A FULL DAY of sewing

I've been in my sewing room ALL day!

This is where I started this morning a little after 10 o'clock; a few blocks nearing completion from another day and LOTS of strips and quite a few 8 1/2-inch paper squares waiting to be combined into these strip pieced blocks. I had to cut even more strips to reach the end of Roll Roll Cotton Boll Step 3.

This is all that remains of my strips tonight and here is what I accomplished....

32 BLOCKS.... Yes - I completed the remaining needed for this step. Tomorrow I will trim them to a perfect 8 1/2" square and add them to these....

for a total of 60 BLOCKS! Then on to step 4 which is MUCH easier and less time consuming. I'm almost to the half-way point in this Mystery and am getting so excited to see what mine will look like. Right now I'm exhausted!

 UMMmmmmm.... I didn't wait for morning - now I REALLY must get to bed. I'll remove the paper in the morning.

Online COMMUNITY!

I just LOVE the on-line community - making friends all over the Earth is a tremendous joy. Yesterday an on-line friends' friend surprised me with 4 skeins of #10 crochet cotton. It's a lovely Ecru and will make some beautiful doilies! And this "new friend" lives right here in South Carolina! SMALL WORLD! It's the little joys and surprises that make life worth living. I'm thinking the puppies on the card are hers' as it's a beautiful hand crafted card too. They are SO ADORABLE!

Today my energy seems to have returned - had a good nights rest and I'm sure that has helped. I'm still planning to get another 8 or so of the paper pieced blocks done today but before I jump back on those I want to work up a "sandwich" with the cat quilt top I made to use in the car when we are traveling as sometimes Scott freezes me to death. Once the sandwich is made I will be able to get the quilting done on it between rounds of paper pieced blocks so that I don't get overwhelmed by either project. I'm using some CRAZY quilt cat fabric I bought off Ebay years ago for the backing fabric and I still have another 2 to 2 1/2 yards left that I'm thinking a prairie dress for Abby would be adorable.

It's good my siblings had girls for me to sew for or I'd feel "girl" deprived. I did make clothes for Greg when he was little and when he was a teen I made a Matrix pleather coat - WHAT A JOB THAT WAS! Now the only sewing I've done for him is blankets and uniform adjustments. They grow up TOO FAST! Time I guess to focus more on sewing for myself and quilts. 

I guess I better get back to the sewing machine and basting spray.