HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching

It's been another crazy busy week.  I was preparing for Community Service workday at my house on Wednesday, and preparing to leave for a retreat, which I left for immediately after we finished workday.

Wednesday also happened to be my day of the Monster Mash Blog Hop.  If you didn't get a chance to see my projects, you can read about them here.   I got a little crazy cutting projects out on my Cricut.  

I was also working on presents for my granddaughter Klara's 10th birthday which is the 29th.  Klara loves all sorts of animals, and I found this cute sloth flannel, and decided to make her a pair of PJ bottoms.  I also bought a T-shirt and cut out a sloth motif on my Cricut and used iron-on vinyl.  

The plan was to use the sloth die I got for my Accuquilt, and embroider the cutout down with my embroidery machine and make a little wall hanging.  My embroidery machine had other ideas, and decided to freeze on one screen, and it needed to go into the shop.  So I guess the wall hanging will be a Christmas gift.  I went to TJ Max and found the little sloth stuffed animal, but it is also a warming device you can put in the microwave as a heating pad.

I also bought another T-shirt and cut out this design.

And I made a little tote bag.  A girl can never have too many totes.  

We plan to have a family dinner at my house on Sunday night for Klara's BD.  She might be taller than me by Sunday.  This was taken a month or two ago.  

After our two-hour work day on Wednesday I headed up to our retreat, which was held in Jackson, CA, a quaint little town about an hour from where I live.  It is like going back in time 100 years.  It was hard to get good pictures as the street we were on was so narrow.  The National Hotel had recently been renovated and reopened.  My bed was cozy and except for some very noisy occupants of adjacent rooms, I slept pretty good.  They arranged for us to work in a building adjacent to the hotel, and it was nicely done.  What was great about this place as you walk through town almost every other building was an antique shop.  I loved it!  Another thing I really loved was the Serbian Bakery/Blue Door Bakery right across the street from the hotel.  I had a delicious Caprese Sandwich one day, and absolutely the best focaccia I have every tasted.  I bought one, and one night I had it and some tomato soup for dinner, and I brought the leftovers home had it with some homemade frozen chicken orzo soup.  I might have to make another trip of to Jackson one of these days, really soon!

These are the projects I worked on while I was there.  I put some borders on this embroidery I had been working on.  It was a Bird Brain Design.  I just need to quilt it.

The center of this next one was a wool panel called Autumn Harvest by Bonnie Sullivan.  I had bought the panel and a striped fabric with hose flowers in the center of the sawtooth stars.  Then I came across this free pattern on her website, and ordered a FQ bundle so I could make the different colored sawtooth stars.  I'm waiting for my order of more of the striped border use for the borders.  After I fussy-cut all those centers, I don't have enough.

This is the last thing I worked on at the retreat.  Storm at Sea Blocks for my lighthouse quilt.  At the last retreat I had started putting components together, but hadn't cut out enough pieces for the 22 blocks.  I cut out more prepping for this retreat and starting assembling components.  So I finished 2 complete blocks.  

This will be what I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching, and the Hand Quilt Along for the next couple of weeks.    I found about this on Facebook, on the Woolie Friends Stitch Along Group.  This was block 1.  

This is the whole quilt.

You can find the links for all the blocks here on Calico Patch Designs.

The Hand Quilt Along Links are below:

This Hand Quilt Along is an opportunity for hand quilters and piecers to share and motivate one another. We post every three weeks, to show our progress and encourage one another.  If you have a hand quilting project and would like to join our group contact Kathy at the link below.

Kathy, Margaret, Deb, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and Connie

I will be linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head on over and see what people are up to there.  

Thanks for stopping by!