Slow Sunday Stitching

Last Sunday I participated in the Breast Cancer Walk with daughter Kristen and her coworkers.  

This past week was a bonus week for me, there was no 5th Wednesday workday, so my week was mine to do as I wished.  I am not sure I used my time wisely, as I spent 2 days just reading.  

I tried to get my knitting machine to work, which I haven't used in at least 25 years.  I watched You Tube videos, read the manuals and tried multiple times to cast on.  What I ended up doing was breaking some wheels on the carriage.  They were rubber and apparently brittle.  I ordered some more, but they are coming from Japan, the only place I could find the part.  

I decided to sell both my machines, I am just not interested enough to figure out how to use them anymore.  I am more into quilting, stitching and my garden.  When I get the parts I will put them up for sale.  I have a lot of attachments for both machines, and I have seen them for sale on eBay and other places.  

This week has been a lot cooler weather and I have had a chance to work on my new garden.    I planted most of my naked lady bulbs,  moved some things from pots including succulents, a peony and some lambs ears I had dug up from the prior garden.  

This week I was able to finish the little Flora Supply Case by Clover and Violet.  This is a gift for my secret sewing sister for Christmas.  I have procrastinated about putting in the zipper for 2 weeks but finally got it in and finished up.  So glad it is finished.

The next project I plan to tackle is this for my granddaughter Klara for Christmas.  She likes to sketch and is actually a very good artist.  I have the all of the materials except for some clear vinyl.  

Klara turned 11 this week.  We plan to have a family lunch on Sunday to celebrate.  

Because I had hopes of getting my knitting machine working, I hadn't worked on my hand knitting of granddaughter Kyleigh's poncho.  I had about 8 inches done.  When I picked it up again last night, I discovered a dropped stitch about 4 inches back, so I ripped back and started again.

This is what I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching.  I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been another busy couple of weeks.  Last weekend daughter Kristen and I went on another walk, this time for suicide prevention.  This Sunday we are going on the Breast Cancer Walk.  John's mother had breast cancer.  We usually go somewhere after these walks for a nice lunch.  I am enjoying visiting all sorts of new restaurants I have never eaten at.

In the posting of my birthday at Half Moon Bay, and other things, I forgot to show what my brother Bill made for my birthday.  Jaeger, my grandson had originally cut out this design on his Cricut, which I applied to a Dollar Tree plastic sign that warped and turned from red to pin.  I asked Bill if he would put it on a piece of wood for me, and he had a slice of olive wood that he could do it on.  This was my birthday present from Bill and Char. 

Bill does the most beautiful woodwork, and I am always so thrilled to receive one of his pieces.

This past week was spent getting ready for workday at my house.  We received about 10 quilt tops at the last meeting that I needed to find backs for prior to workday when we cut the batting and binding.  

Out in the yard, I continued hauling in soil for my new garden.   I also took down my trumpet vine.  It involved a lot of cutting with the reciprocal saw,.  I have filled two two green cans, and still need to wait to empty it again.   The trumpet vine was beautiful, and provided shade for my living room and kitchen, but it was falling over.  Friday some sprinkler guys came by and laid down pipe for drip irrigation for my new garden.  When I figure out where things will be planted, I will put in the irrigation emitters.   I have a lot of room to plant things, my naked lady bulbs I dug up before, and a lot of things in pots around the yard.  

Sprinkler guys also laid some irrigation pipe in the side yard, and I planted some lettuce and some lettuce seeds.  We are coming into cooler weather at long last and I have a lot of things I want to get done in the yard.  

Last week was the Something Wicked Blog Hop.  I showed my Witch Hazel stitchery.  

I finished my October Woven Wreaths.

I have gotten about 8 inches out of 56 of my knitting, but I decided to get out my knitting machine, which I haven't used probably for 25 years, and see if I could figure out how to use it again, and I could finish this project in a couple of hours.  

What I will be doing for Slow Sunday Stitching, after my Breast Cancer Walk is work on this redwork. 

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Thanks for stopping by!

Something Wicked Blog Hop Challenge, My Day

        

                   

The Something Wicked Blog Hop Challenge started Monday, hosted by the amazing Carol @Just Let Me Quilt.  Many thanks to Carol for another wonderful challenge!

