I am falling woefully behing on my Blog-a-Palooza blocks, and I’m afraid it is just going to get worse.  Since Thursday I have, among othe things:
Washed and ironed 150 yards of fabric
Cut strip sets for nine quilts
Made 336 flying geese
Pieced backing fabric for two quilts
Our children are delighted – all these organized piles of precuts pieces in the dining room have precluded any eating that might happen there.  Since we don’t have an eat in kitchen, they are forced to eat in the famiy room in front of the TV for the time being.  I am officially a bad mother.

SinceI mistakenly deleted my last Blog-a-palooza post, I thought I’d share with you the new blocks I’ve made (before this project goes on a two month hiatus) and repost the ones that were lost.  So, here are the “Mocha” blocks…

And the “Chocolate” blocks…

My mom is coming to visit this weekend!  Being the consumate hostess, I have asked her to bring her rotary cutter.  Little does she know that we will be moving on from flying geese, her specialty.  Ha ha!

Hope you have a wonderful weekend with lots of sewing!
Amanda

Another of my Swiss Chocolate quilt, “White Chocolate”, appears in Fons and Porter’s Easy Quilts Summer Issue.

Directions didn’t fit in the magazine, but if you are subscriber, you can go over to their website and download them.

I wish you could see the quilting on this in more detail. Janice Hayes did a fantastic job on this one. The brown bars look dimensional, the crea print is heaiviy quilted, and there is a flower motif quilted in each central block.  I will post a picture from the back once it arrives home.

I am washing and ironing at least a hundred yards of fabric this weekend. Literally. Can’t wait to cut into it!

Happy sewing (or maybe ironing too)!
Amanda

This project has been sitting, cut out, in our living room for months.  Literally months.  This past weekend I finally finished it.

None of you have project like this, right?  Projects where you just lose steam can’t seem to pick them up again?  I love this Amy Butler bag pattern, and I love the way the chocolate fabrics look in it, but I just couldn’t get my act together.  Something else was always calling.

Anyone else in this situation with a project?

Happy sewing!
Amanda