QNIC/FNSI with Christine

Christine and I got together tonight for an evening of sewing.  I have had a really busy week and have been craving some machine time all week. We sewed for over 3 hours tonight --Christine worked on finishing off a leaf bowl as well as another quilt that she is making as a gift. She top stitched about 30 circles with blanket stitch on her sewing machine. (The thread was green so you can't really see the stitches in this photo.)

I kept working on my Blue Ridge Beauty quilt. 

The end is in sight... I have one more row to sew together and attach to the rest of the quilt.

I should be able to finish this off in the morning.  I have an idea for a pieced border for this quilt so I can use up my leftover strips from piecing the 120 blocks. I don't want to purchase any fabrics for this flimsy--I will have to get something for the backing though :-).

Look what arrived in the mail this week--I ordered them online with a gift card that I received for Christmas.  More inspiration....sigh.....I need more sewing time...

Friday Night Sew In

Tonight is the monthly Friday Night Sew In. I have seen references to this several times on my blog reading adventures but have not participated before. I decided to do Friday afternoon sew in and hope that this counts!I finished putting the yellow and red triangles on my selvage quilt--Liberated Wedding Ring this afternoon. I still have to sew the blocks together but here is what it looks like so far. I have made 9 blocks. I think I am done the blocks and will be working on borders next. This has been a very fun project and I can hardly wait to start working on the borders.
I hope everyone has a great time with the Friday Night Sew In. I look forward to seeing what everyone has been up to!

I am organizing a workshop--Indian Orange Peel (pattern by Karen Stone)--taught by Heather Stewart for a group of 18 quilting friends. Last night, some of us got together to show off the fabrics we have selected. This quilt takes 125 different fabrics and we have decided to each pick a colour scheme and also share our fabrics with the others in the group so that we all don't have to have 125 different fabrics each. Here are my fabrics (batiks):
Jacqui is using Kaffe Fasset fabrics:
(Ignore my table runner under the fabrics--I should have moved it before we laid out the fabrics!)

Pat is also using batiks:

Shirley picked out these fabrics in purples and teal.

And, here are Christine's batiks:
The first part of the workshop is not until November so we still have lots of time to collect fabrics and discuss sharing fabrics with each other. It was interesting to see the choices others made. Now, I know what I have in my stash that others can use as well.