Tomorrow's Finish Today

Except for one little housekeeping chore, it was an NBS day yesterday. I'm not sure what today holds, but there will be a finish involved. Mike is home today, and we need to pick up a wine shipment as well. And, oh well, sure...one housekeeping chore. But sewing first!

As for yesterday, I had just one more row of bag ladies to contend with.

One and done.

From there I was ready to start sewing on the borders. The first was yellow.

The second was pink.

My little cat was there to help.

Hello.

I said, HELLO!

It was getting late in the day by that time...I suspected it was time to feed the cat...which reminds me, remember this quilt?

Smitty was holding it up on the other side of the sewing room. I think it was a signal.

So, anyway, I was just finishing up joining strips for the last border when I stopped for the day.

Just for grins, I took this picture so you could get a hint of what it will look like at the end of the day today.

Also, I rooted around in my fabric stash a little. The Bag Ladies are made completely from scraps, and so far, the only money spent has been for the thread to sew them together. Even the embroidery floss was from scraps in my floss stash. The pattern was a gift from the designer, Carol Steffensen, for hosting the Stitch-Along last year. And with that in mind, I really wanted to find a back in my stash. I came out with this one.

It's a fabric a friend found at a yard sale, or a garage sale, or a trunk sale, or something. It has the nicest feel, and I'm pretty sure it's cotton. It's kind of weird though because it's only 36 inches wide, and there is nothing in the selvage (indeed, the selvage isn't really even visible) to identify it. Possibly a strip was cut lengthwise at some point? I don't know. The edge appears finished. In any case, I have five yards of it. When the quilt is finished, it will be 52 x 71 inches, and so even with the narrow width, there's plenty for a back. SOLD! I like the vintage appearance, and the bag ladies look pretty vintage to me.

Also, I selected this for the binding when I get that far with it. I've used this in other projects, and the binding might just use up the last of it.

So that was my sewing day.

In odds and ends...remember when Melissa painted Smitty recently? Well Sadie wanted to be painted too. And I've probably posted a lot of pictures of Sadie with the request that #melissapaintmycat. Finally, I posted this picture...

And she did it! Melissa painted Sadie!

Cool! Now we'll have a matching pair...in addition to the living ones we already have.

Finally, I noticed this on our star magnolia yesterday. 

The original owner planted the star magnolia. It makes the prettiest flowers in the spring.

This is our 17th year in our home. I've loved the blossoms in spring, but this is the first time I've ever noticed these berries in the fall. Is it possible it's the first time it has produced them? Or have I just never noticed before. Anyway...interesting.

So with that, I'm off to finish that last border. It'll be good to have the Bag Ladies sewn into a flimsy. After all, they aren't getting any younger, and neither am I.