Slow Stitching Sunday

 Another busy week has passed, and I feel I accomplished quite a bit.  This week I finished the quilting and binding on the Frolic Quilt, which which is a gift for granddaughter Kyleigh's college roommate.  She is going back to Boston in a couple of weeks and will give it to her roommate then.  

Grandson Jaeger came over to pick up his going back to college cookies and I took advantage of having a tall young man over here to hold it up.  He headed back to college in New Mexico this week, with his dad, and a stop at Disneyland along the way.  

I also finished quilting on this one.  This is a guild quilt I started quilting on 5th Wednesday in November.  I didn't have time to finish it then, but finished it this week.  I didn't make it, and I didn't bind it.  There are people in my guild that just like to put the binding on.  

This is also a guild quilt I hope to get quilted by next Wednesday, so I can put in the binding pile too.  The reason why this wasn't put out on the general machine quilting pile was of those huge plain blocks.  So I offered to do it myself.  I have it loaded up and ready to go, threaded and plenty of bobbins wound.  I am just going to meander all over.  

At pin basting this week with the guild, I pin basted one of my personal quilts.  I am planning to quilt this on my domestic machine so I can do more detailed work.  This is another one I would like to get done to be entered in the quilt show this year.  

This was a 1995 BOM by Laurene Sinema called Father Christmas.  She was the founder of Arizona Quilter's Guild.  For 25 years she owned the Quilted Apple Shop in Phoenix, Arizona.  In 1998 I went to a quilt convention in Phoenix and met Susan Nixon @Desertsky Quilts.  I bought one or two of the above BOM, and then when I got home I asked Susan if she would go get the rest of them for me.   I started this around 1999 with the guy up in the right hand corner, and he hung around my sewing room lonely until around 2018 when I started working on a few blocks at a time.  I finally completed the top in 2020.  It is high time for this to be finished.  

I would also like to enter this one, Hospital Sketches which was a BOM with Barbara Brackman which I finished in 2020.  If I get the above quilt quilted before our next pin basting day the first part of February I will take this to be pin-basted.  

I have been working on a lot of secret things too.  I have been embroidering with my while I am working on my Shades of Blue Blog Hop project.  I was piecing a bunch of strips together today, and then looked at the back side and saw this.  

Apparently I didn't have the bobbin thread properly hooked up.  

It has been raining like crazy here.  I have been keeping inside for the most part.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching, my sunflower quilt.   I have also been working on it every evening.  I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.   Check out what everyone has been up to.  

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