What with all the Christmas activities and then being sick (yes, I didn't even feel like sewing most of the time), not a lot has happened in the last month.
It took me over 3 days to cut the pieces for a quilt I want to make called Spangled. I'm using reproduction fabrics that have been picked up at garage and estate sales. Mabel was on hand to supervise.
And of course she helped "organize" all the pieces in the box.
Here is a photo of the chaos that was the sewing room.........note the tissue box close at hand.
And Esme was purrturbed at Mabel's encroachment on her sleeping spot.
The Stashbusters online group I'm in was doing a Hidden Log Cabin sew along between Christmas and New Years. I managed to get mine sewn together before the worst of the sickness and later got it quilted and bound.
And my favorite quilt shop, Sew Sweet is having a sew along during December and January of a pattern called Orange Crush. Making the blocks was kind of mindless sewing, so I did work on it some while I was sick. Here is my pile of blocks.
And as of yesterday, the top is completed. Mabel got banished to the outside while the blocks were all laid out on the floor. She just has too many opinions about arrangements of blocks. Esme is a much better helper for this.
And one of our guild's charity projects for 2025 is to make placemats for the Home Delivered Meals recipients in Saline County. We'll need close to 70. I picked through my scrap basket of leftovers from other projects and came up with four placemats.
This one uses the remainder of the scraps from the Hidden Log Cabin above.
This one used all the bonus half square triangles from my Star Trails Quilt last year.
Remember this quilt? All those purple stars yielded bonus half square triangles that had been hanging out in a basket on a shelf in my sewing room. Glad to put them to good use!
And remember this snowman quilt? I had some sections of leftover red strip sets that got turned into a couple of more placemats.
Ta-dah! And now all of those leftovers are gone!
Of course, the basket is not empty anymore. There were some leftover blocks from the Orange Crush quilt above. Stay tuned to see what might happen to them!
I haven't been out anywhere (except the doctor's office, the hospital lab, and to get meds) since Dec. 28th. I think David may take pity on me and take me to Brunswick today to the quilt shop. He got me a gift certificate for Christmas and I also got some neat sewing supplies from Sarah. And I got 2 Elizabeth Hartman patterns! You know, the ones with a million pieces that take forever to cut out and sew! I can hardly wait to start one. We also want to try a new restaurant up there for lunch.
And, while I was sick, Sarah felt sorry for me so went to check out a quilt shop that is really close to her house. The Quilted Cow! She called me from the shop and described what she saw. She even sent me a picture of a really cute pattern (another Elizabeth Hartman pattern) she liked. We will definitely be visiting the next time I am in St. Peters.
I'll let you know how the day pans out!
Christi
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