Peek

I don't know why I took a picture of myself after getting my eyes dilated. It did make me smile. It's nice to be able to laugh at oneself.

Friday Night Sew In

What did I do for my sew in?  I hemmed a pair of pants. Not very productive but every bit helps. My plan for this weekend is some cleaning/organizing my sewing room.

Here are a few pictures.
The first is Miss Olivia.  Her smirk says it all.
The second is the smallest quilt I have ever made. It is about 3 inches on each side. It has 25 pieces. It has batting, a backing and is quilted. I made this for a good friend. This way she has a quilt made by me. Well off to organize. 

Olivia's afghan.

I'm not too sure if I have shared this before but, these are a bunch of flower parts four Olivia's afghan.  I let her plan with them and it was a blast to watch her. Before she would pick them up and move them around a little bit. Now she squeals, tosses and puts them into things.  She has grown so fast. She even is walking a lot!

Well now to go and work on my sewing room. The Bionic Man can wait for later.

New Machines

Well good news!  I went shopping and ended up getting not 1 but 3 sewing machines. The pretty one is a Singers. I probably shouldn't have bought that one. I paided more than I should of too. I will need to learn to dicker better. The second is a very old Kenmore. It is cast iron and brown. It doesn't have a bobin case. I will have to get that. The third is the best. It is a 1919 singer treadle machine. It works great. The previous owner was a quilter too. She showed me how to work everthing and I used my phone to film it. It was awesome.

I asked her if she named it and she looked at me like I was a bit strange. So on the way home I was thinking of what it should be and Sweetpea popped into my head. So that is her name. The girls are: Sweetpea, Brownie and Pretty Girl. Now to find 3 things to fling. That was my daughter's first question, "What are you getting rid of? "

I will post pictures soon.

Sewing with Bonnie Hunter

Here I am with Bonnie Hunter in front of my 3 classes'.

The first one was fantastic.  I learned some shortcuts that will make my life easier. I am so eager to finish all of them.

The second day was a bit more challenging.  More pieces means less done. That was ok. I picked out purple,  because the bin was ready and I didn't have to dig. Yellow seemed a good choice. I couldn't think of a third color right off. There was three oranges and I thought, "why not!".
After making one of each block combination,  I decided I didn't care for the combo. Too much like Halloween. Not my thing.  I am going to make this into a wall hanging. I do want to make one out of purple, yellow and aqua instead of orange. 

The last was called "Love Shack". I have a house quilt already so instead of house blocks,  I made stars and I will make an "Olivia" quilt,  which means that there is a "David" one on the back burner.

I think this will help me get my mojo back!

Lecture

Live photo.

Bonnie Hunter

I am sitting in her lecture! Class was super!