Texas Twister and little Twister mug rug

It's storming here really bad and I don't want to stay on the computer very long so I'll keep this post short. I told you earlier today that I would post a picture of my Texas Twister top...well, here they are:

Here's the little twister...I had 6 blocks leftover and I used those to make this one. One of the blocks was the red Texas fabric and it disappeared into the border....This will do for a mug rug for me.

Here's Texas Twister. I like it and it was fun. I think I'm going to put another border of red Texas fabric on it and quilt it is. This was my first time to play with this little ruler and it was fun. I want to make a heart too so I'll be playing some more...

I'm going to say good night for now. The storms are getting worse and we've lost power once already...stay safe and keep on sewing!

Weekend sewing!

Yes, I did get to sew this weekend but not much. I went to the church on Friday night and sewed and visited with my friends. Alot more visiting than sewing!!! Such a great time with my buddies. I got the Texas charm pack from Moda a few weeks ago. I decided I wanted to try it out with the Little Twister ruler. So, I put together a middle part using 36 of the 42 squares. I sewed those together Friday night and that's all I got done! Not very productive but I had a good time anyway. I didn't bring my ruler with me or the instructions either. I'm afraid I wasn't very organized and I'll have to improve on that! My friends were all working on various things including English paper piecing. I love it and and oohed and ahhed over some of Linda's little hexies and she gave them to me. She said she wasn't going to use them anyway so I was the lucky recipient of her already done hexies. Now, I'll make some cute little flowers out of them. I also learned how to make little boxes from old cards. One of the ladies was making these and showed me and another lady how to do them. If you have any leftover greeting cards, you can recycle them and make into the cutese little boxes to put rings or bracelets or any little objects for gift giving. Several ladies were crocheting too but I didn't get into doing any of that on Friday night... Saturday, I kept the grandbaby and she wasn't feeling too good. I had to hold her more than normal and play with her more so I didn't get any sewing done on Saturday at all.

Here's a bad picture of the Texas fabrics I put together. My husband took my camera and went to a car show with it so I didn't have it to take pics with. This one is from my phone and isn't a great pic but it will show you the fabrics...

Yesterday, I got a 3 1/2" border put on this. I used spray starch and pressed it really good then started cutting. I cut it all out and put it back together into pinwheels. The top is done and I'll show you a picture tonight. I got my camera back last night and forgot to take a picture. I had 6 blocks leftover and I put those together and used the twister ruler and make pinwheels out of them too. I sewed it back together and this is big enough for a mug rug. I had to use what was left and I'm not really pleased with it because of the color placement. The border is red fabric and I used red on the outside so you can't see one of the pinwheels. I learned alot by doing this project about color placement and hopefully my next one will be better. This was alot of fun to do and I'm going to do a few more of these. I'll show the top to you later tonight so come back and seee me this evening. Now I have to get busy and read some blogs I've missed reading all weekend! Happy sewing...