Vacation has, sadly, come to an end. But it didn’t go by without some time in the studio. Two days, in fact!

We are refinancing our mortgage this year, so early in the week we had an appointment for the bank’s assessor to come through. That meant I had to so some cleaning because the studio was in bad shape!

Yeah… it was that bad! Surprisingly, it didn’t take terribly long to get it back in order.

And I have to say, when I went back in there a few days later, it was so nice to just start sewing – and not have to clean anything up first. I really do need to get better at cleaning up after I work in there, instead of saying “Ill do it later,” and shutting the door.

And here’s what I was working on…

Yup… it was time to finally get those arrow blocks together into a top. Since they were 16″ blocks, it didn’t take long.

We just sewed them up, added a quick, plain white border and it was done!

It finished up at 56″ x 72″ so a nice size for a small bed, or a big lap quilt.

I’ve had this quilt planned for several years, including this flannel backing for it. And I decided to go with some scrappy binding using more fat quarters from the bundle.

There’s still LOTS of fat quarters left, so I’ll be making another quilt from these fabrics at some point. But not just yet. Now I’m in the mood for something completely different… stay tuned!