DID SOMEONE SAY HULA SKIRT???

Oh, I guess not!  Oh, well, my Pineapple Blocks are ready to assemble.

Should I line them up in a row like this

OR, should I line them up on point?

Of course I chose on point which then required setting triangles.

Some serpentine quilting on my domestic sewing machine.

and then binding and label

Ta-Da  All done!!!  And LilBit slept right through it all!!

                                      -sandi

NO JOKE

What a fun day I had on April Fool's Day!!!  It was no joke!

I set up my sewing machine for a fun day of sewing with my friends.  We gather about once a month and have a sew-day.
As you can see on my sewing machine, I have two sets of batik blocks and some clam shell blocks to work on.

Another project I had to work on was the Twister quilt pattern.

I had put these Layer Cake blocks together and was waiting to get my borders on.  Today, I did get the borders cut, but, alas, I did not get them sewn on.  LilBit is guarding my project for me in case some quilty gremlin should come by!

I did get all of Step 5 of the Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt, Easy Street, completed.  This is taking me a long time to complete because I am using it for Leaders/Enders for other projects.

All of those little triangles will go into my scrap bin for upcoming Improv Blocks.

The other Batik project is called "Starry, Starry Night' and is a BOM from a neat quilt shop called Quilting Dreams..
We have been collecting the blocks this year but today is the first time I have had a chance to start working on mine.
Here is block one all ready to sew.

I did get a few more clam shells sewn, but I did not get a picture yet. 

As you can see, I still cannot force myself to work on only one project at a time.  All of a sudden, I will have several projects completed at the same time.  That is just how I roll!!

What a great kick off for April!!  I expect there to be some completions this month of projects that I have mentioned in previous blogs.

Go enjoy some beautiful weather and sunshine!!!

                                             -sandi



 

SEW DAY

What a fun day we had today.  My Pbees friends and I went to Decherd Needleworks for a fun Sew Day.  We made basket blocks from the Buggy Barn book called "Still Crazy".

We started out by stacking our fabrics and then using a freezer paper template to cut up the stacks.  Then we shifted some of the fabrics from the top stack to the bottom stack until we had a good mixture to make our crazy blocks.

Lots of different styles and tastes in fabrics and we had some interesting blocks at the end of the day.

 

This is the first four of a total of twelve blocks.  Then we will square these up and choose a layout.

That will be in a future post.

 

Thanks, Carol, for being our awesome leader today!

                                                         -sandi