Today's Stuff

I love long weekends.

No getting up at 5-5:30 AM like normal, coffee in bed with the YouTube, days like today when there is no plan.

I'll be spending the day in the sewing room minus a bit of house keeping.  Yesterday (Sunday) after we got home our youngest came over and I fixed a ball cap for him.  And before and after his visit I worked on the blocks for the Granny Square quilt.  I'm not sure if I shared that I am going to custom free motion quilt this one on the Juki since I haven't done that kind of quilting lately.  The tracks on my quilter are old and notched up so until I get them replaced it is only really adequate for all over large quilting so that's what I've been doing with it.

The other thing I did yesterday is a little bit of wall art to go with our grandson's quilt that is almost done.  Still need to figure out the thread breakage issue on the quilter so I can finish quilting the quilt.

I just need to put a layer or two of acrylic sealer over that.

Once the Granny Squares are all done and ready for borders I'll get this mess sorted, figure out my thread issue and finish quilting Grandboy's quilt.

Somewhere in all of that I'm also making a prototype dress shirt for the spousal unit. 

Fabric In ...

 ....but I had a good reason! Sure, isn't that what we always say?  Surrounded by mountains of fabric but there was a great sale! 

Also, 6 yards are not my fault.  My daughter and Hubby went to town (we are very rural so that is an endeavor) and she sent me pictures from the sale section of the local fabric shop so, completely not my fault!

All in all I added a little over 33 yards since the first of the year, but as you can see from a few previous posts I do have 3 projects in the works right now and the next 3 planned so I should be able to use up some fabric and get out of the red pretty quickly.

I also bought cotton solids to make my spouse some shirts but did not count them in my count since technically they are not for me.  OH!  I think I can take off 4 yards from my count since I'm using some quilting muslin to make the prototype for the shirts I'm making for him and it is in my quilt fabric counts, so that will be nice once the prototype is done to take some fabric out of my quite ridiculous total.  

I tried to estimate what I have in yardage total from all of my UFOs and everything on the shelves and in bins and wherever and I am glad I can't estimate because I'm pretty sure it would make me want to never buy fabric again.  No fun in that!  Plus I have to stock up while things are on sale now since after I stop working (whenever we decide that is) I won't be able to buy fabric.  

See all the ways I justify my ridiculousness? 😁

A Bit of Progress

Good Saturday Morning!

I just wanted to hop on here and do a quick update of projects.

Our grandson's quilt is still in the same spot as last week due to thread issues (it keeps breaking) so I need to figure that out so I can finish quilting it.

My friend's Mariner's Compass (or star not sure what to call it) is also in the same spot as my last update due to trying to decide my next step with borders.  

I showed her the medallion and she said she would like the borders to be simple so that the medallion is the focus.  

It has to be about Queen size when I'm done because she likes a lot of overhang and her bed is a double.  Anyway, I'm still staring at it once in a while trying to decide what I'm going to do.

I did order fabric during end of year sales so bad me! I'll add it to the spreadsheet as it starts to trickle in. 

Project # 3 has been going fairly well.  I have 11 "Granny Square" blocks complete in the French General Château de Chantilly line from Moda, complete.  I LOVE the French General fabrics as I love the color palette of them.  They make lovely, vintage looking quilts which is right up my alley (lets be honest, ANY quilt is right up my alley).

Here's a look at the first 6 I finished.

I think that's it from here for now.  Somehow I have a Saturday to myself and I already did house chores so I'm going to hop on the treadmill for a while and then sew to my heart's content. :)
 

Things I'm Doing

Just a quick post before my Friday night Zoom Yahtzee game with my elderly friend. 

The grandson's quilt is getting close to done:

I bought fabric for some dress shirts for my hubby with these patterns (I can make them for less than the really nice, good quality ones cost): Fabric isn't here yet.....

The above photo also has me sorting a Moda, French General, Chateau de Chantilly jelly roll that I'm going to make a "Granny Square" quilt out of.  I sub-cut enough for 16 squares and I have 4 of them assembled but didn't get a picture yet.

And I am still working on the Mariner's Compass quilt for my elderly friend.

Okay I think that's it!