I'm Back!

26 days on a cruise ship - bliss. Had a wonderful holiday, picked up some fabric and did a bit of hand stitching, but now I'm back playing catch up. With Moda Blockheads 7 starting while we were away, that is the first project to start. With the first four blocks released, I started with block one. 

I had no idea what colours I would use, or what I would be making, but that will come. I chose purple as my colour, as I want to use purple for the next photo strip for the wall.

Blockheads 7 is themed 'Friends and Neighbors'. Block 1 (of 30) is Spring Walk by Vanessa Goertzen of Lella Boutique.

 

Block 2 is 'Twinkle' by Amarilys Henderson and it involved foundation paper piecing. I don't mind FPP now - but it was so frustrating when I first started using FPP, many years ago. 

New blocks come out each Wednesday.

That's it for this week. Check out what others are doing:-

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Butterfly Quilt

This week I decided to finish the butterfly quilt, well put it together. I have been making the odd butterfly block the past few years as a leader ender project and thought I had enough to make a lap quilt. I thought about adding some blue blocks, but maybe that would be too close to the purple, so I just pieced the rows.

I added a long yellow and teal row in between each butterfly row.

I then added the same long strip to the top and the bottom to make it a size for a lap quilt.

This weekend I will layer and quilt it.

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Not a Lot Happening in the Sewing Room.

Just haven't had the motivation to sew these past few weeks. A combination of cold weather (my sewing room is super cold), and waiting for Moda Blockheads and Quiltville Mystery to start. One starts while we will be on holidays and the other starts after. So I feel a bit in limbo. I decided to tidy the sewing room, which made more mess, but ……

 

Originally I had ALL of the downstairs, with one room doubling as a spare guest room. Then hubby decided to buy a big screen TV and a lounge. That took half of the main room, but I get to binge watch TV while sewing, so that's good.

Next we both decided to move hubby's gaming computer out of the girls (granddaughters occasionally visit) upstairs bedroom to one of the downstairs room - which was my stash/storage room. More things were moved around, and still get moved around. This room will be next on the list for sorting - again, probably when hubby is away fishing.

I moved a few things around and cleared off the cutting mat, and did a little sewing. 

I did make a couple of small things for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. August colour was yellow, September is purple. I made another re-useable makeup remover. Handy little things to have.

I also made another paper napkin holder, but forgot to photograph before gifting. Maybe this week I will get more sewing done.

Link Up Parties for Inspiration: 

Finished(or Not) Friday – Alycia Quilts

Off the Wall Fridays - Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever

Wednesday Wait Loss - The Inquiring Quilter

So Scrappy