Playing Catch Up

It's been more than a week since I posted last...hubby's 'simple' procedure turned out to be not so simple and he ended up in the hospital for almost a week.  He came home late Tuesday afternoon and since Wednesday I've been trying to get caught up on my sewing.

The only sewing I was able to do while he was 'gone' was embroidering on the last of my Vintage Tin blocks and I could have finished it on Tuesday when they finally did the 'simple' procedure but since I'd been awake since about 2 a.m. ( have no idea why), I didn't feel like sewing.  I figure with all the upcoming follow up visits to doctors this coming week and the week after, I'll have plenty of time to finish it up.  I'm hoping to be able to get started cutting the sashing and border blocks in the next week or so and would like to have the top done by the end of this month... the end of May if I can't.

This has been my main project for the past two days... I've finally got it all together ( except for the borders).  There are supposed to be thinner borders with small four patches sewn on at this point, but I'm not going to do it; I'm just going to do the outer border and call it good.

I've also been working on the snowman and penguin placemats that I started a week or so ago...

Here's one of the penguins... I think they are turning out so cute. 

After doing all those flowers for the quilt above, I was tired of doing buttonhole stitching so, for these guys, I used a small zig zag stitch... not quite small enough to be called satin stitching, but close.  I think I used 2.5 x .75 on my Janome.

I found some blue yardage that I THINK will be enough for the backings, but I'm not sure there will be enough for binding... maybe I'll go search my stash for something else ... something that I can use for both backing and binding... then again... I do have some blue binding fabric left over... I'll have to check to see how much I have.  I know I have some orange with little dots of other colors on it... that might work for one of these.... who says they all have to have the same binding?... we like variety, don't we?

Ok, that's it for tonight...

take care....
ttyl....