It's Snowing in July!

I've decided to "catch-up" on the Snowbound blocks of the month by making 4 this month and the next 4 in August - then I'll be on track!  Here are the remaining three I finished.....

I mentioned some of the pieces are pretty small and trying to keep the Steam-a-Seam on and cut them out at the same time with my regular sized pins was a little difficult.  I decided it was time to invest in some applique pins.  Look how small these babies are...

I think they'll be just the ticket!  Unfortunately, they didn't arrive until after I finished my 4 blocks, but I can't wait to try to them out next month!

We just returned from meeting a lovely couple out near Lancaster to whom I sold my Pfaff Tiptronic sewing machine.  The Pfaff was my first "good" machine.  I bought it in the late 90s - not too long after I started quilting.  I decided I was a Bernina girl a couple of years after that and the poor Pfaff was just sitting around collecting dust.  I was hoping that either my daughter or daughter-in-law might be bitten by the quilting bug and I could give it one of them, but so far no go.  I finally decided it needed a good home and listed it on Craigslist to try to sell it.  After months of getting either no bites or people emailing once and then never responding again, this lovely lady and I corresponded back and forth for a while.  They are from Ohio but were coming into the Lancaster area for a wedding this weekend.  That's only about an hour and change from us so we took the trip out and met them.  I sure hope she's happy with it!

Bye old friend....

I'm Finally Snowbound! And JRS Block #10

Well, I think it's already 8 months in, but I've finally started the Snowbound blocks!!  Yay!  (I am blaming my late start all on the store I tried to purchase the fabric from on-line.  I really, really wanted to use this Rural Jardin fabric for the background along with some others in the line and it was on backorder for what seemed like months. I finally gave up and ordered it from somewhere else. (I think I whined about this before). Anyway, I started last week.  The blocks are so very cute.  Some of the pieces are quite small though, so even though my favorite fusible is Steam-a-Seam 2, it can be a little fidgety to work with on the smaller pieces.  So, I thought, I'll try using the WonderUnder I bought for my large Lady Madonna applique project (because is was soooo much cheaper than S-a-S).  Bad move.  Trying to remove the Wonderunder paper from the back of a teeny tiny carrot nose was next to impossible.  I decided that the rest would be satin-stitched!  Here's the first one...

And, we're still rolling along with the Jelly Roll Sampler - here's block 10 - this one was fun and really quick.  I like it!

I particularly love what one of the gals, Kim, is doing with her Jelly Roll Blocks - a Halloween theme and is embellishing them stitchery.  Her blocks are so cool - she made a Frankenstein face out of Block 5, a pumpkin out of Block 9, and tombstone with Block 10.  So creative!

I looked at my cutting table the other night and was amazed at how messy it was!  I usually keep my work area very neat (I find it hard to work in a mess), but with Snowbounding, Jelly Rolling and this and that...I walked into this...

I had to take 5 minutes to get organized again and all was right in my sewing room o:)

I'm almost embarrassed to post this, but I am on a roll with the giveaways!  Last week, I found out I won a gift certificate from Cottage Quilts   for my June Schnibble in A Year of Schnibbles AND this cute embroidery ornament from Brye Lynn at Sew Stitch Create!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!  Now, I think I'll go play the lottery....