Slow Sunday Stitching

It was another super busy week.  Tuesday was my oldest daughter Kristen's 47th birthday and we had a family dinner here.  Everyone was able to come except grandson Jaeger who is back at college.  

The next day, on Wednesday was our guild's Community Service workday at my house.  So right after dinner I needed to set up for that.  We had a good turnout, 8 people including myself.  We were able to get quite a few quilts prepped for basting day.  

Thursday I had lunch with my friend Jandra, who happens to be Kyleigh's fiance's grandmother.   Their dog, Maple, loved the quilted coat I made, but I need to make an adjustment and enlarge the straps under her belly which means I need to take the velcro and snaps off, and binding off and attach about 6 inches more fabric.

The rest of the week I have been working on one of my entries for our quilt show in May.   I had to wait to get my embroidery machine back from being serviced.  It went out in December when I was in the midst of making Christmas ornaments.  

I got this machine embroidery pattern with Father Christmases from Bird Brain Designs.    They also have this in hand embroidery, but I didn't have time to do that.  There are 13 Santas plus 21 little embroideries that are cornerstones with the sashing.  I was able to get them all embroidered.  I just need to clean up the threads and cut them to size.   I got the sashings cut out.  I am planning to take this project to quilt camp the end of February as my project to work on putting this together, if I don't do it beforehand/ 

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is this block on Folk Art Sampler.  

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

Thanks for stopping by!

SAHRR-Week 2

 

This week's prompt for the Stay At Home Round Robin was from Kathleen @Kathlelen McMusing.  "Make a King’s Crown block/s for your first round OR make blocks that begin with your first initial or my initial K".  

My first initial happens to be K also.  I decided to go to Quilter's Cache and see what other quilt blocks I could find that started with K.  I found two that suited me,  Kristen's Patchwork Square, and Katie's Choice.  I have daughters named Katie and Kristen, so I chose to make 2 of each of these blocks.

These are the Katie's Choice blocks.  

These are the Kristen's Patchwork Squares.  

I didn't attach these to my center piece yet.  I am going to wait and see what next week's prompt is. 

The schedule of the bloggers suggesting the clues each week is below.  

• January 13:   Visit each of the co-hosts to see their centre block.
• January 20: 1st Round:   Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• January 27: 2nd Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 3: 3rd Round: Gail @ Quilting Gail 
• February 10: 4th Round:   Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• February 17: 5th Round: Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• February 24: 6th Round:  Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• March 24:  Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs!

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

This week was our guild meeting, and it was a nice meeting.  We received 18 or so quilts for our Community Service.  I spent one of my days this week preparing backings for 6 quilts we had received at the previous meeting.  Next week is our workday at my house where we cut batting and binding and package them up in bags with our labels, so we will have them prepared for our basting day next month.  We didn't have basting day last month because we skipped 2 workdays in November and December because of Thanksgiving and Christmas.  We have a 5th Wednesday this month, where we work on quilting quilts or piecing quilts.  We meet at a local church for about 4 hours and have a potluck lunch.  

This week I assembled some blocks for the Stay at Home Round Robin, hosted by Quilting Gail.  These were blocks I had picked up the free table at our guild.

This week I also worked on a quilted coat for my grand-dog Maple.  The only thing left to do is the binding and adding the Velcro and stitching buttonhole stitch around the opening where you can attach the collar clip.

This is Maple, and my granddaughter Kyleigh and her fiance Andrew.  

This week I also finished a birthday gift for my daughter Kristen.  She loves birds and I have had this project for about 2 years, intending it for a gift for Kristen.  We are having a family dinner on Tuesday night for Kristen.  

I've also been working on grandson Keaton's beanie.  I hope to have it done by Tuesday night so I can give it to him Tuesday night, before he leaves for school back in West Virginia.  

I have about 6 rows to go.  This is what I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching.  I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  

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SAHRR 2025, Week 1

I am participating again in the Stay At Home Round Robin, which began this week, hosted by Gail @Quilting Gail.  This is my 5th year of participating in this, and I look forward to it every year.  I generally donate these quilts to my guild's Community Service.  

For my center block this year, I actually took some blocks I picked up on the free table at my guild.  Someone had donated a bunch of cute lighthouse blocks and I chose 2 of these.  Someone had also donated some primitive blocks they had stitched, and I chose 2 of those, and sewed all 4 blocks together.  

