Revisiting an Old Friend

Waaaaaay back in February 2012 I found

a quilt along that I knew was just right for me.

It was a

New York Beauty quilt along

and in keeping with my usual practice

I jumped in feet first, printed off all the templates & got sewing,

then we moved house and all the blocks I had

made got put into a tub until after we had moved.....

Fast forward to May 2013 (today) I pulled out

those blocks I had made, re printed the templates

got the fabrics out and again jumped in 

as off 10 minutes ago here is my progress

but before I could get sewing the NYB I had to get some

Bee Blocks out of the way

and I got some happy mail delivered too

this luscious book arrived today

a big thank you to Sharon, who told me where she had

bought her's as I could only find it at

Amazon or Fishpond, and I prefer to spend my $$

in oz if possible

and this baby arrived on Monday

I bought this one direct from Sarah Fielke 

So thats been my day in a nutshell, I am off to make

a coffee and have a look at my luscious new book :)

Todays Sewing

It was nice to have a tidy organised sewing room today

so I got busy making some Bee Blocks.

I have joined a quilting Bee or 2 on Facebook, and

to date have made 6 blocks

here are the 2 blocks I made today

This lady gave us the choice of 2 tutorials I made 1 of each  block

design for her

I will admit I have struggled as the ladies are all wanting

bright, modern fabrics, 1 asked for selvedges....

and as I rarely use brights, nor do I keep selvedges or scraps its been

interesting

this block was foundation pieced, I love Foundation piecing

tonight I have stitched the band for the March SAL project,

a pincushion, I have cut the top and bottom squares, now

I just need to sew it all together.

I guess I should get back to Butterfly Garden tomorrow night, and

I need to finish the first months blocks for my 

Civil War Journals quilt......

why do I feel like I have my fingers in too many projects