Yesterday was a not much accomplished sort of day... hubby and I had tickets to dinner theatre at the local senior center at 2 pm when I thought it was at 5 for some reason. I did do some sewing before getting ready, but, trust me, it was very little.
I can't remember when I started this... it was sometime in the past week... I had some of the sashing strips done, but not as many as the pattern called for and, I think I mentioned that I had fused the dogs onto the background blocks, but didn't start putting it all together until yesterday morning. I used two different fabrics for the dogs and, since it called for 12 dogs, I made six from each fabric... which lead to some confusion when it came time to put them up on the design wall prior to sewing them into rows... I was alternating so that there was two of one fabric and one of the other in each row .. but when I came to the last row, I couldn't do it without using the same fabric order as the row above it. Today, I said "It is what it is - just get it done." Some of the cornerstone blocks didn't quite fit like they should have, but I think it's more the fault of the strips in between - again "It is what it is..."
So, here's the top finished... a nice little crib size for somebody... I just wanted to use up scraps and love doing cat and dog ( and sometimes chicken) quilts.
After I finished this, I started doing some more cleaning of scraps around my machine... you use up what you think is a LOT only to find there's still a LOT left... sigh.
Then, since it was close by, I thought I'd start working on the other paper pieced zebra. Got the first pattern piece all folded on the lines and the first piece of fabric glued in place when I realized that I really don't want to do this one - that the first one was enough.
I guess I didn't take a pic after I got this all sewn together... there is still a border to add if I want to, but I might just leave it like this and use the border fabric for a backing & make it a pillow. -- anyway, I took the fabric off from the paper, put the pattern back in the folder and took care of the white and black fabrics & emptied the plastic shoebox. The pattern is in my file cabinet if I ever decide to do it after all, but I don't think I will; I looked around for the pattern for the bag I've been making because I thought I'd use up the rest of the Kaffe Fassett charm squares to make another one - didn't find it yet, though. Guess that means more cleaning lol
No dr appts tomorrow so it gives me another day to get SOMETHING done in my sewing room... maybe I can work on the cat quilt that I traced the pattern onto fusible for last Friday. The hardest part is going to be getting the fusible onto a couple of the fabrics because the pieces are much larger than my ironing board...
I also marked sewing line for three panels on Saturday. I have three more matching panels for each one of them so that I can layer backing fabric, batting and four layers of the panels, sew on the lines, bind them and then cut them on the bias for 'chenille'. Another project I can do on my domestic....
Speaking of which, I just might take that red Christmas tree
Ok, I'm calling it a night here... it's only 8 pm but I want to watch Long Lost Family and if I go do something else in the meantime, I'll forget and miss it like I did last week.... soooooooo
take care
ttyl
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