Tea time!

My grand girls (6 and 11) are into tea parties--for real. Fancy dresses, hats, gloves, cloth napkins, the works. So I have been making tea cozies. :-) The 11 year old's favorite tea right now waivers between peach and blueberry, the 6 year old's in apple cinnamon. I still am stuck on my favorite being Earl Grey, but I have not found many teas I do not like. 

And did you know (from the emails I am receiving) that chickens are an in thing? So making more of these chicken placemats-they will be different prints:

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Unfortunately that means cutting--ugh. Cutting is my least favorite thing, followed closely by basting a quilt for quilting.  

And then there will be pinning--this is  a pile of tea cozies ready for their next step:

And then there will be a bigger pile than this of scraps that need to be cut

I am very glad to have taken a Scrap Therapy class long ago--and expanded it a bit to reflect my sewing mannerisms...probably will need to buy some more scrap buckets--but those scraps are the only scrap I have,...the rest is cut and in bins. Getting behind is NOT a good idea...it becomes quite a project to wrestle if you let it pile up. Yes,  speaking from experience here.  Grand girls who like to sew are good users of 5" squares. The 11 year old will graduate to smaller squares, and is working on curves :=) 

What's under your needle?