What's On The Cutting Table?

 Bees,Chicks,Planes & Moo Moo's! cut & ready

And the bug  🪲 🐞 print & dinosaur 🦖 print recently purchased

But first to change out the serger threads which always unnerves me no matter how many times I change it, you can snip the threads one at a time & slowly turn the wheel to run it through but if one breaks the whole thing has to be rethreaded 🙆 so if it cooperates ,today will be pillowcase making day😄

A Little Here & A Little There

 Just a little progress today but progress! LoL ,my niece & the baby spent the better half of the day with me today, we had breakfast at Jacks ,later she worked on stitching up a stuffed animal she brought to work on   while I cut more squares for scrappy strip blocks ,17 more than I had yesterday 😄

later this evening I finished quilting the Christmas quilt & got the binding sewn &pinned on,now to stitch it down

Break time called for camomile honey vanilla herbal tea

Dinner was experimental 😄I had some sundried tomatoes I made a few months back & sauteed them with onions with a squeeze  of 1/2 lemon in the lemon basil infused olive oil I made the other day,cooked some chicken,added spaghetti noodles with butter & black pepper  topped with Parmesan cheese,everything was familiar flavors so it wound up tasteing pretty good whatever it is 😄

Making Do & Making Progress

 Making do with what I have for backing for the Christmas quilt , each patch is 37" WOF giving enough wiggle room once sewn together

Its hard to tell in the light that the strip is a rustic burgundy strip & a medium grey cotton

I sewed the rows onto the red & white top,only 17 rows  to go equaling to 407 squares to cut 😄  meeting up with my niece to walk the Mall, it's torture to smell those cookies baking from the cookie company first thing in the morning 😄 then its back to the sewing room 

What You Saving It For?

 How many times do we get asked that question on numerous  occasions?  If I wear the casual dress & fluff my hair friends & family are quick to ask "where you going" 😄my mind goes back to my mother-n-law having cabinets full of beautiful dishes yet we ate out of paper plates 90% of the time😄

Life is short,take time to enjoy making what you luv to eat, granted there are days that calls for cereal & even homemade peanut butter cookies & coffee & sometimes  taking a few extra moments & pulling out the pretty plates  

Breakfast this morning is blueberry french toast & Earl Grey tea on vintage pink willow  from the hutch 🤫

Now wash that plate & put it back before you break it!🤣

More Progress On The Red & White Quilt Top

 Im hoping to get at least half way done with cutting & sewing rows together on the red & white top, company's coming but I'm not sure when,my niece is coming by for some basil ,I will make some lemon basil  vingegarett & give the rest to her, I'm done with this outta control basil 😄

Sunday Inspiration

 

3 Towns 4 Shops

 My niece & the kids headed out early  for Athens Al for our  shop hop adventure then onto Huntsville into Madison , ending the day with a stop at walmart & the Cracker Barrel 

My haul from our day of shop holing, the childrens prints are for pillowcases that Im making for the children's cancer hospitals,the Fall prints are for me ,they will make gorgeous aprons