I Like Thursday #173

It's time for I Like Thursday! Please visit LeeAnna over at Not Afraid of Color to read more like minded posts. I have a few finishes to show you this week. I finished my Kaffe Scrap Pin Cushion. I filled it this morning with crushed walnut shells. I like them when they're nice and pudgy! It measures about 5 inches square. 

I quilted this yesterday on the longarm. It's small and I was unsure whether I should even try using the longarm but it was fine. It was quick and a lot easier to outline those small pieces with a ruler. I stippled the background and made wishbones in the border. I sewed down the border while watching the Chicago shows last night. 

I'm still not done this darn block! I'm in the process of sewing those big buds between the stems. These pieces are on the large size and move around too easily. I use scotch tape to hold them down. I don't like to use pins since I feel they alter the background. They makes things lumpy. The tape holds everything down nice and flat and I remove it as I sew along.

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Our prompt this week was calendars you like to use. These are the 2 calendars I'm using this year. The top one was a Christmas gift from my friend, Sarah. We're both cat lovers. It's hanging in my sewing room. The bottom one is from my mother. She knows I love cats and couldn't pass it by! I have it on my refrigerator. I usually write appointments on the bottom calendar so I can see what I have coming up. It's easy to see since I walk by it all the time.

I'm so late today. I was sewing a binding on a quilt and I knocked off a thread cutter. I had no idea where it came from. I ended up getting the manual and looking for it. I tried to google it but nothing helped me. I finally found it and put it back in but it took forever. Ugh.

Have a great weekend! It's snowing here but it's all supposed to turn to rain. (I hope!)