Sewing Sunday

A very productive weekend indeed!

I dragged out these disappearing nine patch blocks I made

in March and decided to play around with them

and put it all together.

I think I'll call this quilt Gypsy.

It's wild and fun and fabrics I'm not usually drawn to, but

it was fun to try something different.

You can see how I made another D9P here.

This one is a little modified because the fabric cuts I got were a little

scant the quarter yard asked for. (UGG!)

So I pieced the leftovers to make the 5" blocks needed for the nine patch.

The result was nine patches that were really 10 or 12 patches

randomly inserted.

The result is kind of cool. The blocks are all different, some ended

up with five or six pieces instead of the four when you make the cuts.

You can't really get a good feel for this quilt in a photo,

but it came out very nicely. Hope to start quilting it next week.

The fabric crochet basket is coming along.

It's the kind of thing you have to take breaks from or your wrists

will be useless! And of course you have to keep make the strips

to continue on . . .

Couple more months it might actually hole something!

Yesterday we had our Metro Mod Meeting in NYC.

These are the blocks for our next group quilt.

You can see more pictures of the meeting here.

And finally a friend gave me this old singer sewing machine this week.

It works pretty well. I think I will clean it up

for a little girl I know who is interested in learning

how to sew. Got to keep handing down this addiction

to the next generation!

Hope you had a nice weekend!

What were you up to?