A little bit of sewing . . .

I'm always relieved when the holidays have passed.

I don't know why . . . . I don't go over board on much,

just the eating part . . .  it should be the exercising part, but well, you know.

I do always try to maintain some sense of normal,

which means a bit of sewing squeezed in as much as possible.

So I am pleased that I was able to finish this baby quilt in one week.

It started last Sunday, before Christmas, at Earamicha's 

house with David.  

We decided to get together to have a little sweat shop sewing.

It was that very warm day, 70* in NYC, 

so yes there really was sweating!

I was able to cut and sew all the blocks for a disappearing nine patch.

Then this past Friday night, I cut them all up and laid them out.

I bit a sewing while watching a movie and it came together quick!

Sunday brought quilting.

Love my Juki!

And now a bit of binding before I hit the sack.

Here is the inspiration quilt I saw a few weeks 

ago at the Quilt Shop in Danbury, CT.

My quilt measures 30" by 38"

The original squares before cutting were 2.5"

This baby quilt is a donation for our NYC Metro Mod Guild.

Hope you all enjoyed your holidays and are relaxing too!

Sewing with friends

I had a real treat Friday!

My friend David came up from the city to sew with me.

Well, he sewed, I mostly giggled.

Here is the piece he is working on  now.

It's a charm quilt in a brick setting.

Here he is at the kid's sewing machine,

which I set up for company!

Haha.

We had a ball I must say.

I am making slow progress on my string quilt.

But I love it.  Slow and steady wins the race!

David also brought me a bag of goodies.

I had to break this out right away.

A scalp conditioner.

It's silver on the inside.

I think I might have to think of a Halloween costume

centered around this.  Haha.

Sewing with friends, nothing better!