Occupying my Sewing Room

I was able to occupy my sewing room longer today then at first thought.  We changed our errand day to next Monday and just ran a couple local errands today.  So I spent most the day working on Orca Bay Mystery.  I'm almost finished with clue no. 4 and will share photo's tomorrow evening.

Where I'm at Wednesday - Occupying my sewing room.

I posted this last wednesday for my Occupy sewing room challenge, but I haven't gotten any more done YET... Today is another day to work on it.  Anyway I want to share with everyone from Esther's groups what I've accomplished so far on Hearts Desire. 


2:30 a.m. -  Wednesday morning I awoke from a dead sleep to think I needed to cut more applique pcs.  That I forgot to mirror image the vines coming out of the basket.  Thinking that maybe the came out each side of the basket and I had only cut and ironed enough for one.

  Realizing what time it was, I  forced myself to go back to sleep and awoke again at 5am.

I went immediately into the sewing room to check out  the pattern to see if I need to cut more pcs.  

WHEW, I had done it right -- must have been having a nightmare. 

 I've been working hard in my sewing room - Honest.  But I don't have a lot of photo's to share. The process is very time consuming, moving along (it seems) at a snails pace.   Wednesday I stitched the center of the quilt to the border.  (I know the directions said to wait until the border was appliqued), but I wasn't sure how that border was going to fit, or how to miter the corners, or how the blue part of the border was going to fit....(worry, worry, worry).    

It took me most the morning to get it all fit in and stitched, but I got-er-done -- YAY!!!

  Here it is, baskets pinned- center stitched to border.

Today I continued....

Applique, pin, applique, pin... All baskets attached (not handles except one) And one vine attached.  

See the little yellow note pinned to the upper rt. corner?

It tell's me that I drew my placement design for the vines and flowers in reverse - so I need to spritz it with some water, and re-draw it on.  If I don't leave myself a note, I'll get engulfed in the applique process and totally forget.  LOL

More errands again tomorrow.  It's 50 miles to town and 50 miles back so once again I'll be gone at least half the day.  I enjoy living in a small time, but it sure can be inconvenient at times.  Seems no matter how hard I try to only go once or twice a month, something else comes up and we have to go again.  I just want to stay home and quilt!

Occupy My Sewing Room

It's Tuesday, but first, let me share what I did Monday. 

 I cut out ALL my border pcs.  And I turned the edges on the basket, flowers, and some of the leaves.

Lots of leaves still to go.

Now for what I did today.  I didn't want to get behind on Orca Bay

so today I worked on Clue no. 3 so that I made sure I stayed on track.

Over 300 HST's in black/white (neutrals).  All done, with the exception of

clipping off the rest of my dog ears.   

Now with that out of the way, I'll get back to Heart's Desire tomorrow.  

Occupy My Sewing Room

After breakfast, and household chores I occupied my sewing room by 9am this morning.  

By first break I had my Hearts Desire borders basted to the backgrounds and the edges pressed to prepare them for applique.  

I continued to work on Hearts Desire on through lunch, non stop.

All my little pcs. leaves, flowers, vines, basket parts, etc. are all traced on wax paper now and ready to be ironed onto their fabrics tomorrow.  After that I took another break (still skipping lunch) but grabbing a brownie to munch on.  I added a small dk. blue border to my Hearts Desire Center, (I think it's called a flang???).  Anyway, I quickly hung it all on the wall with a couple of my border pcs. pinned in place to get an idea on what colors I want to use in the details of the border tomorrow.

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow and adding the details to the border.  Unfortunately I have an errand to do first, which will take me at least half the day.  But I should still be able to get at least some of the detail applique pcs. cut pressed and in place on the border before end of day.

It's Occupy Your Sewing Room Time

It is occupy your sewing room week.

Check it all out over at Cat Patches.

 Prizes will be awarded and rules are posted.

I will be getting a later start today since this is my day of rest. 

I will get a few hours in after sunset and then hit it hard again tomorrow morning. 

Goodie Goodie Goodie, I can't wait to get started.  I have so much to catch up on.  

Are you occupying your sewing room this week?