I'm in for a quilting weekend. Got the housework done and except for the cable company coming to install cable and internet this afternoon, the weekend is pretty much free. Switching from a dish tv and verizon internet to cable. They wanted to charge me $1500 to install two years ago when we built and now will do it for free. We are way off the road in woods. I have some cleaning up to do in my sewing room, have 100 blocks (bear paw) done for a quilt and need to get them up on the design board. Been putting this off because I think I have a lot of ironing to do to get the seams to nest plus want to wash a bunch of fat quarters and iron them. Also, have quilts wanted to be quilted. I have more then enough to keep me busy!

I'm glad to see so many are joining me! I didn't get as much time in sewing room as I would have liked this morning as have been on phone with roofers and cable company. But we finally have 2 quotes to replace roof and will make decision hopefully tonight and cable bill has been reduced about $30 a month so did get something accomplished! Back to the sewing room to hopefully finish the Halloween wall hangings.

I am still working on my king size 1.5" scrappy Christmas quilt. I have just three rows left then I start on the white border. So excited. My goal is to get the top done so I can at least put it on my bed for December and then get it quilted after the holidays. So off to quilting....by the way...love these virtual quilting weekends and really love to see all the items that you all are working on.

I will be working on piecing a flannel quilt top and backing for a grandson, quilting my second fmq 'to ruin' quilt (Leah Day suggested it takes about three quilts to get the hang of fmq) and basting my third, hand quilting a quilt for another grandson, cutting a new project, and hand piecing a top with undulating curves (I gave up trying to machine piece it, after much aggravation -- didn't realize how much I would enjoy hand piecing!).

It works best for me to switch off on various tasks, as my back doesn't allow me to stay at one activity for very long.

Hoping to join in on the fun this weekend. I have been babying an extremely swollen joint on my right foot for almost a week now and trying to stay off of it. Meanwhile, I have been washing fabric piles lying here and there around the house, folding and stacking by color. It's so easy to spread out and a pain to gather it all in one place. :D DH built me a cabinet for the hallway to stack my fabric. I will start this weekend by cutting out to sew small quilty things for the bazaar I am doing in November. Then, see how my foot takes to pushing the pedal on the sewing machine.

I'm finishing off a pack of Riley Blake FQ's that I bought earlier in the year - same fabrics in different colorways. I've already used the goldish ones and the turquoise ones. Now I'm doing a quilt using the raspberry ones. We may go for apples tomorrow though, so may not get in much sewing tomorrow.

I did much better than I thought I would today! The hummer storm is now 4x4! Huzzah!

Now I have to work out if I have enough of the turquoise left to make it 5x5...sadly the turquoise is out of stock everywhere, and I've run out of places to try now :-( I've found the same design in a greeny/teal colour, so will use that around the edge of the turquoise, keeping the dark blue the same. I'm hoping this will look ok, because I would hate to ruin this one now, when it's looking so pretty! If anyone has any better ideas, I'm all ears :-)

Yeah, just the incentive I need to get in Gear this week..looking forward to finishing a few things :)

Thanks a bunch

Judy in Phx, AZ

I've got six labels to machine embroidery, twin size quilt to long arm and bind, and last a king size quilt to cut out. Will tackle them in that order.

Can't wait to start seeing pictures of our weekend projects!

Jan in VA