 

The schedule of the bloggers suggesting the clues each week is below.  

• January 13:   Visit each of the co-hosts to see their centre block.
• January 20: 1st Round:   Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• January 27: 2nd Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 3: 3rd Round: Gail @ Quilting Gail 
• February 10: 4th Round:   Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• February 17: 5th Round: Brenda @ Songbird Designs
• February 24: 6th Round:  Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• March 24:  Parade: showing all of your finished SAHRRs!

Thanks for stopping by!  

ScrapHappy January

It’s again time for showing off our scrap projects!  ScrapHappy is open to anyone using up scraps of anything – no new materials. It can be a quilt block, pincushion, bag or hat, jewelry, dolls, socks or a sculpture.   Anything made of scraps is eligible.

If you'd like to join us and use up your scrap collection, instead of sitting around in bags, etc, why not join us on the 15th of each month? Either e-mail Kate at the address on her Contact Me page, or leave a comment on her Scrap Happy Post.

What I have been working on the past couple of weeks is a dog coat for my grand-dog Maple.  She is a Great Dane.  I am using this pattern.  I had to adjust it and make it bigger than the largest size on the pattern.   The underside of the coat is going to be out of fleece.  

I've been piecing the blocks for the coat out of my scraps.  I still need to make some more to make it Maple's size.  

This is a picture of Maple.  

I have also been working on my potato chip blocks.   I generally make these quilts and donate them for my guild's Community Service.  

Be sure and visit the other bloggers below and see what they have been up to.  

Kate, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Tracy, Jan, 
Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, 
 Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Nóilin, Viv, Karrin,  Alissa,
Tierney, Hannah and Maggie

Slow Sunday Stitching

This past week was spent putting Christmas decorations up.  My grandsons helped me get them back in the attic.  I was anxious to get them put up as I wanted to refinish my laminate floors.  They were getting a little dull.  Also I got a new doormat for the front door.  I was trying to get it done in one day, the front room, entry and hallways on either side of the house.  I worked pretty much from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and I noticed I had stepped in the wet wax with my Birkenstocks and had tracks for about 4 feet.  I need to get some more of the wax removal stuff to get the footprints out.  But the rest of it looks pretty good.

My new rug fits my nautical decor

After I took my Christmas quilts down, I was looking through my quilts and came across this one.  I started quilting in 1994.  At my local quilt store, they had a Red Wagon Quilt Club.  It was in the fashion of the primitive quilt ladies, Gerry Kimmel, Jan Patek and Linda Brannock.  Each month we would get another block.  I have never even hung this one up.  A friend hand quilted it for me.  

The highlight of my week was going with my family to see the new Bob Dylan movie, A Complete Unknown.  I loved it and thought it was really good.  Both my daughters, granddaughter Kyleigh, grandsons Jaeger, Keaton, and Keaton's girlfriend went.

My husband John used to play the guitar and did plan some Bob Dylan songs, especially "Don't Think Twice".

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If'n you don't know by now
And it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It'll never do somehow
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm a-traveling on
But don't think twice, it's all right

And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
And it ain't no use in turning on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
But I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
But we never did too much talking anyway
But don't think twice, it's all right

So it ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
Like you never done before
And it ain't no use in calling out my name, gal
I can't hear you anymore
I'm a-thinking and a-wonderin' walking down the road
I once loved a woman, a child, I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

So long honey, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
Goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say, "Fare thee well"
I ain't a-saying you treated me unkind
You could've done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

When John sang this song, he would sing it so convincingly and with so much emotion, I was afraid he was ready to walk at the door.

I finally was able to give granddaughter Kyleigh her poncho. 

This next week will be a busy one, I have a Begonia Board Meeting, and a Quilt guild board meeting and Friday will be mini-group quilters at my house, so I will need to get ready for that.  

I was able to pick up my Bernina from the spa this week.  I am looking forward to getting started working on what got interrupted at Christmas when it went wacko.  I was doing free standing lace ornaments for Christmas and got about 1/4 way through and broke a needle and then things were not stitching out right.  I will have to wait till after mini-group though to work on that as I sew on my kitchen table.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching will be either Keaton's beanie or this wool embroidery.

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