Sewing time!

It has been such a sweet relief to be able to spend some time in the sewing room this week. Not lots, but it was so great!

I finally quilted and sewed the binding on the little top I made from the Moda blocks a few weeks back. All I need to do is hand sew the binding on the reverse side:

I've positioned the quilt so you can see the fabric I used for the backing also - it's so pretty! And you can also see that I wasn't able to continue the border print right into the corners of the top, I only just squeaked enough out of my scraps to have this much. In fact if you look really closely - about an inch to the right of the larger corner square you can see a join which I tried so hard to pattern match. There are four or five such joins in the border - and there's not a lot of border fabric in the quilt as it's really quite small being made from 4.5in finished blocks.

I can see that I need to clean my phone camera lens - the picture looks fuzzy at the top - I'm so lazy with things like that!

Another job I checked off the list was to apply the binding to the second lot of four placemats I made for my tennis friends. Because I just didn't get the extra four made in time for our luncheon, they just ended up sitting around while I moved on to other things.

Once again, ready for the binding to be stitched to the reverse side. And I'll also spritz away the blue lines I used as a guide for the wibbly quilting.

And this afternoon I've started working on a Halloween themed table runner - I saw this adorable doggo themed fabric at the store again so purchased some more:

I must have used it all up last year as I can't find it - so I purchased a little extra :-)

In other news, I finished all five role play portions of the two assignments I have to hand in this week, and I'm almost finished all the questions, so I'm feeling really good about my studies right now. I'm almost half way through the whole course - it's going so quickly!

Now I'll catch up on some emails, so I'll sign off here and chatter again next week!