Still Sew Happy

I guess I've really been bitten by the sewing bug.  Each day, I'm torn between wanting to work outside now that the snow is gone and wanting to sew, sew, sew.

I finished another apron, this time, a tiny one for a certain pixie princess.  This is a new pattern for me, so I was pretty surprised and happy to find out how well it went together.  That ruffle on the bottom is pretty cool...it is cut with a curve so that I got the ruffly effect without having to gather it up.  Nice!

front view

back view

My other sewing obsession has been a mystery quilt sponsored by Connecting Threads.  As it is National Quilting Month, they set up this project to celebrate!  I've enjoyed the whole suspenseful aura about it and am really looking forward to next weeks glorious finish.  Here are the fabrics that I picked for my version:

Here is the progress on the 'mystery' so far...

The Flying Geese blocks that are used in the star blocks were constructed using a technique that I had never used before. There is no waste of fabric which is pretty unusual in the modern methods for FG blocks. I think that I'll be using it again!