A little catch up!

My sewing room has been taken over by a guest so not much has been happening here.

I had been working on this large blue and white scrappy star. I got all the star points pieced before I had to set up the sewing room as a guest room.

As each star point was finished I was laying them on the floor in no particular way. One day my husband walked in and he was completely mesmerized! I'm not sure if that is good or bad yet!  

Then I started cutting pieces for the border...

I won't have my room back until later this week, so I have been working on my pile of handwork! I started this sweet little granny square afghan for a little girls Christmas gift. 

This will be my first finished Christmas gift this year. Every year I make several Christmas presents for people I care about. I have been thinking about what I want to do this year but I'm not coming up with any great ideas. I wonder if this will be one of those years I don't make much or if it will be one of those years I am making things to the last minute?

Happy Stitching! 

One Fall Finish!

One little fall quilt is finished and is now hanging on my condo door! 

You can tell a quilter lives here!

 

And while I was adding binding...

Why is it that almost every time I put on binding ( large quilt or small quilt) a seam ends up in the corner?

Happy Stitching!

Fall Fever and a Bit of Catching Up!

Fall fever has hit me hard!

I've been doing my fall cleaning and hadn't thought I had been spending much time in my sewing room but then I started to take some pictures! 

In keeping with my UFO's I have worked on a couple projects. I decided my hexagons would have one last border and then it will fit perfectly on my coffee table! 

I have 3 side sections done and ready to sew on.

I had been cutting blue and neutral strips for some time from scraps and my stash. I finally assembled and re-cut and now I am ready to start putting together a star! Each point has 10 strips so it will take me a while to get this made. It is precision piecing! 

Then fall has struck early here both in my sewing room and outside. I don't think I have ever seen the trees turning this early. It has inspired me in the sewing room though. 

I pieced this little top for my condo door!

It is a small quilt  that I will machine quilt so I thought I would try pin basting!

It went really fast!

Then I pieced this one just for fun! I am planning on big stitching it for lots of texture.

The colors are not quite right in the photo but here are the threads I am using. I am using the darker thread around the appliques for contrast to separate those sunflowers from the background.

With these two quilts I have been playing with different machine applique techniques - both turned edge. I bought these Easy Threading needles to help bring my threads to the back to tie off and I LOVE them!!! Why have I never bought these before?

And finally I picked up this wool to make myself a fun pair of Christmas socks! 

My feet are going to look fabulous on Christmas morning!

I am going to try to blog a bit more often so I keep caught up! 

Happy Stitching