WIP Wednesday -- No Sewing :(

You may have noticed that I didn't do a WIP post last week.  That's because I did absolutely no sewing at all.  This past week all I did was sew a few yo-yo's.    No, I didn't take a picture.

With the holiday things got rather hectic with extra activity.
Rather than miss another week of posting, I thought I would share some other pictures.

One thing was putting together a float with our church for the 4th of July parade.

The Sunday before the 4th we went to my middle daughters little town for their fireworks show.  Here are a couple of the good pictures I got:

My sunflowers this year took a beating and we lost a lot of them through a couple of bad storms, but I still love them.

I do have sit n' sew coming up this Friday evening.  If all goes as planned I will get the half square triangles pressed and squared up.
Then we have a camping trip the following weekend.  I will take the yo-yo's and hope to get some good work done on them.
Then, the weekend after that is my quilt guild's quilt retreat.  I sure hope to get a lot done there!!
Wish my luck!!



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Sunflowers and Dragonflies Finish

yay me!  a finish for this week too!  I did almost let Friday get past me again.  It's been a rush here, rush there, stand in line at the courthouse forever, kind of day.

Anyway......I have made a wall hanging and plastic bag holder for my kitchen.  I bought the materials on an awesome Saturday Sampler deal at the quilt shop.  For attending the sampler, our deal of the day was to buy 1 yard of the spring clearance fabric and get the 2nd yard free!  It was just $6.80 for one yard each of the sunflowers and the dragonflies.   I've made these items and have plenty of fabric left that I will be making some more of the plastic bag holders to put up for sale in my etsy shop.

I used the pattern from the Emerald Aisle table runner, using just one square, and modifying it a bit for the wall hanging.  This is the front.   I even tried my hand at drawing a dragonfly to stitch in the middle.  I'm glad you can at least sort of see it in the photo.   This was my first time to draw the picture on paper and then stitch over the paper onto the fabric.  What fun!

This is the back of the wall hanging.  I made it this way so that I can turn it around on occasion to change things up.  I actually think that I may like the back better.

And, here is the matching plastic bag holder:

With any luck, I may just be able to finish that string type quilt that I've been working on forever, by next Friday.  Heading in soon to do just a bit of work on it for today.