Friday Night Sew In (FNSI) & My Frist BOM

I'm learning some new terms..UFO...FNSI....BOM...

A UFO is an Unfinished Object--the remnants of those quilts we start to make but never seem to finish.

But I wasn't sure what a FNSI was...until now...it's a Friday Night Sew In where you link up with other ladies spending their Friday nights sewing too.  The link up is here .

I didn't set out for do this, but since that is what I'll be doing tonight at my first Block of the Month (BOM) class...I figured...why not join in!

I am taking a monthly quilt class at Grannie B's Quilt Shop in Dickson tonight, where I bought the pattern and blocks for January and February a couple of weeks ago.  The pattern is Wildflower Rhapsody from Wing and a Prayer Design.

I'm doing mine by hand and finished the January block last night...paper-piecing the star pattern in the center of the block.  I was suppose to "fussy cut" the center of the star (which means finding a flower design and cutting the block so that the flower is centered within it....I like my flowers to fall where they may!

I've got my materials ironed for tonight, with the long strips already cut.  I have both blocks laid out on a piece of batting and rolled up to carry to work (where I'm going to mark the blocks to be cut tonight during my lunch break) and then to class.  I was trying to get it so that the material would not crease.  As you can see from the pictures, that sort of worked, leaving just a small crease across the bottom.  I may have to invest in a travel case for my blocks (any suggestions?).

But...I have my "handy-dandy" mini iron that I absolutely love.  My mother could finger-press her pieces like nobodies business (that's really good in case that is a term you haven't heard before).  I don't finger press too well, so all my seams would fall every-which-way....but no more!!!

Tonight I also intend to pin a quilt.  Tomorrow I'm heading to Franklin, TN to visit some of their quilt shops and then hitting the mall with my daughter for some wardrobe enhancements!!!  For now...I've got to do some work that I actually get paid for.  Oh....and I'm planning a trip to East Tennessee next month and my dad is going to take me to quilt shops that my mother loved!!! (Holloways and The Cherry Pit)