Here is my latest Christmas Open House quilt. I bring home a half yards of all of the reproduction fabrics that come in the shop…these are my bennies of owning a shop…anyway…i never get to use them because I have to always use the shops fabric and make kits…so guess what…for this project I am going to use them… my drawers are overflowing so I need to make some space in them…I have picked 13 reds, 13 tans and 13 green for the 13 pieced blocks. I made 2 sample blocks from my scrap bin to make sure my directions are right. Now I need to power sew half square triangles. 3/4″ finished. Thangles are a must for this small piecing. Do not try it without them. You would be very disappointed. Beside I think it took me a half hour to sew all 260 or so for this quilt, now the trimming, pressing and peeling the paper will take a few hours. The blocks are 4 1/2″ finished. I am making the blocks scrappy. My sample block was made only using 2 fabrics… this looks ok, but i really like how the scrappy ones look…3 done 13 more to go…in the 12 snowball blocks will be little christmas appliques, with some embroidery work too…I will start them tomorrow. I got up early today and loaded Amalie’s Quilt and got a good start on it before my morning work out with Sargent Brenda. I quickly finished it after I got back…it turned out great! Got the binding on and we have quilt group tomorrow. I will get the hand sewing done there…
Getting carpeting on Thursday in the 3 bedrooms that used to be the boys. So I have to get all the stuff out so Jake can come tomorrow and rip the old carpet out. I love it when everything is done, not this mess inbetween…I must have sewn a lot today as I am using my mouse on the computer I am reaching for my sewing machines foot pedal with my foot??? think of how good we would all be on our computers if we had a keyboard, mouse and a foot pedal..we would all rock!…all for now…keep stitching everyone! LB
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