A post for August

 How sad it would be to let this month get away from me without atleast posting ONCE !  

  I kindof lost my sewing mojo for a little bit, just not feeling the usual energy, but I did get a small top pieced, and another one pieced AND quilted and bound !

 

This one is taking it's time telling me what kind of border it wants, IF ANY.  So it is on hold for now.

 

Of course, the photos didn't come out in the order that I wanted, and I no longer see the option to delete one and add it back.

However, with this little one, I finished the binding last night, and washed and dried it today.  A you-tuber that I watch mentioned a stitch-along that she was interested in, and I took the idea and ran with it.   It's small, 36 inches square, but it was a fun distraction.  I machine-quilted near the seams within the colored squares, (2 inch finished squares), and hand/big-stitched with embroidery floss inside the white four-patches.  The most fun was making a binding to sortof complement each colored section around the outside edges.   The backing fabric was not chosen until I had pieced the top, and it's amazing how the colors go perfectly with the piecing.
 

The binding fabric is a favorite from Connecting Threads.  Sadly, it's made with a very loosely woven griege goods, causing it to ravel terribly, but it gives such a wonderful look when cut along the stripe.

 And, NOW, just because I'm between projects again, and still hankering to play with fabric, I took the triangle cutoffs from making bias seams in the binding, mixed them with some scraps from a friend, and made myself another potholder/plate holder.  It was a good chance to practice some free-motion quilting.  Obviously it's been WAY TOO LONG since I've done any !  But I now have a fun daily reminder of quilting time.