Who needs sleep?

Well, me! If I want to make progress on my Papaver Pizazz quilt top today.

Over the last couple of days I have made some good progress and I want to continue that on my days off. But sleep is eluding me tonight.

Sew what's a girl to do?

Write a blog post of course.

In my last post I mentioned that I needed to get back to the secret stuff, so might not have much to show, but as previously mentioned, I have been making good progress elsewhere too.

On Sunday after writing about the Zoom along I went into my room where I cut and started to applique the stems for Papaver Pizazz.

You can just see them here  on this photo I took on Monday before work.

Five narrow green strips.

I appliqued the last two down on Monday Morning. Then I set about tracing all of the leaves.

As you can see above I weighted three lengths of very curly freezer paper under my long ruler before heading off to work on Monday afternoon.

But they were still very curly on Tuesday morning when I fused and cut out all those leaves.

No nice simple classic leaf shapes here, oh no, it's like trying to cut out Fjords!

But I got them all done and even managed to get the first two fused into place, ready to applique today.

Sew, although the pictures are really not that exciting, I feel like I have made great progress.

Oh, and I have also made great progress on the July secret Christmas Ornament.

Sew I'm a tired but happy girl.

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I might go back to bed now to see if I can get some more sleep. 

Pussy cat Belle has disappeared from her spot on the sofa. I bet you that means she has taken up my spot on the bed!

I hope you're sleeping better than I am.