HQAL, SLOW SUNDAY STITCHING

 It  has been a very busy couple of weeks.  Two Saturdays ago was our neighborhood garage sale, and I spent all week gathering items and pricing them to have nothing much sold, just 25 cent items, or free items.  I did sell one of my knitting machines and some attachments though.  I plan to put the other one, and all of its components on sale on a Facebook group especially to sell  knitting machines and attachments.  

Last weekend was our guilds Red and White Extravaganza Show.  Other items were in the show, but the major categories were red and white quilts.  These are what I entered.

My mini-quilt group embroidered and quilted this cat one.  

These were some of the other beautiful quilts.  

I snagged quite a few items at our Country Store.  I got 2 hexie quilt tops for $10 each, and a bunch of vintage hexie blocks, and Grandma's Flower Garden and 20 Sunbonnet Sue blocks.

The last day of the show an elderly woman came in with a vintage double wedding ring quilt.  It was made by her grandmother for her father.   She talked to our member who was working admissions and they came over to me.  She was wondering if it could be restored.  I asked if I could bring it home with me to assess.  It wasn't too bad, needs some patches replaced, and needs to be re-bound.  I told her I would do it, it might take 6 months, and she was happy with that.  I went in an old dresser I have, I used to purchase vintage blocks off Ebay.  I found a double wedding ring block I am going to use the fabrics in it to replace some of the bad patches.  She said it brought tears to her eyes when I said I would do it.  Hard to take a good picture of it.  

I have continued working on the #scrappymeetsthrift challenge on Instagram hosted by Taryn #reproquilt lover.  I think I am up to 85 blocks out of 240.

I am also participating in the 100 hexies challenge by @sewfoxymama on Instagram.  I am up to 63.  I am going to use part of them as the front of a zippered supply case.  

The morning of our last day of the quilt show, I went to straighten out this staghorn fern on the side of my fireplace.  It was crooked.  It hangs about 6 feet up and is on a 2x4 that I had thoroughly soaked the day before so it was really heavy.   I tried moving it with one hand.  It came off the wall and hit me in the face just as I was about to leave for the quilt show.  It scraped off some skin, so I put a Bandaid on it and went to the show.  

The next day it started bruising.  I will be attending my grandson Jaeger's college graduation with a black eye, hopefully a little lighter in color.  

For Slow Sunday Stitching I will be working on this month's Liberty's Bird from Civil War Quilts by Barbara Brackman.

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching, and  Frédérique @Quiltingpatch.

Check out the Hand Quilt Along Links Below.

Hand Quilt Along Links

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, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and Laura

Thanks for stopping by!

Scrap Happy May

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.

I continue to work on the Potato Chip blocks for my guild's Community Service.  Last month my daughter and I made up 6 kits to take to our 5th Wednesday sew day.  We take our machines and either quilt, or put together a top.  The six kits took up 1224, 2-1/2 x 4-1/2 pieces.  I need to get cutting up scraps again.  I have some blocks done   I have 2 more blocks to do, these are flannel.

I also continue to use scraps in the Scrappy Meets Thrift Challenge on Instagram.  I have a bunch of scraps cut out.   I am using my Civil War reproduction scraps.  This is hosted by Taryn @reproquiltlover.

These are this weeks 2 inch economy blocks.  

I am also participating in the 100 hexies challenge on Instagram by @sewfoxymama.    These are some I made this week.

That's it for this month.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching

 It has been a busy couple of weeks.  I didn't have time last week to post, my oldest daughter and her family went back to South Dakota to a friend's daughter's wedding, and I had the pleasure of taking care of 4 of my grand dogs.  Apparently I overfed them treats when getting them back in their kennels, they were looking at me with such sad eyes though.  My daughter said I was a sucker!

Last week I received a great package.  I won an Island Batik FQ pack for participating in the Stay at Home Round Robin this year.

Last week I was able to finish the Civil War Mini Sew Along by Kathleen Tracy on Facebook.  

I also got caught up on the Scrap Meets Thrift Challenge by Reproquiltlover on Instagram.  These are 2 inch blocks and I now have 70 made out of 250.

This week I finished quilting my last entry for our quilt show in two weeks.  I just need to sew the binding down, and the label on. 

Check out the Hand Quilt Along Links below.

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, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and Laura

I will be working on my binding for Slow Sunday Stitching.

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching, and  Frédérique @Quiltingpatch.

Slow Sunday Stitching

These weeks seem to be flying by.  I had my hair appointment this week, and that feels much better with it a bit shorter.  I am not good at selfies, or I would take a picture.  

This week was also pin basting day for our Community Service of our guild.  

The rest of the week I had to myself, which I loved.  I worked on one of the quilts I am entering in our guild's quilt show.  We had room, so I could enter a quilt that was not red and white.

I had my For the Bees quilt, which consists of a bunch of bee embroideries that I stitched from Kathy's Schmitz's embroidery patterns.  

This is the back.  I found this cute panel for the back. 

I've been working on the Civil War Mini quilt by Kathleen Tracy.  I have a bit of quilting left to do, and sewing the binding down.  

