Playing

Just having some fun with laying out Birds in the Air blocks ;o)

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Sunday Sewing

After a week of treating a stiff neck and very little sewing, I'm spending some time today playing with the HST units from my biscuit tin :o) Love the look of these Birds in the Air blocks!

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Sewing a little something else

I found out this morning I needed a short break from my secret project to do a little something else (and I needed a small thing for someone...). Using squares from my 1.5" scraps box, this little purse came together

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Still at it...

Guess the biscuit tin and the fabrics from my last post are recognizable :o) Making progress on my secret project, but still have a long way to go...

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What's in the biscuit tin

I have had a couple of sweet e-mails asking if everything is all right with me since I haven't been keeping my blog updated lately. Thank you girls for caring, and I'm happy to say everything is absolutely fine! I have been busy sewing on my secret project, and I sooo wish I could share with everyone, but for now I have a muzzle on ;o) But just so you don't think I'm slacking off, here's a small sneak peek of what's in the biscuit tin

Wishing all my blogging friends a wonderful weekend!

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Lots of not doing too much

Oh my.... it's been over a month since my last post??? Time sure does fly! And I don't really have much to show. I have been working a little on my secret project (I have talked about this before, sorry not to be able to show!), I have finished cutting up my jelly roll for Mon Ami - the lePetite project for January

I only pieced 13 of the 48 blocks so far - I want to use up the JR so there will be more blocks than there are in the original quilt. Since this is very much a project in slow work, I haven't even gotten around to thinking about the project for February... really not sure I'm going to do that one.

Know I'm probably the slowest hand quilter in the world. I still can't believe I got talked into quilting this by hand:

Remember it? It is a swap block quilt from 2007. I was good for a while and quilted about one thread a day for a few months, but once I had quilted about 2/3 of the blocks I put it in the cupboard because I had to focus on other stuff, and it was stuck there till last December when I brought it with me for Christmas holiday. I have set a goal of keeping this on the sofa till it's finished!

Progress has been made over the last few weeks. I still have five and a half setting triangles and one corner left to quilt, then I can go hunting for the perfect binding - woohoo! :o)

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First little finish

Wohoo! I have a finish for 2011!! December's LePetite project, and it really is petite *lol* This is how my little Prairie Point Christmas quilt turned out:

It is ca. 8"x6" finished, and was a great opportunity to use up some very small scraps, but very fiddly to put together and quilt. It is now on it's way to a non-blogging quilting friend, and hopefully it will come to use come Christmas :o)

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LePetite

I didn't get around to finishing the December LePetite in time for the deadline, but I hope to have it finished in a few days, and also have this month's project finished by the end of this month. Think I can do it? The centre of the top is finished:

It is quite a lot smaller than the original. I started out with 1.5" squares for the prairie points, and I have fewer rows. But I think it turned out pretty cute so far - just need to figure out what to do for borders.

For this month's LePetite - the "Mon Ami" Schnibble - I'm using a jelly roll of Jennifer Chiaverini's New Year's Quilt collection for Red Rooster. I have had this roll and some yardage in my stash for quite a while and I figured what better use of it than the first quilt of the year?

Four first blocks are together, and using the Easy Angle ruler they are quick to cut.

The blocks turn out a bit bigger than Carrie's pattern, as the HST are 2.5" rather than 2", but I don't want to trim them down, and I don't mind a larger quilt.

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New year's resolution

With a new year comes new goals. I have observed there being a lot of UFO challenges out in blogland, and I too intend to work on my UFOs and WISPs this year. But I don't want to limit myself too much, so what I want to do is to finish a UFO/WISP before starting a new quilt.

Anyone want to join in? The only rule is that an ongoing project has to come off the UFO list before starting a new quilt. I don't want to include little projects in the "new quilt" category since doing a mini can be very inspirational, and sometimes we just have to make those little gifts etc. Projects already pledged (like the LePetit) will also fall out of the "new quilt" category since it is something signed up for last year.

Don't sound too difficult, does it? Please feel free to grab the badge for your blog, and join in :o)

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