A Finish--Green Romance

Despite not blogging, I have been busy with needle and thread and life in general. My daughter just got married. We are thrilled for the happy couple and just love her new husband. 

She is a very non-traditional lady and bride in her happy pink. 

In sewing: Green Romance is done at last. 

I had run out of bias binding and just lost steam for the project in the process. Finally decided to wrap things up on it.  I can see mistakes on it but am happy with it over all. Especially as a learning process. 

I have been making slow progress with the Flower Box Cats.   Sorry about the orientation. I couldn't get the correction to hold. But you get the idea,  it's not being ignored completely. This is such a tedious project. I think I started with the hardest set of cats. Time will tell though.

In other sewing news there is sewing news; however no pictures at this time. But there are several new garments in my closet I need to show you soon.

Hope you all had a Happy Mother's Day and happy sewing. 

I Love The UPS Man

I love the UPS man because he brings me wonderful things like this--

Fabric!  Beautiful fabric.  Fabric Mart was having a sale on knits-- 50% off and these little babies jumped into my shopping cart despite being on a buying fast.  ( I just don't have any nice winter weight knits to sew with.  Or so I told myself.)    The white is a nice weight scuba knit that is slated to become a jacket just as soon as I finish the quilt.  The stripe is a jersey knit and the red and harvest gold are ponte knits that will probably become dresses. 

In quilty news I got the last of the piecing done on Green Romance.  Here it is with Miss Fritzi inspecting it. 

 

Now onto the borders and backing.

 

Happy Stitching!

 

Flower Box Cats and Green Romance

I have two projects currently underway.  I have made some progress with the Flower Box Cats. 

I'm working it on 18 count aida so it takes a lot of stitches to show any progress.  I've got half of the double window and most of the two kittens done.  They lack their eyes and outlining stitching.  The pink is the beginning of the flower box. 

I'm also working on a quilt.  It's going to be a smallish one-- a lap quilt size, 40 x 58 before the border.   This is only the 2nd quilt I've ever made.  The first is still a UFO since I can't decide on what kind of border to put on it.  Usually I do small wallhangings with the urge strikes since I'm such a novice at this. 

This one is from an old magazine ( Quilts and More, Summer 2006) and was called Red Romance as it was done in reds featuring a red toile.  I had a length of green toile and lots of green in the stash so Green Romance it was.

The picture is a little out of focus and doesn't do it justice but you get the general idea.  I still have three more rows and sashings to go. I've got the border piced out but am trying to think what kind of design to quilt it in. Plenty of time for that though.  Hopefully I'll get some time to work on it next weekend as this week looks awfully busy and I use the evenings for hand stitching. 

Happy stitching!