Getting down to buisness

I have been bound and determined to get some work done in my sewing room. With two quilts hanging on the quilt wall I haven't had much other space to work.

I had some small wall hangings I had machine quilted and they were waiting for me to match some binding and get them sewn on. So I got my but in gear and got that binding machine quilted on.

I worked last weekend and while it was quiet time I was able to do a little hand sewing.

The hand sewing on both wall hangings are done and Ryan can't understand why I am working on winter things when spring is already here.

I told him I just haven't gotten them done, I started them and they sat in a pile and never got finished.

Then I ventured on to the quilt wall I have been wanting to get clean.

I got the top half of it put together! So the bottom half of the quilt was still hanging out on the wall.

Until, just the other night!!!! I got the bottom put together, and I got the entire quilt put together! Again another winter/Christmas quilt that is being finished in spring.

This quilt has a lot of hand applique on it and I had to work on each block individually to get all the pieces appliqued on.

So another quilt on the wall has been removed, and now it is onto getting my but in gear and getting the other quilt off the wall.

I need to put boarders on the blocks and then I need to piece them all together.

A lazy Saturday!

Saturday was a lazy day......

I went over to gram's, helped her with her physical therepy, and decided I would try to get my block of the month sewn together.

While I waited for mom to arrive to work on out blocks I thought I would lay out a few blocks from last fall's shop hop.

Apparently Sophie thought it was a lazy Saturday also and found the need to lay on my blocks.

I finally convinced her to go visit grampa in the basement and was able to get a picture without her in it.

Grampa and Sophie enjoyed some quality time together hanging out on the deck enjoying the nice sunny weather.

While I enjoyed some quality time with gram's sewing machine, before it broke.

But I did finally get my square finished. And now it has been put away with the rest of the blocks to sit in the closet and wait for square number 4 and the rest to follow!

An evening to organize!

Ryan decided to go visit his uncle one night last week,

I decided I had enough of my sewing room!

These two bins are half of the big purchase I made back in January. I bought all this fabric from a women who was moving and getting rid of all her sewing stuff.

I have been through it once and picked out everything I wanted to keep, Gram got everything she wanted, and mom took everything she wanted. Then the remains made it back to my sewing room. I finally made the decision that what I never thought I was going to use, I would give away.

My aunt has been collecting scraps and other material both for herself and for her church.
So she came down to Gram's this past weekend and she got the pile!

I also had some time to work on some sewing for the Quilts of Valor.

I finished a red star,


and a blue star.

Gram and I are working together to get 20 stars made, 10 of each color to put together into a quilt top for the quilts of valor project.




My sewing room is definitly looking better.

I love my quilt wall

I LOVE MY QUILT WALL!!!!

I hung one quilt all up because I wanted to see it all put together up on the wall even knowing that I am still missing one block. Now I have more ambition to finish that one block so I can put it together.

And did I mention that I have TWO quilt walls. This means the entire empty wall in my sewing room is covered and allows me to put many different things up and look at them.

This is a block of the month quilt from about 4 years ago that I still have not finished and still have 4 different blocks still in bags I think I should start thinking about putting together!