Some quilting, some sewing

It's been over a month since I last wrote about my anvil quilt project and I only have gotten four blocks quilted and bound since then, but at least I am still making progress and after attending the Mark Lipinski lecture on the slow stitching movement the other night, a project that again involves devoting 20 minutes a day to a quilt project, I hope to soon have even more to report.

In the meantime, here's a shot of the three finished blocks that are already on my wall with the fourth block that I completed this morning soon to be added:

I have been doing a bit of clothes sewing, too, trying to make a few things to wear now that I can finally shed the polar fleece garments that always cover me head to to during our cold winter months.

My sewing guild's challenge for the month of March was to make something from our stash, an approach to sewing projects that I have been using for some time now since I have SO much fabric to use up, and my garment for March was the Little Somethin jacket that I began (from stash fabric!) ages ago but didn't finish since I didn't like the way it fit. I removed quite a bit of fabric from the side seams and center front and now think it's something I can wear, even though still not a garment I'm all that crazy about, but at least it's done!

I also made a machine embroidered wedding sampler as a shower gift this month and a Peony vest from a Sewing Workshop pattern that I purchased in 2005 since I was taking a class with Linda Lee at the Worcester MA Expo last week, but I don't yet have a photo of that. To be continued...