Thursday, January 1, 2015

A Lovely Year of Finishes 2015 & 2015 FAL

I'm going to try my hand at keeping up with this this year. I will start out simple. This quilt has been loaded on my machine for almost a week already. I just can't seem to get a start on this, so my goal this month is to have it quilted, bound and labeled by the end of the month.





This is Bonnie Hunter's Easy Street for 2-3 years ago. It's time to finish. Hopefully by the end of the month I will post a completed project.
Linking to LYOF. Check out what others are planning.

This is also on my 2015 FAL list so I will be linking up to that HERE.

Til later,
Hugs & Stitches,
Mary

Happy New Year!!!

Let's get the New Year started!

                                            


Hope everyone has a safe and Happy New Year!
Let's get rolling!!!!!!

Til later,
Hugs & Stitches,
Mary

Monday, December 29, 2014

Trying to get back in the swing!

The last couple of days I've been trying get a start on cleaning and clearing the "black hole".

I went down and got the corner cleared out that is going to be my workbench for servicing vintage machines.
Here is a before pic.


Here's the after pic.


Right next to that spot is the metal shelving I put up to house my vintage (and some newer) machines.


My next area to tackle is the cutting area. Of course, it looks bad now because I put a lot of that fabric that was on the other table on the cutting table. I will be going through that and cutting up strips squares and putting the rest of the useable pieces in the strings basket to go upstairs by my treadle.
Here is a before pic.


I have already gotten most of it cleared and started cutting up fabric for the Scrap Users System.
Hopefully by next post you will see an amazing transformation of it.

I also have Easy Street loaded on the longarm. I hope to have that done by the end of the week.




I think I'm starting to get some sewing mojo back. Especially since now I'm getting to work on some of my own stuff. Although, I do need to start working on a commission quilt for a client. It will be a double sided one (same pattern, different colorways).

Well that's about it for now.
Til later,
 Hugs & Stitches,
Mary