Sewing

With all of the traveling,  I have found some time for sewing.

I did get another tuffet done.

Princess gave it her approval!

I had the makings for 3 more. My friend Jo wanted to make one, too.

It took us about 3 Thursday's of sewing putting together.

I am sorry I don't have a picture of Jo's. Her's got out of my house before

I could take one.  She did her's scrappy in Civil War fabrics. It turned out

so neat.  I had this Jelly Roll by American Jane.  I think the fabric line is 

"Pot Luck".  I love how mine turned out.

I have to say Ron still likes the batik one that I made first!

I have the makings of still one more.  This time it will be in blue, and

scrappy. Actually, I have the top sewn together, but the stool is not put

together yet.  

Princess on her throne!

The other thing I have gotten into is making mug rugs.
I will be going up to Racine, to the Siena Retreat Center the beginning of
October for another quilt retreat.  Kathy and I decided it would be
a nice gesture to make mug rugs for the Sisters.

It happened that I had several already made, you know that "just in case".

I also had several paper pieced blocks made, so just had to finish them
up into rugs.

I love to do handwork, so made up a few partial Dresden Plates, sewed
them down then hand quilted.
I also found some orphan blocks that would make up into the right
size mug rugs with a little added fabrics.

To date I have 60 completed.
These all still need binding hand sewn down.

I do have 18 more to finish up.  When I called  Siena I found out we would
need 78 for the Sisters and the staff.  As of right now, I have all I need.
But, you may remember, I always make more.  I would like to have a total
of 100.  That way there will be a variety for them to choose from. Oh, I
did have to get some Brewer's fabric.  There are a few avid Milwaukee
Brewer's fans among the Sisters.

I will say this has been a wonderful way to pay it forward, and
use up more scraps from my stash.  Once I got started, I came up
with all sorts of ideas for the mug rugs.  It is fun making them.
Once I get them done, I will take more pictures to show you some of
the other ideas I came up with.

Hope you will have a great weekend.
Happy Sewing.
Mary