Carol says about the challenge:  "Your idea of "wicked" might be completely different than mine, so take this where you want to.  Of course, it is Halloween-related, so include that in your wicked creations."

I get my Halloween decorations out the first part of October, and always love getting them out.  Here are some of the things I have made or collected in prior years.  

What I decided to work on for this challenge was my Witch Hazel stitchery.  This was a primitive stitchery by I Done My Best.  It has been prepped and ready to stitch probably 20 years or more, sitting in a pile I came across again, and was determined to finish it finally.  I was thinking to myself I wish my husband was still alive and could make me a primitive frame, and I came across one in my craft room that he had made.  I painted it black and painted the moon and stars on it.

Witch Hazel looks good above my gnome witch.  

I had hoped to work on this other project, but didn't get too far due to other activities this month.   I made some of the star blocks, but the applique middle needs 420 inches of bias tape, which isn't completed yet.  Maybe next year.  

The entire line-up of bloggers is listed below.  Be sure and go visit and see what they have come up with.  

The line-up of bloggers is below:  

                                                                      OCTOBER 21

Just Let Me Quilt

Just Sew Quilter

Sew Many Yarns

Patchouli Moon Studio

High Road Quilter

OCTOBER 22

Quilt Schmilt

Selina Quilts

Karrin’s Crazy World

Scrapdash

Quilted Snail

OCTOBER 23

A Quiltery

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Beaquilter

Homespun Hannah's Blog

OCTOBER 24

MooseStashQuilting

Ms P Designs USA

Quilted Delights

Quilting Between the Rails

Thanks for stopping by!

Something Wicked Blog Hop Challenge Coming Next Week

         

                   

The Something Wicked Blog Hop Challenge starts next week, hosted by the amazing Carol @Just Let Me Quilt.

Carol says about the challenge:  "Your idea of "wicked" might be completely different than mine, so take this where you want to.  Of course, it is Halloween-related, so include that in your wicked creations."

The line-up of bloggers is below:  

                                                                      OCTOBER 21

Just Let Me Quilt

Just Sew Quilter

Sew Many Yarns

Patchouli Moon Studio

High Road Quilter

OCTOBER 22

Quilt Schmilt

Selina Quilts

Karrin’s Crazy World

Scrapdash

Quilted Snail

OCTOBER 23

A Quiltery

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Beaquilter

Homespun Hannah's Blog

OCTOBER 24

MooseStashQuilting

Ms P Designs USA

Quilted Delights

Quilting Between the Rails

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

 Another fun-filled week has passed.  I knew that my grandson Jaeger was coming home from college for 4 days, and I had a project I wanted him to help me with.  I have had this idea in my head about making another flower garden.  I needed to prep part of the area first, taking out some old cinder blocks, and relocating some plants temporarily.  Thursday Jaeger met me at Home Depot with a truck and helped me pick up these retaining wall stones, although I am standing them up so they have a decorative edge.  

I am so happy my garden is finally laid out, now I can bring in the soil myself, and start my planting.  I have a lot of naked lady bulbs I dug up from another garden bed, and I also have a peony in a pot I will be able to put in the ground now.  Our weather is cooling off a bit now, am looking forward to low 80 degree, and high 70's so I will be able to work outside more.  

This week was also basting day for Community Service, and I had lunch with my friend Jandra.  We got to visit our favorite shop that is open for a week once a month called Gypsy Chic.  It is like a vintage thrift store and it changes with the seasons.  This month was fall/Halloween items.  

Friday was a family picnic day at my granddaughter Klara's school.  I took lunch over at her grade's assigned time, it was a good lunch.  

This week I also worked on various sewing/embroidery projects.  Witch Hazel is finished, but I will wait to reveal until the Something Wicked Blog Hop next week.  I also worked on these blocks for another secret project.  

I am also going to try to start this poncho again.  I am an extremely slow knitter but I am going to try again.  My granddaughter Kyleigh asked me to make this a couple of years ago, and I started it once, and got it messed up and I ripped it out.  I am going to try again.  

Saturday was my birthday, and my family that was in town took me to Half Moon Bay for the day.  I love the ocean, and am happiest there.  Granddaughter Kyleigh had to work, and grandson Keaton is still back east at college.  

