wednesday morning status

a hot weather week--great for sewing!  mr. mailman delivered a squishie the other day....

a baggie of scraps...all 2.5 inch squares...and a book about the area where my mother's ancestors and family are from....washington county, maine, downeast it's called....the northeastern corner of maine, "where America greets the day" as the morning sun shines on America there first!  the squares are all christmas themed...oooh quilty muse sprang into action!  sorted them by pattern and some prints had only a few, others many.  how about a placemat?

so the very light print, gold and green are now gone.  what else to make?  a trip to my stash and pulled a black/white christmas print and presto! some little broken dishes blocks...

how many to make?  that's easy....whichever fabric runs out first....a tad less than half yard of the black/white print and this many squares left....

closeup makes them look much larger but none bigger than 2.5" -- a few under that got tossed.  it'll be a leader/ender type project...so more stash will be busted...what is it about someone else's scraps that make them so inspiring/tantalizing/fun?  *** elsewhere, more secret squares done, more hand quilting done, floors got washed and laundry too.  with every day to sew, still feel like there is never enough time to accomplish what i plan....spooky!

short post

a whole week has gone by and no posts?  that's because most of my sewing has been on the secret gift...happy to say only 12 blocks more and assembling the top can begin.  should get basted in july...but can show you this...

while clearing away stacks of fabric and looking for churn dash ones, found some juvenile charms...not quite enough for this but added a few, sewed them up and added the border.  it'll be finished and put aside for a need....

i did add 3 of the narrow lime borders to "midnight at the oasis" so i can soon start to add the last border of blocks.  hoping for a june flimsy....

took my daughter to a birthday lunch last week and she gifted me this...

it's the jubilee mug!  i already had the queen's own marmalade on board...you can get it from amazon...and yes, it is the one she prefers!  now just waiting on the monarch to ring the buzzer downstairs and it'll be tea time!  unlike paddington, i won't be drinking mine directly from the pot...LOL!

warm and humid but can get away without A/C...not too bad thus far for summer in maryland...have a good one!