sew what's new?

So much has been happenng this week!  I bought a desk for my sewing machine and took down my counter top it was on.  I rearranged my sewing room, which took a whole day.  Here are a few pics... Thought I would throw a couple of pics of one of the two parades we saw for the fourth also.... We had our Simple Whatnots meeting and had some great show and tell. Linda Arganbright brought her sampler quilt made with Cherrywood fabric.... Linda Johnson brought a log cabin cardinal wall hanging... And a Minnesota shop hop table runner. Mary Theurer brought her version of True Blue for us! Gail Temple brought a number of things for us to see and share. First was her cardinal wall hanging... Judy and Lorna brought in their small quilts also! Judy also brought this small quilt  as a treat for us ! I also had time tomake a small table runner and now am in the process of quilting it.... Hopefully I can...

I am back to sewing a new block, this makes block #3, on my quilt named "Sassy" by Quilting On the Curve. I have also been doing a little play with my embroidery. This is from an applique on a Kim Diehl quilt from her collection #2. I used  colored pencil , to color in the figures. and then heat set it. I am linking up to  Pink Doxies  . Hope you are having a lovely summer and fun fourth of July! Chatter with you later, martha.

I have just finished my second block of  "Sassy" by Quilting On The Curve Designs.  I am anxious to show you! Such bright and lovely colors..... I also prepped another block of "Sophie's Garden " by Pam Curo. We held our June meeting of  "Simple Whatnots" group and there was lots of show and tell. Many had their first part of Kim Diehl's sampler to show and were getting their second part of directions. Linda  A. brought hers made from Cherrywood. Deb W. showed her parts of part #1. Mary T. brought her lovelies too! Georgia started off our regular show and tell with a collection one quilt. She also had 2 other small quilts with Kim Diehl fabric to show off to! Busy woman. Next was  Gail with her own design in Kim Diehl fabrics!  She brought in a gorgeous star quilt to share with us to. Susan is holding up Ellie's star show and tell runner, that makes such a wonderful July...

I finished my quilt guild challenge!  Yes it is quilted and bound and ready! I filled out my form and took the pic and ready for the May 11th deadline. Yesterday we had our second meeting of our Simple Whatnots by Kim Diehl. Lorna Weins brought her mini log cabinquilt for show and tell! Lori Strubel brought  her start to a new Kim Diehl quilt she is working on. This is one row and she is going for king size! This is Gail Temple with her version of " Hen Pecked". Georgia  brought this lovely example of a star quilt and she finised "Laundry Day " from collection I .  I just wasn't quick enough with the camera to get a pic before she put it done on her chair. This is Linda Johnson's star quilt she brought to show us.  Here is Linda! This is Lorna again with her courthouse steps! Mary Theuer brought this star quilt to share with us. And this version of courthouse steps. Plus she brought  the raffl...

I finished "Honeycomb" and made a sleeve for it so I might hang it on a small frame. This is one time I used  Heritage Hollow to back it also. I quilted it with a serpentine stitch from my machine that had been elongated.  I also used a variegated Signature thread , that went from muslin to chartreuse green.   I have not put aside my "Critter Sampler", I am still working on it at night. I have just prepared some more of the wool pieces ,so that I might put them on today. I have a pic of my status so far...... I am so happy that I can see the end of it all, because I so want to start my stitch therapy quilt, "Sophie's Garden".  Chatter later,Martha.