Bargello Bowl and Scrapbooking

I went Saturday and spent the day with my friends doing scrapbooking. I'm not sure if I want to spend so much time on this. It's fun but it also takes away time for quilting. I'm going to try it for a while and see if it grows on me.... especially since so many of my friends are doing it. Some of it was fun and it doesn't hurt to get my pictures together either. I spent so much time at her house that I did not get to the quilt store for my directions. I'll have to go by and do that this week... I want to put that quilt together and finish it. I'm ready to see it on my bed....

Yesterday, I had all my scrappy strips cut for the Bargello Bowl and decided not to use them. I pulled out of my stash two Jelly Rows. I had another pattern picked out for these but decided against it and didn't know what I was going to do with these. Saturday night, I was up in my sewing room and I saw these and the light bulb went off. I could use these for the Bargello quilt! I started sewing yesterday about 3:00. I stopped and watched some of the Super Bowl hoopla and cooked a late lunch, early dinner for me and my DH and anybody else that turned up. I thought my kids and grandkids were coming but they had unexpected company.

It was nice to sew without too many interruptions. I went back to sewing and I'm almost finished with the top. I have 8 strips ready to sew on and it will be done. I'm going to have to buy a small amount of fabric to do an inner border. I'm thinking about doing a braided border or piano key border...I haven't made up my mind. I'll put pictures up later today when I sew the last 8 rows on. My plans are to sew after work today to finish up this part of the top...Hopefully, DH doesn't have plans for me tonight....