Priorities

This rainy morning I woke up groggy which is unusual for me and Brandon couldn't find his band t shirt they wear on Thursdays.  I looked but couldn't find it either.  He rather blithely said, "oh, you can bring it to me at 6th or 7th period"  Not knowing where it is (he probably left it in his band locker) and it is not a priority uniform thing more a solidarity thing -  I looked at him and thought, "yeah, that's probably not going to happen". Which is how I feel when someone suggests I do mending or make something for someone.

Tumbling Blocks Top

Top is almost finished.  I took this picture before I added grey pieces to the side cut outs.  I just need to fill in the bottom and then make the corners where needed.  I am not sure how I am going to quilt it, but I like it.  Originally as I was constructing it I had it flipped with the grey section on the right rather than the top, but I think I will leave it this way. I have to trim the top straight also.  It is a little confusing because my design wall is grey.

I won a sewing machine!

Last weekend I participated in the North Texas Shop Hop.  It was the first time I'd ever visited every shop in a shop hop which is much easier to do now that I am retired.  I got a lot of ideas from seeing projects, fabric, displays but there wasn't anything particular I was shopping for though I did try to buy at least a fat quarter from every shop. 

I found out this morning that I won the gift basket from one of the shops.  If you visited all 11 shops then you were in a drawing for a $200 gift basket - each of the 11 shops was giving away one.  I won from Sew It UP  which is a lovely Bernina store with very cute fabric.  This is what they gave me:

I am very happy.  I feel so blessed.  I think this will make a great machine to take to workshops and now when my granddaughters visit we will be able to have 2 machines going at the same time.

guild workshop tablecloth

After being part of the Programs Team my 2 yr term is ending this month.  I am happy to have time off with no responsibilities at guild meetings starting in October.  In the 2 years it hadn't occurred to me to quilt the tablecloth we use to designate the workshop sign up table.  We inherited the job and it came with a cotton cloth hemmed with the word "Workshops" fused on.  At the quilt show last month a member suggested I quilt it so that has been my most recent project.

The first picture shows a practice piece that I played with designs.  The fabric print is very busy so not much shows.  I did a flange binding in bright colors.