SAHRR 2025, Week 1

I am participating again in the Stay At Home Round Robin, which began this week, hosted by Gail @Quilting Gail.  This is my 5th year of participating in this, and I look forward to it every year.  I generally donate these quilts to my guild's Community Service.  

For my center block this year, I actually took some blocks I picked up on the free table at my guild.  Someone had donated a bunch of cute lighthouse blocks and I chose 2 of these.  Someone had also donated some primitive blocks they had stitched, and I chose 2 of those, and sewed all 4 blocks together.  

 

The schedule of the bloggers suggesting the clues each week is below.  

• January 13:   Visit each of the co-hosts to see their centre block.
• January 20: 1st Round:   Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• January 27: 2nd Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 3: 3rd Round: Gail @ Quilting Gail 
• February 10: 4th Round:   Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• February 17: 5th Round: Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• February 24: 6th Round:  Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• March 24:  Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs!

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ScrapHappy January

It’s again time for showing off our scrap projects!  ScrapHappy is open to anyone using up scraps of anything – no new materials. It can be a quilt block, pincushion, bag or hat, jewelry, dolls, socks or a sculpture.   Anything made of scraps is eligible.

If you'd like to join us and use up your scrap collection, instead of sitting around in bags, etc, why not join us on the 15th of each month? Either e-mail Kate at the address on her Contact Me page, or leave a comment on her Scrap Happy Post.

What I have been working on the past couple of weeks is a dog coat for my grand-dog Maple.  She is a Great Dane.  I am using this pattern.  I had to adjust it and make it bigger than the largest size on the pattern.   The underside of the coat is going to be out of fleece.  

I've been piecing the blocks for the coat out of my scraps.  I still need to make some more to make it Maple's size.  

This is a picture of Maple.  

I have also been working on my potato chip blocks.   I generally make these quilts and donate them for my guild's Community Service.  

Be sure and visit the other bloggers below and see what they have been up to.  

Kate, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, 
Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, 
 Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Nóilin, Viv, Karrin,  Alissa,
Tierney, Hannah and Maggie

Slow Sunday Stitching

This past week was spent putting Christmas decorations up.  My grandsons helped me get them back in the attic.  I was anxious to get them put up as I wanted to refinish my laminate floors.  They were getting a little dull.  Also I got a new doormat for the front door.  I was trying to get it done in one day, the front room, entry and hallways on either side of the house.  I worked pretty much from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and I noticed I had stepped in the wet wax with my Birkenstocks and had tracks for about 4 feet.  I need to get some more of the wax removal stuff to get the footprints out.  But the rest of it looks pretty good.

My new rug fits my nautical decor

After I took my Christmas quilts down, I was looking through my quilts and came across this one.  I started quilting in 1994.  At my local quilt store, they had a Red Wagon Quilt Club.  It was in the fashion of the primitive quilt ladies, Gerry Kimmel, Jan Patek and Linda Brannock.  Each month we would get another block.  I have never even hung this one up.  A friend hand quilted it for me.  

The highlight of my week was going with my family to see the new Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown.  I loved it and thought it was really good.  Both my daughters, granddaughter Kyleigh, grandsons Jaeger, Keaton, and Keaton's girlfriend went.

My husband John used to play the guitar and did plan some Bob Dylan songs, especially "Don't Think Twice".

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If'n you don't know by now
And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It'll never do somehow
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm a-traveling on
But don't think twice, it's all right

And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
But we never did too much talking anyway
But don't think twice, it's all right

So it ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
Like you never done before
And it ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
I can't hear you anymore
I'm a-thinking and a-wonderin' walking down the road
I once loved a woman, a child, I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

So long honey, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
Goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say, "Fare thee well"
I ain't a-saying you treated me unkind
You could've done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

When John sang this song, he would sing it so convincingly and with so much emotion, I was afraid he was ready to walk at the door.

I finally was able to give granddaughter Kyleigh her poncho. 

This next week will be a busy one, I have a Begonia Board Meeting, and a Quilt guild board meeting and Friday will be mini-group quilters at my house, so I will need to get ready for that.  

I was able to pick up my Bernina from the spa this week.  I am looking forward to getting started working on what got interrupted at Christmas when it went wacko.  I was doing free standing lace ornaments for Christmas and got about 1/4 way through and broke a needle and then things were not stitching out right.  I will have to wait till after mini-group though to work on that as I sew on my kitchen table.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching will be either Keaton's beanie or this wool embroidery.

I'll be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  

Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been a couple of weeks since I  last posted, but figured I had better check in on this last Slow Sunday Stitching of 2024.  The past week was full of family activities.  Both my grandsons were home from college.   My daughter Kristen for many years hosted French exchange students in the summer, and one of those students, Martin asked to spend Christmas this year with us.  He is a pilot, and undergoing some training in San Diego, so he flew in to spend Christmas with us.  Grandson Jaeger, and Martin spent two afternoons with me, cutting out motifs with his Cricut to make T-shirts and sweatshirts for family members.

