Tea Party Day....

Here's a picture of the table all set for our first Wednesday of the month Tea Party. We had a wonderful time today! We got to see some great projects that people were working on. And plenty of goodies for all of us, besides the tea. Jan is working on an applique project and I have been playing with a hand stitching project that was something we saw at Quilt Market - the Double Stitch or Promise Stitch. I'm pretty slow at it, but it's fun. Several others had embroidery or hand stitching too. Tracey is almost done with her Wildberry Vines quilt done in our favorite Kansas Troubles fabric. It is beautiful! Harriet brought one of the retro kids' aprons she has finished - lucky gal has four granddaughters to sew for! You'll have to stop in and see it. And she's been working on some laundry bags for us out of the new colors of mesh we've gotten.

Another exciting thing happened today! Nikki brought back our Block of the Month quilt, "Ode to 1930's"....her quilting is exquisite. We'll be kitting the first month's blocks and getting the info out there soon. We'll begin the week of Shop Hop, with an optional class/help/demo on the 4th Saturday morning of every month, beginning in July.

After the Tea Party (and the dishes!), I started working some more on getting the top done from our first Stashbuster last year. I'm hoping to get it done (just the top) and the pattern ready and printed for Shop Hop. You can see it in the background of the Tea Party table.

Well, that's about it from here at Fab-Etc. We did get a bright Christmas group in today, but to be honest with you, it was so busy, I didn't even get a chance to really look at it! Maybe tomorrow? Well, you guessed it - have to run and catch the dryer! Of course the linens from the Tea needed to be laundered! More later this week. Did you notice, it finally stopped raining? Hooray!!!