Clayton's Scrub Stitchin'

 Last weekend I was at our little retreat, this week the Australia ladies are at their retreat, a big one.  Because so many of us won't be joining them Susan organized a "wish we were there" stitching week/weekend.  She's calling it Clayton's Scrub Stitchin'.  We are to kind of tell what we are going to work on, like if we packed it to bring to the real Scrub Stitchin' but it really means just do our own thing and post as we go along.  

A couple of things I'm hoping to accomplish require the machine.

I'm not used to cat help. We were fur babysitting and Hobbes decided to be a helper.

First thing on my list I was hoping, without Hobbes' help,  to get the side borders on the Little Woman dish towel project as my first project.  I am  completely making this up as I go along but I like the colors so far.  The sides are nine patch and the top and bottom are something else. Not sure how far I will take this but definitely iron it, measure and keep going. 

The Liberty circles are a definite.  The tin is full of finished circles on four inch backgrounds.  I have no idea how many I've made but am sure when I lay them out this will be as big as a Bedoin tent. 

There are only about 20 left.  Maybe less.  You know how it is when you count and the number never seems to change.  So I'm not counting.  I'm just plugging away, getting maybe ten done in a night. But this is the last of them.

I found this in a basket and all it needed was a binding. So here it is waiting to be sewn down.  This was a sew along at some point in the long distant past.

Decades ago Friend Marilyn and I took a class with Sue Spargo.  Marilyn got so much further than I did and I found this in the few things I sorted through the unfinished projects that she had left. I'm going to do what I am doing with all orphans lately.  It's going to be a pillow.  This isn't completely finished with all the embellishments and beads and embroidery but it's good enough and I'm not going to take it any further.  I don't even know where mine went.

If I get the Liberty circles done I'll fiddle with the peasant ladies.  I cut out the circles for faces and Adelaide drew on the eyes.  She said she liked how their dresses aren't all matchy matchy.  I am making this up as I go along, too. 

So, that's my retreat pile for Susan' play along.  When I finish those Liberty circles you'll be able to hear me cheer from wherever you are.  

No books today because the kids are on spring break from school.