Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Now What?!

So last week I was finally able to pick up my "new"(it seriously is like new) Horn Sewing cabinet. DH helped me unload it off the back of the truck. He asked the inevitable question "How much did this cost? Twenty?!!" Uh...yeah...OK! Thank goodness he didn't really want to know!

It lived in my living room overnight until...

A day later, all 4 of my boys were here and I asked them nicely(because I am a nice Mom!) to carry it upstairs to my wannabe sewing room for me and three of them did it(now I know why I had boys!). So, I got it all set up, carried my machine up and set it in and figured out how to move the platform thingy up and down...(yes that is a bath towel on the window-you know, we live like kings in this house! Note the vertical blinds on the ironing board waiting to be put up).

Then...

Then...



NOTHING! I got NOTHING!



I have not been able to even motivate myself to plug the machine in.

I'm blaming the humidity...no AC for that room and it's been way too hot up until yesterday when I finally put together a set of shelves I picked up at Lowe's.


I realize they won't go very far in storing my stash but maybe I can at least get some of it out where I can see it and actually USE it!
Now to just get that much done. It would probably help if I would get away from this laptop!


Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Finished Just In Time!

I finished the binding at exactly noon on Sunday.
Just in time for the shower at 4 PM!
This was the fastest quilt I've ever made, from start to finish.
I can't imagine how I'll ever get a full sized one done!

And the back...

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Baby Quilt dilemma-solved.

I started this last Saturday night. I'm pretty pleased with it except when will I ever learn not to use similar fabrics like I did in the pinwheel blocks? I can only say I'm in a hurry to get it done as it's for a baby shower on Sunday afternoon. The brown dotted fabric is from Joann's. It's a Debbie Mumm and I wish I had gotten more than one yard. I goofed up cutting it too, so now I have 6 extra 1 1/2" strips. The other fabric, Farm Corner, I got from www.fabric.com a place I try not to go to very often because I cannot help myself!
I've already done the outer borders but I was curious which border anyone else liked.
This one with the same pattern as the blocks or...
This one with the polka dots?
I picked...
The top one.
Pictures of the finished product to follow...when I get it finished that is!