Small Project Saturday

Yesterdays schedule was better for me to work small project day. And, I had purchased the new Magic Pins from Pieces and needed a new pin cushion for their home. Here's what I came up with...

Jims grandmothers coffee cup 

 Here's another annual small project I worked on for the house...

Go Green! Go White!

I finished getting the background section done for my scrap petal garden top...

Scrap Petal Garden

And while the game was getting underway and Jim was otherwise occupied I was able to get all the petals and centers cut that are required for the new quilt...

The flower petals

Interestingly enough, I've not yet added any fusible to these. I think, to leave the piece more pliable, I'm going to just fabric glue them down to hold them in place and instead quilt them down to give them a more frayed/raw edge look. I don't like the stiff feeling with fusibles and had already forgotten about the Misty Fuse (seriously, I had them half cut out when I remembered) because I had it in my head to just temporarily glue them down since the pattern isn't so stringent and very forgivable.  

I don't think much is going to happen in the studio today. Jim and I have been running non-stop for a couple of weeks now and we need a battery recharge day. Movies this afternoon and then maybe, if I'm feeling ambitious, I'll get off the couch and do some sewing. 

Hazel Loves to Swim!

This is Hazels normal routine after dad gets home from work in the evening.

"Grandma" was here yesterday afternoon and she wanted to get a pic of Hazel jumping off the dock. We forgot to tell grandma Hazel usually jumps off the shallow dock rather than the deep dock. She missed the pic but I got a cute short video of how excited our doodle is to go swimming (and we can't say that around her because she knows what's coming) every evening. I'm not sure what we are going to do this fall when swimming stops.

I have been nearly studio absent for the past 48 hours because of family visiting and other outdoor tasks the weather has permitted me to complete. Today is another nice weather day but I'm going to open all the studio windows and enjoy working in here in bare feet with jazz playing in the background (more to drown out the crows who incessantly caw-caw all day) until Jim gets home from work.

I did manage to load this little piece onto the long arm after the customer came to get her quilt yesterday. See...nothing is too small to get on the "big" machine.

The October mantle hanging