Sewing at Scrub Stitching

Since I've been home, there's not been a lot of sewing done.

After the first few weeks I had - 

A. Sewn a side seam for my DIL which was damaged by label removal

B. Sewn an air filter for a motorbike for the MOML

C. Re-hemmed some jeans for ED.

Better to focus on the sewing I achieved at Scrub Stitching - 

I took two 'new' projects to work on....totally allowable in my eyes as they were both scrappy ones, cut/prepared from scraps and stash.

As well as making the pouches shown in my previous post, I made good starts on the two projects - 

The first was a Scrappy Trip Around the World quilt. I did spend some time prior to Scrub Stitching cutting the strips for this and sorting them into piles. Once at SS and sewing, I just had to hope that I'd made the right decisions and that I was heading in the right direction with the prep work.

Hopefully once I've sewn them altogether and rearranged them, this quilt will make sense!

Nicely organised baggies. I impressed myself with my organisation prior to SS —

I also wanted to make a start on another impulse project. I started with a vague plan and a whole lot of strips thrown in a bag. I sewed until I decided I needed more space to lay this out and think. 

What is fun about this is the random sized strips that are used for the log cabin. When I have decided on a size for each quarter block I will just trim them all to the same size. 

I have a lot of strips hanging around which I've been saving for a 'rainy day' and this was a great way to start using them.

Looking at it now, I think I'll sew a couple more dark rounds and then decide on a size. 

I'm calling this Starry Log Cabin for now (haha original name!).

It was nice to have a couple of fancy new pouches to bring my projects home in.

I really had the urge to sew the other day so spent some happy time just sewing my current leader-ender project, 4-patch fun.. It's nice to sew up a bunch and then spend some more happy time rummaging for more reds to cut up!

Can you spy who is in the photo below, who was entertaining me while I took my photos this morning?

Yes, baby Olive (and her family) are here!! They were here when I arrived home from Australia so it's no wonder I haven't got a lot of extra stuff done!!

It's been wonderful to spend the time with them —

Yesterday she carried on the family tradition and helped Ganma feed the chooks —

Okay, time to go,

'til next time,

happy stitches,

Raewyn