Slow Sunday Stitching

It's been a particularly busy week, but I knew it would be.  

Sunday I went over to my older daughter's house to see my new grandpuppy.  His name is Hank and he is so cute.  Piggy, the pug runs around barking at him, wanting Hank to play with him.  In fact Hank wore Piggy out the other day, Piggy decided to hide behind Jeff, my SIL to rest!  There are actually 4 dogs, but Daisy was apparently not captured on the second picture.  

This week I had Begonia Society meeting, and was one of the ones in charge of refreshments.

The next day, Wednesday was our guild meeting.  At guild meeting they had a selection of panels we could choose from.  The purpose is to make quilts or tops for our Community Service.   A number of our members got up and showed examples of how you could take a panel and add on to it to make a quilt, adding various blocks etc., instead of just adding plain borders. If we liked a panel we could purchase it for $5.  I got 3 panels and paid for 2.

I'm thinking about keeping the middle one, or maybe the last one.  Maybe I'll give all of them to Community Service.  We have until October to finish, bring in a top or finished quilt.  If you bring in a finished quilt you are eligible for some sort of prize.

Thursday evening was for setting up the quilt show.  I signed up to check the quilts, and then helped place them on the rods they were going to be hung up on.

Friday I worked in various positions from Community Service Table to our Community Service Raffle Table.  The opportunity quilt was called Bed of Roses.  It had been started by a woman who passed away and was donated to our guild who finished it.  It was a gorgeous quilt, but I didn't win!

Saturday my assignment was to help catch the quilts as they came down, fold them up and put in alphabetical order by the name of the members and getting their quilts ready to be picked up.

One of my mini-group members, Nancy Johnson was the Featured Quilter this year.  I decided to sit with her all day Saturday and keep her company.  Nancy is a very prolific quilt, and I love her applique quilts, especially the one sitting behind her.  It is a queen sized fall quilt she designed herself.  In fact she designs most all of her quilts.  Last year she donated 43 quilts to Community Service, and this year so far I think she has done 12-14.  These are just some of Nancy's quilts.

These are some of the other quilts in the show.

My daughters and granddaughter had an opportunity to come over on Friday and see the quilts I entered below.

I look forward to a bit quieter week, although I need to give my house a good cleaning.  Community Service ladies meet at my house on Wednesday for cutting batting and binding.  I look forward to working outside.  We are getting into the 80's, and because of all the rain we have gotten recently , I have tons of weeds.  

My wisteria is looking really pretty, as is this Cymbidium orchid.  

What I will be working on this week for Slow Sunday Stitching is one of my Ella Maria Deacon blocks.  I have 3 applique blocks to applique, and 2 pieced blocks and I can start putting this together.  After John passed away, I sort of set this aside, but I am ready to finish it up now.  I worked on this while I was sitting with Nancy our Featured quilter. 

I am also still working on this Kathy Schmitz stitch along.  

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

Thanks for stopping by!