royal sewing

with the cold finally abating, able to do something else today besides blow my nose and pop tylenol...LOL!  first up, a project for my own princess....the cross-stitch diva....

her very delicate and precisely stitched fairy blocks....all it needs is side borders and then baste/quilt....they are adorable and she has already reserved a place for this....and betty was in a sewing mood so progressed to block 3 in the barbara brackman sew along...

am way behind on this with 4 blocks to get caught up, but maybe by next week...with only 9 total it'll be a quick finish...a great short SAL giving me the opportunity to use some really nice fabrics from the stash...and february half over???  impossible!!!  spring is coming tho as just this morning the sun was out and birds were chirping in the trees....

happy valentine's day!

The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart - Jane Austen 

day 4....

of the head cold that is slowly resolving....and with it return of my quilty mojo, again slowly....but last week before it hit, got this to the flimsy stage...

so it now resides in "the pile" to be basted and then quilted....and with the amish churn dash quilting done, this got put into the hoop as the next lucky quilt to be quilted...

it's "cabana daydreams" and a complete 180 from the dark amish solids.  a good project for spring that'll be here in a month or so.  it'll be sidelined once the cross-stitch top is done for a basting blitz day.   would like to finish the "fairies" by the end of february as DD has been so patient for its completion.  the only other must-do is the QOV top that should be ready by march in order to get it quilted and bound and ready for june award....all this WILL be done once the drippy nose and sneezing are history....

slow stitching sunday

up early this AM and quilting on this...only 3 blocks to go plus the setting triangles, so it'll be a February finish for sure. 

there will be machine time as well...DD is an expert cross-stitcher and asked me to make a wall quilt from some adorable fairy blocks she did.  she picked out the fabric last summer from the stash and has been waiting patiently for other things that needed to come first.  now it's her turn!  she has already selected space for the wall quilt in her home and the ball is in my court.  maybe it too will be a february finish!