Fiesta BOM – Block 6

 

Still sick and by now tired of being sick and the cortisone I have to inhale twice daily is not doing much to make me feel any better.  However I managed to put a huge pot of vegetable soup on the stove this morning and traced and cut these little tiny appliqué shapes in bed.

With the family fed; I got up to iron the shapes to the block 6 background and now I am up to date with this BOM by Fatcatpatterns.

Fiesta BOM – Border Blocks

It has been a bitterly cold and unusual wet week in our dear central South Africa and to top it all I’ve been as sick as a dog, still left with not much of a voice; so what was a girl to do?

Just as the rest of the creatures in the house I found myself a cozy spot and started working on the appliqué border blocks of the Fiesta BOM by Fatcatpatterns. 

It took me what seems to be forever to trace and cut the heaps of tiny appliqué shapes in fact I ended up with dish-loads full of them.

Tonight however I ironed on the very last piece to have 14 identical border blocks done.  Okay, so all the shapes are only ironed down and I still need to stitch all of these but I figured it would be better to finish all the blocks first and then start the stitching as then I can do all the navy pieces whilst having navy thread on the machine and so forth.

Still rather chuffed with my accomplishment thus far.

Fiesta BOM – Block 5

Ha!... if you’re good, you’re good!  Done with block 5 of my Fatcatpatterns BOM Fiesta and up to date.  That while taking care of my 82-year-old mom who moved in with us about a month ago and having my 80-year old mother-in-law visiting and having friends over for dinner tonight. 

Okay, closer to the truth is that I had to finish block 5 in order to have a table to serve dinner on, so I stepped it up a notch and got done.

I now work in my entertainment-/classroom as my sewing room is halfway between the room my  mom stays in and her bathroom.  I thought it was brilliant as this way I could hear her and see her movements however this plan backfired soon.  My mom has very little memory left, so there I would be sitting in my sewing room, working on notes for a class when in she’d come with a “what are you doing?  Quickly scratch my back.” and off to the bathroom she goes to return a minute or so later, peeking in the door, repeating “what are you doing? Quickly scratch my back.”  I nearly went insane but realized only I could do something about it.

So apart from rubbing her from top to toe with virgin olive oil (for possible itching) after every shower I moved out of my sewing room and both of these seem to work.  Mom isn’t itching anymore but I am almost too scared to move back to my sewing room for even only the “what are you doing?” halfway through a sentence being typed would still drive me nuts.

Fiesta BOM – Block 4

We had a bitterly cold day in sunny South Africa but after running the early morning errands fellow quilter, Rina van Straten, came over to see if we can’t quilt the cold away.

She did free motion quilting while I kept cutting away my appliqué shapes for the fourth Fiesta BOM from Fatcatpatterns.  Unfortunately not even after having pancake could we get rid of the cold but at least we got some quilting done.

Fiesta BOM - Block 3

Having such a wonderful time doing appliqué while watching the French Open tennis on television.  With this block I simply traced, cut and ironed on while watching one match after the other and before I knew it the whole block was done.

Switched on my main computer now – I keep my downloads on there – to see how many blocks still to make before I catch up.  Luckily I don’t have any groups or classes to teach this week, so I might just get updated with this BOM from Fatcatpatterns.