Yesterday and Today...

I worked on sewing the borders for Mr. P's quilt. I still have more to do. I also made the frame that will go around the little Valentine stitchery that I showed you all yesterday.

 I found a pretty Christmas box to put all the kits in as they come in the mail. At the end of the year I will give myself a really fun gift!

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Little Quilts

Remember this photo I posted at the end of November?

 I finished the little quilt. I have had company twice this week so I haven't had much time to work on my UFO list but I finally got the binding and sleeve sewn on this little UFO. I wanted to have it done for Christmas but so much was going on during December it did not get done. This little quilt is a pattern that Missie of Hallbrook Designs was sharing during the Think Christmas blog hop. I changed the bird some and added more stars.

 Ever since I bought my Ackfeld wire table stand I have been wanting to make more little quilts to hang on it. I get the Shabby Fabrics newsletter and they were sharing a new club called the Sweet Stitches Club in the newsletter. When I saw it was for quilts to hang on the wire stand and it was Kathy Schmitz's designs I knew I had to join. Here is the first kit.

I know what you are thinking! I am doing nothing but UFOs this year. I know and I am going to. I am going to sew the pieced borders of each kit because there are stickers on the fabric which I don't want to leave on for a long time. After I make the pieced borders I will put all the little kits in a box and save the embroidery part for next year.
I have a big button on my blog that says "Nothing but UFOs for 2013" and I will continue to work on them no matter how much I want to make these little quilts. Oh, it is so tempting!!!!

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Finished...

just in time because Lori has put up the next row on her blog. Friendship stars. I was trying to be so careful while making these mittens. Somehow I sewed a small square on the wrong side of a mitten and the cuff wouldn't fit right. It took me a while to figure it out. I had to make a new mitten. I thought I was sewing the little squares on the right side but I ended up making a mitten go the same way as the first one. It was those two in the center so I just sewed them in the opposite direction. I was afraid to try to make another one because of the problems I was having.

 When I took a picture to put on my blog one mitten jumped out  at me. Another one wrong! I forgot to add a little square. I can't believed I missed it the whole time I was putting the row together. So I just un-sewed a little bit of the section so I could fix it. The photo above is the corrected row. (see the orange arrow)

Hopefully I won't have any issues with the next row or the one Lori will be posting in two weeks!

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Sewing Mittens

This morning I had planned to sew the whole row of mittens for the row along quilt. I tried to get connected to the internet and for some reason I could not. I needed it so I could see Lori's excellent tutorial for the mittens on her blog. So what's a girl to do?

I cleaned up my sewing room some, met my husband during his lunch hour to walk for our exercise, and went to the grocery store for a few things. Once I ate lunch I tried again to connect to the internet. It worked and I sewed the main mitten shapes. Tomorrow I will add the cuffs and hopefully sew the row together.

Making progress! How are your UFOs coming along?

With Passion,
Carrie P.

Rotary Cutting

This morning I got all the background pieces cut out for my next row in the Lori Holt's row along. Look how little some of those pieces are!

This afternoon I got the pieces cut out for the mittens. There are two of each color.

Tomorrow I will sew!

With Passion,
Carrie P.