It is starting to look like a quilt

These little satellites take some time to do. Today I got a tutorial for postcards half done-should complete it Sunday.  That took some time to do-just thinking it through step by step took awhile-especially since I do them several different ways.  It is a good exercise.  I just walked into my studio and my Lizzy was contendedly chewing on my Ramona landscape postcard.  I rescued it out of her little jaws just in time.  Don't know how she got it.   Then I went to work on the paperpiecing-only 2 done but that is 2 more than I had done yesterday.

I spent about an hour pruning rose bushes (that should have been pruned last month) and it felt good to spend some time outside (other than my swim this morning).  So, all in all, a productive day!

A galazy appearing

Glad I took a picture-I notice that I forgot a piece on the bottom left pie slice:)

Beauty and Check Workshop

Spent a lovely day yesterday at Bits and Pieces in Poway.  Janice Ellertson was teaching paper piecing using stabilizer that doesn't wash out and that you can't feel once the quilt is done.  I have done minimal paper piecing so the skill building was great.  Janice is a wonderful teacher.  The only negative was the fact that although B and P is a lovely store it is in an industrial building with no air or heat.  I was freezing.  I will bring my own space heater if I ever take a class there again.  Fabrics are Kaffee Fassett, batiks, a touch of black and white and the background is Laurel Burch.  I think it will look a bit like a galaxy.  There are 24 blocks in all.  I finished the pieces (without background sewn on or corners added) for 2.  I think the rest will go faster now that I know the process.  I signed up for the class 6 months ago and was not disappointed.  Janice works at Cozy Quilt Shop in El Cajon and has won several dress making competitions (Bernina/Hoffman) and the outfits she made were pretty incredible.  She would be a wonderful speaker for your guild. A thoroughly enjoyable day!