A Sewing Weekend

I am pretty much done with what little I do for Christmas so I have just been sewing this weekend. I was working on Ode to the 30's that I showed in a previous post, but I'm fickle and ended up putting it in it's project bin for now so I could work on a quilt that I really, really, really need hanging in my sewing room. I started working on Quilt Diva. What a fun quilt. It's like playing paper dolls. I am really enjoying using stuff out of my stash and FOUR scrap bins. The wilder the better on this one. My friend Nancy has this quilt finished and hanging in her sewing room, she gave me a bunch of her scraps too. Here are a couple of pictures of what I have so far.
Here is her head so far. I love her glasses. Well heck I love everything about her.

Here she is on her background. I haven't fused her down yet, I have to finish all the parts before I do that. I am still kind of a novice at machine applique, but I'm getting better, practice makes perfect. I'm told I need to get either a Bernina or a Janome if I want a nice buttonhole stitch. I might just have to look into that one of these days. For now, my cheapy Brother serves the purpose.

Well back to playing!