Sewing Saturday

I was sewing some more blocks for my swoon quilt earlier when I realised I haven't cleaned my sewing machine recently. In fact since I bought it about 18 months ago I'm embarrassed to say. Hence it looking like this;

I could only clean around the bobbin case. Here I am trying to unscrew the plate using the screwdriver that came with the machine- I couldn't manage it as the screwdriver is too tall and I don't have a shorter one. Even without getting the plate off I managed to brush this lot out;

YUCK!

I did manage quite a bit of sewing today I know have 5 blocks of the swoon quilt sewn;



I'm pleased with the progress so far.

swoon block #1

Remember here when I said I was going to join the swoonalong? Since I joined there have been loads of fabulous entries to the swoonalong flickr group. Katy showcased some of them here.

Finally today I got around to sewing together my first block, I cut it out over a week ago and have put off sewing the little pieces together as I thought it would take ages and I wanted to dedicate some time to it. I have just sewn together my first block in the past hour. take a peek I am rather impressed

It's far from perfect, but I like it.