Road trip!

Three things to be happy about:
(1) the color red
(2) cosmetic samples
(3) comfortable sneakers

Why are they called sneakers??

Oh well.

Yesterday I took a little road trip, with my friend Renea riding shotgun!

Oh, the things we saw!

What exactly is this thing???

I couldn't resist putting my toe on the little lever thingy!

I didn't press down on it, though  ;o)

Oh, the stuff we ate!!

fresh made mini donuts - just looking!

Here's a little hint:

Tune in tomorrow to find out!

Meanwhile, before we hit the trail, I managed to get a few more of the Passa 9 patches finished:

I got back home just at 7 pm; was too pooped to do any sewing!  Oh well, it only gets better, right?  Sew forth and sew on til later!

Get ready, get ready!

Three things to be happy about:
(1) desk clocks with pendulums
(2) pumpkins
(3) open 24/7

I just thought I'd throw that last one in because my November calendar has a graphic of a coffee cup that says "FRESH COFFEE served hot daily .. open 24/7"

Whatever...

I got my paint chips for this year's Quiltville mystery!  I thought I'd go for it this year because I like the color choices.

I'm pretty much set for the reds and golds; you only need 2-3/4 yards and 1-3/4 yards, respectively.

I just happened to have these already sorted out in the same bin and I also have more in another bin, so that saves me from having to go on a treasure hunt!  Digging for gold, as it were.

I have plenty neutrals, since I bought some last month on the Lancaster trip - I'm absolutely sure I have at least 5-1/2 yards!  You need 2-3/4 yards of black fabric and I have lots of black-and-white fabrics, but I'd like to beef that up with more "black-and" fabrics ... something other than black-and-white, just to stir things up!

Now grey!

I have this very large yardage of grey fabric that I got from JoAnn's sometime around July 4th.  It was on their discount table at (I think) $3.99 a yard, minus another 50%, so of course I had to get the entire piece!

The only thing is, it might have too much going on with the pink and yellow printed on it.  I believe I could work with this but I want to look for another piece...

Which brings me to this one... the color is perfect but I don't have enough - I need 1-1/2 yards!

This is less than 1/2 yard, the grey needs to be constant throughout the entire quilt.

Even the back side would have been perfect!

The chances of me finding more of this fabric are less than zero - I have no idea where I bought it (or when!) or the manufacturer.

Meanwhile I finished all the alternate blocks for my Passa-whatever quilt - I might name it that!

For some reason I managed to sew 12 more of the black strips than I needed - pfffft!

Sewing together the 9 patches is more fun and seems to go faster, especially since I'm chain piecing and webbing the blocks!

I love these red, white, and black 9 patches!

I need a total of 84 of these blocks; I want to get them as close to being finished as I can before the Quiltville mystery starts in two weeks - 20 down, 64 to go!

That's it for now, have a great Monday... uh, Tuesday!  Sew forth and sew on til later!

Progress, in black and white

Three things to be happy about:
(1) designer eyeglasses
(2) morning sunshine
(3) books that make you laugh

I'm listening to an audible book (The Bone Tree); part of the setting is in the 60's, and they mentioned someone flying from one place to another on Eastern Airlines.  Man, that takes me back!  My first ever ever ever airline flight was on Eastern Airlines, from New Jersey all the way to North Carolina.  I remember when my sister told me I would get a meal and didn't have to pay, I was totally amazed!   Ahh, nostalgia.

I'm making progress on my Passa-whatever quilt!

I decided to concentrate on piecing one unit first, rather than piecing both at the same time.

Since the black and white strips are so boring, I thought I'd go ahead and get those out of the way!

I found a whole bunch of black and white scraps that I had bagged when I was sorting my scraps by color.

It turns out to be a good thing!  Now all I have to do is cut them into 4" pieces at different widths.

Done!

Ready to be pieced for the center of the alternate unit.  Did I mention this is the boring part??

For the size quilt I want to make, I figure I need 84 of each unit.  Eighty-four!

Well, I take it back, it's not really that boring, I just take one piece and add to another til I get a strip that's 9" long. a wider piece on each end.

That little pile doesn't look like much, but there are 50 in there, so combined with the ones already pieced and a few in progress on my sewing machine, I have 24 yet to piece!

They do go kinda fast - one strip at a time... steady as she goes...

Sew forth and sew on...