Dusting Off the Sewing Machine

I don't think I touched my sewing machine the entire month of May.  I've never gone that long without sewing, but I've been so busy and tired that sewing got put to the side.  Oddly enough it was the request for help from two friends that got me to dust off my machine.

1- A friend was making a quilt for her friend's wedding, but had never quilted and bound a quilt before and wanted some help.  Her friend is a huge OSU fan, so she pieced a large Ohio with OSU print borders.  I showed her some straight lines around the O using a walking foot and then some simple Free Motion loopy lines in the borders.  It turned out really cute.  Here's the quilt during the beginning of hand binding:

It'll be her first complete quilt and it looks great!  I'm excited for her.

2- A good friend of mine is the cook at Girl's Camp this week.  The theme of camp this week is "O Ye that embark in the service of  God."  She found some curtains that had boats on them and wanted to make an apron out of them for her time at camp.  She asked me if I would be willing to make an apron for her.  I hadn't the faintest idea how to do it, but I love her, so I couldn't say no.

I started scouring Pinterest for apron tutorials for some ideas of how to combine these into something functional.  I obviously had to make up some of it as I went along, but this tutorial helped me with the sashing.  This is what I came up with:

 Now she can cook in style.  ;)