A whole lotta not much...

I was hoping since I joined in the Occupy Your Sewing Room movement, I'd be a little more productive with some of my ongoing projects.  And although I've spent a fair amount of time in my sewing room, I don't have a whole lot to show for it. 

But I AM proud of what I have accomplished so far. 

Last night I was able to finally finish a belated block for the Let's Bee Together swap.

It is really late...supposed to have been put in the mail by November 25th.

But thankfully, Staci has already forgiven my tardiness!

The block is called Fly Foot and it was super easy.

Partly because she sent us this paper called Triangles on a Roll

to use for making the half-square triangles. Have you tried this stuff?  I really liked it!

Anyway, she also requested we press all the seams OPEN, which I haven't done since I used to sew clothing when I was younger.  If felt kind of wierd and made it a little more difficult to match up seams, but it did make the block lay nice and flat...

...AND I thought the back turned out kinda cool that way!

Btw Staci, I even got it in the mail today so it should get to you soon.

So, it may not be a lot, but it IS something!

I kind of thought working from home might give me more time for my hobbies,

but that hasn't panned out so far.

But, although I haven't had much time to do any Christmas crafty sewing I've managed to squeeze in a bit of time to visit blogs and see what a lot of you have done. Lots of great ideas out there even though I may never get around to trying any of them! Maybe I'll see you around!

Til then, thanks for stopping by!



Geeses in Paper Pieces

I'm in between large projects right now and decided, with a little inspiration from Sheila's recent post, to, yet again, try foundation paper piecing. Previous futile attempts won't stop me because I see so many great patterns out there that use this technique. 

So last night...I started with this...

And after much flipping & flopping and snipping

and a tiny bit of cursing I got this...

...which may not look like much yet...

but with this stash (same fabric I used for my

Cathedral Windows back in April) it should end up

looking like a "Circle of Geese" like this one.

Since I didn't have time to finish the other 3 quarters

in my haste to see what the end result would be

I did a little trick photography & created this mosaic...

 a great visual of what is to come!

Yet as I was getting these photos ready for my blog,

then I started noticing my "mistakes".

(Don't you hate that?)

As you can see, I somehow snipped a corner or

didn't have enough fabric to cover that piece (ugh!)

and

that huge chunk of white shouldn't be showing like that.

Guess I forgot to trim a seam.  : /

Of course, I stopped in the middle of posting to go

do that trimming...it looks better now but I didn't

take another photo.

But, I learned from it all and can't wait to finish my

paper pieced Circle of Geese.
 

You can go here to see where I got
my inspiration for this pattern!  They are awesome!

Now I'm off to more sewing...