A few posts ago I said that I'd get a circle finished to show you. Well, it's not quite finished, I just have to sew the center hexagon down. This is my first almost finished circle from Chris Jurd's Lots of Dots quilt pattern.
I really love doing these trickier blocks but there's a reason I shouldn't attempt them after a long work day. Wanting my points to match up I carefully pinned, over pinned in fact, just to make sure it would all line up perfectly. I carefully stitched, opened it up and ...
Hmph, I stormed off in a huff that night!

I've been working extra long hours and I'm finding it best to stick with easy repetitive projects, cutting, sewing, trimming. Easy tasks to pick up when I have 5 minutes here and there, or I'm too tired to think. Hence my half square triangle quilt using Erin McMorris's Summersalt range. I just love these fabrics, such fun happy prints. I've used 5 different brands of hot pink solids so the pink wouldn't look too flat. These blocks aren't sewn together yet. I just put them onto the design wall to share with you.


This next photo is for Regan of Floating on a Quilted Cloud. A zucchini cake with yummy lemon icing baked especially for you!! I was a bit worried that it would go rotten in the post so I ate it. No need to thank me, that's what friends are for. I munched away on it while I read your wonderful post about the Maine State Quilt show.

Here's a fabric Pom Pom I made a few years ago. I was inspired to get it out and dust it off after seeing some pretty pom poms over at Leila's blog Where the Orchids Grow.
And this is for Melissa of 100 Billion Stars who liked the fact I chose a fabric because it had donkeys on it.
In fact I have a bit of a thing for donkeys. This is a vintage tea towel that hangs in my sewing room.
Isn't she the sweetest donkey you ever did see? Can you guess her name? Yes, it's Daisy. Not the Daisy I'm named after, Daisy was my beautiful little dog of years ago. That was Daisy Dog, this is Daisy Donkey. We sound like characters in a book don't we.

...And so Rachaeldaisy and her trusty sidekick Daisy Donkey went off into the sunset sewing room to trim a mountain of HSTs. And a happy time was had by all.

Cheerio