More Tumblers!

I got curious after playing with my other mini tumblers top what a charm pack would look like cut up. So I cut one up.

And sewed it into 14x12 rows

And got this lovely! It measures about 17.5*24.5".

 These gorgeous beauties are from Moda's Weave line and I really loved them. I cut the charm pack in quarters then cut up all the 2.5" squares using a template I made out of the charm pack cardboard.

Tumble on!

Tumblers are always in style

I've had the above mini top in a drawer for years and contuing my effort to at least put hands on and look at my old projects I got it out to add a few more rows.

 This is made out of 2.5" mini charms I've cut into tumblers from different lines of Moda Fabrics. I think there is only one of each print and there currently some Kansas Troubles, Civil War Reproductions, and generally heavier feeling fabrics get added to this baby.

 It's now 17*23, which is 391 tumblers.

This one I don't actually have a plan for when it will be done, maybe never, just that it gets worked on every once in a while is enough.

Sickie Sicks

So Little Bit got hit again on Thursday night/Friday morning with a bug. The fever didn't last long, and she had to go see bio dad, but this morning it was back so she is home sick from school.
I was hit some yesterday, and ended up sleeping til 4:30 in the afternoon, and went back to bed at midnight.
I'm still sleepy, and very fuzzy headed but of course what child actually sleeps when their sick? Not mine, I've just browbeaten her into taking a nap or quiet time, if she wants me to consider letting her go skating with Grandma tonight. But she's up again, so no nap for me...more tea lol.

I've not felt well enough to tackle anything large but I did make another small Tumbler quilt top, or mini top anyway. I cracked open one of the few unopened Moda tin samplers I had left, this one was Inspiration, which had 4 2.5 fabric packs. I used the Kansas Troubles and Barbra Brackman's line, to create this 16.5" x 12" mini top. I haven't decided if I will keep the edges or cut them off and just deal with a straight edge.


I really do prefer the smaller size tumblers. There are 72 tumbler patches.
I think I may buy a layer cake and see what I can't do with it, maybe make a set of matching place mats? I'll have to try to find one with out a lot of stripes, because they really stick out to me, though that could also be because they're from the lighter of the two lines. I really felt that the KT needed something to lighten it up, otherwise I find it kind of depressing, and the Seneca Falls line was still a reproduction line, but not with the same almost tea dyed look.

For my moment for the weekend, DH and Little Bit and the mass of things on the island in my kitchen that serves as general storage, file cabinet, lunch bag holders, etc etc etc.


I really feel uncomfortable showing the mess but hey that's what moments is about. Being real and not Photoshopping life to some unrealistic ideal of what life should look like, but what is. Not that I wouldn't love a magazine spread for a house, or maybe I would, but between my illnesses, Little Bit's needs, and DH's aversion to housework, well that's what it looks like til I get so fed up and reorganize, and that will last all of one week, maybe.

I'm rambling. I need more tea!