Friday Night Sew In

Fridat night I stayed home instead of going out partying/clubbing, lol.  Pj's were on, ready for my second ever Friday Night Sew In.

I had been sewing all day to finish this quilt top, so even though I got myself organised (pj's on),  by the evening I had run out of steam.

I had grand plans to attach the binding on this quilt,

but I hadn't trimmed the quilt to size and I wasn't in the mood to get it out and move everything off my large cutting mat.

Instead I pieced a block for the Monochromatic Challenge.

That didn't take long and I was going to join in on the great carrot sew along party, but by then I'd had enough of sewing so I made this instead.

The cat seems to like it.

Then I cut a few of these for the Lily's Quilts Quilt Along.

Not quite as productive an evening as I had planned, but at least I've pieced the block ready to embroider, and I started on cutting out the Dresden blades, so not so many to do today. I caught up with google reader and flickr.  Oh and I started on developing a prototype for a crochet carrot. Hopefully I'll be able to post a crochet carrot tutorial soon.

Friday Night Sew In is over at Handmade By Heidi, so check out all the other (and probably far more productive) posts from everyone else.

Lily's Quilts Quilt Along

I'm joining in on Lynne's at Lily's Quilts quilt along.  I'm excited.  I finally worked out how to download the templates so that they would print out the correct size, boy was that difficult. Well once I worked out how to do it it was very easy, too easy. The difficult part was getting my brain to work and to figure out how to do it in the first place.

So now I'm all sorted. I have my fabric.  I'm using what was in my stash, a layer cake of La Petite Ecole by French General, and for the background I'm going to use Kona Charcoal, as I had lots of that in my stash and for the centre circles I'm using Bella Solids Tomato Red.

Now let the fun begin.