Sew, Sew, Sew

I spent the majority of the weekend sewing, catching up on my Aunt Millie's quilt before class next weekend. I finished my second block and started working on the third. When I started this class I thought the blocks would go pretty quickly doing the applique by machine, but it turns out it still takes a lot of time and concentration to finish a decent-looking block. I think I'm getting faster overall, and a little better at the curves, but I'm definitely not a pro at this yet!

Block 2:


And a sneak peek at Block 3:


In other crafty news, I discovered today that Quilted Treasures has a new fabric club that looks pretty darn tempting. The fabrics are all from more modern designers; I really like the work of two of the designers - Anna Maria Horner, and Heather Bailey, and am always excited to see what they're coming out with next. Lots of inspiring fabrics and projects on their blogs. :) I'm using several Heather Bailey fabrics in my Aunt Millie's quilt, and also used them for Sarah's potholders.



This Wednesday is the first meeting of a new club at Quilted Treasures called Sew Domestic. There's a project available to work on if you want to, or you can just work on any other sewing project you have. It's basically free open sewing and a chance to hang out and get some work done. I'm planning on attending in the future (with Katie of course), but am not sure I'm going to make it this week as we have our midwife appt in St. Paul on Wednesday afternoon. The club meets two Wednesdays a month from 4pm - 10pm - so it's a great chance to get some serious sewing done. (Have I mentioned that I'm just a little behind on all those sewing projects I want to get done before Baby arrives??)

My BOM (block-of-the-month) class is on Saturday, and I've yet to start on this month's block, so definitely more sewing in my future this week.

Look for more posts later this week on that cool concept for 2009 I mentioned in my first blog post, and a couple of other projects I've been meaning to write about.