Design Wall Monday

The only sewing that happened this past week looked like this.

I made parts of 9 patches, 

lots of parts and pieces, blocks and framed blocks.

All for Garden Party #2.

Except that one piece by the Tootsie Roll! 

That is my Oklahoma Backroads leader/ender.

 2 more blocks went into the l/e box.

(***The advantage of blog photos is seeing where you need to unstitch.

That dark green on the left is sooo wonky!)

After last Monday's blog post, 

I packed my car and headed to Crystal's house to stay with 4 kiddos while they vacationed.

Let me tell you,

after 4 days, I was one tired Gramma!

But we had lots of fun.

Saturday I spent most of the day in my sewing room.

At the end of the day,

I had a good pile of pieces and parts sewn.

In my basket I have 30 framed 9 patches,

30 more waiting to be framed and

the bed of my machine has a lot more ready for the next steps.

These tools are usually on the bed of the machine.

I call them the tools of my trade.

I buy the seam rippers and thread snips in bulk from Amazon. 

I can't live without my reverse tweezers for pulling threads.

The stiletto is the skinny extension of  my chubby finger!

Bonnie shared the instructions on her blog here.

Funny story...

I was shopping at Winco one day after she posted this.

I always buy canning lids when I shop there.

As I was getting my lids, out of the corner of my eye,

I saw packages of the turkey lacer things.

Marked down to 25¢ for a package of 8.

I don't remember how many packages there were.

I took them all.

Lots of friends now own stilettos. 😉

Design Wall Monday posts can be found at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts.

Oh my, there are some fabulous pictures there and I can't wait to go visiting!