Sunday, October 12, 2008

sewing but not blogging



I've actually been getting things done in my sewing room, but don't have many photos to show for it. We got out the Halloween placemats at our house, and I love the freestyle letters inspired by Tonya that I added to this one. Our guild is having a song quilt challenge, and I hope to make something with freestyle letters for that. Speaking of Halloween, I have a fuzzy black dog costume and a shiny red robot costume on the top of my to-do list. I have the dog almost complete, but the flying fuzz makes me sew with the vacuum by my side.


Here's a photo of my finished quilt from our guild's Throw Me A Curve mystery workshop with Mark Lipinski. We all made the same blocks, and then saw many different quilts created with the varied arrangements. A fun idea! He suggested I over-dye it with tan, add fluffy batting, tie it and embellish with buttons. Since I was not wedded to any ideas, I decided to do it a-la-Mark just as he suggested. It's a nice snuggly quilt, but not my favorite. But it's done, so I can share it with the other workshop participants at our next meeting.