A whole lot of shipping and a little round robin sewing......

Hey everyone...I hope you have been having a great loooooong weekend....I spent the weekend in my studio cutting, gluing and folding patterns....and then filling quilt market orders....This morning I charged them out and then Gene and I took all 24 packages and envelopes and made great use of the mail-in-the -box machine at the local post office and got all of them sent off. Now tomorrow I just have to send off the out-of-country ones and I am DONE!!!! Here are some of the packages waiting by the front door to be loaded in the car.....


Next I cut out a pumpkin and a black cat to add to Brenda's pincushion because it is time to add to our round robins. I had been wanting to get to it, but I was on a mission to finish all the mailing first.... and I just couldn't let myself play!!!!!
We were headed off to our son Andy's house for dinner and I knew that Alana, my 7 year old granddaughter would love to help me figure out how to stitch it. She LOVES to sew!!! So, I packed it in my sewing bag to work on while we all visited!

I was so busy baking cookies to take for desert that I forgot to take a photo of the cut outs before I stitched them. Here is my cat and pumpkin and you can also see the join stitches that I added. A feather stitch and some french knots to one and a herringbone with straight lines on the cross pieces to the other (it is hidden somewhat by the cat)

....and this is what her pincushion top looks like now....with the boot and candy corn it is definitely becoming a halloween treat! Brenda will think about trick or treating when she uses it.....

I am off to pack it up now and it will be in the mail to Roseann in the morning.....Be sure to check out Pat's, Roseann's and Brenda's blogs in the next few days and see what they have been up to.....

Have you been working on one for yourself???? It is not too late to start....just grab a few friends and start stitching......

Happy Memorial Day.....Jo Ann