Summer Vacation

My summer vacation from work has started and boy am I happy about that. I work in college academics and it was a long, tough year. If you are a parent of a college student, please don't be a helicopter parent, forever hovering. It's a problem people. Anyways, I have finally gotten to know my sewing room again.

As I posted about on my last post I am in love with Carrie Nelson's Schnibbles Times Two book and I'd love to work my way through the book making all the big and little quilts. But to get started I am making Imagine-the big quilt. I have had the fat quarter set of Maison de Noel by 3 Sisters for a long time. I know I had a quilt in mind when I bought it a few years ago but I can't remember what it was. Now this collection is impossible to find and I was always relictant to cut into it. But it's all cut up now! That was hard to do.

I have made a couple of test squares so I'm ready to go. I think I'm going to be doing some chain sewing here for a bit. But a note about the directions in this book, at least on this quilt. The directions are clear and there is such a clever method for making these squares that you can't possibly have any bad ones. Genius I say! So it's time for me to enjoy sewing with this beautiful fabric and then on to little Imagine with a great Fig Tree collection. Fun on my summer vacation among many other things planned.