Stick to What You Know

These projects were labeled "easy" and I guess sewing just isn't my thing. I'm glad to have taken the day out to construct these, because it literally took me until 3:00 yesterday to get them done. 

Ready for under the tree

They are cute, and they turned out nice, but they were NOT easy. And, I was not having fun doing them.

After I cleaned up from that project, I headed in the direction I'm most comfortable to head in...

Produce Section

Remember this quilt top from about a year ago? It's time to get it quilted! I love, love, love this quilt top and am sparing no expense in getting it finished. I purchased a good quality backing from MSQC and am putting bamboo batting into it. It will most likely get used during the summer months and bamboo is a little thinner than the wool.

I've already started in on it. The pics on-line have an E2E in it with just a lot of straight lines, but I want to be able to change threads and give each piece of fruit individualized attention; the attention they deserve because putting them together was a bear.

I'm going to work on Bernie this morning, I'll wrap some gifts after lunch, and then I'll be on DW playing for the rest of the day. It's what I love to do and aside from piecing together blocks, it's my favorite quilting activity. It's probably a good thing since I have three machines to do it with. Merry Christmas Eve, Eve.