Thank You, USPS!

The mug rug I made the other day arrived at it's destination!

Instant Gratification Project

My favorite kind of project:  The kind I can start and finish in one session in my sewing room.

(Usually resulting in a mess that is not equal to the size of the project!)

I'll be sending this off to NYC…and the recipient will no longer have to share another 

Certain Someone's mug rug any longer…..

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Obsessions….

Lately, I seem to have two obsessions.

My grand cat Doug:

 And these darn Pineapple Crazy blocks:

The fluorescent light in my workspace seems to wash out the colors in the photos…

I love the way seeing the blocks in greyscale allows the pattern to show up so well!

I"m going to have to take a break from making these blocks.  All the trimming has my hand, wrist and arm in a great deal of pain.

I have a quilt on the long arm that is begging to be finished…maybe I can work on that for awhile.

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A Finished Top

So......here are those bullseye blocks.
All sewn together.....

I'm still not in love with the thing but it doesn't matter.

A big Thank You to my friend Nancy for the gift of fabric from her stash that I used for the borders...there are several more cuts that will work great as the back and the binding.

I'm looking forward to getting it quilted, bound and washed....and donated at the next guild meeting.

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Scraps, Mostly

I was trying to clean up my disaster-area sewing space.

As usual, I got sidelined.

I found a pile of un-sewn bullseye blocks that I had long ago abandoned when I learned that sewing with scraps that I didn't like only created blocks that I didn't like.....

So these got packed away, thinking that I would toss them into my donation bag and drop them off at the thrift shop.

Well, I never did that, and the pieces have resurfaced.

My cleaning and tidying stopped and I decided to sew them together and turn them into a charity quilt for the guild I belong to.

I still don't like them all that much, but I'll get these squared up, sewn together, and have them out of my life once and for all by the end of the month.

I look forward to seeing them done.

Working on those bullseye blocks has just added more to my overflowing scrap pile!

(One of many, I'm sorry to say)

Before I had to leave my sewing room for the day I got another Pineapple Crazy block done.

Only about 250 more to go...

Playing with Scraps

For some reason, I decided to start making these Pineapple Crazy blocks from the Bonnie Hunter book String Fling.

There are 45 pieces in each 5" block, but like Bonnie said in her blog post today 

(http://quiltville.blogspot.com)

they are all short seams!

The top 4 blocks show how the dark pattern emerges.

There are 250+ of these blocks in the quilt , and that doesn't count the border blocks.

I have no deadline for making this quilt.

I'm just going to make the blocks when I feel like it.

One thing is for certain, I have more than enough scraps to use to make this thing!

Knitting Season

Just showing another Lovely Ribbed Cowl from Purl Soho.

This is , I think, the 4th one I've knit this winter.

Gifted to Claudette because green is her color!