BACKING MADE

 I spent most of the day making the label and backing for the Out of Africa quilt.  I used fabrics from my stash and almost all of the scraps from the front.  

SCRAP PLAY WORKSHOP

 I attended Sherri Lynn Wood's annual First Saturday of the Year Improv  Scrap Play Workshop on Saturday.  We were making 9-patch blocks.  I made a few during the workshop, one with mostly dark valued patches and another with all light fabrics with one dark.  Then I wanted to make another on a larger scale, but didn't finish it.

The next day I worked on it for a bit again.  This is where I left it all until the next workshop.  The blocks are not sewn to each other yet.

I MADE A WILLOW BIRD FEEDER, SORT OF

 I finally finished the Willow Bird Feeder I've been working on.  It is from a kit I bought from MyOwn2Hands.  

Mine doesn't actually look as nice as the example they show that made me fall in love with it and buy the kit.  But, I realized when I was almost done with it that I had inadvertantly skipped one of the videos!  So, I since I didn't have enough willow rods left to redoit, I just did the best I could to finish it.

My hands hurt.  On a good note, the husband likes it.  He thinks the wonky is interesting.

OUT OF AFRICA TOP

 After a lot of frustrating unsewing and resewing and cutting to match, I'm finally done with putting together the Africa fabrics for this top.

And it's pretty close to flat.

WEAVING THE SIDES

 I weaved the sides of the Bird Feeder, the instructor called it wailing.  It almost looks like a basket.

UPRIGHTS ON BASKET

 I wove in the upright rods on the Bird Feeder basketweaving project today.

ALMOST GOT IT TOGETHER

 I really thought I could get all of the pieces of the Out of Africa sewn together today and I'd be able to call it done.  But this is the part that's the most difficult - trying to get all of the parts together.  The quilt is getting large which compounds the difficulty, too.  It's not easy getting it up on the sewing table and keeping it from wanting to slide off.  

But I only have a seams or two left to do.  And maybe a few tucks.