Another Busy Week

 Lots of appointments, house cleaner, Quilts for Kids meeting and family so not much sewing done.

I did get the binding on the purple quilt.

And while the house cleaner was here I loaded and start this little quilt.

There were some bad words said in the middle of this quilt when my Moxie stopped working. After banging it with a hammer it decided to behave, and I was able to finish it. Both of the above were tops donated to the Q4K group.

At the meeting I picked up four more tops to be quilted.

I think all the tops were donated by the same unknown person. All were a lot of work. There were three others that someone else in the group took to finish.

I did get the borders added to the sunflower wall hanging.

I don't have enough of the background or border fabric to make another full size wall hanging but I think I do have enough to make a mini version. I need to finish up a few things before I even think about starting that.

My niece and her family stayed the weekend with Mom and I. My living room looked like ... I don't have words, all the furniture was moved so two queen sized air bed could to slept on with blankets and pillows everywhere. It was lots of fun having them here.

This is the cake my niece made and the "kids" (ages 16 to 23) decorated.

Busy

 Last week was busy with lots of appointments. This week is going to be just as busy.

Sooooo...not much sewing was done.

I made some progress on the sunflower wall hanging. Best part, no new drama.

I also finished quilting the purple donation quilt, but it's not trimmed yet so no picture.

Some Days...

 ... you're better off staying in bed.

I swear I've screwed up so many times on my Wind Drifter quilt and on the new sunflower wall hanging that I have seriously thought about chucking both into the bin and taking up a new hobby. Thank goodness I have lot of extra fabric as I have cut and sewed both with lots of errors that Jack could not solve. Sigh.

I did make progress on both.

Wind Drifter. My design wall is not big enough to lay it all out. It's enough for me to determine how to sew the next sections together.

The sunflower wall hanging. Took the picture late last night so it's a little dark. I'm not going to make it as long as the original pattern. Part of me thinks I should have made the sunflower scrappier and the other part of me is saying shut up. This is going to be a gift, I'm tempted to make another one for me.

I got a back made, the quilt loaded and partially quilted.

This is another quilt top that was donated to Quilts for Kids. I'm meandering all around it.

Here are some before and after pictures from the building they are do across the street from me.

Before (screen shot from Google maps)...in there is the house that had two trees fall on it.

After... my house is on the left in the middle of the picture.

Before (screen shot from Google maps). From my mail box across to where most of the houses will be built.

After...well not really after, they have a lot more work to do.