Friday Finish: Another Small Week

Ok I have worked on sewing this week, I just don't have much that I can show you.  First, I've trimmed the quilt I did last week, buried the threads and made the label, but it still needs to be bound.  Something for this weekend.  I've made my real Dallas block for the #TexasRoadTripQAL and I've done a practice block for the Tyler rose block.  Sharla and I both decided we wanted a more defined rose than the one they showed.

So first up is my Dallas block.  I showed you the test block last week, and I have to say I really love this block done in the Alison Glass Sun Prints fabric. It was so hard to cut into it, but I am very happy with the results.  I use grey dot bike path for the arms of the ferris wheel, hot pink, pumpkin, teal, chartreuse, and fuchsia corsage for the buckets, and just plain white for the background/sky.

Now the rose is just using some yellow scraps we have on hand.  Now I love how it looks, but let me tell you the rose itself has 34...yes that is right 34 pieces.  It took me about 4 hours to piece the block.  I've not done a lot of paper piecing and this one just has lots of little tiny pieces. 

Now I did get some other things done this week.  The biggest of which was to clean and organized the sewing room.  I moved all the furniture and got behind it and swept and dusted.  I'm amazed at how many dust bunnies were running around that room.  I changed the layout just a little and cleaned off Sharla's sewing table.  She doesn't sew in there, so I wanted it clean it to hold my threads and rulers.  By the time I was through I was pretty beat, and had a very sore back.  Of course I did that on Monday and started the paper piecing on Tuesday so I ended up making another mess.  But I did clean it up.  I also got a quilt onto the frame, but just didn't think I could quilt it on Tuesday because my back still hurt from cleaning.  But it ready for me to do this weekend or on Monday of next week.  

I also started cutting out Sharla's pieces for the rest of the the first quadrant of the Texas quilt.  I think I have it about all cut for her and hope to cut mine tonight.  I also made a decision about the quilt.  I love these special blocks, but I think I love the plain pieced Texas more.  So I am going to make mine without the special blocks and then make the special blocks into a wall hanging for the sewing room.

Hopefully next week I will have a finished quilt along with my first quadrant done for the Texas quilt, well that is my goal.  Today I am linking up at Let's Bee Social with Sew Fresh Quilts, Can I Get A Whoop Whoop @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Link a Finish Friday @ Richard and Tanya Quilts, TGIFF...at Riddle and Whimsy, Finish It Up Friday @ Crazy Mom Quilts, Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation,  Fabric Frenzy Friday @ Fort Worth Fabric Studio and Sewjo Saturday @ My Go-Go Life.