There’s a saying “What Happens at Retreat Stays at Retreat”. Due to the projects I was working on I can’t show anything yet. But it was all not sewing. There was the shopping.
Starting at the bottom center and working clockwise: Several Kansas Troubles Patterns, a 20 piece charm pack of KTQ lights, a spool of thread that works well with KTQ fabrics, 9 – F8 of KTQ fabrics a stack of KTQ scraps, Perfect Circles (the smaller ones), a light FQ, backing for a secret project, a yard of a cool cat/music fabric, a FQ of a music/Halloween fabric, fabric that I’m not using for the secret project and fabric to make a tie for my husband. I just realized that I don’t have the ruler that I bought in the picture. Oh well.
I sewed, completing a quilt top start to finish with only one sewing mistake and one cutting error. Then I started working on Jared Takes a Wife with the intention of finishing it. Either I can’t count, or I simply didn’t finish cutting the cornerstones for the quilt because I came up 10 short. As I worked on these two projects my leader/ender was the 4-patches for the border of Candy Sunflower Seeds. By the time I realized I couldn’t finish JTAW, I was too tired to think through finishing Candy Sunflower Seeds.
So naturally, I pulled out my applique project. It was pretty straight forward. Cut along the dotted line – so to speak – and then fuse into place. At that point I called it a night. The next morning, I figured out the cutting plan for the quilt which will be my next leader/ender project and then stitched one length of thread on the red work snowmen.
After I pulled out the machine today, I had to give the machine a bit of a cleaning…
It was a bit fuzzy. This is what I pulled out of the machine before I started sewing on the binding to my latest finish:
Stay tuned to see my latest finish in the next post.
