All day sewing

It was a grey drizzly day yesterday, and I'm a fair weather golfer or walker.  So it was my excuse for staying inside and sewing.  Besides, if I'm in the basement sewing I'm not snacking. 

The 4 new blocks for our Saturday Sampler are finished.  These will be part of the center of this particular quilt.  This was #5 of 10 months.

All 8 of the blocks for the Tranquility mystery are also done.  That means we have a total of 24 blocks made so far in 3 months.  I'm not super pleased with some of these as the outside edges are a bit ragged.  The instructions had us make the HST using large squares marked with diagonals so we ended up sewing 8 at once.  I wish I had cut my squares slightly oversized because some of the HSTs were not quite the right size.  

One more little project . . . the monthly project for the Tilda Club hosted at the local quilt shop.  Each month they demo a small project via Facebook Live.  A sewing night is usually held later in the month too. But this month they challenged everyone to come up with their own project - using their basic instructions.  We were to cut 3" strips WOF in 2 fabrics, sew down each long side, and then cut into HSTs.  Yield would be 16 triangles.  Well, I decided to use fat quarters, so I cut 3 strips of each fabric.  And I used the slotted triangle trimmer ruler to cut slightly bigger triangles.  There are only about 5 stitches across that top point, and they pick out easily.  So, I have 18 HSTs to play with.  Now to decide what to do with them.  There is plenty of both fat quarters left if I need to cut any more.

I just had to play with another of the Facets blocks.  Of course I couldn't stop with just one.

Since I'm still procrastinating on that bag finish, I cut the pieces for 2 more Facets blocks.  And pieces for some other orange RSC blocks.  And organized the bin holding all of the mug rug parts and pieces, which led to finding a couple of other small UFO projects mixed in with the mug rug things - because I get lazy sometimes and just set things aside anywhere.  Much more cleaning and organizing is certainly needed in my sewing space.