A Little Visitor

I hope everyone is having a lovely Christmas Eve and staying nice and toasty. I've enjoyed the bliss and luxury of sewing all day casually and have made a lot of progress. The temperature really started dropping after about 10am and I think that’s what drove this little lizard to come visit me on my ironing board.





Thankfully the iron hadn’t been on recently, so it’s perfectly fine perching here in the sun. Later it moved on into the window and I’m told it lives around there. Probably nice, safe and warm being that it’s winter here now.







Miya kitty is anxiously awaiting morning and the opening of gifts. She's making sure nobody comes and peeks in the night. ;-) heh

Packing For The Holiday

Well tonight was a real whirl wind of things going on in the studio. While I’m a fairly organized person it still took a little bit to gather up the entire quilt project and get it packed up in some semblance of uncrushed so I can take it with me to work on over the holiday while visiting family.

I am being optimistic that I will be able to finish putting the top together in about a day and thus have been already planning out the next project since I’ll have a lot of free time to sew. Here is a smattering of fabrics from the ‘bin of holding’ which all need worked into something. Some are slated for clothes (like the polka dots, plaid and tulle) others will be quilts, decorative pillows or other projects.





Since I am still working out the finer details on what I want to work on first I am just packing the whole thing up and bringing it with me. You know how it would be if I didn’t; the perfect matching fabric for something would be left here at the house. Murphy’s Law never fails!

I can say though that this pile of scraps left over from my current quilting project is slated for a lap quilt, even if it doesn’t realize it just yet. I’ve been milling the idea around in my head off and on today trying to decide on my pattern design. I’m planning on ‘shooting from the hip’ on this one, so it’ll be a mix up of things. This is definitely one of those times I wish I had one of those cloth traveling design boards your fabric sticks to.




Well I think I’m ready to hit the door running when I get off work tomorrow; definitely planning on posting while the holiday sewing ensues!

Quilt In Progress

I’m excited to at last have some blog content put together to share. I have been in a bit of an art ‘funk’ so to speak but I am hoping that it is now broken and things will start to roll along somewhat smoothly.

For the last couple of months I have casually been working on this queen size scrap quilt top whenever a good chunk of time would lend it’s self. Now that cold weather is here and the holidays are quickly approaching I have been really antsy to see it come together. The last week has seen a flurry of activity in getting all of the blocks completed and strips sewn.





Tonight I have finished up a lot of pressing (I’m huge on pressing everything, call me crazy) and have started squaring things up and getting strips put together.



My original goal was to be done by Christmas Day so I could get some other sewing projects completed over the holiday free time, but when time was up tonight I am admitting that’s just not going to happen as there is too much to do with gifts still to wrap and packing to do for visiting family. So I’m planning on packing up the quilt and taking it with me to work on during the visit. If all goes well I will be able to finish up the top with time to spare for at least one other project. Hey, I’m being positive here! *chuckles*