Birdie Bungalows

Good morning, my friends. Our snow isn't lasting long. It's a slushy, patchy, wet mess outside, having rained overnight. Unfortunately, we're heading into a very cold snowy few days this weekend, with a possibility of freezing rain on Tuesday. Since that's the day our carpet installation is supposed to happen, it looks as if we're going to be delayed. For not too long, I hope, but we'll just have to wait and see. We're continuing with our efforts at getting ready for it. I love a good period of chaos and pandemonium, don't you?

Yesterday was devoted to finishing off my Project Quilting piece for the "bird house" prompt. I finished stitching the fifth bird house. 

I spent so much time stitching the past few days, I actually wore a blister on my ring finger where the eye of the needle rests when I'm holding it. I finished up with a band-aid on my finger as a cushion. Sewing is not for wimps.

From there, I threw it in the washer to wash out the Sticky Fabri-Solvy, and then we headed off to the grocery store. It was finished washing by the time we got home. After giving it some time to dry, I was able to iron the wrinkles out.

And then, I went to work turning it into a little quilt. Smitty was on hand to help with that.

I added two borders. These were done quilt-as-you-go style. I didn't really want to do any quilting within the center bird house panel because I liked the simplicity of it. 

Then, I used the same inner border fabric for the binding. It's a fabric left over from one of the McKenna Ryan kits I sewed into a quilt. Her fabrics are very pretty.

And then, I spent about an hour hand-sewing the binding, and then my quilt was finished. It ends up at 24 x 15 inches.

Here's how it looks from the back.

So phew! I'm glad to be returning to my "regular" sewing today. I'll spend some time stitching the Girls' Getaway where I left off a few days ago.

After that, I'll make two of the pieced blocks for the same quilt. If I can finish those, I'll get to work making two more blocks for the Shop Hop quilt. When those are done, I will have reached the end of my WIPs list, and I can get on with tying the French Roses quilt.

I've been thinking this will be a good project to work on while the carpet is being installed. If the weather forecast holds, I might actually finish it before the carpet is installed. 

It was a full day yesterday, and so I didn't get my task of cleaning and clearing my desk finished. I'll have to do that first this morning. After that I want to get in a Bow-flex workout, and then get back to my regular sewing. 

Oh my goodness...the weather back east! I hope none of you are in the thick of the terrible storms and flooding. Seeing all of that is making me think twice when whining about the possibility of our carpet installation being delayed. Stay warm, safe, and dry, my friends.