Let's take a break in the trip recaps and catch up on the sewing room. First, I had to put everything away that I purchased at Marshall Dry Goods. I didn't take a picture, but I did manage to get all the bolts on my shelf (fortunately one bolt is going to my mom because it wouldn't have fit). Esme found a place to stay out of the way, but where she could still watch everything. For the first 3 days we were back, she barely left my side, and did get tired of being stepped on, so hanging out on the sewing machine seemed like a safe bet.
Of course, all the sorting and putting stuff away can wear a girl out. She's looking forward to seeing what happens with all that fabric!
I also managed to get a baby quilt quilted for a young couple at church (who's baby came early, it was announced on Sunday). It was passed off to someone else to bind and gift. Next, I added the black border to the red chalet quilt top. I bought a bolt of this fabric and it will also be used as a backing for a quilt that is cut, but doesn't have anything sewn yet. This was a block lotto from guild that I won in December.
Then I worked on the block lotto blocks that are due at the April meeting. I think these flowers are pretty cute and would not be unhappy to win them.
Next up was to make a backing for the chalet quilt. I used 2.5 yards of the grey picnic fabric that I bought at MDG last summer for backing for my sister's big quilt. I didn't want to cut two widths and have a random seam across the bottom with a lot of excess fabric, so I turned on the math brain and did the diagonal seam method to not waste so much fabric. There is a nice cheat sheet online and I did all the math to figure I needed about 2.5 yards. I pressed it diagonally, cut on the press line and then laid it on the floor in Sarah's room.
Mabel was on her bed, supposedly supervising, but you can see she was slacking on the job.
Then I started shifting the pieces to get it to 58" wide.
A little more shift - my yard stick is actually 48" and the square ruler is a 10" square ruler.
Then lay the top on it to test it and it worked!
I pinned the diagonal seam and sewed it and then had to trim off the triangle pieces.
I quilted it yesterday (instead of cleaning the kitchen floor) and still need to take it off the longarm.
I also did my Tuit project. You can see the Round Tuit in the photo. There are 2 of these that float around the guild and if you take it, you have to show something you got around to doing at the next meeting. I finally finished the blocks for the O Christmas Tree quilt. 80 blocks that seemed to take forever. Yeah!
Harry Potter and Mabel were unimpressed with my efforts.
Friday I took my cousins to St. Louis. Sarah and Pam went to an anniversary organ recital and reception and Susie and I went to an estate sale, Main Street St. Charles for lunch at the Lewis and Clark, the mall, and then to this little Italian place for an afternoon dessert that we love...............lemoncello!
At first the waiter told us they were out, so we ordered brownie sundaes instead. Then he came back to our table and said that they had just gotten them back in, so YEAH!
And in other really weird things.............
Do we marvel at Mabel's ability to balance on the edge of the window seat like that or the fact that those 3 cats are hanging out that close together which is surely a warning sign of the apocalypse?
Christi
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