Ginger's Assistance in the Sewing Room

Well, this weekend has really been productive. I've finished two quilts and got a third one ready to be quilted. Ginger has been lending me a hand with measuring the fabric and pulling to get the cross grain straight. She's not done too bad for her first lesson. :-)

Japanese Puzzle Class

Well, today I finally finished a class I took through a Yahoo sewing group called the Japanese puzzle. I learned how to do it, but I ended up hating it, so I stopped early on and threw away all the left over pieces. I decided to take what I had completed and turn it into a small wall hanging or table topper instead of a full size quilt. I found this quilt very confusing and just not that pretty, but staying within the idea of uneven pattern design, I put uneven black corners on it and then attached it to a multicolored tan-brown square background and quilted and bound it, so it would be done and I could move on to a more "fun" quilt top. So here is my sloppy Japanese Puzzle quilt topper.

Moving on to something much more fun, I spent much of the afternoon lovin' and playing with Ginger Belle. She is so cute and does the funniest things. She has a lot of white under her chin and down her chest and tummy that is pretty unusual for a red dachshund. Here's a new photo of her resting in my lap that Charlie took today. She has gained a whole pound so now she weighs 4 1/2 pounds. She played out of her cage a lot today and had no accidents, so she's really doing well. Won't be too long before I get to pick up the other baby and start training all over again. I can hardly wait.