Busy Cutting & Pinning

This morning, Colleen came over to help me get ready for tomorrow. We wanted to have stuff ready to start right away, rather than waiting until they arrived. 

 First, we pinned the pillowcases that were grouped and ready to go. Once we had this bucket done, we started cutting more pillowcases to be pinned tomorrow. That way we had 2 stages started and should be easy enough to go from there. 

Colleen has done her pillowcases a little differently and she likes that method better. I watched her, and I found we waste material as well as doing twice the amount of work. But she thinks it works a lot better and she prefers that method over ours. I let her do a couple because I really had no clue how she was cutting them out. So, I went ahead and worked on the "old" method that we use. The pink and green material is her method and as one can see, you need 2 accent pieces as well as 2 cuffs. She has it so one sews the accent and cuff to both the top and bottom of the fabric, sewing the sides together. I think it's less work to do it the way we have been doing them. 

We kept at it till about 2:30 pm. It was a long day and my back was killing me. 

After supper we headed to moms' house to visit with my nephew and his daughter. He was the one who last his wife with cancer. They both look good and have handled everything so well. It's awesome to see them. We visited for a couple hours and came home. 

Today turned out to be a long day trying to be Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!