Retreat sewing

The vertigo is better this morning, but yesterday, when I bent down to help someone find something on the floor, that was NOT a good thing! At least it's not affecting my enjoyment of the companionship of friends and sewing or writing, so I'm good! 

I accomplished a lot yesterday, although I can only share a bit with you. Boy, oh boy, sewing is humbling! It's so easy to get distracted and make a mistake. Good grief—you want to whack yourself for doing that, but there's always a plan B, so one must move on!

Besides the work on QUILTsocial, I managed to get some of my personal stuff done. 

This is a project from a couple of years ago when we had a class on Pre-cuts. I had most of the blocks complete, but not quite. I still need a few pieces of the background fabric, which is at home, for this project. But I got four rows together - it's not pressed yet, so don't panic! 

A partially completed quilt top

I have two more rows together but can't join them yet. When I get home, I need to finish three blocks, and then I can put the top together. I could make the binding here, but I'll leave it until I get home. 

I also brought my serger, intending to join the backing for this quilt. That is also done. As this one is a gift, I hope to get it quilted soon, although I have a couple of customer quilts to do first. 

A quilt ready to be quilted

I started another project last night, and it's on the cutting table. I should be able to get the top together today and then try to figure out borders or what to do with it. It needs to be bigger for a lap quilt, and I have extra fabric, so I could make it larger. I'll see how it goes today and make a decision. 

These are projects that need to be tidied up. They've been sitting around for years!!! 

I counted, and there are six more projects in my basket, and I said I wanted to work on each of them. So maybe I make one block and put it back in the basket for the next retreat? 

I have more work to complete on my QUILTsocial projects today and more writing tomorrow. So far, I've kept up with everything, so all the pieces should be completed. There will be no UFOs, but it's a challenge. No worries—I'll make it happen. 

But you can see that I was busy. Look at the threads!!!

Threads!!!!

One of the ladies was wearing her Gee's Bend T-shirt yesterday, so I had to snap a picture. She got it on the sale rack in Target a couple of months ago. Of course, I spent some time trying to find one, but they are no longer for sale! At least not online. I could easily make the T-shirt—it's super simple: a regular T-shirt with a patch pocket. That's it! 

Gee's Bend T-shirt

But the label is pretty cool! 

The label for the T-shirt

 I knew they were out whenever the collection was released—there was also a jacket, but I looked at it at the time and decided then that I didn't need it. I still don't need it!

Someone else had fun with the ice maker! I'm not a fan of ice, so I couldn't care less if there was an ice maker, but many people love ice, so we had fun watching how quickly it froze the ice cubes. 

Making ice cubes

Things were going well until after dinner when I changed the foot on my sewing machine and forgot to return to a straight stitch. CLUNK—I broke a needle. 

OH - the needle broke!

But all is good. 

It was hot yesterday, but I still walked in the afternoon. I didn't get a chance in the morning because we had the two UFO club Zooms. Today should be a somewhat quieter day? What does that exactly mean anyway? 

Well, I'm off to finish editing my document so I can send it off and then back to sewing! 

Have a great day!!

Ciao!!!