so many bloggers have posted photos of beautiful flowers that inspired me to send this to my mom for her birthday.....it bloomed 2 days after but beautiful nonetheless....called 'apple blossom'...if only the sun were out when the photo was taken....across the street is construction of a new police station so all the residents get to be sidewalk engineers...LOL!
it was a busy sewing sunday.....finished placemats....
and blue lanterns got some progress....
thinking maybe 20 blocks in all for this wall piece or 30 at most, will see. these sew up so very quickly....finished all these in about an hour.
then caved for another new start...my absolute last for now. first i need to apologize to a zoom quilty pal. i sort of agreed to sew a quilt with her--"make it blue" by natalie bird--but bailed as i already had a blue piece in progress--"alaska". didn't feel i could commit to another large quilt project. but now the Quiltmania mystery has called to me, reasoning i wasn't committed beyond what i wanted to do. and what color is it? blue with yellow....so that's 3 blue projects....here's what got done today. in the nick of time since the next issue/step comes out march...
a respectable start and step 1 might be done before too long into march--only 7 stars to go. Miss Sunny is a machine of a "certain age" so without many bells and whistles of newer machines. she does, however, come with attachments. pulled out the single needle throat plate, making piecing of small units much easier...had never used before but will leave it on for the time being.
another week with few must do items. might have to resort to house chores...😕

Blue and yellow .... love those colours and you are keeping busy with those projects!
ReplyDeleteYou can never go wrong with a blue project.
ReplyDeleteApple Blossom is one of the prettiest amaryllis. Really brightens a winter day!
ReplyDeleteLove flowers that bloom indoors to brighten grey days.
ReplyDeleteReally nice looking placemats.
I love blue, so never too many blue projects, IMHO. LOL
I have to tell you that I leave the single needle throat plate in place unless I have to do a zig-zag type stitch. I am teaching a class on 2" blocks tomorrow (if we don't get snowed in overnight) and I let the participants know that things will go much better for them if they have their single needle throat plate and presser foot in place. Some of the people who signed up let me know they hadn't even known there were different throat plates, and they were going to have to check and see if their machine had such a thing. :)
old dog learned new trick....LOL...
DeleteWhat a pretty flower!! and sidewalk engineers - I love it!!!
ReplyDeleteSuper great placemats!!! and lovely blocks!
Old machine often much more reliable workhorses - lots to go wrong with bells and whistles.
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