Weekend Work and Finishes

I started cleaning up my sewing room which is a disaster from having too many piles of stuff that need to be put away.  And got distracted as I started working on the cleaning.    It's getting hazardous to try to reach the thread totes there in the corner needless to say.   And I'm not admitting what the fabric room upstairs looks like!

Also started as part of the cleaning was sorting through 1 full and 3 partially full gallon sized bags of lace trims and motifs.   I downsized them to one half full bag for me and a stuffed bag that will be going up for sale on ebay.  More trims tho to go before I'm through with that job.

I put together this set of blocks (they'd been arranged and the rows pinned together a while back).  Now I need to find a border fabric for it so that I can finish the top.  Some of the hearts and all of the fabrics were from a quilt made yrs ago.

Once that was done I started into putting things up again and got distracted again (can you say "Squirrel"?).  Pulled these two snack mats out to finish.  Got them sandwiched, quilted and bound yesterday.  They are now in the tote with the finished ones.  No idea who they will be for at this point.

Gratitudes:
1. I'm not having to drive in the severe thunderstorm that is going on right now.

2. Car battery was changed last week.  =)

Cross-Stitch and More

This has been a busy week.  Sunday through Wednesday I was at the WY state Skills USA conference and competition with 17 kids and 3 other advisors (I'm head advisor this year).  Busy, busy time with lots of running around making sure everything happened when it should and the kids got to where they needed to be.   Thankfully not too many problems and those that did happen were solved.

But through these days no quilting happened.....I did however have some time to get some cross-stitch done.

Thanks to having a long weekend this week, I've been able to get some quilting done - put the binding onto this snack mat that features a piece of cross-stitch I made yrs ago.  This finished at 15" by 11" in size.










I then took one of the little cross-stitch pieces I finished at the conference and put it into a snack mat.   this finished out at 14 by 10 inches in size.











Next up was to add borders to these blocks in order to get them to a common size (some where 1/4" too small).   Pulled the green and purples to match what was in the blue floral print and all was out of my stash.  =)   The quilt top finished at 40" by 60" in size.   Current plan has this top being donated to Sunshine.

Gratitudes:
1. Platelet counts were up to 242K this week!

2. Stayed home this weekend instead of heading to Cheyenne for errands so I'm missing the weather problems between there and here.