A weekend's worth of work

I had a very productive sewing weekend.

Here's another HST block, this time I went with reds.  Even though I don't have a good feel for the overall look of this project, I have decided to make blocks in chunks of color, with the upper right hand section made with a fabric that has a white background.

I'll probably just sew all the blocks together once they're done.  I think I'll go with 9 of these big sections.

The best thing about football season, besides the football, is the time I spend in a chair in front of the TV doing hand work.

This weekend I was able to appliqué all the red centers on my Dresden Doilies medium sized blocks.

All the blocks are done, hopefully I'll start appliquéing the blocks to the red background fabric this week.

Once the dresden blocks were done there was still football on TV so I got out my Clown Pants project box and worked on my red dot blocks.

Just in case you've forgotten, this is Clown Pants.

And finally, I started on this bag.

This bag is in the Fall 2013 issue of Quilts and More.  The pattern is by Carrie Nelson of Miss Rosie's Quilt Co.  I see bags online all the time and really was never motivated to make one, until now.  I'm not sure if it's the polkadot handles, the fabric, or what.  But I've started my first bag and so far so good.  I'll blog about the details later in the week.

If you like the looks of this bag you can order a kit here.

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Even More Random Sewing

Remember this, my last ditch effort of summer sewing, no pattern, no plan?

Well I've now made a green one,

and an orange one.

One of what, I still have no idea, but I'm having fun and that's all that matters!!

I've also been piecing scrappy binding and quilt backs, that's not so fun!

It's football season, hip hip hurray, my favorite time of the year!  The first game is in the books and I'm counting the hours until Sunday, are you ready for some football, I am!!

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Random Sewing and Stuff

I enjoyed my nice long weekend, how about you?

Remember when I got home from Paris, and I wanted to do some sewing but was too tired to come up with a pattern or plan so I made this?

Well I've made another one, no plan, just random sewing.

I do have a plan for these.  These are the medium sized Dresden blocks for my Dresden Doilies project.

I'm not going to start appliquéing any of these blocks to the red background fabric until I have all the red centers on.

I've given a couple a trunk shows this summer and earned a little spending money.  My first instinct was to add the cash to my fabric fund, since I have a limited budget.  But then this caught my eye and I couldn't resist. 

At first, spending $100 on thread seemed a little extravagant, and that would buy a lot of fabric.  But my thread box mainly holds grey, red, black, white and beige thread, so I could use some colorful thread, plus my thread of choice is Aurifil, so splurged on this box of thread.

And once I got this box in the mail, I knew I had made a good choice!

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Parade Ready

Voila!!

My Canasta is all done!

This is Lifetime Quilt Number 114.

The pattern is Canasta by Miss Rosie's Quilt Company.

The fabric is all by Fig Tree for Moda.

It finished at 50" x 57".

It has approximately 1,252 pieces.

I love this Schnibbles!

Thanks Sinta and Sherri for another great Schnibbles Sew Along.  I can hardly wait to see what's up next!

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A Bunch of Baskets

I've finished my baskets for Canasta, all 61 of them.

And I found the perfect place for each one in my top.

I really liked the random setting on the Canasta pattern cover, but thought that might be a little too much with all my assorted baskets, so they are going to be setting up straight.

Someone asked about my fabric, it's all Fig Tree by Moda.

Here's how I came up with all the different baskets, one piece of graph paper, one pencil, and one highlighter!  Even though I drew them all up, I still wasn't sure how they would look when I put them all together.

But I think they all turned out just fine.

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