Thursday 30 October 2008

Thursday Catch Up

Trying to juggle umpteen UFO's, deciding what to do next and getting side tracked has been the name of the game this last week.

Finn's New Year's Eve Challenge has been giving me nightmares as I know I'm not going to achieve even 50% of my goals.   I'm:

  1. quilting the Pink Stars quilt (sister is in hospital as I type this about to give birth to the quilt's recipient);

  2. piecing together another Q4L quilt (No. 14).  Wanda at Exuberant Colour sent me a whole lot of strips which are brilliant for strings so I'm creating lots of red and white strings and having great fun sewing them together on this. She came home last week and apart from a slight hiccup in threading the bobbins and altering the tension to suit the fabric, she sews like a dream!  I love the dual speed button.  We found a 1/4 inch and quilting foot combined on EBay and that is now winging its way here from the US.  So once that arrives there'll be no stopping me!

  3. I've also restarted Ab Fab in between quilting Stars.  I seem to have gone off it.  It doesn't hold the same excitement as it did before.  Hummmmmm.  Perhaps it will come back.


Last, but by no means least, look what arrived in the mail yesterday.



Oodles and oodles of fabric in all shapes and sizes.

I signed up for Quilt Pixies December Swap. By some flook I managed to get teamed up with Donna and wow did she come up trumps. Thank you so much Donna. I'm itching to get started, but my new no new projects rule is stopping that!

8 comments:

Nancy said...

I really like the fabrics you got in the swap. Are those cats? Isn't it wonderful when your machine is working great?

Connie W said...

I see lots of cute fabrics in that photo. Getting one's sewing machine back and working is always a good thing. Enjoy your stitching.

Pippa said...

I've got some of those fabrics, I made a sewing bag out of the pink fabric with the cotton reels.....

quilpixie said...

hopefully you can practise with the great Singer on some of those fabrics soon :-)

Magpie Sue said...

Aren't rules made to be broken? ;- )

Best wishes to sister and the baby!

Lily said...

A new machine and new fabrics! There'll be no stopping you now Clare!

Cheri said...

The fabric swap looks like such fun! I have to limit myself on those, but love it when I do them! Enjoy!

Juliann said...

Oh yes, I am so sidetracked these days. Just cannot seem to get on a path that holds my attention. Doing a lot of procrastinating too.