So many hobbies!

Pillowcases

I was between projects tonight.  The fabric I ordered didn't come today so I couldn't finish the last two squares in my Halloween quilt.  The thought of just sitting and watching TV tonight was not a good one.  So what to do?  Then it hit me:  pillowcases to match my green and purple quilt.  Woot!

 

I used Kona muslin for the body of the case and had enough left over quilt fabric to make the edging and piping.  Kona muslin is thicker than regular muslin and is nice and smooth.  Should make it feel nice against my face.

 

I'd been thinking about my sheets and how none of them match the quilt.  The quilt isn't big enough to tuck over the pillows so this solves the problem nicely.  Heck, I might make matching pillowcases for all my quilts. 

 

These were fun to make and only took a couple of hours for the both. They'd make great Christmas presents.  Hmmm...

It's a beautiful thing

Taking a day off, that is.  The weather was nice, I got a haircut and I made big progress on my Halloween quilt.  Unfortunately, I also made mistakes and had to order more of some of the fabric.  You know that old saying "Measure twice, cut once?"  Well, an equally good one is "Don't cut fabric when you're tired."  <sigh>  Despite my miscuts, the quilt is coming along nicely:

 

Each of these squares has a twin making the total number of finished squares at 28 out of 36.  I'm still afraid it's going to be too busy but I'm holding my final judgement until the quilt is sewn, quilted and bound.

While I was quilting yesterday, Galen was auditioning sleeping poses:

 

 

He was very thorough.

Best laid plans...

Instead of freezing apples and making pumpkin butter, I spent most of my weekend with a girlfriend and my sister.  Much better than spending the weekend in solitary confinement in my condo.  Saturday morning I helped a girlfriend measure and cut fabric for some quilts she's making and in the afternoon, my sister and I went to Craft 2000.  Craft 2000 has EVERYTHING you might possibly need for any kind of crafty pursuit.  Oh, before Craft 2000, I picked up the solid fabrics I needed for my Halloween quilt:

 

I'm not too sure about the orangey one on the top right.  The one on the bottom right is actually a light gray but for some reason, it photographed blue.  I really need to take a class in photography.

One of my previous incarnations saw me doing rubber stamping, card making and altering books.  I got rid of nearly all my stuff for those hobbies a few months ago and I picked up just a few things at Craft 2000 for an altered book I hadn't finished.  Saturday night, I finally finished the book.  The last few pages aren't as elaborate as the earlier ones but I'm pleased with them all the same.  These are my favorite pages/spreads:

 

 

 

The cats spent their weekend doing pretty much what you'd expect them to: