90% fit and 100% sewing

After a week under the weather, I was SO ready to sew this morning that I started about 7am!  I did get a bit of head start yesterday, when I managed to sew these four Christmas decorations together.  I brought these as individual kits from Hatched and Patched - it was a long time ago, so nice to finally finish them.  Goes to show having a clean up is a good idea, as you find half finished projects, that a quick to finish - which feels good when your sick and not achieved anything!

 I then tackled this Christmas stocking "Stitched Blessings" by Marg Low which I had completed the stitchery but it still needed sewing together.  Then I realised that I had not stitched all of the design and but had a light bulb moment, as I found some Christmas buttons when I put my sewing room back together after the painter finished.  The red check is what I lined and backed it with. 

 So while I am not 100% sure I love the red Christmas trees, I really like the stars and I have more of those, so can always swap them at a later date.  I have made heaps of these stockings previously, but all string pieced, so it will be nice to have some red work stitchery this Christmas.

 So having sorted a few minor UFOs I got down to the big guns and finished off what I had intended to do last Sunday, before I got sick.

 I pieced all the star blocks together - didn't take me long at all.  The best thing was I didn't have to worry about placement as the alternate blocks provide that buffer - so you don't get same fabrics bumping  up against each other.  After lunch I went and brought a pretty purple for the first border.  Still deciding on a fabric for the second border.  

So then I finished the borders on the Dinosaurs Galore quilt!  Yippee a completed flimsy!  Bit hard to see the top border, it is so big that it wont fit nicely on the clothes line and I am not quite tall enough to show it off properly!  I have made the binding and been to the shop to buy a bit of extra fabric to finish piecing the back.  The back is a bit of a jigsaw, so that might take me the rest of the day.    Sigh, tomorrow I have to do some real work e.g. groceries and housework!  After two weeks of the kids and then me being sick the house looks like a bomb hit it ... although my sewing room still looks smick!
Happy quilting, Sue SA.