You Say Tomato

As it turns out, we've rescheduled our family dinner from Saturday to Sunday, and that meant I had more time than expected for sewing yesterday. Wasting no time, I got right to it. There was quite a bit accomplished, and in my wounded left paw state, it was good to have lots of help.

Sadie used this stool to launch herself over onto the table with the sewing machine.

From there she gave it a good going over.

Hey, I could stand right here and watch you work! Would that be helpful?

Smitty's just there for the catnip, Man. Mmm, mmm, mmm...catnip. My favorite!

My first task was to finish off the January and April blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Here are the blues from January.

Here are the yellows of April.

Just for grins, I laid them out in the pattern of the quilt. Of course, before this is finished, I'll have lots more colors in the mix.

And now I'm ready to link up at the party tomorrow.

From there...and for no other reason than it was lying on my work table, I decided to get to work on this quick little project. You might recall that I picked this up at the Quilter's Cottage in Fallbrook, California. The pattern and preprinted blocks are from the Olde America Antiques website. I encourage you to click on that link because there is a wealth of choices for pre-printed fabric quilt blocks. I selected this one.

The quilt blocks are pre-printed onto fabric, and the printing is of high quality. They're very sharp, and the colors are vibrant.

All you have to do it peel the fabric away from the paper backing, which was easy to do.

Then, you trim the block 1/4-inch from the edge of the printing.

When I had mine ready for sewing, I laid them out in this configuration.

When I quit for the day, I had them sashed with this green fabric. I forget when I purchased this green, but it's been in my stash for a long time.

When I finish it up, I'll be putting borders on using this tomato fabric. I love this fabric. It's been in my stash practically from when I first started quilting. I don't know why, but I purchased 3 yards of it, and I've already used it in one quilt. There's still a lot left. This fabric was just one reason I selected the tomato seed packet blocks.

So I'm hoping to get the top finished today. It's another reminder that it's way past time to get my tomato starts. I have a trip to the farmer's market planned with Erik and Mae on Saturday. I'm hoping to get some starts then.

Before I was ready to quit for the day, the Retired Resident Engineer (RRE) wandered into the sewing room, and saw this sitting on my sewing table. "Oh!" says he. "You have a Corvette pattern!"

Feeling magnanimous I said, "Would you like a Corvette mug rug?"

"Oh yes," says he.

So, I guess that's what's happening next. I think I downloaded this from Craftsy. Sher Hastings has quite a few cute designs listed for sale on Craftsy.

You'll notice it has the words, "Let's Go!" on the pattern. I have a different idea for what to do there. Stay tuned.

So, I'm hoping I'll have some time to sew today. We need to go into town and pick up some wine shipments the wineries were kind enough to hold for us while we were traveling, and we have a couple of other little errands to run too. Time's a wastin'. Better get going.