I made my granddaughter Klara a By Annie Pattern called Fetch a Sketch.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture of it when I finished.  

I did finish Kyleigh's poncho before Christmas, but unfortunately could not get it blocked properly, so took it to a cleaner's and had them steam it out, and it came out beautifully.  I got it home and stitched it together.  I plan to give it to Kyleigh in the next couple of days.  

My sister Mary also came for Christmas and stayed with daughter Kristen.  Christmas morning I went to Kristen's house in my PJs at 9 and we had croissants, and opened gifts and stockings.  

Kyleigh and her brothers

Martin, Jaeger, Kyleigh and Keaton

Andrew, Kyleigh's fiancee added to the top

All of us together, with Keaton's girlfriend Giana and my sister Mary sitting next to Jeffrey my son-in-law.

Later on that night, daughter Katie, husband John and grandson John, and Klara joined us for dinner.  

Keaton and girlfriend Giana

Keaton and Martin

My next project is to make a dog coat for Kyleigh's dog Maple.  I got this pattern, but it is not big enough for a Great Dane, but I have made adjustments and my mock-up pattern seems to fit her.  

I also am crocheting  a beanie for grandson Keaton.  He will be going back to college in West Virginia in another month.  

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

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Slow Sunday Stitching

Last week was another busy week.  Sunday I went with daughter Katie and two of her coworkers to see the movie Wicked which I enjoyed quite a bit.  

I finally finished up the Christmas decorations, and got the Christmas village all lit up.   

I also finished up the Christmas baking, and assembled my gift boxes and tins for my friends and family.  

This week I also made some Christmas gifts.  I made some free standing lace ornaments that I thought I had taken a picture of, but they are missing.  I also made two gnomes.   I found the pattern here at Sew She Can.

I had quite the issue with computers this week.  Last week when I was trying to visit blogs for Slow Sunday Stitching, my computer locked up.  I logged on, and then the screen locked up, and I couldn't figure out how to unlock it.  My grandson Keaton came over Wednesday for dinner and was able to disable the lock screen for me.

Then Friday afternoon, after being gone all day at a mini quilt get together, I came home and my I-pad after being charged all day was at 20%.  I spent an hour up at Best Buy, and they put in a claim to Apple, filled out the paperwork, and told me to take it to UPS and they would ship it, and Apple would probably send me a new I-pad.  I pay for Apple Care every month, so it would be no cost to me.  I read every night on my I-pad 2-3 hours before going to sleep, so this was a real inconvenience trying to read on my phone.  

Saturday morning I got up and headed up to UPS and told me they didn't see the paperwork to send it back, it was supposed to come in an email to UPS.  I was informed to go to a UPS hub, not a local store.  

After talking to Kristen, she encouraged me to go to the Apple store and I made an appointment.  The young man that took care of me, rebooted my I-pad and all of a sudden it is charging again.  He told me if it happened again, and rebooting didn't take care of it, Apple would replace it.  So I am a happy camper.  I use my I-pad all the time.

My brother Bill who does beautiful woodworking, sent my Christmas package this week.  I held out 2 days before I opened them up, 2 cute gnomes, a wood tree, and driftwood piece no doubt made by my sister-in-law Char.  

What I am continuing to work on for Slow Sunday Stitching is Kyleigh's poncho.  I have 9 more inches to go and I will be done.  I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  

Thanks for stopping by!  

Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been a busy couple of weeks.  The week before Thanksgiving, daughter Kristen and SIL Jeff went to Irvine to see grandson Keaton and his water polo team from West Virginia in semi-finals which they happened to win.  I took care of their 5 dogs while they were gone.  Keaton was home for two days, then went back to West Virginia the day before Thanksgiving for more practice, as the finals were scheduled in Stanford 2 weeks later, which was this past Friday.  They were up against UCLA, which they lost, so it didn't go any further. Keaton is now home for 2 months.  #15 is my grandson Keaton.  They had a professional photographer that stated on Instagram that it was a pleasure to  to photograph some new teams this year

 This was our Thanksgiving dinner, minus Keaton.

My stepdaughter Dawn was able to join us from Southern California.  We generally go across the street to the park and get pictures for the Christmas cards.  My three daughters.  

Our whole group that included SIL Jeffrey's parents.  Daughter Katie's kids, Klara and John had been sick all week and did not attend.  Also in the picture was John, Katie's husband who apparently was taking the picture.  

This past week I have been putting up Christmas decorations.  I am almost done.  One more thing to do, and I will be finished.  

This week I have also started on my Christmas cookies that I make trays and tins for every year.  

For Slow Sunday Stitching this week, I will be working on granddaughter Kyleigh's poncho .  I have 15 more inches to go.  I will be linking up  Kathy 's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  

I have to apologize if you are normally an anonymous commenter, I had to turn that option off.  I used to allow anonymous comments as I am getting up to 10 spam comments a day for sports betting.  I love hearing from you and am sorry I had to do this, but it was necessary.  

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