Slow Sunday Stitching

Last Sunday ended up with no slow stitching being done at all, but an adventure instead.  Daughter Kristen called around lunchtime and asked if she could borrow my car, or have me drive up to Lake Tahoe.  Grandson Keaton had been snowboarding with his buddies for the first time and ended up falling and breaking his collarbone.  She didn't have a 4-wheel drive,  so I drove us up to Lake Tahoe.  We left about 11:30 a.m. or so.  I have never driven in snow but my car did just fine.  There were multiple stops to make sure you had chains or 4-wheel drive, and parts of the trip were 30 miles an hour.  We stopped for lunch before we headed back home. 

 

He was supposed to have an orthopedic consult on Friday.  Apparently he is just supposed to wear the sling, and it should heal fine.   On getting back on the freeway, traffic was at a halt for about 45 minutes or so.  We would move 2 inches up every couple of minutes.  Eventually a couple of police headed down the road and traffic picked up.  We ended up getting home about 7:45 p.m.

Otherwise this week besides Monday choir practice was relatively free of social activities.  I have worked on things this week which I can't show yet.

I worked on my quilt guild challenge which I need to have done by the February meeting on the 15th.  The challenge was to make something that makes your heart sing.   What makes my heart sing is the ocean, mermaids, whales, anything to do with the ocean.  Several years ago my hearing aid practitioner's husband drew me a mermaid.  I have been wanting to do a collage quilt, so I have worked this week on putting this project together.   I have everything fused down, and it is ready to quilt now.  The tail doesn't show up right now, I am going to have to do a lot of thread painting on the tail to get it to show up better.

I have also been doing some machine embroidery.   My grandson Jaeger got me a sweatshirt for Christmas, and I decided I wanted to have an embroidered mermaid on it.  I used dissolvable stabilizer on this one.  I still need to attach it to the sweatshirt.  The color of the sweatshirt is mint green not gray.  

While the embroidery machine is working, I ended up cutting out a graduation quilt for granddaughter Kyleigh's boyfriend.    This will also be my project for the Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop coming up in March.  I ended up doing this, which I ended up taking out.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching this week, are hand-quilting the sunflower quilt, and also this redwork.  It is a Birdbrain Designs Pattern.  

I'll be linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.    Head on over and check out what everyone is working on.  

There are some blog hops coming up that I am involved in.  

Sew It-Show It:  Sweet On You hosted by Moosestash Quilting.  My day is February 20th.

Dust Off a Quilt Book hosted by Beaquilter.  My day is March 10th.  

Sew It-Show It:  Little Green Apples, hosted by Just Let Me Quilt.  My day is March 21st.