Michelle Sewed Today! REALLY! NO KIDDING!

Well, here I am on my new blog site, and I am starting it out showing my sewing projects for today! Can you believe it? I know, Jen, you NEVER thought you would see a sewing project from me, but it FINALLY happened! I made coasters and hot pads for a coworker's wedding out of the bride's favorite colors. I quizzed her fiance, and he told me the colors they had in their kitchen. He said her favorite color was PINK. Her Mixmaster is PINK and their dishes are brown, so I found these really cute fabrics when I was with Jen and Maureen on Saturday. I bought all the pink they had, and I used it all up. All I have are scraps of the pink. I bought more of the brown, so I do have some of that left. I made four pot pads and 8 coasters. The coasters and hot pad backs were done half in pink, and half in brown. I thought they turned out real cute.
After I finished making the coasters and hot pads, I sewed a bunch of blocks together for a Linus quilt. One of the gals in our quilting group quilts the quilt tops on her quilter and donates them to Linus. She lost a son a year or so ago to cancer. Our group brought a bunch of precut strips to quilting several months ago, and when they left, there was a whole bag of strips left here, so I sewed the strips into blocks, and this is the third quilt top I have sewn together. I have enough blocks left to do one more, and I could make a baby sized one with the rest. It's too wild for me, but someone will appreciate it!

My friend Christie came over this afternoon and sewed together a quilt for her church fall festival, to donate. She didn't get completely finished before she had to go, but she did get a lot accomplished. Louie worked on his nephew's Harley all day, with his nephew here too, and he quit about 8pm. They started at 8am this morning, so he was ready to quit. They did not get finished, in fact, they still have a lot to do. It was a beautiful day today. The sad thing, Louie's friend, who works for Louie, was in a motorcycle accident today. We think he is going to be ok. As far as I am concerned, it was a miracle. He was going down the highway, and a truck crossed the highway right in front of him, and his friend ran right into the truck. He has some road rash, and a gash above his left eye. His left shoulder is banged up, scraped up and sore, but does not have a dislocated shoulder. He had CT scan and it showed all was well. The hospital is keeping him for observation overnight. I think his guardian angel must have been riding on the back.

Praise God!

Well, I'm going to go find something to eat and wind down some before I go to bed. Back to work tomorrow! I hope you all had a wonderful day, and I hope none of you fell off your computer chairs when you saw that I actually sewed something!