SAHRR-Round 6

 

This week's prompt for the Stay at Home Round Robin was from Emily @ The Darling Dogwood.  She suggested kites.  I put 4 kites together into one unit.

I still haven't put the last units together, but I have until the end of March to show the finished quilt.   I still need to do some fillers.

The schedule for the Stay at Home Round Robin is as follows:

• January 13:   The links for the Centre blocks are on THIS POST.
• January 20: 1st Round:   Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• January 27: 2nd Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 3: 3rd Round: ME!!! @ 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!

HQAL, Slow Stitching Sunday

 

It has been another fun-filled week, with breakfast with friends on Tuesday, guild meeting on Wednesday, and getting ready for a quilt retreat.  I ended up not taking enough projects to work on by machine, though I did have hand work to do.  

I finished my blocks for the Stay at Home Round Robin, which this week was prompted by Brenda @Songbird Designs and was for quarter log cabins.  I ended up not taking enough red pieces, so I will finish the last one at home.

Monday is the last prompt and I will start putting my top together the rest of the way.

I also finished my applique piece and put a braided border on with Bonnie Hunter's instructions, it is in her freebie section.  This will be one of my entries in our May quilt show which is red and white quilts.  

At our retreat I put together another one of my entries, Here Comes Santa.  I had all the pieces already machine embroidered and my sashings cut out, just needed to assemble it.

I also quilted my Redwork Nursery Rhymes, and got it bound and sewn down, but neglected to take a picture of it yet.

I also took my Storm at Sea blocks to retreat, and I made all the blocks, units that I can until I cut out more pieces.  I am now up to 12 blocks out of 24.  I have written down this time which units I am missing and how many I need.  I hope to cut these out next week.  

These will surround this quilt, which has been in limbo for 20+ years.  It will be king sized for my bed.  

What I will be working on for Slow Stitching Sunday will be this little Hawaiian piece.  A guild friend gave it to me as she knew I loved applique.  Her mother passed away last year and it was one of her mother's UFO's.  I hope to quilt it and enter it as a pillow in our quilt show, and then give it to my friend and her sister to share.  

The Hand Quilt Along links are below, and I plan to link up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  

Hand Quilt Along Links

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, Connie and Laura

Thanks for stopping by!

SAHRR-Round 5

 

This week's prompt for the Stay at Home Round Robin was from Brenda @Songbird Designs.  She suggested that we make 1/4 of a log cabin.

The past couple of days I have been at a quilt retreat.  I cut my pieces before I left home, and unfortunately did not cut one red piece.  But I got the rest of them done.  

Monday is the final prompt, and I will start assembling the rest of my pieces for the top.    

The schedule for the Stay at Home Round Robin is as follows:

• January 13:   The links for the Centre blocks are on THIS POST.
• January 20: 1st Round:   Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• January 27: 2nd Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 3: 3rd Round: ME!!! @ 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!

SAHRR, Border 4

 

SAHRR, Border 4

 

This week the prompt for the Stay at Home Round Robin came from Wendy @Pieceful Thoughts, and she proposed we make a Sliced Square with Insert.  

I made the sliced square with insert, but then I made them into stars.  

I did one wrong and had to rip, actually I did this twice.  

I haven't attached last week's stars or this week's yet, will wait to see what the next two weeks bring.

The schedule for the Stay at Home Round Robin is as follows:

• January 13:   The links for the Centre blocks are on THIS POST.
• January 20: 1st Round:   Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• January 27: 2nd Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 3: 3rd Round: ME!!! @ 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

It was a busy week, starting last Sunday with a quilt show of a neighboring guild.  There were some gorgeous quilts, especially some of the miniature quilts.

On the back of this Dear Jane quilt were tiny columns of handwriting.  There was a column describing Jane Stickle and her life and the making of this quilt, a column about Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, The Gettysburg Address, The Lyceum Speech and the Lincoln Memorial.   This is the back of Dear Jane.  

This week also happened to be the board meetings I attend, the Quilt guild as part of Community Service, and I am the Sunshine Committee for our Begonia Guild.  It was raining so hard Tuesday night that we postponed our meeting till Wednesday.  

This week I finished the tea towel I was stitching for Madilyn's wedding shower, Kyleigh's friend.  

I put together my blocks for the SAHRR and make 4 star blocks for the prompt this week.

