Busy Busy

Tuesday and Wednesday morning, I made time for block making and strip cutting.

 I made June's block for Carol Daok's yahoo group BOM/Mystery.

I cut my strips for my first strip swap with the QuiltvilleSwap group.

Then made a trip to the post office to get them sent off.
I CANNOT wait until I get my package back!

The strips on the left go into my 2 1/2" bin.
The strips in the middle go into the 2" bin.
The lone strip on the right goes into the 1 1/2" bin.

Then I made blocks 26 and 27 for the Sow-Along at Barrister's Block.

This morning she posted blocks 32 and 33.  

I want to be caught up by next Wednesday when she posts more.

Wish me luck!

I continue to work on my Bow Tie Blocks for the 2011 Bow Tie Leader/Ender Challenge from Quiltville.

I started making my blocks here, in August 2011.

I stopped working on them for quite a while.
I picked them up again here, April 2012.

The yellow basket holds my pinned together block parts.

I work on 5 BT blocks at a time.

I pin 10 completed together and put them in the bin.

I don't know how many I have or how many I will need.

While going through a stack of books and magazines,
I found this booklet published in 2005 by Billie Lauder called
Let's Make Bow Ties & Spools of Thread.
I tried to find a link on the web but couldn't find one.
It has all kinds of layouts in it.
I'm having a hard time picking the one I want to use.

Now I'm going to spend time with my Binding Friends.
I wish I were working on binding but won' be.
Still having issues with skipped stitches on the quilting machine. 

I'll work on that later.

Maybe I'll crochet or knit or stitch.
I better go figure that out.