The Best Laid Plans ...

So I've been working on my secret project for about a week now and it would be completely finished if it wasn't for one minor detail ...

Meet my re-useable menu board. I loved this idea because it cuts down on writing my weekly menu on paper. I saw this somewhere when I was trolling round in Blogland and naturally can't recall where- dear person who had the original idea - I'm sorry I can't give you proper credit.  Anyway, it's cute and adds a pop of colour to my kitchen, and nobody else I know has one. There's just one small problem.

I added 8 magnets to the back thinking that would be enough to hold it to the fridge. Nup- slid straight off ...so I figured 16 magnets would do the trick . Twice as much is always better. Apparently not in this case - I'm pretty sure that those extra magnets added dead weight and yet again the menu board slid down the fridge. Now I'm stuck with a non magnetic menu board that has 16 useless magnets stuck to it with Tarzan's Grip that I have no idea how I'm going to get off...

In desperation I contacted the magnet shop dude ( or it could be a dudette for all I know)  to ask them exactly what kind of magnets I should use because the ones I bought from the craft store kind of stink.  So if you could all just pretend this is on the side of my fridge looking pretty that would be great - thanks. I'm rating this project 10/10- and my execution of the project at about a 5.

Oh and I made one for Miss P too. Hers wont stick to my fridge either...

In other craftiness this week, I finished piecing Little P's Alphabet quilt.  

Ta Da! The Front

And I did the back too. Goal achieved.

I took the bull by the horns and started putting the Snowball quilt top together. This is number 3 of my PhD projects from 2010. I'm half done and I like the way it's turning out. Miraculously some of my seams are matching up . As usual some are not.  I am beyond thinking about perfection and am only focusing on a finish.

It wouldn't be Sunday without  a Dresden update. 3 more done except for the applique which I'm hoping to get done before bedtime tonight.

4 left to do. I will confess I'm starting to get a bit tired of Dresden's.

I must admit since I've been doing No Fabric February my mail has been a little dull this month. This was rectified by the arrival of exciting mail this week. I recently won a giveaway over at Taradiddle and Malarkey. My book arrived this week and it was wrapped in these cute fabrics. Thanks Ms. Taradiddle. I can see these adding some zing to a spiderweb or other scrappy quilt sometime this year. Thanks for thinking of me in my month of fabric-less-ness.  I pretty much rolled around on top of the fabrics for a full 10 minutes after I ripped the package open. Mr.P said it was sad to see a grown woman acting that way .

Oh and I dropped by the op shop this week and this was calling my name.  If my kitchen dresser ever gets finished this will look fantastic as a display piece.  The little things often make me happy.

It's going to be a busy week at Maison Pyjamas. Miss. P finally exits the teen years Wednesday, it's the end of Frugal Grocery February tomorrow,  Autumn starts Tuesday ( I can hear my Northern Hemipshere friends perk up in anticipation of us Southerners returning the sun )   and I am going to try and squeeze 5 working days into three and half days. Should be fun! 

Goals for this week:

Decide which project I'm going to start next while I contemplate my navel fluff
Finish the remaining Dresden blocks -then shove them in a box for a while
Put the rest of the snowball quilt top together
Order new magnets !

I Am The Quilting Queen Of The World!

My post title works so much better if you can conjure a mental image of me standing on my sewing table screaming that sentence  at the top of my lungs...

My working week is now over and I am free to be me for the next 3 days. Op shopping with Miss and Little P is planned for tomorrow and then we are going to come back here to do a craft project which I may or may not show depending on how it all works out.

My vow this week was to sew my little heart out - even after work - no matter how tired I was, and try to spend less time on the computer and more time achieving concrete things with my life. I know many of you think I get stacks done but the truth is I still spend at least  40 hours a week on the computer at home. Imagine how much more I could achieve if I spent that time doing other things! This week I decided to put that to the test.

So this week after work I got all of Little P's ABC blocks finished . See that block in the front at the left. I'm seriously thinking about trying hand stitching something on that. It could get ugly!

The Lounging Around quilt binding got cut, sewn and pressed

I sewed 65 more Dresden fans.  

And Lounging Around got squared up and the excess fabric and batting was cut off.

Tuesday night I turned 65 Dresden fans  right side out and pressed them. When I get rich I'm going to hire a presser to do all my seams and other quilting related ironing...Mr. P already does my clothes so the only time I touch an iron is when I'm quilting.

I machine sewed the binding to the front of " Lounging Around" and contemplated the upcoming horror of hand stitching it to the back.

On Wednesday night I  designed and printed my first ever  quilt label for Mr. P's quilt. Kate sent me fabric sheets to play with. Bless you Kate and thankyou again. I'm a convert.  I cant show you the label  -it's a secret until the official unveiling of the finished quilt. I also made two more Dresden fan circles. I would have made more but my machine was being temperamental and by 10pm so was I.

I'm looking forward to Friday Night Sew In. I'm going to work on this box of neglected snowballs. I see another PhD finish in my future. You will note I am avoiding the Christmas quilt I started last August. Why didn't someone have the guts to tell me it was truly ugly when I proudly showed it off?

Maybe tonight I'll treat myself and veg out in front of the TV, with a bag of something ...like snowballs.

P.S. I was a guest blogger at 13 Woodhouse Road this week. Pop on over for a look.