Bits and bobs...

I noticed there were lots of photos in my "for blog" file that just never made it into a post...hence my title - "bits and bobs."  (One of those British expressions that I love!)

A new cork board for my sewing room and a block I've been playing with...

My quilting buddies celebrated my birthday a few weeks late...I had a birth-month this year!

220 charm squares in a bowl!

Each of them cut 55 6-1/2 inch blocks for me!  I have quite a pile now!

My sister Mary Ellen sent me this precious wall hanging for my new sewing room...

and her husband Dave turned this bowl out of Maple.

 They also sent hot-dog rolls...the New England kind!  (flat on each side...)

Still working on my dragonfly "portraits"...

I may have to break down and get the baking pan from King Arthur Flour so I can just bake my own...for whatever reason you can't find this kind here in the South and lobster or chicken salad rolls just aren't the same if the roll isn't buttered and grilled!  Now I'm hungry!  

Light at the end of the sewing room...

I got a few comments wondering why there were no "before" photos of the sewing room...basically there was so much stuff it was difficult to get a photo.

Now that 80% of the material, boxes and bags are out of the room this is what it looks like.  The new room will be almost twice the size.  Furniture will fit much better!

Today I started on the closet.  Surprised how fast that went.  Most of the boxes and baskets contained either UFO's or projects.  Like this basket...

it has the pattern and fabrics all in one place and has so since about the year 2000!

So I made the tough call...I'm never going to make this!  I still like the pattern and the fabric...it just isn't going to ever make it to the list...so the strips went into the 1-1/2 inch strip box and the pattern into the donation box.

which left me with an empty basket to use when we reload the sewing studio!

I also found a bit of repro fabric I thought long gone...this is one of my favorites the Cobb Quilt collection from the Smithsonian (sometime in the early 1990's)

On the building front...the county inspector came by today and it passed the first inspection!  Phew....tomorrow they can lay the foundation....