Gypsy Quilt Done!

I have jumped ahead in my quest for every other project

being a finish of an old top.

While my scrappy trip around the world is languishing on my cutting board,

I finished my gypsy quilt which is going to a silent auction fundraiser.

I do love this quilt.

I will probably bid on it myself!

Haha.  I know, I could make another, 

but the second time around isn't as fun as the first right?!

I also made a bee block today for Kim in our Metro Mod Bee.

This one challenged my feeble brain, but I made it through!

on another note . . . 

I have passed the scrappy trip addiction to the kid.

She is making a quilt for a very good friend of hers.

And as tomorrow is a holiday for some . . .

The sweat shop will be open for business.

Hopefully I will have some silliness to report!

Sewing Sunday

It's been a great weekend for sewing here in the Northeast . . .

They closed down the roads in Connecticut,

so I was practically ordered to stay home and sew!  Hehe

I made good progress on my scrappy trip around the world.

I thought I was done with 48 blocks . . . 

But I think I want this one to fit my bed,

So bigger it will get!

I have 49 blocks now . . . I think I'll go to 64.

I also dragged out an previously pieced top, (PPT)

(nicer sounding than UFO I think)

to finish off for a charity silent auction.

This is my gypsy top that I pieced about two years ago.

A disappearing nine patch.

Straight line quilting about every two inches in both directions.

I will be so happy to find this quilt a home and raise some moola for a good cause.

And I will also be so happy to go back to work tomorrow and shed the cabin fever!

Did you doing anything fun this weekend?

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?