Yesterday I did some cutting and sewing of some scraps. This was another sleepless night as didn't even go to bed until after 4am. Anyway...I cut out more of my pieces for Tumbler II and actually started sewing a few together just to see how I was going to like it. I ended up sewing together a little over 100 sets of 2!!! Not too shabby of a day!
Here I even sewed 4 together just to see...
I ended up with 8 more Windmill blocks which brings my total to 159. I have a bunch more cut out in the colors but need to start cutting neutral pieces for it too.
Here is my cutting progress. Several more pieces for my Windmill blocks and a bunch of pieces for my Tumbler II quilt. I forgot to take a photo of my neutrals that I cut.
I also got to spend some time with this precious girl. :) My sister came up for a visit. (I say "come up" because she lives a mile away at the bottom of the hill) Anyway, Addison is so precious and makes me laugh constantly. She is a ball of energy. I snapped this photo while she was on her belly on the couch. :) Look at those big beautiful eyes! It's hard to believe that she will be 3 months old in a few days.
Richard is off work for the next 2 days so I'm not sure how much sewing I will get done. It's funny that I don't get near as much accomplished when he is home. LOL!
Look what I accomplished yesterday!!!! It felt great to actually get something done. Sorry about the light shining through but I had it in the kitchen floor.
If you remember in my last post I just had them sewn in sets of 4.
So I just sewed together what I had cut and ended up with something like 54x70.
Then I got the big idea that I would add a narrow solid border and then use this green stripe. You know the old saying, "measure twice, cut once"....well I messed up when I was measuring, I guess and cut the border too short. :( I'll just put the borders away and use them on something else. At this point, I'm just going to call it done and throw it in the pile to be quilted. When I get ready to quilt it I will then decide if I want to add borders or just leave it "as is"
I also ended up with 7 more Windmill blocks!
I appliqued ONE Orange Peel...
...and cut out a few hexagons from the "cut-offs" around the edges of the Tumbler quilt.
I even drove Hunter to town to watch the fireworks at 10pm. Tomorrow I will probably be down all day. LOL! Richard has to work all weekend. He gets home around 8pm and is in bed by 9pm so after he went to bed Hunter and I headed to town. He seemed to enjoy watching them.
Herbs....our Thyme is sprouting! I think our basil is too. We planted these on June 30th.
That's all for now...it's 1:15am and I will be getting Richard up in a couple of hours. I think I'm going to try to go to bed for a couple of hours.
Well...here it is a little after 1am and I'm still awake. I have to get Richard up for work at 4:30am so I might as well just stay up.
Yesterday I actually did a tiny bit of sewing. These were some Windmill units that had been under my needle for what seem like forever. Also a couple of tiny 4 patches. I cut these units apart and finger pressed them.
I sewed them together and ended up with 18 more blocks. This takes me to 144 of these Windmill blocks and I need something like 528 or so.
I do believe that this is all that I had cut and ready so I grabbed some scraps and cut a few more out. These are cut from 2.5" strips. I have a few backgrounds cut but need to cut more.
While I was cutting with 2.5" strips I started cutting some Tumbler blocks. Now this is NOT anything that I plan on working on anytime soon, but a future project.
One reason that this is a future project is because I already have on that is a UFO and I need to finish it first. The reason that it's a UFO...I never was completely happy with the block size.
I have most of these sewn into units of 4. I need to just sew together what I have cut of this quilt and call it DONE!
Gardening...we've so much rain lately that my garden is a mess and I wondering if my potatoes will just rot in the ground. Richard has been working a lot and I've been down so my garden is getting neglected and overrun with weeds. I'm hoping that we can salvage part or most of it.
Speaking of growing things...my dear friend Annie sent me a few packs of herb seeds. Hunter and I planted them in pots and now he is obsessed with growing things. I think he was surprised on how fast the Cilantro sprouted. So while he was in Tractor Supply the other day he picked up these tiny pots with seeds that were one clearance. They were regular priced $4.99 and marked down to .99 each. He bought 8!!! LOL!
Hunter and Richard picked some blackberries for me.
So I taught Hunter how to bake a cobbler! He did a great job and it tasted great. I have been teaching him to cook a little lately.
That's all for now! Hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July! Richard works all weekend so we will not be doing anything special.
Here I even sewed 4 together just to see...
I ended up with 8 more Windmill blocks which brings my total to 159. I have a bunch more cut out in the colors but need to start cutting neutral pieces for it too. 
Here is my cutting progress. Several more pieces for my Windmill blocks and a bunch of pieces for my Tumbler II quilt. I forgot to take a photo of my neutrals that I cut. 
I also got to spend some time with this precious girl. :) My sister came up for a visit. (I say "come up" because she lives a mile away at the bottom of the hill) Anyway, Addison is so precious and makes me laugh constantly. She is a ball of energy. I snapped this photo while she was on her belly on the couch. :) Look at those big beautiful eyes! It's hard to believe that she will be 3 months old in a few days. 
Richard is off work for the next 2 days so I'm not sure how much sewing I will get done. It's funny that I don't get near as much accomplished when he is home. LOL!
