Tuesday - Working day

I got some sewing done. Finally. I finished up this month's bee blocks (Simply Solids and Bee(ful) of Paper. Here they are in all their finished and ready to be mailed off glory:

star for paper piecing bee

window pane block for Simply Solids

I didn't have trouble with the paper pieced block this month, but I did struggle with the solids block. I didn't think about making my pieces large enough the first day I worked on it, so I did some rethinking and this is what the result is. I actually have a ton of pieces that are cut off, slabs as it were, of this block hanging out in my scrap box. Basically, 90% of this block is new work. I sure hope Queenie likes it. I also hope that no one else in my group wants this kind of block because it wasn't fun for me at all.

I'm ready to finish up my garden fence quilt. I'm going to be piecing the back and making the sandwich tonight and it should be ready for quilting and a big finish on Friday - that's the plan, anyway.

I got to go and make the dinner. It's meatloaf, smashed potatoes and broccoli tonight. YUM!

Take care of yourself and make some stuff.

Green

I made some stuff today

I finally got over to the sewing machine today and made some stuff.

Simply Solids Puce Group August block

Thank you block

 The Thank you block is supposed to be snail trail, but I messed up. I was trying to make a 6" block and there weren't directions for a 6" block, so I tried to make my own. In doing so, I didn't line up the final triangles where they were supposed to go - but I think it looks fine - just lacking the spiraling effect that you get when you do it right. No big. Whatevs.

The bee block was time consuming and made a lot of green scraps. I hope I can use them in something else - although, that something else will have to be small to use these little green scraps.

I did get a new toy this weekend: a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. I like it. I bought it for the tax-free holiday that we have in New Mexico. It's always fun to get something on the tax-free weekend.

I hope you were productive or had a nice relaxing weekend.