WIP Wedndesday 8/26/09 a day late...

I feel like I haven't done a whole lot lately.... Yesterday I spent most of the day cleaning my studio so I can walk without tripping on anything. I've had bead projects out on my table and piles of fabric here and there.

I did get my embroidered basket block done...



This is the last one I had to do. Now to get them into a quilt. Trying to decide what fabrics to use for this is the reason for all the little piles of fabric that were in my studio. I'm trying to use fabrics I have and not buy anymore...

I started a new embroidery project...



I also made earrings to go with the necklace I showed in this post



I have fabrics to make two skirts... I'm using Simplicity patter #5752.



I'm going to be using view C or B with no flounce. B is longer... so I just need to decide what length I want. I'll probably do the short version for this border print.



And the longer version for this fabric. I thought this one would look cute with my cowboy boots....



Now to find time to make these skirts.... I want to have them ready to wear at Innovations in a couple weeks.

You asked for it....

You asked for so here they are... the rest of the basket blocks.









In the pattern pack there are 31 blocks, but I decided to only do these 6. One reason is that so many of the blocks have way too many french knots. OK... I'm not a huge fan of french knots. Don't know why. They're fine in moderation like the center of the flowers, but not the whole flower, the whole ribbon or the whole basket... I have an idea how I want to set these blocks, with plenty of room for quilting.

Have you ever put something away, someplace where it will be easy to get it when you need it again... Then can't figure out where that was? Last week when I was straightening up the house before company I put a stack of quilt books away. Not in the bookcase cause I knew I would be getting them out again in a few days. Yep, you guessed it. I can't find them.... I've looked in every place that I normally set things that I'm working on or going to be using on the next project, but NO.... not there. They'll turn up when I least expect them.