Quilted Mat Sew A Long with Sew Delicious {Part 2}

Today Ros shared how to baste and quilt our mats.

I skipped ahead and did this yesterday...

I had a bit of 'spare time' so thought I might as well get cracking on it!

Next up is binding! 

And I just had to share this photo of Sophie. She was looking right at me so I grabbed the camera and every time I went to take a photo the cheeky thing looked away. I swear she has more attitude than a teenager! 

Are you taking part in the mat sew a long?

Because I don't already have enough projects on the go...

Yes, that's a long title. But it was the only thing in my head when I started writing this post.

This morning I managed to fit in a bit of sewing and instead of finishing something I have already started I decided to start something new...

In my defense I have been hanging on to these charm squares of Dream On for a long long time. I love them so so much.

Well anyway I decided to make quilt out of them, maybe a lap sized one, maybe bigger. I haven't actually done the math yet...

It is just going to be a simple coin quilt with white sashing and borders.

I've cut up 3 charm packs so far and started sewing the rectangles together. I do have another charm pack sitting there tempting be to cut it up too.

Let's see how long this project takes to finish...

I promise that I will be finishing one quilt on the weekend. I have everything ready to finish it. I just want to wait until I have a large block of time available to do it.

So how many unfinished projects to you have at the moment??

Quilted Mat Sew A Long with Sew Delicious

This week I am taking part in the Quilted Mat Sew A Long with Ros of Sew Delicious. It is a quick and easy sew a long and I just couldn't say no.

Today is day one and the task was to create the top.

I choose some Hullabaloo charms and away I went.

I had a visitor watching my every move...

And then it was done! And in less than 20 minutes too.

On Wednesday I'll be basting and quilting it. So I'll see you back here then, okay?

Weekending

Well it feels like we packed about two weekends worth of activities into one and I am beat!

We thought it would be a great idea to head to the coast for the day on Saturday as we needed to do some shopping. It's 4 hours each way! But we have no shops here and Caden needed some warmer clothes and we needed some other stuff too. I have been writing a shopping list for the last two months for the trip...

 We passed and got stuck behind a heap of oversize loads!

 We enjoyed some of the scenery! Please excuse the photo's from my phone... I forgot my camera!

We shopped up a storm! 2 and a half trolleys at K-Mart to be exact! K-Mart was really the only store in the town we visited. There isn't much in the way of retail options up this way. But those 2 and a half trolleys contained a load of boring stuff like darker coloured sheets, because the red dirt up here was ruining my beautiful white sheets and quilt covers. A new bin for the kitchen, storage stuff, and warmer clothes for the kids. All things that we can't get here.

And a few hours later we turned around and drove the 4 hours home! Man we were beat.

But then we were up early Sunday morning for Caden's first ever game of soccer.

And then B had an AFL game in the afternoon, if you knew him you would know just how funny that is! He is a Rugby League man through and through and has no idea how to play AFL, but there is no Rugby League here and he has to play something so in all his wisdom he decided to give AFL a go!

I didn't get to watch him though as Ethan was in need of a sleep. Maybe next week.

What did you get up to on the weekend?