A little bit of this, a little of that

Last night was my first Friday Night Sew-In. Yay!

I started out my stitchin' evening around 7:00 p.m. with the September pincushion from the Shabby Fabrics Pincushion Club.


I managed to complete all of the sewing. I was a little bummed that all of the final, finishing steps involved fabric glue. As I had no fabric glue on hand, I was unable to finish it. But, it will be ready to go once I get some glue!


Next up was the October pincushion. I got the initial piecing done and traced all of the embroidery designs-- so it will be ready to go when I'm ready for some handwork. (This one is gonna be super cute, I think!)


Then I moved on to some pajamas for Big Bear for Christmas. I managed to trace the pattern and get all of the pieces cut. At the same time, I also cut out another Christmas gift item (that will have to remain a mystery for now) and even got it all sewn up.


Since I can't share a picture of the completed project just yet, here's a picture of my trusty scalpel-like seam ripper which saw way more than its fair-share of use last night. Sigh... two long stitched and serged (4-thread overlock, no less) seams. For I bit, I was feeling like I was spending more time unsewing than actual sewing. But I did finish (eventually!). That's what I get for sewing so late at night!

It was 1:45 a.m. when I finally closed up the quilt mines. I admit that I wasn't working that entire time (had to stop for some snack-and-stretch breaks!). But it was still a fun and productive evening!

Friday Night Sew-In!

I've seen this button floating about the blogosphere for awhile and have finally decided to give it a go myself:


Tonight is Friday Night Sew0-In time! Once a month, Handmade by Heidi hosts a virtual get together wherein participants all set aside their Friday night to sew. So my plan is that I shall focus myself in my quilty cave with my sewing machine this evening and see how much I can get done. The husband has even agreed to take charge of boy duty! Woo!

I have lots of things to choose from in terms of stuff-to-do, but here is my kinda-sorta priority list:

• Pincushion(s)-- I've got some catchin' up to do with my Pincushion Club from Shabby Fabrics;
• Pajamas for Big Bear;
• Quilting on the "Prairie Pinwheels" quilt (someday I will finish it!);
• Other????

Those should keep me plenty busy and offer some good variety. And tomorrow I'll post about what I managed to accomplish. We'll see how it goes! :)