I have also been getting things ready to take to a quilt camp with me.  I have never made a quilt for my bed.  I started one years ago, with a lighthouse panel.  Years ago I as in a Yahoo Group of quilters.  When it was our birthday we got to request the other members to make our choice of block.  I chose a sailboat block, and encircled the lighthouse block.  My plan has always been to have the next round be Storm at Sea.  I originally cut them out with rotary cutter and they weren't going together right.  They were all wonky.  

When I got my Accuquilt, one of the first dies I purchased was Storm at Sea.  I think I need 24 blocks.  I have gone to 2 quilt camps and have not had the right amount of pieces cut out.  I have 6 blocks done, and parts of others.  This week I think I have finally gotten all the pieces cut out.  

Also this week I have been reorganizing my sewing room.  Daughter Katie recently gave me a chest of drawers that John had made one of the grandchildren.  Two of the drawers were broken.  The husband of one of my guild members kindly fixed them for me and I moved it in my sewing room, and started going through projects, and fabric etc.  I have a bunch of unwanted fabric I am giving to the guild for our Second Time Around Shop at our Guild Show.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching will be this applique piece I am working on.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

SAHRR 2025-Round 3

 

This week the prompt for the Stay at Home Round Robin came from the organizer of this event, Quilting Gail, and her choice was stars.  

The first thing I did was attach the past two weeks' blocks to my centerpiece.  

I tried to decide what kind of star I wanted to do, and in thumbing through my Accuquilt dies, decided to use my Priscilla's Stripe die, which I had not used yet.  These are 6 inch finished blocks.  

The schedule for the Stay at Home Round Robin is as follows:

• January 13:   The links for the Centre blocks are on THIS POST.
• January 20: 1st Round:   Kathleen @ Kathleen McMusing
• January 27: 2nd Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
• February 3: 3rd Round: ME!!! @ 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!

HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching

This past week we had a 5th Wednesday, and for our guild, that means that we meet at a local church from 9-2 and sew, either quilt quilts that we have pin-basted or work on tops.  For me and my co-chair of Community Service, Cathy, we have a bunch of stuff to tote to the church, the quilts, extension cords, thread, ironing boards, table risers, cutting mats and rulers and rotatory cutters.  Plus we have a potluck lunch.  I had spent the previous couple of days cutting out pieces for a potato chip quilt top, plus cutting out 8 blocks for my Stay at Home Round Robin.  I had chosen a 9 inch block called Wandering Star from the Quilter's Cache website.  Since my quilt top will be going to our Community Service I felt I could work on it at workday.  I haven't sewn any of the blocks together yet, I am waiting till next week's prompt to see if I want to add sashing between them.

This was our workday.  We pull the tables to the edges of the room as that is where the power outlets are.  We don't want anyone tripping on cords.  There are a few tables that aren't shown in this picture though.  We had a good turnout and an excellent potluck.  

Friday I had the privilege of attending my youngest granddaughter Klara's Battle of the Books event at her school.  There are 6 teams that have read a number of books during the year, and they are asked questions about the books.  They have a buzzer to push if they know the answer.  Two teams will be asked questions, and then one member from each team will go and try to answer questions.  There were a lot of pressing of buzzers before the question had been completed, and a lot of pressing of buzzers for no apparent reason.  It was a fun event to attend.  I stayed for most of the day, but left when lunchtime came around.  Klara's team came in 4th.   She was able to answer quite a few questions correctly herself.  

This week I have been working on getting a lot of projects done, and have a lot of handwork for Slow Stitching Sunday.

I need to sew the binding down on Woven Wreaths.  Our quilt show this year is Red and White quilts and I am going to enter this.

I am also appliquing a small piece, I just started.  

One of my granddaughter Kyleigh's best friends is getting married in April.  I got her a table cloth and napkins, but am making this Dresden Plate table topper,  I just need to sew down the edges of the backing to the front.  

I found this Nancy's Notions kit I had bought probably 20+ years ago, and decided it would be perfect.  I keep coming across it, and it jumped out at me to make.  You could make coasters too, but I cut out another table topper for me that I plan to take to a retreat the end of February.  

Kyleigh is giving Madilyn her wedding shower which I am invited to.  I found this towel kit in my stash too which I plan to stitch up.  It is all prepped and ready to go.  

Madilyn lives in Florida, so it is appropriate.  I plan to link up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  

The Hand Quilt Along links are below, and welcome to Laura for joining us!

Hand Quilt Along Links

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, Connie and Laura

Thanks for stopping by!