The Dust off A Quilt Book Blog Hop starts today hosted by Bea @Beaquilter. Thanks so much to Bea for hosting this again this year. I look forward to seeing what everyone has been working on! The full schedule is below.
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February is National Embroidery Month, and I seem to have been keeping busy with embroidery in the evenings. I finished this squirrel piece from the Kathy Schmitz One Stitch at a Time Embroidery Club.
I'll be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching. Head on over and check what everyone has been up to!
What I am spending my Saturday evening doing is ripping out this free motion quilting I did on my project for the Dust Off a Quilt Book that starts on Monday. I started quilting and checked my tension on the back and it looked fine. I was 2/3 done quilting and I checked the tension again on the back, and it looked like this, so therefore I am ripping out the bad part. I have a lot of eyelashes on the back.
Last week, Barbara @Cat Patches had a post about going back to the area she grew up in, Oceanside/Vista area in Southern California. This led me to looking up online to what the house we lived in looked like now.
I was born in Maryland, and we moved to Vista, California in 1964 when I was 14. My parents bought this house, that had property, about 1-3/4 acres. We had fig trees on the left side of the house, lemon trees in the back of the house. As you are looking at the house out front, to the right there were eucalyptus trees and kamquats between our house and the neighbors. I The house was originally a builders personal home that was built in 1959. It was painted yellow, with white trim. All I have is this black and white picture. It was a very pretty property and a great place to grow up.
After I saw Barbara's post, I started looking up our property. My parents lived there until the early 80's I think. I had to try to remember our address, and I finally pinpointed it by knowing the neighbor's that lived behind us.
This is apparently the property now. I almost didn't recognize it. It is owned by some plumbers. I don't know if it is a residence or business now. I almost didn't recognize it, with almost all the vegetation down, and the barn off to the side.
The Dust off A Quilt Book Blog Hop starts next week, hosted by Bea @Beaquilter. I look forward to this one every year. My day is Tuesday.
Monday 3/1
Tuesday 3/2
Wednesday 3/3
Thursday 3/4
Friday 3/5
Thanks for stopping by!
All information about the SAHRR, Stay at Home Round Robin can be found here at Quilting Gail with all the previous weeks' prompts.
Week 6's prompt for the round was by Susan at Quilt Fabrication which was log cabins. I've always avoided log cabin blocks, mainly because when I first started quilting, my stitching was not even, and my log cabin blocks did not go together the way they were supposed to. You could probably call them wonky log cabins. I actually found they were not as bad as I remembered, perhaps I might be a better piecer!
I made 4 log cabin blocks for this round but did not attach them yet. I am waiting till next week's last round by Quilting Gail to see what I want to do. I might make more log cabins at that time. My top right now is measuring about 52 inches square.
I'll be linking up to Quilt Fabrication.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Time to link up One Monthly Goal finishes for February at Elm Street Quilts. I really appreciate this monthly motivation by Patty and all she does!
I stated my one monthly goal here to make a project for the Show Your Stripes Blog Hop. I am happy to say that I finished my project. You can read about it here and see the list of participants and their projects. Although I only used the middle right fabric for the back, I used completely different fabrics for my stripes project.
Linking up to Elm Street Quilts for One Monthly Goal. Thanks again to Patty and all she does to keep us motivated!
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It's been a busy week since last Sunday. I am satisfied I have had a very good week, getting caught up, and organizing my sewing room. Actually I am sewing in the kitchen where I can hear John when he wakes, and knocks on the wall. So right now it is supply room.
If I sew in the room it is on this counter in front of the lamp on the left side. Last week this counter was completely covered with "stuff" I had set there when I had taken the shelf down and evaluating whether I wanted to keep "stuff" or not. This is it in its clean and tidy state.
Those three drawers under the counter on the right side are part of my Civil War reproduction stash, sorted by color. I reorganized them, as it had gotten a bit of a mess.
The rest of my Civil War reproduction stash including neutrals and browns were in a similar drawer in the closet, located behind these containers of cut up scraps on the left. So every time I wanted one of those fabrics, I would have to move everything to get them.
I decided to put something else in that drawer behind those containers, and put the Civil War neutrals and browns in a container that fits underneath the counter, so they are more accessible.
In cleaning up one of my piles of "stuff" I found my Christmas napkins that had been set aside because they needed ironing. I finally got that done too!
I also managed to get some sewing done. I finished this last Ella Maria block. There are some puckers, but it is staying the way it is. The newest 4 blocks came out earlier this week.
I also was able to make the news Hands All Around block #2 by Barbara Brackman @ Civil War Quilts.
A private Christmas mystery BOM
In addition, I was getting ready to prep the last 2 Cassandra's Circle blocks by Barbara Brackman, @ Civil War Quilts. I decided to lay the blocks out on the floor to see what fabrics I would use next, when I discovered I wasn't two blocks behind, but 4 blocks behind. I probably stopped being able to keep up monthly when John had his problems back in November.
I've got the four months of templates cut out, now just need to prep the blocks. I will be working on these as my slow stitching project this week.
Also I will be slowly stitching on this One Stitch At a Time block from last year by Kathy Schmitz of this squirrel.
I'll be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching. Head on over there and see what everyone has been up to!
Remember Monday is the start of the Show Your Stripes Blog Hop. My day is on Tuesday.
Thanks for stopping by!
