This is how it starts; see cute fabric on sale, find free patterns to go with said fabric. Show project to prospective client, they like it, order two. Finish two tops, still have plenty for fabric left. Order backing (on sale) big enough for four small quilts in one go. Order more fabric to make two more quilts. Make another top and realize there is easily enough fabric to make a fifth top. Sort of self perpetuating? Scraps making scraps behind the scenes, it will never end..

I managed to make the fourth quilt in the Woodland Wonders fabric line this week too. I needed to order a bit more fabric to finish the third one, but most of the original half yard bundle is gone. There is enough to make one more baby size, and I have four squares left from the panel I used for number four.

I got and sewed together the sixth installment of Blooming Beauties this week. There were four 12 inch blocks, all the same and more four at a time flying geese. It is a theme this month, I am afraid to add up all the geese I’ve made this month. Nice sharp points on these.

This week I also finalized the quilting plans for the creepy quilt. Using a spider web panto, Old Giza King Tut thread on top and a variegated turquoise in the bobbin. Hoping for good tension, no struggles, please?

Consider the Lilies is getting some steady work time. I just keep picking away at the motifs, and I got some more left side border done. I think I am going to enlarge these flowers in a handmade chart on graph paper. They are all the same, except for the colors, just making them easier to count and stitch. I made a small mistake in the one I made last night, but I left it. Recently on Jo’s Country Junction, Jo was showing her retreat projects, as well as her daughter, Kelli’s. Kelli is also working on CtL, she started hers on the bottom, mine is working from the top down. If you combine the two of them, it would make a finished one. Makes me want to finish this soon, but also start something new. I found a possible substitute dyed Aida/linen for a different looking cross stitch pattern I got recently. It’s called Cherry Magpie, by Jessica Doize. I got all the threads and the digital pattern, thinking that the Beetroot fabric would “be available soon” but three months later, not happening. I ordered a color called Merlot, which is a bit lighter than the beet, but looks like the same shade/tint. Spilled wine instead of stained hands? I wonder if it is returnable, if it is awful together with the threads. Should have checked that before hand. It is not a common background color.

Be kind.