Encouraging Words of the Day:
Take delight in the Lord, and he will
give you the desires of your heart. ~Psalm 37:4 NIV
I've been sewing like crazy making
potholders to use as some of my Christmas gifts. I needed to learn to use my new
embroidery machine so I made all sorts of centers for the potholders and now
I've finished up most of them. I don't even know how many I made but here is a
pile of them.
Counted them. There are 14 of them. Glad
that's done.
Then I worked on "My Jane" for a while.
Here are M-8 and M-9.
M-8 went together easily via
paper-piecing BUT,
M-9 came out rather crooked, ok really crooked. It was also
paper-pieced but those corners were horrible to make come out even. As you can
see, mine are rather skewed. M-8 looks good and was done quickly. I worked on
M-9 forever and it still looks strange. I will learn to love it because that's
as good as it's getting.
We're leaving our beautiful Texas Hill
Country ranch tomorrow. It's been a wonderful visit but we're headed back to
west Texas tomorrow. I need to go get my prep work done so I can sew for the
6-hours it takes us to get back to El Paso.
That is all.
9 comments:
I think y'all just need to move to the Hill Country - that's too much driving. LOL. You sure do get a lot of stitching done though! Love your pot holders! You are set! That's a great idea to embroider the centers. I need to make some of those.
Love your DJ blocks ... You're still way ahead of me. Safe travel home. I also think you need to move to the Hill Country.
what a great plan to practice your embroidery skills. After all, Christmas will be here in no time. Have a safe trip!
That is one big pile of potholders!! It is great to be able to say ``that`s as good as its going to get``...
I am again in envy because I always get stuck with the driving and everyone else sleeps. Nice little pile of work.
Love your DJ blocks and your potholders look gorgeous.Have a great trip!!
Wow you make those potholders look "easy as Pie"! (does one of them say that??) Well I like both of your Jane blocks and your quilt will be magnificent when it is finished. AND I AM NOT READY FOR YOU TO MOVE TO THE HILL COUNTRY.......(not until I move to DFW.....haha)
Wow you make those potholders look "easy as Pie"! (does one of them say that??) Well I like both of your Jane blocks and your quilt will be magnificent when it is finished. AND I AM NOT READY FOR YOU TO MOVE TO THE HILL COUNTRY.......(not until I move to DFW.....haha)
Look at all those beautiful pot holders! So nice to get a head start on holiday gift giving!
Congrats on getting 2 more Janes sewn. They are both very pretty blocks. Like Brenda always said, there are times when "finished is better than perfect".
SAFE TRAVELS!
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