WOW - tripping

The jewel wall hanging was roughly laid out and I liked it.  I was just about to sew the last couple of sections together when I tripped on the fact that it had changed shape.  duh! All the sewn seams went somewhere!  lol  Sew- I got out my handy dandy proportions tool and figured out what I needed to do to make it pleasing and fit the space.  The magic size is 36 inches by 48 inches.  I had to rip a couple of seams and add in some length.  I hope I don't lose too much in the quilting because I could only cut it with two extra inches.  I pressed all the seams open and I see a couple of ripples  towards the bottom that I sure hope won't be a problem for MQing.

It seems quite large but I'd already pieced a lot of the triangles so this is what works.  I hope the Rooster doesn't crow(K) too much if I ask him to raise the new nail holes.  :0  I shall leave this pinned up while I think about it and decide how I'll quilt it.  Tomorrow I have a chance to take in Nina's walking foot for reassembling. She's the machine for the job!

I played a bit with the left over triangles.  Do I need another project? NO!  Do I need to keep more scraps??  NO!!

These triangles look odd to me, up side down!  lol  But I got this wee place mat done in record time and the few pieces of fabric put away.  I was stomping!  It'll be a MQing practice piece.

I spent a goodly amount of time tripping over piles as I looked for my fabric stamped tea cups.  After a significant clean up I was still stumped.  AH!  I unrolled the kitchen fabric and there they were, positioned and ready for tweaking!  The bonus was that I found a perfect stripe for the kitchen decor!

Lots of math which kinda worked out. Next my stripe. I decided a binding wouldn't work.  I am an asymmetrical gal so I wanted it on one side.  I was determined but I ended up taking off both sides and having some Pooh time.  Think, think, THINK!  Oh, bother!

I may be kicking against the pricks here!  ;~)

You can see I'm getting desperate as I sew wanted to have this finished for 'What's On Worktable' Wednesday.  I think I will have coffee.  :(

While the coffee was sending forth its aroma I thought, "just the taupe stripe?".    See, I need to get some darker taupe into the kitchen.  It is kinda blaugh. (sp???)  This strikes me as the right shade.  Ha!  I think I will stop jumping up and down and tripping over design decisions and go have coffee and see what ideas The Needle and Thread Networkers might have

wow- warming up winter

Ta heck with ground hogs.  Winter will just be as everlasting as necessary.  I shall think warm thoughts, stitch warm covers, and sip apple cider by the fire!  The little rug is my only rug hooking attempt and if I had time, I'd do more. I liked it!

I'm going to leave the finishing of my leaf wall hanging until I can see green leaves in the landscape and work up my nerve to stamp on the quilt top.

In the mean time I am really warming up to these blocks from my old ufo pile of scraps.

When my thoughts kinda freeze up at the end of the day I can just put two fabrics together and sew.  When I get tired of that I switch to the iron and trimming. They'll finish at five inches and I'll need approximately 64 blocks.  They are going to be such fun to arrange!  

I shall try with the first teacup and then after I warm up I'll  get busy on the cold cups.  While I'm stitching I shall think about the kitchen curtain as the blinds are up and the curtain rod is hung.  The window trim needs another coat of paint but I'll wait till the wind changes and the draft settles down. ;~)

Stay warm and see what the other gals from The Needle and Thread Network are doing to stay warm.