Wow, it has been a while since I posted about a good
find but this little one is great!
A small magnetic bowl!
It is adorable in appearance and just
incredibly cute. I even talked my
sewing buddy into getting one!
It turned out to be very handy in use and
keeps my pins off the floor.
It is even small enough to sit nicely
by the sewing machine
To find one for yourself,
just check out your local quilt shop!
They are very reasonably priced too!
Lots of work going on here lately,
not feeling like a sweat shop,
but that OCD, "get it done" vibe is definitely in the room!
I am making a lots of progress on the my
string collection.
I have a big pile of star blocks.
Mary over at Country Threads
is doing a challenge for motivating
us to get the UFOs out of the closet and
into the finished pile.
12 projects are numbered 1-12 and
a number is drawn randomly each month, starting
with #1 this July.
I may be joining in by labeling most of my flimsies
and getting them quilted up! It could
be a fun challenge and definitely a motivator.
This will keep me busy for many a To Do Tuesday!
So here is a quick review of all the tops in the vault!
#1 Zipper Bits
#3 Red postage
#4 Border My Scraps
#5 Twinkle Pink , Twinkle Orange
#6 Color Around the Block
#7 Square Dance
#8 Coin Some Red , Twinkle Red
#9 Columns of Pink
#10 Coin Some Blue , Coin Some Pink
#11 Twinkle Blue, Twinkle Yellow
It is already end of July so I had better get something
pinned and ready for quilting this week!
Stay safe and sew on !
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Wow, what a great weekend!
A family celebration, lots of dancing and a great time to socialize.
After many delays, we were able to celebrate the most
recent family wedding and a great time was had by all.
Many memorable moments , from a very generous
wedding crasher, a traditional Tarantella and a
cute choreographed first dance, the night was terrific!
Now, after a day of rest , I can get back into my
sewing room and enjoy some time with my fabrics.
First big news, my temporary worksurface is gone.
A lot of it was used this past weekend in our
celebrations. The rest of it will be part of the
families' wine cellar over the next little while.
I really enjoyed the sweet white.
A very wet week here!
What a wonderful time to
put the worries behind and escape
to the sewing room!!
Great progress is happening on
my big string collection.
I can't wait to show this first top complete!
I have enough center, colored blocks for
3 more tops, cream corners for 2 and
1/2 square white and color for 1 top.
The best thing happening are the
crumb borders.
They are real scrap
busters. The beige/white borders
enhance the contrast and
definition between the scrap stars and crumb border.
My big bin of white/cream
bits is really shrinking! I don't think
I will refill this bin with scraps although it
is a great storage unit. Maybe a good place
for folded fat quarters and chunks.
Another project for this rainy day is the
Triangle string quilt. Lots of purple
strings were added to existing half color blocks.
Still lots more to do since
this quilt take 132 blocks to get it up
to a finished 83" x 90".
I check off the blocks complete on this
weird little pattern. I put it in a plastic sleeve
so it can be reused for making baby quilts or
shared with friends.
This is one of my go-to
quilt blocks as you know from A Colorful Couple.
Hopefully, this one will make it to my bed !
Often this one get pressed into wedding quilt
gifts as the recipients always love the bright colors.
It is almost time to remove my temporary work space!
It is made up of cases of drinks for an upcoming,
much delayed and anticipated wedding celebration!
I'd better move out all my block parts.
Stay safe and sew on !
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What a great day!
It started out with a lovely
lie in followed by not the
best pancakes but tasty!
( I made them so I can criticize)
Then it was off to zoo for a great
and relaxing time with GKs .
We even discovered a new to us
animal. So great to share a discovery
with your child. It is a takin. At a distance,
it looked like a crouching bear. Has hinged
back legs and can climb like a goat . Not too
bad for an animal that weighs 180 kgs.
Then off home to wait for fireworks and...
clean the sewing room!
After a Very full week it needed attention.
It was so relaxing! I helped the fellas at
Midsummer Murders solve a mystery and
sorted the pins,
put away the sorted black strips from the
Color Around the block top I'd finished Thursday,
sorted a lovely bunch of gifted
squares and project parts from a friend,
and sewed up and pressed a whole bunch of
white/cream strip blocks to make corners for star strings.
Then we finished the nite with
the whole town gathering in the park for fireworks.
Thank you for letting me share a fun Friday nite !
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