WIPs With Friends

I seem to always be posting my first post of the week on Wednesdays! 

 It is very difficult to find time to sew right now though.  

We are in FULL wedding prep mode lately.  

Seems like my entire weekend was taken up with shopping for things that are wedding related.  

The shower is planned and invites are sent out.  

I had a friend help me with a poster of a haunted house scene 

that people can stand in front of and take pictures.  

I bought some mini wine bottles to check label size for wedding favors.  

Of course I had to sample the wine and see which one I like the best.  

Now I need to go and order a LOT of those.  

My friend, Robin, is a graphic artist and she will help me make the wine bottle labels. 

 I have gathered all the dead flowers and need to spray paint those and make the table centerpieces. 

 I guess this whole Hallowedding is part of my weekly WIP right now, LOL.

On to my quilty progress though.  

I did manage to get a few things sewn ( this witches broom) and made progress on my BIG bat.

I managed to finish an entire half of this bat!  Now I want to have time to finish the other half!!

Isn't he GREAT??  I love this pattern!  The big one has been the easiest one so far.  

After him I have 2 more new to me techniques that I am nervous about doing.  

One involves curved piecing and the other one is EPP, YIKES!

I am linking up with Le't's Bee Social too.

What are you working on?  Time for you to share with all of us.

Since no one is linking up, do you want me to stop this?

~XOP~

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Finish It Friday

Its FRIDAY!!!  I hope you all had a great short work week and first day of school.  

I don't have littles in school any longer but I still enjoy "back to school" time.  

I especially love that it signals apple orchard time!  

Honeycrisp should be available soon, YAY!!!

Now to what you and I have been finishing.  

Hmmmm, it has not been much of a finish kinda week at my place.  How about at yours?

I did manage to finish one more block for my Hallowedding quilt.  

The medium sized bat block!

The pattern is called Midnight Bite and this one was soooo much easier than the smaller one.

This was the half way point, phew!

Finally all finished!  

Now just the large one to work on.  

So while it is technically not an entire finish, it is one block closer.

I am not going to do a linky as no one seemed to link up anyway.

Let me know if this is something you want me to continue.

I will link up to Crazy Mom Quilts Finish It Up Friday.

What have you managed to finish this week?

~XOP~

WIPs With Friends

How is it Wednesday already?  

I don't know about you guys but this WIPs with friends keeps me sewing during the week.  

I need something to be able to show here right? 

 I have continued to work on the Hallowedding blocks.  

I have 2 more blocks done!

First up is the potion bottle

Over the weekend I managed to get half of a bat completed.

I finished the bat on Monday.  

This one is 6" x 12".  It is from the Midnight Bite pattern by Lillyella.  

You can find it in her Craftsy shop, or on her blog or ETSY, or her Payhip here.  

This is the small bat. 

 I still need to make the medium and the large ones.  

I did manage to get my Bee blocks completed also.

 Autumn had to test them out and contribute her fur.

She has found a teeny bit of empty space in one of the IKEA cubbies full of fabric and decided that was a fine place to take a cat nap!

The only problem after all that sewing (especially the paper piecing) is that it kills my wrist. 

 I think it is all the trimming. 

 Holding the ruler with my left hand just sends my wrist into so much pain.  Ice seems to help though.

I am linking up with Let's Bee Social over at Sew Fresh Quilts too.

OK so now it is your turn.  Link up what you have been working on so we can all see.

~XOP~

You've heard of Words With Friends?  This is WIPs With Friends.

Add your latest WIP to the link up.

Then visit the person next to you in the link up and leave a comment.

We all love comments!

You will inspire and be inspired and maybe make a new friend.

I can't wait to see what you are up to!

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