Getting ready for fair season

 After being away on a short vacation, I have returned and have a renewed want/need to clean out my sewing room. I need to empty those many boxes, bags and containers if for no other reason than to find out what I have. Some have been sitting around for so long I have forgotten just what is there. My daughter suggested that as I go through the bags I should blog about each one. So here is the first bag.

Upper left lots of pieces, some hst, quarter square triangles and some other pieces. Looks like leftovers from a quilt. I started to put them together into a quilt top, adding some of my own fabric where needed.  I am hoping it will become a single bed size!

Lower left is a kit from guild of a drunkard's path. No one wanted to put it together so I will give it a try at a later date. A small baggie of yellow and black hst, some orphaned pink blocks and some orange and navy 4 patches. I think all these will become small mini quilts for the stuff animals that I then give to charities to be given away.

hoping it will be single bed size eventually

Earlier this week I finally finished this quilt top(see below) that I was determined to finish before I started anything else. I increased it by two rows on the width and 2 rows on the length. There will be no borders just binding. It is one of the four projects that I started at the beginning of the year. So far 2 of 4 projects are done and the other two are finished tops. Not bad and I am hoping to have them finished before the year is done!

needs ironing but quick snap outside tonight

           I also pin basted a quilt top. It is the last of the promised Christmas gifts I gave this past year. The quilt when done will be donated to Quilts of Valor in my friend's name. You can read about my idea here.

It is very warm here today so I took the afternoon off and went to visit family at the cottage. So tonight as it cools off I will get in some slow stitching and join Kathy as one of her followers. So glad to hear that she is feeling better. She is part of my fabric piranha group and we will be getting together at the end of August, always a good time.

Addicted to chain sewing

 For the last week and a half I have been working on my little blocks. It is the last project that I picked to work on from the beginning of the year. I have all my blocks ready and will be starting to put the top together later today. I would have been done last week but I decided to increase the size of the quilt and that meant making more blocks.

My intention at the beginning of the year was to get the four projects I chose done and in June pick 4 more to complete by the end of the year. Oops...I may be just a month or two behind. I think the next four projects might be UFOs. Tops that are done and just be sandwiching and basting then quilt them! Yup that sounds like a great idea. With Fall fair time coming at the end of August, I could have a couple ready to enter as exhibits at my local fair!

The past two and a half weeks I have been knitting up a storm. I joined a challenge to see how many pairs of socks we could knit in the month of June...sockapaloozza!! I put off starting then got one pair done and the leader of the group extended the deadline over the holiday weekend. I had enough time to make a 2nd pair. All total in the month the group made 15 pairs of socks. Pretty good showing

The garden is growing and flowers are starting to bloom so while they do their thing, I will be trying to get things done in my sewing room!!