A Few For The Week

Just a couple things completed this week. A dress for Miss Sarah, although the pleats in it did not show up in the photographs:

A tea towel as a thank you to a lady from church who brought us dinner Weds. night after Miss Sarah spent the morning at the hospital having a procedure done. The design was one of Bird Brain's free designs last year:

And the third stitchery for the Happy Hallow quilt:

Happy Hollow

I've decided to call my "on the go" project Happy Hollow because that is the name of the fabric line from Sandy Garvis that I purchased about 7-years ago for this project. Today I completed the second of eight stitcheries for this quilt.

here is a look at the fabrics... not a great photographer so sorry for the bad quality. The back ground fabric is a cream colored cotton, not the yellow it appears to be in the first image.

In My To Go Bag

I like to start each year with a new project that works well for staying in the van for when I am running here and there with the kiddos that will involve so waiting. I was a little late getting this year's project together but knowing Sarah had two different appoinments today and another tomorrow I made sure to get it together over the weekend.
I have had this particular pattern and the fabrics to make it tucked away for about 7-years now and am excited to finally be getting it started. With the two appointments today I am well on my way towards getting the first of eight blocks complete.

Snow Ball Dance

Sat. night a lady from church called to ask if I would make a formal gown for her daughter for the high school snowball dance the next Sat. My first thought of course was that it was really short notice but figured I could get one together in a week's time. It was late Monday night however before she purchased the desired materials and Tuesday morning before I got my hands on them. By this time I am starting to stress knowing that I had a pretty busy schedule already for the week but with a couple late nights and one all day run at the sewing machine I have it complete. The pattern they selected was Simplicity's 4070, style F. Being tall, pale and blonde the teal fabric was the perfect pick for her and she was quite excited this afternoon when she came for a fitting and saw herself in the mirror. I am hoping to get my hands on a photo of her actually in the dress and not just one of it hanging from my living room ceiling. I had not had the tulle ruffle on yet when she came for her fitting so we shall see what she thinks in the morning when I deliever it to her....for now though, I am crawling into my warm bed and sleeping. I'm zonked!

Mystery quilt finale

Well, I worked most of the day and have it complete with the exception of the outer boarder. I am not totally happy with it however. One of the steps was new to me and boy does it show in the final product. My points in the stars do not line up at all. I tend to be a perfectionist on the things I make and so this flaw is driving me nuts. The square joints are beautiful though. The outer boarder will be done in the grey with the red for the binding once it is quilted.

Mystery Quilt 5

Progressing quickly towards completion now....Have a good start on step 6 today but will not finish until tomorrow as other things require my time. Hope ya'll are having a fabulous weekend. We are having a wet one.

Mystery Quilt 4

I am on a roll now....hated to have to pull myself away from this quilt this afternoon but other things called for my attention. Don't know that I will be able to get to it tomorrow other then to complete step 5 but Monday will surely find the top complete. Nearly there with step 5 though, so here is a look at step four:

24 of these to go with 24 of these:

More on these two strips in step five