Slow Sunday Stitching, Chasing Squirrels Last Week

 Another busy week has passed.  This week was Begonia Meeting and I was one of the members that was providing refreshments.  The other member was bringing fixings for nachos, so I tried to coordinate my refreshments to go with hers.  I made this Mexican Street Corn Pasta Salad, Pina Colada Fruit Salad.  I also made three cookie bars, Pecan Squares, Soft Pumpkin Cookies, and Raspberry Almond Linzer Shortbread.  I literally was cooking all day, but everything was a hit.

Wednesday was guild meeting, and afterwards I spent about 1-1/2 hours at my internet office trying to get a problem sorted out.  

My daughters have some friends that get together for dinner on people's birthdays.  I got invited because they were celebrating my daughter Katie's BD and Suzanne, both of whom have August birthdays, but various reasons got delayed celebrating.  It was a fun evening.  

Friday afternoon granddaughter Kyleigh and I went to lunch at a nursery that has a cafe that is always in popular demand.  Kyleigh obtained the last reservation of the week.  

I might have chased a couple of squirrels last week.  I had all my Halloween fabrics out from making my friend Jandra's Tired of Trickin Quilt.

Then this past week I participated in the Gremlins, Goblins and Ghouls, Oh My Blog Hop.  You can read about it here.  This was my project.  My Ghoulish Gnomes.

The first squirrel I chased that wasn't on my original plan for the week was to make my granddaughter Kyleigh a Halloween table runner.  She had been over the week before, and in mixed with my Halloween fabrics were some Halloween orphan blocks from a long, long ago swap I was in.   She liked them, and the Boo fabric.  So I decided to make her a table runner, and give it to her at the luncheon.  I finished it about an hour before I left.   The little ghost block was from a swapper in the Netherlands!

The next squirrel I chased was after reading a post by Carol Swift @Just Let Me Quilt.    She had designed this quilt, Who's Looking At You.  I thought my daughters would like it, so I cut two out.  They are all prepared for quilting.  Unfortunately I didn't read the directions before I cut and fused all my pieces, where it said everything had been reversed.  I reversed them myself, so my versions are opposite the pattern.  They were such big pieces, and I had used so much fusible and fabric, I left them as they were.  

I think I can put my Halloween fabrics away now.  Plus about 6-7 ladies from the guild are coming over next Wednesday for workday at my house, so I need to clean up my work areas anyway.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is putting the binding on my brother's quilt and sewing it down by hand.  I wasn't able to work on it last week, I had a lot going on chasing those squirrels.  

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head on over and check out what everyone has been up to.  

To top things off on Saturday night, I went to put some of my leftovers from this week in the microwave.  It wouldn't work.  I tried unplugging it and plugging it back in.  Nothing.  A little while later I tried warming up a cup of water.  All of a sudden it went on.  I put my dinner in, and it would not work.  I looked inside and apparently we bought it in 2014, I guess it was tired.  I ended up going to Home Depot and getting a new microwave.  What a pain!  

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