Happenings

A lot has been happening in the sewing room due to the constant rain that has been falling.  The view from our bedroom balcony over the past weeks has been this

And of course all that rain has to fall to earth and the waterfall at the edge of the property is pounding day and night as a result

So while all this has been happening outside I was inside my sewing room, warm and dry, beavering away finishing off a few items that should have reached the finish line a while ago but have not.    First up a blue bib

Then two red bibs

Some pinning.   As you can see in the photo below I decided to "birth" this quilt.    Something I have not done before.  

Then some quilting happened

A break in the weather allowed me to run out and photograph the finish

Next finish is 3 green beanies

20 assorted coloured library bags had their casings sewn

Some bobbin winding happened

Tonight is FNSI and looking at the bomb site that the sewing room looks like now after all those happenings it will be a case of doing a big tidy up.

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A bit of this......

And a bit of that happened this week in the sewing room.    First up was one green potato chip block

Next on the list was 10 green library bags that had been cut out previously and just needed to be sewn up.

While that was happening this audiobook was playing alongside me

Hubs and I did go out for lunch during week and I enjoyed my meal of coconut prawn curry.

At present I am working on a couple of larger sized quilt that will be donated to one of the local hospitals for use over the top of  humidicribs to help keep the light off the babies.   The smaller sizes that I was previously making were  32" x 32" and the larger sized ones are 63" x 63" so quite a lot more cutting and sewing is required.  Again the measurements are not "quilter friendly" so a bit of experimenting with block sizes happened.  The first one uses 12 1/2" cut blocks which required a narrow border to be cut to make it up to 63"

The one below used 6" blocks - some rectangle blocks ended up in the mix - so a wider border of 4 1/2" was cut and now needs to be sewn on.   Both quilts are just tops are present.  Again it is just 2 layers required - no wadding needed in the middle.  

That about wraps up my week in the sewing room.

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FNwF

Was a good opportunity to get out the green scrap basket and make a start on going through to find suitable fabrics for a green potato chip block seeing that green is the RSC colour for May.

Next on the list was to find some green yarn for beanies and make a start casting on the required 91 stitches in front of tv last night.

Some reading matter

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