Day 274 of 2020

I saw this container at Goodwill a couple days ago. 

It was very hard to see what exactly was inside.

These pieces were in the container, taped across the top in a jumbled mess. 

I kept thinking about it and went back today to see if it was still there. 

It was, so I brought it home. 

There is such a variety of smooth and sueded leather scraps. 

Some are quite large. 

My thought is to practice a little

 and see if I can sew these pieces on the sewing machine. 

If so, I see some lovely little pouches in my future.

 

Day 273 of 2020

The quilt top with the polka dot borders is done. 

He will get eyes, buttons and a pom-pom for his hat after the quilting is done. 

That may take a while. There are several in queue before this one. 

It started out as a Buggy Barn pattern, but I made my own snowflakes 

patterned after some paper cuts of one of my children. 

By the time I was ready for the arms,

 I had misplaced the book with the pattern in it. 

After extensive Google searching, 

I found a picture of the quilt and found he only had one arm,

 but mine had to have two so I designed a second one. 

I am thinking this one will definitely need a red binding. 

And I have great news -

GB#5 was born today! 

More on that later.

 

Day 272 of 2020

My attention and activities were all over the place today, 

including making my strawberry popsicles. 

I also put those polka dot borders on their quilt 

at which time I won a game of Thread Chicken.  

It was very close.

 

Day 271 of 2020

Here is my view as I watch football this evening. 

I've been sorting, counting, doing math and making decisions about this quilt 

and the extra quilt I will get from the leftover pieces.  

At one point Fireball asked if I was still cipherin'. 

And then I found another small bag of pieces that needed the same process. 

Yes, I am still ciphering.

 

Day 270 of 2020

Signs of fall. 

I think I take pictures of these flowers every year. 

They get me every time.

 

Day 269 of 2020

I am using my pattern matching skill on this quilt border. 

Do you see it?

 

Day 268 of 2020

It hasn't rained here in a long time.  

Some of our flowers were feeling it so we made our own rain. 

The bonus was our very own rainbow.