A FINISH AND SOME NEW STARTS

 I survived the A/C/Heater replacement last week.  Glad that is finished.  Now time to get my bedspread, shams and a scrap quilt finished and start something new. 

I finished my scrap quilt and prepared a binding for it now it is off next month to the charity group for quilting and finishing up the binding process.

Several months ago I started this Acrobatic quilt and decided to play with the blocks a bit.  Not very happy with the one on the far right as the stripes cannot be matched so may toss that one and cut out a different background fabric.  It is to be a charity quilt as well, so have to think about it when all 9 are done and see where I go with that idea. 

Happened on to this block of the month startup and decided to take some of my small scrap fabrics and work on getting them into something fun.  These blocks are supposed to be 18.5" square when done.  I am keeping them at the 10.5" which will make a 36" by 48" quilt which I could add borders to make it a bit larger.  Will see how that goes as I move along through the year.  

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TABLE RUNNERS AND DECORATIVE PILLOWS

 This past week I managed a good deal in the sewing room.  Our heater, AC unit, and ducting for them which is under the house had to be replaced.  We had 3 or 4 technicians for 3 days crawling around in the attic, under the house, and in the hall way closet from 8 until 4:30 and almost 5:30 one night.  With no heat and our temperatures in the high 40's or low 50's and only the two space heaters they provided it was pretty much the plan for us to stay locked up in the living room or the sewing room.  I select the sewing room for most of the days.  I got a good deal accomplished.  

I shopped a week or so ago to find some fabric to make a couple of winter table runners.  A comment from one of my bloggers about blue being a good winter color had me going through my stash and I found some really nice blue prints.  I had a couple of great patterns and whipped up these two in two of the days in lock up.

 Several months ago I embarked on making a new bedspread for our king size bed.  I was determined to do away with the dust ruffle on the bed, which required me to make the bedspread 100" by 120" rather than the normal king size I could have purchased.  I got the bedspread, pillow shams and these two decorative pillows on the 14th back from my quilter.  I started work on these two deco pillows.  Just needed to get the envelope backs on them.  I decided to start small and move on from there.   

I am using the fabric that I backed the quilt with.  So it is now on to the pillow shams.  Once I have the house all put back together I will bring my sewing machine out into the dining room and bind the quilt.  I am going to need lots of space to get that accomplished. 

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WINTER FABRIC SHOPPING

I really have not done much of anything this week other than make zipper pouches.  Taking down Christmas and trying to get all that put away has taken up more time.  I did discover that while I have loads of wall hangings and table runners in spring, summer, and fall prints and colors winter themes are zero.  So why not take a bit of a trip to my local quilt stores.

So, time to make a couple of winter table runners.  I think this red print is my favorite.  I did realize that winter colors are not easy to find anything though.  Not much out there to work with.

Now these are not winter prints.  But I love this type of fabric and have often used this for backgrounds on some of my appliqué projects.  Not sure what I plan to do with these, but I do see a quilt in the future with them.  

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AND WE ARE OFF INTO THE NEW YEAR

 Time to roll into a new year.  This past week has been so nice and with all the craziness of Christmas over I could just relax and slowly get back to a normal schedule.  Sometimes though not sure there is such a thing as normal.  

Right after New Year's Day I decided to treat myself to some new fabric.  I have no idea what I plan to do with it, other than the top left fabric with the old pickups and the blue matching fabric.  My husband was shopping with me and liked it, so it will become some placemats for our table.  We use placemats for daily dining, I suspect others may end up getting used for that purpose too or a table runner for us or as gifts.  

I have three rows of my scrap quilt finished, and the final row ready to add.

The layout has become interesting.  I just had a picture of a block off Facebook, so no real idea how to lay it out and fabric scrap pieces were limited.   I am pleased with it.  It will probably go to my charity group with a prepared binding and they will quilt it and finish it off.  

Other than that just continuing to work on some zipper pouches for my guild's upcoming quilt show boutique.  The plan was to clean out my stash of zippers, which has not worked.  Once I started these pouches they have become a bit addictive and I have had to purchase zippers to match the scrap fabrics and left over mesh I had.  Thank goodness for Hobby Lobby's 99 cent zippers.

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