Getting things "ready"......

Yesterday I spent a lot of time getting a few projects "ready"..........no pictures but here is a listing of what I accomplished:

I cut the new fabrics I showed you yesterday into pieces to make a wall-hanging using a pattern in the Weekend Quilts book (by Judy Laquidara) and put them into a baggie...all ready for me to sit down at my machine and make the 9 blocks for the wall-hanging.

I cut about 1/2 of the strips I'll need for a black / white/ red pineapple quilt that will be themed for next year's Valentines Day. I put them in a baggie and labeled it so I won't accidentally use the fabric for something else (or forget why I cut them). I won't start that for awhile yet.

I sandwiched and pin-basted the "spider web" table topper I showed a week or two back. I'm going to hand-quilt it in an echo pattern as so many of you suggested. I'll work on that a bit this weekend while watching TV.

I cut the binding strips for the quilt top I picked up on Thursday from the long-armer......hope to get that binding onto the quilt over the weekend. (I still do the back of the binding by hand....and actually find it relaxing!)

I prepped that darned Texas Rose block that gave me trouble on my green, no-sew block swap and think I can get it done right now that Kathy helped me with it. (We discovered that my printer did not print the templates the correct size....so I was trying to get 4 too-small pieces (made with the templates) to fit together with several other pieces that were the correct size....didn't quite work in spite of me trying it 5 times and ripping it apart each time! (Edited to add: I must have a mental block with this one....can't get it....have to switch to a different pattern and use it with the fabric that was sent for this one....sorry, Barb!)

I cut some sashing strips for the blocks I made from the green, no-sew-block swap....and also some cornerstones for it. I can start to join the blocks together soon.

I got the green pineapple block I showed here recently ready to sew it's sashing and corner setting triangles onto it so I can turn it into a little wall-hanging for my living room.

The doctor for whom I do medical typing since my retirement from teaching is on vacation for the next two weeks, so I should be able to do more sewing AND, hopefully, get my sewing room back in shape as it is a MESS right now. *sigh* I like to have several projects in a "ready" stage so I can pick them up when I have little blocks of time. Also, I like to have a variety of projects going at once as I get bored doing just one......someone told me that is typical of people who are Gemini (which I am). LOL I'm really happy to have so many projects at a "readiness" stage for me to work on them easily now.