Tales from a slacker

My title pretty much sums up my last month. During the workday, I look longingly at my sewing machine and never make my way back after dinner. My days off, I couldn't get my butt up to my sewing room. This week has been the exception....

My husband put a project on my plate (probably to motivate me). I'd post more but it's a gift and he keeps telling people to check my blog. With my luck that one person would see the post. He even bought a fat quarter bundle online last week which arrived Thursday.  The fabric is bit dark so on Saturday afternoon I bought some orange for the background to brighten it up. Again, this quilt has stars (not really a big surprise I love stars!).

Also getting me going was starting an fmq sampler. A few months ago I joined the facebook sit down free motion quilters group, I hadn't done any of the exercises but enjoyed looking at what everyone posts. A bunch of new followers got together to do the sampler that was first released when the group was created. This all happened Tuesday and I responded I'd do it as well, I check the post around 8pm Wednesday and apparently it started that day. I got my whole clothcut sandwiched, printed off the work sheets to build muscle memory and worked those for a few days. I finally got ready on Saturday and I'm pretty pleased how it turned out. A bit shakey in areas and some holes but overall not bad for my first attempt. More importantly I'm looking forward to the next lesson!

Lastly, just a quick kid brag moment. My youngest graduates from high school at the end of June. She finished her self directed classes early so she has 2 spares out of 4 classes for the rest of this semester. Long story short she asked the art teacher if she could do a painting just to burn time until her last class of the day started. To the left is the result of that few hours.