Design Wall Monday

After finishing Grand Illusion,

(4th finish this year!!)

I decided to get to that pile of t shirt knits.

Shirt one is done and after another press it will be ready to wear.

I've discovered a new online fabric shop.

Knitpop, they sell knits.

Really nice knits.

I may have already ordered a couple of times.

With my design wall empty and my machine clear,

I'm going to spend time with my serger and my ball point twin needles 

and make myself a few more shirts this week.

See what others are doing at Patchwork Times Design Wall Monday.

Quiltathon-Day 4

Crappy cel phone picture edition. 

I need clothes. After finishing Grand Illusion-except for that little bit of binding to finish, I decided to do some sewing for myself.

 I have a stack of t-shirt knits to sew up. My pattern is almost tweaked to a perfect fit. So today I decided to get busy and cut and sew a shirt. I don't know where my brain was but the neckband is awful and has to come off. Honestly, this is not my first t-shirt. Just the first in a while. I'm pretty excited to sew on knits for the next few days.

So tonight after we go out to dinner, I'll take that band off and finish the binding. It's been a great quiltathon. I already know what I want to work on next month.  Thanks Judy L. 

Castle Wall Progress and Saturday Plans

I am obsessed with the Castle Wall blocks. So obsessed that I ran out of blocks to sew.  My original plan was to work on these at my Wednesday group.  But they have taken over my brain and whenever I sit in my recliner, I automatically reach over for my green pencil box that holds my block and sewing stuff.  It's not a bad thing, it is just an all consuming my brain thing and I'm spending a bit too much time in the recliner.

Friday I spent some time cutting a few more blocks. I think I cut  4 more. Last night I again reached for the box and started a new one. Then I set it aside and picked up a shirt to de-bone.  By the time the evening was over, I had cut up 4 men's shirts and had one more block half sewn.

I told myself that was the last night of Castle Wall blocks for a while., I have a knitting project or 3 that I want to work on and a stack of shirts to cut up. Today the box will be put out of my reach. I have a short list of things I want to do and then I will go into my sewing room and lose myself there for the rest of the day.  But first I need to make the blueberry pie I planned to make yesterday.

What are your Saturday plans?

No Cherries Today

Last night hubby told me there were cherries at the fruit stand close to where he works. He loves to have canned cherries in his lunch. So that was my plan for today--get some cherries and get them canned.

I did some garden work this morning, cleaned up and headed down to Woodland. I don't go there often, there isn't much there for me. I went to Safeway to get the sale stuff I wanted and then headed over to the fruit stand.

They had cherries. Itty bitty little plastic boxes of cherries! They were cheaper at Safeway!!! So I left them there, pouted as I drove toward home.

Then I saw a yard sale sign! With my luck at yard sales, I stopped anyway. (If there's a bad sale, I can find it.) Would ya look at this, 3 shirts for $2, the poor ole guy couldn't believe I was going to cut them up into quilting pieces cuz those are some nice shirts. :) He was so cute. Then he wanted to know what I was going to do with the wire do-hickey. I told him I was going to put my eggs in it. He laughed.......silly man, I didn't have a cool looking basket for my eggs, now I do. I'm going to drill holes in the small dish and put this Stepable in it.

I wish I had my camera with me. I love old barns and their barn was a beauty. Painted barn red and full of giant round bales of hay. I told him I thought his barn was beautiful and I think it made his day. Now I'm on a mission to find some cherries!