Sew day!

I am working on 2 "Quilts of Valor" and my work allows me 2 days per year to work on them as Community Service - so yesterday was one of them.  And here are photos of my work below.  I was putting together squares I had done in 2012 and got all the sashing, cornerstones & border chosen and cut out and got perhaps half-done with sewing them together.

This is my beloved Singer 301 and my sew-day caddy in blacks & whites.

The top is starting to come together!

Wabash Valley Quilt Shop Block of the Month 2014

I am making 2 version of each month's block.  They are 9" blocks.  Here are January's...

 And here are February's.....

First block of Barbara Brackman's Block-of-the-Month

This is called the Portsmouth Star.  I had such fun selecting the fabrics and making this block!

Putting together my Barbara Brackman Civil War blocks

The first 4 rows.

Progress! Hearts & Apron Strings

These rounds of churn dashes & butterflies has been sitting about all done but for 9 of them since 2012 sometime, maybe even longer.   Thanks to a sew day and happy news medically, I finished them off and got it all sewn together.   Now on to the 56 T's!

Utaupia - nearly finished when...

...my arms gave out.  I stressed them too much doing the outer machine quilting and binding all in one evening.   I got through one and one-half sides of the binding and had to stop.  My arms are badly stressed and ALL sewing and quilting is on hold.
After taking these two pictures I had to put it away so I would not be tempted to sew on it.  At least I can look at on the blog for now....

Another purse made!