WIP Wednesday

I've been busy this week.

Whilst we were away I continued to work on the backing of the Diamond Dash quilts. I have made the strips to insert into the backing. Hope to get those sewed up this week.

Mostly I have been working on hand stitching hexies together. I have most of the hexie flowers sewn together (by that I mean the 6 hexies stitched around a centre hexie. Some of them have less than 6 hexies around since I wanted them to look like the flowers are behind the other flowers) I have been sewing the flowers together to make the quilt. I have been working on the centre strip ie the piece without the sky or grass (although a bit of sky appears between the flower)... just haven't done the strip that is mostly sky and cloud and mostly grass. I have the last strip of flowers to go - about 3 flowers wide and 11 flowers high.

Today I got to our patchwork group get together (we meet weekly to sew, have meetings bi monthly) for the first time since January. I was able to get the Hashtag quilt pinned.

The backing was a bit puckered so we had to pin it within an inch of its life in the hope we won't end up with pleats but I'm not holding my breath. My friend Lindy helped me. We have a running joke after she helped me pin one quilt and she put the pins really really close together (I told her I cursed her whilst I was stippling cause I had to stop so much to take out pins) This time I told her she could go her hardest and over pin as much as she wanted... and she did. I did too! 

Pinning this quilt was one of my February goals. I didn't get it done in February but its done now. Woot. I get to cross off one of my March goals already. Woot.

What have you sewn this week?

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Wip Wednesday

This week I was able to pack up my POD quilt - the front and the newly completed back - and send it to my friend Kym to get it it quilted. 

I have also been working on some more little earbud pouches. I made 2 using Doctor Who themed fabric and then 5 more using some cute owl fabrics and then 2 using some sewing themed fabric. I am not really sure what I am going to do with them all. I have some recipients in mind and others I can donate to Handmade 

Love.

The last thing I have been working on this week sewing wise has been the Hashtag quilt from the Twilters swap. I ended up with 31 blocks so one is going to have to be relegated to the back along with 2 left over ones of my own that I didn't send into the swap as they were undersize. I've laid them out on my design board. That is as far as I have gotten but it is a start.

Fixit Guy and I have both been very busy this week getting ready for our youngest son's 21st birthday bbq that we are holding at our place this weekend. We have been cleaning up the yard and generally getting ourselves organised. Fixit Guy and Boyo have been working on some rather impressive large scale decorations.

Can you pick my contribution? Yes I did the back drop and curtain. The fabric is pinned or clipped into place. Ideally I would have liked the black fabric to go further but I had to work with what I had! 

I've also started making some of the deserts. Boyo asked for cheesecakes for desert - strawberry cheesecake. For his 18th birthday I had also made him cheesecakes for his party. I had trialedd 5 different ones in the lead up and he said he wanted all of them! I was happy to do that, thinking that would cover deserts for everyone but I had reckoned with out 18 year old boys who took a slice of each one... so we actually ran a bit short. 

So this time I have told him that I am only making 2 different ones! Not as many people coming to this party either. This time I am making Turkish Delight Cheesecake as well as his requested Strawberry. (2 of each) 

Last week in my WIP Wednesday post I wrote about how I was making a data base of all the copied sheet music our church had and sorting them all alphabetically etc. Well the job was finally done Friday. Jim, our minister, is really thrilled about having it done and has promised he will update the files as he adds new songs etc. Great! I still have to go through and add the songs that we have digital copies of (ie already on the Easy Worship data base) but that will happen... after the 21st birthday Star Wars extravaganza perhaps!

What are you working on this week?