HQAL. Slow Sunday Stitching

Another week flew by.  I didn't get much sewing done this week.  I had quilt guild workday at my house this week, so I needed to clean house and get things set up.  I also did a deep clean of my bedroom.  I vacuum my bedroom, but don't generally dust.  So I did this week.  I also had gotten some new sheers because the old ones had disintegrated over years of being in a window that gets afternoon sun.  I noticed the drapes were also dusty too, so I moved furniture, washed drapes and vacuumed really well before I put the new sheers and clean drapes up.  

This week I had also hired a handyman do do a couple of things.  I needed to have my shower re-caulked so I did a thorough cleaning of my bathroom too.  The handyman re-caulked my shower and around the kitchen sink, hung a new lamp out in my garage because one of mine had the ballasts go out.  He also took down a cabinet that used to hold BBQ tools that John had made, and hung it in the shed where I have a potting bench.  I figured I could hang my potting tools.

Part of my orchids in the house were suffering after my 2 weeks of no AC, so I repotted them.  

Last Sunday we celebrated my youngest grandson John's 14th BD for a dinner out. My two youngest grandchildren will probably be taller than me the next time I see them!

On Saturday this week, my oldest daughter Kristen and I went on the Alzheimer's Walk with some of her former coworkers.  They all work for the same organization, in different locations.

I've gotten 3 new T-shirts the past couple of weeks!  The turquoise is my color.  

The best thing about these walks is that we usually go out to brunch afterwards.

This week I did get September's Woven Wreaths done.

What I will be working on this Sunday for Slow Sunday Stitching is my Witch Hazel, I got quite a bit stitched this week.

I also hope to continue stitching on block 1 of Folk Art Sampler by Bonnie Sullivan.  I am getting it as a BOM from Shabby Fabrics.  

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 also be linking up for Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.   Check out what everyone is working on.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Bee Kind Blog Hop Challenge, My Day

 

The Bee Kind Blog Hop Challenge started on Monday, hosted by the amazing Joan @Moosestash Quilting.  Today I get to share my kind projects, and bee project.  Thanks so much to Joan for another amazing hop, and a chance to finish up one of my undone projects.

The challenge this time is to show our "kind projects", favorite charity project, a free pattern or anything that shows we spread a little kindness, everywhere we go.  Of course Bee projects of all kinds fit in there too.  

I am a co-chair of the Community Service section of my local guild, and have donated quite a few quilts.  Recently I have been hooked on making the potato chip blocks with my scraps.  Here are two I donated to my guild.

Recently a lady joined our guild who gathers handmade quilts, fabric, funds for supplies to make quilts.  The organization is called Christmas Quilts for Recovery.  These quilts are given Christmas Day to burn patients at UC Davis Hospital Burn Center and children at Shriner's Hospital for Children to let them know they aren't forgotten at Christmas.   Roxie and another guild member recently had a sewing day to make quilt tops.  I was not able to go but donated two tops.

Last week at our guild meeting, I donated the top I made for the Its a Jungle Blog Hop to the Christmas Quilts For Recovery.  

For my Bee Kind project, I have been working on Kathy Schmitz embroidery for several years, and many of them had bees.  I got them all together and embroidered a couple of more and put them together.  When I found out about the Bee Kind Blog Hop, I purchased a layer cake that had a lot of bees in it, and also a lot of sunflowers, and I used them for a piano key border.

The entire list of bloggers is below.  Be sure and visit them and see what they have come up with.  

Monday Sept 23

MooseStashQuilting.com

Words & Stitches

Selina Qullts

Just  Sew  Quilter

Scrapdash 

Tuesday Sept 24

Patchouli Moon Studio

Quilted Snail

Quilt Schmilt

Quilted Delights

Hazels Daughter

Wednesday Sept 25

BeaQuilter

Karrin's Crazy World

That Fabric Feeling

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilting Between the Rails

Thursday Sept 26^th

Just Let Me Quilt

Ms P Designs USA

Quilting Gail

Songbird Designs

There will be a Pinterest board too:  

https://www.pinterest.com/moosestashq/bee-kind-blog-hop/

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

 Another busy week has flown by.  I don't know where the weeks go.  I had a couple of appointments this week, a dermatology appointment and got a spot frozen.  I also had an eye appointment this week, and got my flu shot while I was there.  

