Weekend Work

Three day weekends are wonderful and productive!  Yard work was on my agenda for Memorial Day--Mother Nature had rain on her agenda, I adjusted my plans and finally finished the piecing of the HST (Half square triangle)  patriotic red, white and blue quilt.  With this finish, my mojo was charged and this weekend, I added the borders to the quilt.  Let's not talk about the length of time I have had the border fabric in my stash.   With this accomplishment and to get the flimsy ready for the long arm quilter, I sewed the backing fabric together.  This week she's off to the long arm quilter.

Feeling good about my progress and having time on a Saturday afternoon--I put the petal to the metal on the old sewing machine and the tumbler pieces of this wall hanging also became a flimsy.  This was my first time using the tumbler tool and it is a hit!  (Let's not talk about the length of time these pieces have sitting on my quilt board.

While I was dashing through my fabric stash looking for backing fabric for the flag wall hanging, I found another PhD (project half done).  This is the French Braid quilt using the binding tool.  July Fourth is on Friday this year--another three day weekend and a great time to get this flimsy stitched.

Dying to Stitch will soon be shipping kit #3 of The Colonial Gathering Club.  (Drop by Paulette's blog at Plum Street Samplers for a glimpse).  I had hoped to have Harry Tyler's Lion stitched before it arrived but. . . 

Mojo  I love you!  Please hang around for a long, long time!