Meanwhile, Back in the Sewing Room

Gee, I thought I might never get back to my sewing room.  Today, I repotted all the tomatoes into larger pots and cleaned out the greenhouse.  I had to clean out the greenhouse to make room for the tomatoes.  Once that was done, I was able to organize my sewing room.  Tomorrow, I'll be back to sewing for the first time since my trip.  I've really missed it.

Part of what I did while organizing was to go through all the bee blocks I received for the We Bee Learning block bee.  People made the nicest group of blocks.  I have all but one now, and frankly, I'm not sure who the hold out is.  Hopefully, it will come soon.  If not, I can make up the difference myself.  Here are all the ones that came while I was in Ireland:

I can't wait to see how these will all looked when they are laid out into a quilt. 

Then, these things are related to my Ireland trip in one way or another.  This is the first stitchery of the "Love Me Love My Cat" quilt that I started as my June NewFO project.  I had plenty of downtime to complete the first stitchery.  Then I did so much flying on the last day that I nearly finished up the second block too.  I'll show it to you as soon as it's complete.

My Irish roommate and traveling companion, Karla, made this table runner for me, which she gifted me while we were there.  I gave her some Oregon hazelnuts from the Portland Farmer's Market.  Karla really went above and beyond the call of duty with this pretty table runner.  Didn't she choose pretty fabrics?  Thank you, Karla.  I really enjoyed having you for my roommate.

Finally, this is the only fabric I bought while in Ireland.  I picked this up at the little quilt shop I wrote about.  I didn't see a lot of regional fabrics while we were there, nor were there any quilt shops to speak of.  We stopped at the shop where I got this fabric almost as an after thought, and so I'm very glad we did.  I don't have anything in mind for these fabrics.  I just wanted something that looked like it came from Ireland.  Eventually, I'll figure out what to do with it.  These are all fat quarters.

So with that, I'm ready to resume my life.  I can't think of anything else I need to do, except maybe to catch up on my sleep.  Fortunately, I have a quiet week ahead.  There is rain in the forecast, as there was today, but today turned out very nice.  It was quite warm working in the greenhouse.  Hope you all had a nice father's day.