My "new" chair

Here it is the end of the month again. Why does time have to fly by so quickly?

I don't have any sewing projects finished yet. I've finished 73 blocks for the wedding quilt and have about that many again to make. I have 2 tops and a skirt finished of the 5 for the belly dancing costumes I'm making for the school musical. I still have to hem and alter 2 bridesmaid dresses. I haven't shopped for a dress for me to wear to my son's wedding. I guess that I'd better make a schedule of things to get done so I'm not out shopping the day before the wedding. Yikes! That's a dreadful thought!

Since I don't have anything finished to show pictures of, I thought that I'd show pictures of the chair I recovered right before Christmas and I do mean right before Christmas. In fact, I was finishing it Christmas Eve afternoon as my husband was picking up my daughter and her boyfriend from the airport. I had done most of it about a month before but had trouble finding the right trim in the right color. Hancock's had it online so I ended up ordering it. I really wanted the chair to be finished for Christmas company and it was...by about 15 minutes!



I didn't do any sewing on this covering but just used my trusty hot glue gun. I'm pleased with the results and people have been surprised that I did it with a hot glue gun. I only paid $5.00 for the remnant of fabric and got the trim on sale so the whole thing cost about $15.00.

Busy, busy, busy!

Spring break has arrived and I'm loving every minute of it so far. Even doing the laundry and cleaning the house isn't so bad since I know that I don't have to go to work for a week!

This is the time of year that I sew costumes for the high school that my daughter and son attended. It's a magnet school for, among other areas, Performing Arts. My daughter was in the Vocal Magnet and Drama Magnet programs and my son was in the Tech Theater program. Since I can sew, I helped all the years they attended and since then get a call every spring asking if I'll help them out. This year, they're doing "Aida, the Musical". I'm making 5 belly dancer costumes. Saturday I met with the costume mistress and got the fabric, trims, and patterns and have cut out some of the pieces. This is the first time in a few years that I'm happy with what I have to sew because I have a pattern to work from. Most of the time, it seems that they give me something to take apart or remake into a new costume. Last year I had to take apart tuxedos to use them a patterns to make the jackets shown here.

So, when I get a regular pattern to follow, I'm thrilled. I hope to have a good start on them by the end of the week.

My daughter asked if I'd make a duvet cover for her before I got busy with the costumes so I made that today. I've had the fabric since she was home for Christmas but haven't felt like sewing it up. It only took a couple of hours once I got started and now all I have to do is sew the buttons on tonight while I watch TV with my husband.

I'm very behind in making a quilt for my son and his bride-to-be. They're getting married May 2 and I've been procrastinating like crazy. Now I'm down to the wire which is typical for me. I've decided to make a One Bock Wonder and will go tomorrow to buy the fabric. I made one about a year and a half ago and had a lot of fun with that technique which is basically a Stack and Whack block. I'll post my progress as I go along. I'll have this one professionally quilted on a long arm by someone I know that does beautiful work.

Better late than never

I did finish a UFO in February but am just now posting about it. This is another one that my mom had started and I finished for her. My mom had collected Mary Englebreit fabrics for a long time, in fact, she had some of ME's first fabric from Daisy Kingdom in light blue with pink flowers. It sure has a different look from the black, red, and yellow that we see now. So, when my mom saw a ME crazy quilt in a quilting magazine about 5-6 years ago, she went to town using all her fabrics and decorative stitches on her new sewing machine to make it. She finished piecing the blocks and sewing them together and asked if I'd choose fabric and put borders on for her. I did and sandwiched the quilt with flannel and that's as far as she got before her health starting quickly failing. So, 4 years after she died I finished it and it's going to be given to one of my sisters. I think that it's adorable.

I started Bonnie Hunter's (www.quiltville.com) New Year's Eve Mystery "Double Delight" last month and have been busy cutting a gazillion pieces and sewing little nine patches. All I bought were 5 or 6 fat quarters in blues and the rest is coming from my stash. Yay! Spring break is in another week so I hope to be able to finish putting the top together then. I think that I'm going to love this one.

I think that I see a pattern emerging here of posting once a month. Need to try to do better about that.