Where have I been all this time? Well, school started August 3. It's been a tough month so far. Thank goodness the NFL Football season is starting. Gives me a chance to yell and cheer and do some sewing.
When I was a kid, my Mom would go shopping or visiting friends when my Dad watched football games on TV. That also meant that I had the sewing machine to myself. So football and sewing go great together for me.
There's a new freebie at the Carol Doak Quilting Yahoo Group. The group's homepage photo shows a Halloween version. Aren't the spiderwebs great! The 17" pattern is called the Holiday Mini Challenge with evergreen trees in the corners. I was originally attracted to the red-white striped fabric that Carol Doak shows in her PDF file with the pattern.
Then I happened to see some blue-white striped fabric in Hancock Fabrics. For another project, I picked up a bolt of fabric with football players. Wandering around the store with the two bolts, I realized that they coordinated well. So I think I'll make a football-themed mini, enlarged to 34"! But I don't want trees in the corners. Maybe goalposts.
To enter the challenge, I would have to use all the different pattern pieces at least once. That means having at least one tree in the quilt. So maybe I'll make a Christmas mini also. I'll be on break again in November, so I probably have time to make both the Christmas and the football minis. Starting today!
