Long Arm, Garden, Sewing

I’ve just received word my new-to-me refurbished long arm is being delivered TONIGHT!!!  Yippee!! I’m hoping this new machine will earn a very nice name like “Sweetheart” or “Sweet Pea” because she runs so well and behaves so nicely.  We shall see :)

I’ve been busy but most of it isn’t sewing related but that’s not necessarily a bad thing because I’ve got lettuce, peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, butternut and acorn squash in the garden.

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Tomatoes is the trees (what better way to reuse kitty litter buckets than to grown upside down tomato plants, I ask you?).

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Sunflowers and zinnias in the flower beds.

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All of which received a layer of mulch this weekend.

In between I completed 30 or so 4 patches from my 2 1/2 inch squares and  sewed and pinned a whole bunch more.

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I cut squares for half square triangles for one of the Dino quilt borders.

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And cut out the pieces for the Liberty wall hanging project (from the McCalls Quick Quilts May 2005 magazine) using Cherrywood fabrics.  This should go together quickly.

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One Response to “Long Arm, Garden, Sewing”

  1. Quilted Jonquil » Blog Archive » Patriotic Sewing Says:

    [...] Nice!  You can’t tell from the picture but I used two different reds on the stripes.  The pattern called for some colors of Cherrywood fabric that are no longer available but I like the ones [...]