Sew and Sew

Good morning, my friends. What a marvelous day of sewing I had yesterday. Before I could start on anything, however, Smitty reminded me that I needed to fill the bird feeders. He went outside with me and snoopervised while I performed this vitally important task. It's a good thing too because the birds were looking gaunt and pale with hunger. Smitty is dedicated to his job of monitoring the condition of the bird feeders.

That was my only outdoor task for the day. Back inside, I started the laundry, and then devoted the rest of the day to catching up on my sewing. I still needed to add a border and back to the mini quilt for the Summer Sun piece.

And then, I sewed it to the embroidered background.

There is just one more season to go on this quilt. The patterns include designs for borders, and each block can be created as an individual wall-hanging. These are the three I have so far.

When they are finished, I have in mind to create borders using seasonally appropriate fabrics, and then sew them into a whole as if they were a panel. We'll see. I have lots of ideas for how to finish this off.

Sadie showed up then. She thought she was safe from papurr-piecing now that the mini quilt was finished.

First, we went to work adding borders to the "Eggs and Soldiers" block for The Story of My Day quilt.

But there was one more to do. Sadie stuck around for that too.

Together we finished the "Wash the Clothes" block too. It seemed completely appropriate since we were doing just that: washing the clothes.

There are 20 blocks for this quilt altogether. Here are the eight I have so far.

Sadie suddenly evaporated when she saw the Tiny House pattern come out. It's been so long since this one was released, you probably forgot what it looks like.

There was just a little time left in my sewing day. This one is lettered "C" through "I." When it was time to stop yesterday, I'd finished sections "C" through "E".

So, I'll finish that off first this morning, and then it will be time to go to work quilting the Pieces of the Past quilt. In my mind, I have just an inkling of how I want to quilt this. I'll probably just figure it out as I go.

Meanwhile, Tiny House #25 was released today...this one:

My plan is to spend an hour on it each day until it's finished. When the hour is up, I'll continue on with my quilting. 

Today I need to catch up on gardening tasks again. The vegetable garden needs hoeing and the annuals need watering. Aside from that, it's just sewing and more sewing. Also, I have a baking project planned for later on today. It's made with oatmeal. The oatmeal is mixed with milk, and then needs to sit for eight hours. Mine is about one-hour into its eight-hour commitment. When time is up, I'll bake it off. Intriguing, no? I'll tell you more about it tomorrow.