I also embroidered this piece.  I am going to make a small tote bag for granddaughter Klara.  I thought I would put he Easter Candy in it.  It was by Joy @Days Filled with Joy

I also finished 12 more blocks of the Econony blocks for the #scrappymeetsthriftychallenge hosted by Taryn @reproquiltlover.  I have 50 blocks done out of 250.  They are 2-1/2 inch blocks.  I am using up my Civil War reproduction scraps.  

I have been working a bit on the yard this week.  My wisteria is blooming.  I am trying to get it to wind around the trellis gate at the end of the garden.

In my new garden, at one end I planted succulents I had had in pots.  This one has gotten huge and is blooming.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is the binding on the Civil War Mini, and sewing label on my bee quilt.

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching and Frédérique @Quiltingpatch.

Thanks for stopping by!

HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching

 

It was another busy week.  Tuesday morning I had a quilt guild board meeting and in the evening the Begonia Society board meeting was at my house.  There were 8 of us in attendance and I made sesame chicken and broccoli for dinner and brownies for dessert.  The rest of my week I have been trying to catch up on my projects.  Before the Begonia dinner though, I quilted my On the Road Again table runner.  

Last week in slow stitching, I finished the hand quilting on this.  I intend to make a pillow cover and it will be entered in our red and white quilt show in May.  It was started by a friend's mother in the guild who passed away last year.  She had cut out the Hawaiian applique, and had it basted, I appliqued it and quilted it.  

I also finished the Civil War Mini stitch along by Kathleen Tracy on Facebook.  I am in the process of hand quilting it.

 I got 10 more blocks done for the Scrap Meets Thrift Challenge on Instagram hosted by @reproquiltlover.  I am up to 38/250 2 inch blocks.  These are all made out of my Civil War reproduction scraps.

I also finished the first block on Barbara Brackman's new block of the month, Liberty's Birds.  

I have also been quilting on another quilt show entry.

I need to figure out what I am doing with the white part.  most of the other is quilted.

Saturday was my dear husband John's BD, he would have been 82.  This picture is one of my favorite.  We went to get family pictures, and he asked if he could bring his guitar for some pictures too.

My girls and their families that were in town went to our favorite Mexican Restaurant where John and I had gone to since we moved to town.  

Grandson Keaton was home several days for Spring Break, but was headed back to West Virginia Saturday night.  

I will be working on the Civil War Mini quilt above for Slow Sunday Stitching.  I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts.  

The links for the Hand Quilt Along are below.

Hand Quilt Along Links

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, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, Connie and Laura

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

 It was another busy, fun-filled week.

The week started out on Monday going to Half Moon Bay with granddaughter Kyleigh, and her dog Maple.  The weather was perfect, in the 70's, we had a beautiful day on the beach, and had a great lunch in town at a Mexican restaurant, I can't remember the name.

Maple met a friend to play with on the beach who happened to have 3 legs.

We ended our day in Half Moon Bay by visiting the orchid nursery.  I bought 3 and Kyleigh bought 1.  That huge one was on clearance for $18. I found out why when I got home and repotted it.  The roots were half dead, but they should be able to recover not being crunched in that super tight plastic container.  We found out there is a new orchid place the next building over.  Maybe next time we will visit that one too.

Wednesday was workday at my house for our Community Service where we cut batting and binding and bag them up to get ready for pin basting day in a couple of weeks.  

This week I was able to get a baby quilt top put together.  My daughter Kristen requested it for a coworker that is having a baby.   I used my Accuquilt to cut out the stars, and the kitty, fox and frog applique dies.  The blocks I made at day camp last week.  Hopefully I will get a chance to quilt it this next week.  

I also finished a few blocks for the Scrap Meets Thrift Challenge by @reproquiltlover on Instagram.  These are 2 inch blocks.

I also got this week's block done on the Kathleen Tracy Civil War Mini Quilt on Facebook.  

This week was also the start of Barbara Brackman's new applique BOM for 2025,  Liberty Birds.   I got my pieces cut out and am ready to applique.

This next Tuesday I have two board meetings, the Quilt Guild Board Meeting in the morning and Begonia Society Board Meeting is meeting at my house in the evening.  I have been trying to get my yard cleaned up before they get here, lots of weeds and to make sure there are no frozen begonia's sitting by my front door.  Several died or had all the leaves fall off in our frost earlier this year.  They should come back, I just didn't want them out front.   I did get this done, and my back mowed in anticipation of the rain we are supposed to have the first part of the week.  

As if I don't have enough to do to get ready, I got it in my mind to quilt a table runner I made last year for the On the Road Again blog hop.  I don't have any table runners, except this unfinished one.  I've got it loaded up, ready to quilt on Sunday.  I want to get it finished before the board members come over Tuesday night.  It should only take about 2 passes on the machine.  

I have been working on my hand quilting this piece.  I just have the red applique to quilt.  This will be in our Red and White Quilt Show in May.  I am finishing it into a pillow for a friend of mine in the guild.  Her mother passed away last year, and I finished the applique, and am almost finished quilting it.  I will gift it to my friend and her sister after the show.  

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

In my walking around the park this week, the California Poppies are blooming.  

Thanks for stopping by!