Muddling Through

Don 't forget to enter the giveaway from last Saturday.  I'll draw a name out of the hat before the start of ScrapHappy Saturday this week.  The lucky winner will receive a lovely collection of fabric hand-dyed by Vicki Welsh.  What better way is there to prepare for a new year than having fabulous fabric to inspire creative projects?

My sewing time hasn't been focused lately on what needs to be done, but rather on what can be done with a $99 machine.  I sewed for a lot of years with a brother from Wal-Mart, but I wasn't quite doing the same level of sewing then.  Hawaii Sunset just had a few more geese in need of finishing.  Paper piecing does well enough without a quarter inch foot, so those got crossed off the list.  I won't try putting any blocks together though, the bigger foot makes seeing intersections too difficult and the seams seem to keep getting un-nested or even flipped.  It is nice to have all the blocks finished though.  Every step is a little closer to a finished quilt.
I can do crumbs and strings well enough, so I think next on the list will be to finish the blocks for Bonny's Anniversary quilt.   We need to prepare some fabric for photo printing as well which will take a bit of time.

The semester is starting to wind down and I am anxious to get some serious sewing done during the break.  Just 10 more Dear Jane blocks in the center section! How cool would it be to have all of them done this year?  There are two quilts waiting for borders, Midgets and Jamestown.  Getting the quilting machine fired up would be so much fun right now.  Until then though, I still have a bit of binding to get done.