Sew Business

Good morning, my friends. It's looking like rain for the next week or so. There's going to be lots of sewing time, I'm afraid. I have a couple of outings planned for the coming week. Mainly, I'll be hanging out in the sewing room with the kitties.

Yesterday, I finished up the 7th of seven small stitcheries for the Girls' Getaway quilt.

From there, I studied the pattern so that I could trim all of them to size. It wasn't easy since I couldn't see any place where the pattern gave specific instructions for cutting the stitcheries. They will be part of pieced blocks, and so I had to study the instructions and figure where the stitchery went in the various pieces of the whole block. This required some math. It might have broken my brain save for my calculator. Smitty sat on the pieces and held them down while I did my figuring.

When they were all trimmed to size, I was able to get a picture of all of them together.

Finishing all seven stitcheries was my goal for November's

so I'll link up there when the party starts at the end of the month.

And so that brought me to a Stitching 911 situation. It was imperative that I make something for this morning's stitching. Fortunately, I have all I need to get started on the Snow Happens table runner. I brought all my tracing equipment upstairs to the dining room table where I could sit beside the window while I traced.

When it was all done, I pressed it and added some iron-on stabilizer. Then it was hooped up and ready for stitching. There's my errant ball of floss there. It cannot escape my needle of doom.

Also, look closely at that background fabric. It's snowing! It was some I had left over from when I made the I Believe in Snowmen quilt shown below.

That was a lucky find from my stash. I believe I have enough to use it in other parts of the table runner too.

After that was ready to go, I went for a walk on the treadmill, and then got to work on the Mosaic piece. Sadie has been my helper cat for this all along, but she remains horrified at the mess in the sewing room. A cat would never allow this to happen.

I was able to finish the row I'd started the day before, and then the next row. Here's your peek.

It was tempting to continue on and finish it, but I was more interested in finishing the binding for the Beach Bums. And now...that's a finished quilt! It finishes at 33 x 43 inches. And I really love this quilt. There's a blank wall in our bedroom where I want to hang it.

Here's how it looks from the back.

I have enough of that backing fabric to make a hanging sleeve for it, and that will be on today's agenda.

We've already had our Sunday morning pancakes, and so I'll get busy stitching the left-most snowman for Snow Happens. After that, I'll get back to the Mosaic piece. These are the only "tiles" I have left. Except for the two to the left (blurred...no peeking!), they're all just solid pieces. It shouldn't take long to finish the rest, and then I can start sewing it together.

So I have plenty of sewing for my rainy day inside. Time to get to it. What's on your to-do list for today?