Sewing time...

...ya' know...

Snow Day = Sew Day

in my book!

To be honest, every day is a Sew Day

but we did have a Snow Day too!

Here's what the scene just outside my window looked like around 10 this morning.

I stayed inside and kept warm.

Yesterday we also had flurries and nasty weather all day long.

After running some errands I did some sewing.

 First I finished sewing  the two halves of that little hexie table topper from the previous post,

sorry, no photo of that.

Then I pulled out the flannel blocks I was working on before the Holidays.

Finished sewing up 88 blocks for a queen size quilt for ME!

That's right, this will be for my bed next winter.

After that I pulled out a little quilt I started working on in the spring.

After finishing the piecing of the blocks I did the trimming...

...lots of trimming!

This is a close-up of the fabrics/blocks.

A friend gave me the monkey fabric...

long story about that so I won't bore you.

The pattern is based on one we did in the shop 2 years ago.

I had to make some changes based on the yardage I had

of the monkey fabric but I think this is a fun one.

The rows are almost together now and then I will need a border.

Don't know what it is but I have a really hard time going the

no border route on my quilts.

And there was also a little piecing of some strips for another

project that is actually for a gift for my sister-in-law.

I need to now quilt these strips before making this into

a tote for her knitting.  The pocket on the front will be a really

cute embroidery design.  She carries her knitting in a plastic bag so I 

know this is the perfect gift for her!

I will post more photos of the tote when it is complete!

Okay, so nothing was actually finished this time but a lot was accomplished...

I feel good!

Happily Sewing, while this guy (my husband) shoveled us out!

Colleen