We had a wonderful day, with a scrumptious lunch at Barb's Fish Trap.  We stopped by our favorite succulent place, and they took me to the orchid nursery.  We spent the afternoon at the beach which was fun.  

These are the plants that came home with me, the succulents and my orchids.

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is my knitting, and Woven Wreaths for October.  I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

This past week was less hectic.  I did have two board meetings on Tuesday, the Begonia Board Meeting, and the Quilt Guild Board Meeting where I serve on the Community Service section.  Basically the rest of the week was my own.  My daughter Kristen and I have been participating in two water exercise classes at an indoor pool, an aqua yoga, and a Shallow Water H20 class with exercises.  I have been feeling somewhat better participating in these, along the walking I do with some neighborhood friends 4-5 times per week.  

This week was grandson Keaton's 18th birthday.  With him being out of state at college, this was the first birthday I haven't been able to celebrate with him.  

This week I worked on a Christmas gift for a secret quilting sister.  It is a Flora Supply Case by Clover and Violet.  I made one of these before, and my sister-in-law Char said she could use one, so I gave her mine.  It is a zippered pouch with mesh and fabric pockets.  

The original pattern had 2.5 inch squares for the cover, but I had a ton of hexies I was itching to use.  This will be the cover of my secret quilting sister.  I plan to make one for me too, but I need make some more hexies.

This week I also worked on my 3 yard quilt.   The members of our guild were challenged to making a 3 yard quilt for Community Service.   The Programs directors had packaged together yards of three different fabrics and we chose which one we wanted.  I have had mine done since the last day camp, I just needed to quilt it.  I got it done this week and got the binding on. One of the things I will be doing for Slow Sunday Stitching is sewing the binding down.  

I also will be working on my Witch Hazel.  I don't have that much more to do.   

Saturday daughter Katie and I worked the Begonia booth at a local plant show.  It is hard to work with all the plants sitting around you and not purchasing anything.   There was a succulent booth across from us, and I also bought a cactus.

Daughter Kristen came down to check out the plants too.

Afterwards Katie and I went to lunch and had an excellent salad.

Our weather has been record-breaking high still, and I haven't gotten much work done in the yard, little to none, and there is no end in sight yet to the hot weather.

I will be linking up to Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head on over and check what everyone is working on.  

Thanks for stopping by!

HQAL. Slow Sunday Stitching

Another week flew by.  I didn't get much sewing done this week.  I had quilt guild workday at my house this week, so I needed to clean house and get things set up.  I also did a deep clean of my bedroom.  I vacuum my bedroom, but don't generally dust.  So I did this week.  I also had gotten some new sheers because the old ones had disintegrated over years of being in a window that gets afternoon sun.  I noticed the drapes were also dusty too, so I moved furniture, washed drapes and vacuumed really well before I put the new sheers and clean drapes up.  

This week I had also hired a handyman do do a couple of things.  I needed to have my shower re-caulked so I did a thorough cleaning of my bathroom too.  The handyman re-caulked my shower and around the kitchen sink, hung a new lamp out in my garage because one of mine had the ballasts go out.  He also took down a cabinet that used to hold BBQ tools that John had made, and hung it in the shed where I have a potting bench.  I figured I could hang my potting tools.

Part of my orchids in the house were suffering after my 2 weeks of no AC, so I repotted them.  

Last Sunday we celebrated my youngest grandson John's 14th BD for a dinner out. My two youngest grandchildren will probably be taller than me the next time I see them!

On Saturday this week, my oldest daughter Kristen and I went on the Alzheimer's Walk with some of her former coworkers.  They all work for the same organization, in different locations.

I've gotten 3 new T-shirts the past couple of weeks!  The turquoise is my color.  

The best thing about these walks is that we usually go out to brunch afterwards.

This week I did get September's Woven Wreaths done.

What I will be working on this Sunday for Slow Sunday Stitching is my Witch Hazel, I got quite a bit stitched this week.

I also hope to continue stitching on block 1 of Folk Art Sampler by Bonnie Sullivan.  I am getting it as a BOM from Shabby Fabrics.  

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Margaret, Deb, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and Connie

 

I will also be linking up for Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.   Check out what everyone is working on.  

Thanks for stopping by!