LOTS GOING ON THIS WEEK

After finishing my table toppers I took a bit of time with another pattern and sewed up some fabric bowls.  

The first two are a bit larger, I had a bit of trouble with the thread I was using to gather the circles.  After that I put some heavy duty thread on the bobbin and top and all went much better.  I may make a few more over the next couple of weeks now that I have it down well.  I am hoping this is the last of my quilt show boutique sewing.  

I purchased this fabric a good year, ago possibly more, with the idea to make myself some placemats.  Since I have been doing fall placemats for myself this past week or two, time to work on these as well.  There are 6 of the 10 inch square pieces each are different.  I only plan to make 4 placemats and use the other 2 to make a table runner. There are two strips of the above border print which will look great as part of the table runner's borders. 

I will use the top print as borders on two of my placemats and the 3rd print down for the other two.  The second and bottom prints for binding 2 each of them.  I only had 1/2 yard of each of the prints, should have bought more, but I think this will work out fine.

My fabric from Connecting Threads arrived on Saturday.  Now I can start Sweet Tweets.  I am still digging around in my stash, because more fabric is always better.  

Once we finish our front yard a couple of weeks ago we found ourselves with left over rock.  As this area was always a bit of a weedy mess, we thought that we might as well use the rock in this area.  Of course the left overs was not enough so we had to purchase more.

Once that was done the rest of the area look pretty bad so the project continued with mulch instead.

I think we are done, but we said that a couple of weeks ago so I am keeping my fingers crossed.

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