Back to business

After spending about 3 1/2 weeks working on a secret project, I'm backing working on the 'usual'.
Sunday, I thought I would start getting caught up on my BOMs beginning with my Amish with a Twist.. ran into trouble ( fabric shortage) right off the bat.  Put it aside and started working on my Christmas Row by Row and managed to get 8 gnomes completed and ready to place on the background - and there they sit, still waiting.

 I'll get them glued  and appliqued onto the background sometime in the next day or so.

I went down to The Hen House yesterday to find out what went wrong with my AWAT... had even Carolyn confused for a little bit... it measured right one way but not another.  Elise was brought in to 'figure' it out - what happened was that I needed 6 strips cut at 3 1/4" x 21"; I was trying to cut them across the width of the fabric provided but it was only a little over 13" wide -- 6 times 3.25" equals 18.75".  It wasn't working ----until Elise literally pointed out that the fabric was folded in half and that I only had to cut THREE strips and then cut them in half to get the 21" strips.  Such a simple thing that just wasn't getting through my math challenged head.

In the meantime, I loaded a quilt onto Mo'e and yesterday, started quilting.

first, just right next to the appliques, then 1/4" away...then, onto the 'fun' part....

I had to stop for the night before I got to the star in the upper left corner - that's where I'll start today.

Ok, I think I'm all caught up on my 'news'... well, except to say that the secret project won't be revealed until sometime next month.  You'll just have to wait and watch for it.

TTYL