TGIF - More miscellaneous sewing

 The most important task I accomplished this week was sashing ALL 12 of the Summer Soiree blocks, so now I 'm ready to sew the rows together.  I may leave these layed out on the floor for another day or so to make sure I have them in the best locations.  

These sampler blocks were from a Pat Sloan sew-along.  I made this set using florals and batiks, and another set using red/white/blue for a Quilt of Valor.  The QOV had a very plain sashing, and I wanted this one to be totally different.  It definitely is. 

While putting away some of the brown fabrics I used on the pillowcase kits, I cut a couple of strips that I knew would work for some Framed Friendship Square blocks.  But of course I couldn't just tuck them into the project box with the squares.  I just HAD to make the blocks.  This cute dog print was left over from one of the pillowcase kits I made.

The dark brown worked well with that football square.  How appropriate with the Super Bowl coming up, right?  And then I made this pink flamingo block because there were pink strips laying around too. 

One more thing I worked on yesterday - more small heart blocks.  The bottom group with the purple flowers are going to be for a block exchange with the Sew Vintage group so I used a 30s reproduction print.  The others were cut from scraps of various things.  A couple of them were cut from leftover charm squares.  These will make good Leader/Enders in between sewing those Summer Soiree blocks into rows.  

On Wednesday afternoon I sat in the sun coming in through the family room windows, and began to hand applique the blue hexie flowers onto the batik background squares.  Thursday afternoon I did a couple more.  It's a good task while watching Olympics on TV.