This week was also Begonia Society meeting, followed the next day by guild meeting.

I also finally got my heat pump fixed and have AC again, just in time for our weather ramping back up into the 90's again. I also got my spare tire/sensor fixed back on my car and I didn't have to pay anything for that, probably because my SIL Jeff has a used car dealership across the street and does business with the company.

I fired the company that put the fan blade on the new heat pump motor last year.  It should not have fallen off if they tightened it right, or checked it in April when they serviced the unit.  I also fired the home warranty company that only pays for normal routine wear and tear.

I also got a new Iphone 15 pro this past week.  My old phone was having problems.  Blue tooth was not working, my daughters would call and the call would not go through.  I'm having a little trouble syncing my photos to my PC though.

I worked on my yard a bit since it is a little cooler in the morning.  The Mexican sunflower is really getting tall, I had to stake it up.

I've been planning a new garden area, up against the back of the house.  I've got black cloth to kill the grass.  I got 5 cement blocks to go around the perimeter as an edge.  I will get a few at a time.  Thankfully granddaughter Kyleigh's fiance Andrew helped me bring them to the backyard. I plan to cut the tree looking trumpet vine to the ground.  It is falling over, and will definitely come back.

The only thing I sewed on this past week was my project for the Bee Kind Blog Hop Challenge which starts on Monday.  

What I will be working on this week will be Witch Hazel

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Also I need to finish up September's Woven Wreaths.

I keep meaning to show what I purchased recently from selahcreativecompany.com.  She has these laser cut bobbin sets that you can wrap your embroidery threads around.  I bought the one with cats, but there are woodland creatures, bunnies, llama's and all sorts of animals.  Mine has 15 bobbins.

I found this on Facebook recently.

Thanks for stopping by!

Bee Kind Blog Hop Challenge Starts Monday

  

The Bee Kind Blog Hop Challenge starts next week, hosted by the amazing Joan @Moosestash Quilting.

The challenge this time is to show our "kind projects", favorite charity project, a free pattern or anything that shows we spread a little kindness, everywhere we go.  Of course Bee projects of all kinds fit in there too.  

Monday Sept 23

MooseStashQuilting.com

Words & Stitches

Selina Qullts

Just  Sew  Quilter

Scrapdash 

Tuesday Sept 24

Patchouli Moon Studio

Quilted Snail

Quilt Schmilt

Quilted Delights

Hazels Daughter

Wednesday Sept 25

BeaQuilter

Karrin's Crazy World

That Fabric Feeling

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Quilting Between the Rails

Thursday Sept 26^th

Just Let Me Quilt

Ms P Designs USA

Quilting Gail

Songbird Designs

There will be a Pinterest board too:  

https://www.pinterest.com/moosestashq/bee-kind-blog-hop/

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

It was another busy week, and unfortunately no sewing or quilting got done.  My heat pump is still out, with our weather last week has been in the 100's, to high 90s.  Tuesday the Home Warranty HVAC guy came out, and after 10 minutes looking at the fan blade, the company determined this was not normal wear and tear and they weren't paying anything.  I had the number of an HVAC company one of my Begonia Society friends had used and recommended, and they came out a couple of hours later, and have ordered a new fan blade, which hopefully will arrive early next week, and I will have A/C again.

Due to it being 85+ in the house, even with fans, I didn't feel the urge or motivation to  to sew.  I mostly binge read last week.  I read about 10 of Joan DeMaio's Seaside Saga series.  I think I am caught up now.  

I have also been having a problem with the tire sensors in my car.  I had 2 replaced last year before I got my new tires.  The sensor indicator came on again 3 weeks ago.  So I made an appointment at Costco to have my tires rotated, and 2 more sensors put in.   Then a week later the indicator went off again, and I took it to a tire place across from my SIL's used car lot.  They told me nothing was wrong, but Costco had put on my spare upside down so you couldn't read the sensor.  They fixed that.  Then 2 days later it went off again, and I drove my car back 17 miles over to the same place.  Apparently when Costco put the new sensor in they damaged my 2008 spare tire.  So I need to drive back over next week to get a new spare tire, or a fixed one.

