My New Old Rooster Quilt

I dug out these finished blocks last week and started sewing the blocks together.  The pattern is from Quiltmaker's All-Time Favourite series of magazines from Spring 2002.  I seem to have misplaced my copy of the magazine itself, but here are the blocks.

I am kind of crazy for needle-turned applique as you can see but in my usual way I sort of loose interest once the applique is done.  Oh, sigh....

But after quilting the bow-tie mat, I really wanted another project to quilt and this one was elected.

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.

The Queen's Happy marriage

Happy Birthday Prince Philip.

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...

Cute little shopping bag

Guess what this is...haha, a new smallish shopping bag to carry in my purse so I will always have a bag for my personal stuff at Shoppers, and I won't have to pay their stupid $.03 any more.  Yeah, me.  Want to see what it looks like unzipped ?

I love it!  It came from Sew Mama Sew It is their featured tutorial.  Very clever.

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....

A morning of Hexagons

So I am back at the hexagons.  After a wonderful 2 week visit from the grandbabies (and their parents of course- or maybe I should say thank goodness)  I am back to my hexagons.  They endlessly fascinate me.  It's like a series of small postcards of all the fabrics I've used on other projects.  Using up scraps is a kaleidoscopic soothing activity.  I find myself feeling strangely lonesome after the blur of movement and cacophony of sound that I enjoyed these past weeks.  Now I must return to my usual round of quiet concentration with a background music overlay from Country 105.  Change....

Sometimes I think my life is just one long process of accepting change.

Well, Hexagons don't change too much and the stitching calms the mind and spirit.