Completed Bow-tie Mat

I just realized that I didn't show off my new Bow-Tie Mat made from a tutorial I found on the internet.  Well here it is.

I am very pleased with the result and the quilting itself was sooo fun.

Mr.'s new shirt

This week I was inspired to take this old truck fabric I bought at Fabricland and generate a new shirt for my Mr.  He would really like to own an old truck

but I think an old truck shirt would be better especially given the storage and maintenance schedule of the shirt as opposed to the actual truck.

Binding in the rain...

So in my wanderings on line I came across a gorgeous tutorial for a bowtie block done up as placemats.  It was sooo cute I went straight to my sewing room and whipped up a mat to Lee's specs.  Today I'm binding the mat I made. And it's raining gently on the roof...

Sewing a shell for me.

While perusing a rabbit trail on the internet, I saw this shell top.  It showed up as a freebie on Collette Patterns I liked it a lot and I was just lamenting that I had no summer things that were new.  Well I downloaded the pattern that afternoon and did the sewing yesterday although my son called me a troll for staying in my basement studio all morning.  It was worth it.  I am very pleased with the result.

This fabric is 100% cotton and I used the scraps to make the bias binding.   Mr had brought it back from Ankora, Turkey and it just hadn't fit in yet to a quilt...

Now as for the troll thing - aren't they about bridges....