Current Store display

This pile of confusion are several of my projects for the store, but the one that is taking over in first place is the blue/white one. You can kind of see what I am doing if you look really close to the magazine that is underneath the fabric. Its in red and white.

I am a huge fan of chain piecing. Sometimes the piles get to large behind the machine they get pushed off the table to the floor. It's almost easier to go the other side and clip the threads between each piece, then to try to pull them up back up and over.

I read somewhere, from a quilter, that she has a complete different project that is all cut and ready to sew and she uses that as her leaders and enders. What a novel idea!!!! And Why didn't I think of it?????? So now I try to do that. Do you know how much thread you waste by using scraps??? Well I don't know either, but its a lot. So now I have a complete different project that isn't a hurry or a deep thinking one that can just mosey along at a slow pace to get done.

Here I am making a bazillion flying geese, or so it seems. The throw away tips are big enough that I always draw two lines for sewing. I sew on both of them before I trim away the throw away parts. No I don't throw them away. Are you kidding me? I have to much of the Rodeback side in me to just toss away good fabric!!!! Yes I keep them, they are HST's. Do you know how many of these that I have?? Well I don't know either, but one of these days, I will get them all out and make a VERY scrappy quilt of just HST's!

So what is WRONG with this picture? As the day went on, apparently so did I. Can you say flu? When I noticed this little woops, I decided that I really was getting sick and that I had better take something and go to bed.....for a week! Holy cow! And this is how my sewing room sat for a good week. It was soo sad that I had not even gone down to visit it for the least tiny bit. My children didn't even go down to watch my tv. Will wonders never cease?