,A-

Sometimes...

...being confident is not a good thing.

I figured my next Christmas block would go much more smoothly than the ornaments. I had already done the more difficult version before--another boo boo--but not one that had to be redone.

So, I am flowing right along and boom:

Did the diagonal backwards. I cut out all new pieces and redid it the right way!

And then, I finally turned it into a bow.

I also worked on Bleeker Street for awhile.

I may be working on it forever. I do really like it, but I am doing a lot of things that I am out of practice on, so I am going slowly. No over confidence here!!!!

For now--I must go to work. Hopefully I can sneak so ME time in between work hours for the next four days!!??

Hope everyone is having a great week!!

L,A-

Seriously Slow Sunday Sewing!!

Not sure if I was sleeping when I cut out the pieces to my ornament block or what, but boy did I do a lot of unpicking.

A lot of pulling, tugging and re-cutting out of pieces too.

So, my to do list did not shrink much.

Hopefully today will go smoother and I get more done, because it is back to work tomorrow.

At least my supervisor wasn't too hard on me.

He kept an I on me for awhile.

Then I think he got tired of the not so lady like words coming out of my mouth and fell asleep.

Today will be a better day!!!!

The sun is shining and the birds are singing!!!

Happy Monday everyone!

L,A-

Yelow!!

I really did finish it on Scrappy Saturday.

So, I will make it Post It Sunday.

And here are all of the finished ones. There are also quite a few piles of cut out and partially put together blocks in all colors waiting to be added to this.

I seemed to be on a roll with aqua and yes, I do have several more purple ones cut out! 

And I finally finished cutting out my next Christmas block.

You can see why it took awhile.

My supervisor was being seriously critical today.

He is napping now, so I should probably try to get some more done!!

Hope you are all enjoying a fun weekend with family, friends and/or your sewing machine!!

L,A-