All of this stuff has sort of got me down.

Saturday, I went with my two daughters and some of her coworkers for the hospital system she works with down to the American Heart Association walk.  My husband John had heart disease so I was happy to do it.  We went for a really nice brunch afterwards.

We got some really nice turquoise T-shirts.  

My garden sadly needs a lot of work done.  It has been too blasted hot to do much.  My hydrangeas this year didn't bloom much at all because of the heat.  

I planted Mexican Sunflowers from seed and this one is huge.

I was able to repot my new begonias and arrange them by my front door.

This begonia is planted in the ground.  It died off a little bit from frost last year, but came back very nicely.

The plant next to the coleus is a begonia called Freddie.

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is Witch Hazel.  

I'll be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  

Thanks for stopping by!  

HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching, Long Post

It has been a busy, jam-packed couple of weeks.  After the It's a Jungle Blog Hop on July 19th, it there was guild meeting.  We presented our guild president Linda Jo with her President's quilt.  She had Sunbonnet Sue blocks from a previous presidency members had made her and asked that it be made into a quilt and quilted.  When she was a girl her grandmother made her a Sunbonnet Sue quilt, and after her grandmother died, her uncle gave it away.

We also presented quilts to a Native American Father's group.  One of our members hand pieced these star quilts.  

The day after there was our guild's 4-day Day Camp.  We take all our stuff over to a Veteran's Hall and set up, and are able to leave things for the 4 days.  You can attend 8 a.m. till 8 p.m. if you wish.  A simple dinner is served.  I didn't stay that late though.  This is one of the quilts that one of our members finished.

This is another one

This was what I started and finished.  Our guild challenged us several months ago to make a three yard quilt.  We got to chose a bundle of three yards, and we are due to bring them back in October and they will go to Community Service.  I hope to get mine quilted this next week.

The next weekend daughter Kristen, her husband Jeff, myself, and granddaughter Kyleigh and her fiance Drew went to Naggiar Vineyards to see Steve Waddington (a Neil Diamond cover).  I have seen 22 Neil Diamond Concerts and my daughter, granddaughter and I know the words to almost all the songs.  We had a great time, and got some great pictures.  Too bad I can't post the picture of granddaughter Kyleigh when she got up on the stage and danced while he was singing the America.  

This weekend was our annual Begonia show.  It is a two day affair plus about 7 hours setting up on Friday.  Daughter Katie and I worked the show, and my other daughter Kristen, and her mother-in-law Jan came.  

There were some beautiful begonias at our show.  

We had about 950 plants for sale and had sold a great quantity when I left Saturday afternoon.   This is what I came home with.

 Friday afternoon as I was putting my plants in my car to take to the Begonia Show, my heat pump made a horrible sound.  I came inside and turned it off, and then looked inside and the fan was sitting sideways, off the motor.  I called the Home Warranty company and they can't come out until Tuesday.  We have been in the late 90s to 104 degree weather lately, and right now the temperature in my house is 86 degrees.  I have a company that services my heat pump twice a year.  They came over and put the fan back on but when we turned it on the blades at bent and it is running wonky.  So I have left it off and have been using fans.  I had a hard time sleeping Friday night even with 2 fans.  I got another super at Home Depot, so we will see how that works.   I have a feeling I am going to need a new unit, this one is at the end of life.  

As for slow stitching, I finished Woven Wreaths for August.  

I was looking through a pile of stuff in my sewing room and came across Witch Hazel.  I had copied the design onto some of that Sulky stuff and stuck it to the fabric.  It has been sitting in a to-do pile for about 20 years.  It's long past time she got out of the to-do pile.  

This is what I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching, after I get through at the Begonia Show on Sunday.

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 also be linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head on over and see what everyone is up to there also.  

Thanks for stopping by!