Old and New

This was the border of the Firebird quilt, but it really didn't work.

So I ripped it out.

Yup, I did.

I will replace it with this yellow in the next few days.

As for the working in the office, here is a shot of the inside of the closet. In this room I am cleaning, sorting, and cleaning out every single shelf, drawer, folder, table, desk in there. I've completely reorganized the inside of the closet. Now it is time to tackle the paper tiger.

Quite frankly, until I'm done in the office, I'm not going to be doing much in the studio.




then again, you know me. If an idea hits me just right...

Mom's Busy

Nope, you're in the right place. This is me, Millie, and I have hijacked Mom's blog. She's been wicked busy the last few days - teaching and driving all over the place. She taught a very successful Birds class on Saturday, brought the Colorado quilt to be quilted on Sunday morning, and then she had dinner with a friend on Sunday night. Monday was crazy at work, and she's got to go to the teeth v-e-t today and there's a note on the calendar that says my teeth are being cleaned this week too. Well, we'll see about that.

Anyway, Mom's tired and she's gonna spend a few more days just chillaxing on the couch with her Kindle, and don't tell anybody, but I'll be curled up nearby getting scritches as she reads. She's been sewing the binding on the Snow Day quilt, and she bought fabric to bind the Colorado quilt when that comes back. She says she'll have it to show her Barn Building students at QT on October 28.

Oh Oh Orange!

This is another "missing U" block from Sunday Morning Quilts.  In the last block, I built around the white piece. When I made this one, I just pulled pieces out of my little orange scrap bin.

See? I wasn't kidding. Little orange scrap bin.

I pulled scraps out of the bin and sewed pieces together. Essentially I was making "made" fabric. Then I sewed them around the white block.

A Little Break

I've been working on my wordy project intensely since October 21, and while I haven't avoided the sewing studio completely, I was getting itchy to do a bit of sewing, so I gave in and sewed up a block of light blue fabrics. I've always liked the "Missing U" quilt in Sunday Morning Quilts. Since I want to make a quilt for a little fairy nephew of mine, I thought making a block was a nice way to satisfy my sewing urge.

I'll make a block now and then, and we'll see what happens. The Christmas Random Plank quilt has been on my design wall for a while, and the more I looked at it the more I knew it was going to get cut up somehow. Oddly enough it fell off the design wall on its own this morning!

 I don't know if Millie had something to do with it, but if she did, then she knows what she's doing. That little cat has changed my life in so many ways.