A Finish...

I can cross another i-Challenge off my list.   Here is Bless Beyond Measure from Blue Ribbon Designs.    I am loving it!  This will fast become a staple to my stitching bag.    I knew all along what fabric I was going to use to line the little pocket.   Of course, in true Robin fashion, I could not find it and was growing more frustrated looking in the same places over and over again.  Did I think it was going to just appear in one of my stacks?   Anyway, I picked a second choice and proceeded with finishing and I am happy with the result.    All the while I was finishing  I knew no sooner would I be done that I would *find* the fabric I was looking for somewhere safe.  Quick kudos to Belinda at Blue Ribbon Designs for her superb finishing directions. It made it a breeze to put it together.

This is the fabric I had in my mind I would use but could not find.

Fast forward to a visit with my sister. She was showing me her queen size strip quilt that I helped her get started ---sorry, no pixs----it is beautiful!----I'll work on her getting me a pix---- anyway, there it was....scraps of my fabric sewn into her quilt! Her quilt is mainly beiges, browns, olives, blacks and whites. One piece of black had a salmony kind of flower on it. I gave her the rest of my fat quarter to help make the flower pop.....and it did. Thankfully, she had the quilt to show me or I would have spend a large portion of today looking in the same places 3, 4, 5 times knowing it was there! Haven't we all done that before?  



It is hard to get a good pix of the lucite 3 x 3 marker.



For today, I had hoped to finish the power washing on my desk but it is threatening storms so I am off to my sewing room. Oh drat, I have to sew and craft!  Darn it.  I am sew far behind on my Block of the Month club. Laugh will you! How can one get behind one silly little block a month? It is easy, trust me. I went amuck with the April block and had to start over. May is a bad crafting month since I spend 9 days away from home on two different trips. So come June 1st, I had not completed my June block. Between last weekend and this, I managed to get April reworked - both the class block and my 'sister' block.

My sister block in Civil War fabrics

April's class block

May's class block

    And am in the process of putting together my May blocks - both the class and mine.  .....then on to June's block(s)!