Breaking in the New Sewing Space

I finally got to sew in my new space, and it worked amazingly well. I definitely need a larger cutting space, but other than that, everything was very efficient and comfortable. And here's what I worked on this weekend:

This design will be for a McCall's Quilting Block Builders Workshop on partial seam construction.

And I'm pretty sure this will be for a Block Builders Workshop on string piecing on a foundation. This was made with random string piecing on a quarter-arc. Four arcs were sewn together, and then raw-edge circle was appliqued to the white square with machine buttonhole stitch. What a fun way to use up strippy scraps!

I also got a lot of hand quilting done on the mini Bonham Beauty this weekend. It's nearly done...photo to come!

New Block Builders Workshop

Time to start making samples for the next two Block Builders Workshop patterns and videos. I'm thinking partial seam construction tips for one of them, and string piecing for the other. We try to do 12" blocks for all these patterns, so this star would include 8 string-pieced squares that each finish 3" square. Could use up a lot of strippy scraps making a few of those babies! Sample making this weekend in my new sewing space...yeah!