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!

I haven't been slacking off . . . . really I haven't!

I know I haven't been posting, and just that's because 

I don't really have much fun stuff to show yet.

I did finish my last color challenge blocks today.

And thank goodness just in time, I ran out of the blue background fabric!

Now to start working on my settings,

I have some fun ideas, let's see if they transfer to the sewing.

I have also been working on a quilt that's a secret.

I have been working on it since January and am very pleased,

but I can't show it yet . . .  Cheeky of me right?

I spent the better part of this week picking all the paper out of the back.

And I have been chopping up scraps for my string quilt.

Lots of little pieces!  Yeah!

Now I can really get back to my sewing machine.

Just pick and sew.

What have you been working on this week??

A bit of sewing

There has been a bit of sewing going on around here.

Just a bit.

I started a new string quilt.

This is the first block.  I will make all the centers different black and whites.

I live B&W with brights!  

But you knew that already.  Hehehe.

I als caught up on my color challenge blocks.

Thank goodness!  The next color is reveled tomorrow!

Here up Aqua and Maroon.

Here are my blocks so far, falling off my very small design board.

These have been really fun to make.  I have some great ideas for 

how to put it together, but I still have to work them out!

Check out all the other blocks over at 15 mins Play!