Update from The Studio

Two months into 2020 and the sewing machines in The Studio are a smokin!

Our little band of quilters, The Needlers, meet every Tuesday night in the Mezzanine Room of my apartment building.

We are blessed to have this room.  We can leave our projects and quilt junk...ah...stuff  all spread out while we are creating.  It is fun to get together and laugh and gossip while we sew.

We've even double-dated with Jack (the ripper).

Miss Nancy sewing away.
  Charlotte-the-Tall planning her next project.

Two of us, Miss Nancy and myself, use the room nearly every day.
Right this moment it is pretty messy as she and I both are in the middle of big projects.

My Space

Nancy's space.

We sit facing each other so we can make funny faces...

My goal for Christmas 2020 is six lap quilts for my son and his family.

And if no one in the family decides to have a baby this year, I'll make it. 

I'm well into piecing the first top.

Log Cabin using scrap strips
 Designed in EQ8* and paper pieced

Nancy is creating a queen-size quilt for her and Mr. Nancy's bed.

Kindred Pinwheel from Missouri Star.
Click HERE to watch the tutorial.

Our final member, Miss Kate, is entertaining company from out of town...her cousins, "The Marys." She is always good for a laugh and we miss her when she cannot join us.

Honorable Mention....Miss Wanda.  She has moved.  Her spot sits empty because no one can replace her. (She is close by and we do visit, but she is unable to attend Tuesday nights.)

If you don't sew with a group, it is well worth making the effort to either start one or join one.  Many quilt shops have what Orange Quilt Bee calls Fuzzy Slipper Night or Cozy Quilts' BYOP Sit-N-Sew.**  My Portland friend, Miss Susan, hosts Quilt 'til you Wilt one Thursday a month.

Sewing with a group is so much fun and truth-be-told most of us could use a little fun

(especially free-or-inexpensive fun) in our lives.

*EQ8 = Electric Quilt 8
 **Orange Quilt Bee and Cozy Quilts are both Southern California shops.