Not quite sewing on the FNSI

So no sewing this Friday Night for me... :(
I was getting my daughter ready for dance - we were headed to a competition this morning, and putting her hair up, when I found those nasty little critters....

So both Friday and Saturday evening were spent.... combining out lice and stripping beds.  Last night I just combed for them - in everyone's hair.  It took 2+ hours to do my 8yo's hair!  Then once we cleaned brushes and did some laundry, we headed to bed! Today no sewing, because I had to shampoo her hair - quite the process - wash her hair to get out the gel, hair spray, conditioner, etc from the dance competition.  Then because the chemicals my husband bought was to be applied on DRY hair, we dried her hair, then applied the nasty chemicals.   Then waited, then washed, then combed again for another hour...  (I would have tried this without chemicals, but there were too many to catch otherwise....).  If you want to see how much hair she has, look below as she investigates the quilts...

On a better note....  today my daughter and I went to Anacortes and La Conner, WA.  She danced in Anacortes, and placed 4th in 3 of her dances (Highland Fling, Seann Triubhas and Scottish Lilt).

Then we went to the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum!

Looking at the stitching details

Beautiful Quilts

She loved the embroidery of Oreo, the cat..... on so many of the Quilts in "A Quilted Garden" by Ann Fahl

My pictures (from my cellphone) don't do the quilts justice - for more pictures of Ann's work, see Ann Fahl's Gallery.  The museum was definitely worth the stop!  A great day out with my dancer and quilter!

My daughter's sewing

My daughter made a bag for her friend's birthday present.  She is getting good at the sewing part - now the cutting she leaves to me (I think she's scared of the rotary cutter) but will do all the pressing.
She learnt a new technique... Paper piecing, although I don't think she understands the steps yet, she saw how easy it was for things to go together...  She used this pattern for her scottie dog.

The back was a basic 4 patch, as we were working with scraps of fabric, we didn't have enough fabric of any one colour for the back... The inside was some left over Care Bear fabric that she'd sewn into a baby quilt  last year.

Friday night sew in is tomorrow... and I will be sewing!  Head on over to Crafty Vegas Mom to sign up...  Right now 148 people are signed up!  It'll be great checking out what everyone has worked on this weekend!

Back to Sewing!

I completed Grace`s quilt this week.

Getting back into routine since school started has been difficult.  I haven`t gotten much sewing done - life keeps getting away...



My daughter is making a bag for her friend... she also learned paper piecing. I`m pretty sure she couldn`t do it herself, but she`s learning. She sewed and pressed. I cut and pinned!  We used the following Scottie Paper Pieced Pattern