A few small projects

Yesterday I made some new curtains for the upstairs bathroom.  I've had the fabric for months, but just haven't gotten around to making them.  The café curtains - bottom curtain and valance - took about an hour to sew!   The walls are painted a soft lavender, but the previous curtains were a small pink print on white.  So the lavender didn't stand out very well.  Now the room has a rosy glow, which is supposed to make people look good.

Next I made a new bathmat, using an old towel and some orphan quilt blocks.  A few years ago, I participated in a scrappy heart block swap, resulting in a nice-sized throw with multicolored hearts.  I saved out two purples ones exactly for this bathmat.  Well, it takes a visit from my mother to light a fire under me!

This took an afternoon because I used the "quilt as you go" method and then added a little more quilting to anchor the top.
It's basically a small quilt because there's a piece of batting between the top and the bath towel which I cut down to size.  The lavender border matches the curtains.

Mom and Jenny arrive a week from today.  I need to get the basement ready for Jenny to sleep in, and I'll try very hard not to mess up the guest/sewing room before Mom gets here.  I am really looking forward to their visit!