So Much Sewing

It was a cold day yesterday, but temperatures warmed up enough to melt most of the snow away. It would be good if it would stay away now until next winter. I'm ready for spring. How about you?

Mike and I made a brief run into town. Because of the snow, neither our trash nor our recycling was picked up this week, which was fairly ridiculous. The roads to our trash can were plowed, so WTF? Anyway...we took our recycling into the depot in town to make way for more over the next two weeks. As for the trash...well, let's not talk about that, okay?

We were home shortly after lunch, and I spent the rest of the day sewing. First, I sewed the final row onto the Tuxedo Tales quilt.

It still needed a narrow outer border, and so I did that next. Now, it's a finished flimsy at 41 x 52 inches.

Next, I pieced together a back for it. I purchased this fabric for the back even before I made the first block.

It needed a little more width, and so I added strip of the background fabric down the middle.

As long as I was making quilt backs, I decided to make the back for the Rainbow Jubilee quilt too. You might recall that Matthew has already laid claim to this one.

He requested a gold backing for it, and I chose this batik. It just needed a seam down the middle to make a back large enough.

Just about then my kitty helpers showed up. Smitty is pretty put-out with Sadie right now. She had the pawdacity to spend the afternoon napping on the top rung of the kitty pole...Smitty's sacred spot.

I thought a rumble might be brewing.

But she just walked on by.

Neh, neh, neh, Smitty. You can't attack me with Mom watching. Mom always purrtects me.

Just saunter on by, Little Missy. You won't know where or when, but it is coming. Oh yes. I have you and your short tail in my sites.

So, there was a little bit of time left in my sewing day. I decided to at least get started on March's block for the Garden Sunshine BOM. This one is called "Tulips." I wasn't sure I could get it finished, but I did.

These are all the blocks I have for this quilt so far.

Today I'll get a start on my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks. Green is the color for March. I'll start with the Charm Stars. These are the blocks I have so far.

I'll be adding two green blocks to those. If I can get those finished, I'll move along to the Paintbox Pizzazz blocks and add four green ones to this collection.

But first, I'll continue on with the Bunny Garden stitchery. When I left off yesterday, I had it this far. Looks like I'll be moving the hoop on this one very soon.

It's a chilly morning out, but the sun is shining. Looks like another day of sewing for me.