Painting, Quilting & Ripping Out

Some days you should never

sit down at the sewing machine.

Look at this mess . . .

I'll be ripping stitches all night.

This is my latest toy . . . it magnifies, 

has a light and swivels and is wonderful,

because I am in the early stages of cataracts.

I have not had to rip stitches

for a very long time, until I purchased this.

So is it a fluke, a coincidence or just bad luck

that in the last two days I have had to rip out stitches

in a quilt that I'm working on.

Before I show you what I've been working on . . .

I want to thank Nancy at

 Cozy Thyme Cottage

When I opened the Christmas card that she sent

these lovely gift tags fell out.

Aren't they pretty :)

If you haven't visited Nancy's blog

you can find it here:

http://cozythymecottage.blogspot.com/ 

I have been having more fun with

my fabric paints and made this chart

for color reference.

And I've finished three more blocks

to be used in a future quilt.

In the last post I had drawn and painted

a Ball jar with flowers . . . so I drew another

and made it a Mason jar :)

 I also just finished painting this block.

I think that I will use it to make a pillow cover.

Here I just quilted some crossing stitches 

and used them to play around with.

I could make coasters out of them, I guess?

Girls just want to have fun

and that's what I did today.

Not counting the ripping out of stitches

that will occupy my TV watching time, tonight :)

Oh, here's my helper.

He gets a treat when he comes over to the 

Art Barn, so he's Johnny on  the spot when

I head out to sew.

It's All Good!

KEEP SMILING!

 Your blogging sister,

Connie :)