Prairie Women Sewing Circle

Almost finished my PWSC project for October, all the stars assembled and the batting and backing partially quilted.  Already picked my November project package - so I need to finish up the October one!  Had a fun trip to the PWSC headquarters, materialrewards.com in Dansville, NY, last week with Dori.  And we had a great burger on the way home at the Liberty Pub in Bath, NY!

Pressed and pinned, ready to be quilted!

Ahhhh, I did have a few "lesson learned" episodes along the way...

Nancy's First Project!

My sister Nancy and I have been hanging out this week, so today we got out her sewing machine and I showed her how to sew a tote bag using some cute accent fabric she had.  Isn't it adorable?  I'm sew proud of her!

Prairie Women Sewing Circle

So delighted (sew delighted?) with my progress on my first of six projects in the Prairie Women Sewing Circle event at materialrewards.com. Dori coached me on the cutting and assembly, and she even shared her reproduction fabric stash with me!  I am one happy and lucky girl, thank you to my friend Dori!

Pinwheels

Experimented with pinwheel block technique with Ellen earlier this month. We were delighted with our results!

Back from my trip...

Had a fun visit with my grandson in NM last week! He's such
a card, here he is with his "prize", googlely glasses from the
prize counter at the skee-ball arcade...

Progress on my napping quilt project....

Putting together a machine pieced quilt top from sheets.  I'm planning to use a navy flannel sheet for the borders and backing.  I think I'll try hand-tying it, I want a lot of drape since it will be used for naps on the couch!

What was I thinking?

I decided I should pre-wash every single piece of fabric I have. It didn't seem that daunting until I realized that I'm going to need to iron it all, too...

Believe it or not, I ironed every last piece tonight.  Took me about 2 hours, I set the ironing board up in front of the couch, low enough to sit comfortably and pull each piece from a laundry basket and the lay the pressed piece over the arm of the couch.  I might have had a glass of wine or two...