BUT I've been busy despite it all. mom's kaffe quilt is nearly pieced together. all the rows are sewn and half of those are sewn together. somehow, they got out of order when I started putting the quilt top together and now i'm putting that puzzle back together in a new order. the next QOV is in a box and being shipped out to the navy yard this afternoon (no pic of it finished, sorry).
I did finish this awesome dress this week:
it looks better on than on the hanger. fits really well and hugs in all the right places. the now-ex-boyfriend and I had lunch yesterday so he could see the dress finished... he said it was cute. ugh. it's NOT cute. it's sophisticated in the cut and pattern, with whimsy in the fabric print on bottom. the top is a great linen and it's more rust red than the red it shows in the photo. of course, in typical man he backtracked to say other things later about how I looked like a beautiful woman who knows how to have fun. why couldn't that be the first thing instead of "cute" as a description? oh well.
next up on the sewing table are a christmas present quilt for a salsero friend. he's been there through thick and thin and deserves it. plus, in the winter, he buries himself in all my quilts on my sofa as it is so he should have one of his own. the squares were cut when I started the kaffe quilt, now the triangles were cut and i'm laying out each block separately. then I've got to start cutting a new dress pattern that will transition from summer to fall with some gorgeous bright emerald linen I bought with a birthday gift card from one of my favorite geocaching friends earlier this month.
