I feel like I am in the middle of too many projects, it’s keeping me interested though. I only finished two hats, two more to go. This week I’ve worked on:

• Quilting ‘A Ribbon Runs Through it’
• Stitching on ‘Consider the Lillies’
• Knitted two hats
• Borders for ‘confetti’ quilt
• Finished the ‘Morning Glories’ paper foundation block pieces
• Sewed up the first Indigo Way clue
• Ordered a bunch of fabric for future projects

My main impetus for all this activity is that I am resting my sore knee. I can walk a bit, and it is getting better, but sitting and standing still are easier. I had a small accident on Sunday, and twisted my right knee a bit too much. Anyway, it has left me with some extra time to sew.

RRTI is almost done, I did a little celebration dance when I finished the last sashing strip. I am trying to do the side borders without taking it off and turning the quilt. I think I may be able to, with a bit of resizing and morphing the designs to fit, turning the corners is always a bear.

I went through all my blue batik fabrics and decided that I had enough of a selection/assortment to do Indigo Way with. I have enough white and light beige to match. I did buy 2 ½ yards of red, because I only had about a half yard of red total. I’m hoping that the red is a blue-red and not an orange one, it looked good on my lap top screen, so fingers crossed.

I signed up for a different kind of a BOM. I have sworn off Quilt BOMs after last years RRTI and the Reunion quilt BOM. I still have to finish the Message in a Bottle, which hasn’t seen the light of day for a few months. The new BOM is a cross stitch one, 12 months of houses. It’s called Fabulous House and its by Cottage Garden Samplings. I signed up through the Fat Quarter Shop, its only for the patterns, fabric and thread not included. I am going to do it on 18 count Aida cloth, a little easier on the eyes and looking at the first one, Santa’s House, there is a lot of coverage. Sometimes I find that the linens don’t look even under full coverage. Plus it’s a large piece, 370 x 495 stitches, about a 2/3rds size yard, so pricey in linen.

The Morning Glories quilt is all ready to get blocks made. I looked through the instructions twice and there is only one place where it says to remove the papers. I have done it before sewing and after sewing the top. There are a lot of bias edges on the outsides of the block pieces, so I may just try it first with the papers on. I did put one block together, the pink one.

Future projects include four whole cloth Dream Big panels and I got a Layer cake of Effies Woods fabric collection. I am hoping to use up the rest of the Effies scraps and make another quilt. I also took advantage of Black Friday sales and picked up a bunch of end of bolt pieces to bolster current inventory. I want to remember that I got a backing for the Noel wall hanging too. Oh, and I want to make a ‘Tessa’ quilt out of the extra strawberry fabrics.

Be Kind.