June Sew Day

Saturday found the 3 D's, Deb, Debbie and Me, along with Pam gathered once again around the table in Livermore for our Sew Day. Holly and Alex were off on adventures of their own this month.

This month Pam was in charge of the munchie/finger foods. For lunch Deb made a fantastic taco salad and Debbie put together a fresh fruit salad. No lunch pictures to share though - apparently we were much to ravenous to stop for photos.

I shared The Pioneer Woman's apple dumplings for dessert and managed to document them before they too became history.

Here's where we get down to business, but it looks like we're probably off eating again.

Pam came prepared to demonstrate machine applique and had a kit for each of us ready to work on. Since I came with hand work and left the machine at home, looks like I have some homework to do.

Here's Deb. I think she's mildly amused at the fact that I can't count. (Note to self - when asked to pick a number between 1-25, 34 probably isn't a good choice)

Debbie is contemplating the possibility of tossing her machine through the window after dealing with some icky tension issues. Nothing we tried was helping and the window was beginning to look like a viable option. Fortunately cooler heads prevailed.

Pam entertained us with stories from Quilt Market and her attempt to create a rose with the Clover template? tool? thing? Whatever it's called I think it's pretty safe to say we probably won't be seeing any of these roses in future projects.

This month I cut fabric and did some prep work for the June installement of "Stars for a New Day" block of of the month offered to members of The Quilt Show and continued the embroidery embellishment on block 6 of Sue Garman's "Night Before Christmas" quilt.

Our Saturday Sew Days have become a welcome break in my schedule, particularly ones like today where it seems there is more talking and eating going on than sewing. It's good to spend time with friends.

Deanna

Saturday Sew Day

Saturday was spent with like-minded friends for a sew day. Debbie offered her home, Dan made sure we wouldn't go hungry, Deb drove the furthest and entertained us with critter stories and Pam kept us all smiling with her camera clicking! Alex showed up just in time for lunch and then off again to pack for Asilomar.


I used the time to start putting the pieces together for the Chelsea Cottage quilt many of us came home with after AAQR last year.


Monday I spent part of the day using a friends longarm to quilt a few comfort quilts for parents of fellow quilter/friends. One pass with yucky tension and an even yuckier thread choice and it came off the machine to be unsewed. Sigh.

Then it was off to spend a couple hours with 60+ of my favorite Girl Scouts as they are in the final stages of planning a day long event for Daisy's & Brownies. It was one of our better gatherings and lot was accomplished, but you know what they say . . . It's all fun and games until someone pulls the fire alarm. At least we now know the answer to the age old question of how many firemen does it take to check a pulled alarm. They even made us promise we wouldn't hurt any of the girls before they left.

That brings me up to date and now I'm off to spend some more time unsewing so I can start it all over again tomorrow.

Deanna