The Friday before Christmas!

I seem to be in the middle of a few projects here which is kind of different for me. But it has made celebrating the Season a bit more fun....especially as I've avoided cleaning the house so far ;-)
Straits of Mackinac took the forefront for awhile.  I have four more blocks to sew together. 

The flowers for Autumn Bouquet are languishing a bit.  I have seven more to stitch together.

Temecula's Tiny Tree is what got most of the attention.  I had fun sewing the finished size 2 1/4" blocks into the tree.  The background pieces gave me some fits and I had to re-do them using my second choice of fabric.  The problem may have been that my seam to sew the blocks together was too small and thus the blocks too big ...rendering the background measurements too small.  I may test this out and see if I can get it right using the pieces I originally cut for it....or I'll just cut them bigger and try to keep all those points for the finish.  It was a lot of fun sewing those little blocks each day.

This also needs a bit more quilting on it. But it's a Tree!

Another project popped up on Quilt Doodles blog.  She designs a lot of cute applique designs that she sells on Etsy and showcased one with a red mixer...just like my sister's!
Had to make this for her :-)

I'm linking here to Confessions of a Fabric Addict for Whoop it up Fridays. Hop over there for some great inspiration!  
And Merry Christmas to you all!  I pray that God's Gift of His Son, Jesus is in your hearts as you celebrate! 

2019 December

Happy December to you all! It's beautiful here today in between rain storms.  We are blessed with rain this year and that is a big deal here in drought ridden California. And it makes for some nice stitching weather :-)

So for the applique project...I was not liking the machine stitched look so I switched to doing it by hand.  This is going pretty well and I'm just enjoying it, not rushing it. 

And this let me get back to my machine...I finished up sewing the triangle in a square units and am really enjoying sewing all the units together into the 12" blocks.  I had removed the tan/browner background pieces and am much happier with the white based neutrals. I'm enjoying some of the fun neutrals I found to include...especially, of course, those crabs!  There are 36 blocks to sew and I'm almost half way this morning.  After that will be the all important sashing that will give the look of curves in this Storm at Sea variation.  This has been a great way to enjoy Janet Clare's  More Hearty Good Wishes fabric with whales and birds and ships.

Inspired by Temecula Quilt Co, I'm joining with a sew along to make a cute Tiny Tree quilt. These blocks look greener in person but it was funny that I noticed after I posted the picture on Instagram...that the center of the friendship star is the wrong fabric. Not sure if I'll change it or not. I will see how the blocks look as we sew along. These are 2 3/4" blocks so they are pretty quick to sew.

Hoping to get more blocks sewn together today on Straits and the Tiny Tree as well.  I'm linking here to Confessions of a Fabric Addict...who sewed a really cute penguin quilt you might want to check out :-)