HQAL, SLOW SUNDAY STITCHING

 It  has been a very busy couple of weeks.  Two Saturdays ago was our neighborhood garage sale, and I spent all week gathering items and pricing them to have nothing much sold, just 25 cent items, or free items.  I did sell one of my knitting machines and some attachments though.  I plan to put the other one, and all of its components on sale on a Facebook group especially to sell  knitting machines and attachments.  

Last weekend was our guilds Red and White Extravaganza Show.  Other items were in the show, but the major categories were red and white quilts.  These are what I entered.

My mini-quilt group embroidered and quilted this cat one.  

These were some of the other beautiful quilts.  

I snagged quite a few items at our Country Store.  I got 2 hexie quilt tops for $10 each, and a bunch of vintage hexie blocks, and Grandma's Flower Garden and 20 Sunbonnet Sue blocks.

The last day of the show an elderly woman came in with a vintage double wedding ring quilt.  It was made by her grandmother for her father.   She talked to our member who was working admissions and they came over to me.  She was wondering if it could be restored.  I asked if I could bring it home with me to assess.  It wasn't too bad, needs some patches replaced, and needs to be re-bound.  I told her I would do it, it might take 6 months, and she was happy with that.  I went in an old dresser I have, I used to purchase vintage blocks off Ebay.  I found a double wedding ring block I am going to use the fabrics in it to replace some of the bad patches.  She said it brought tears to her eyes when I said I would do it.  Hard to take a good picture of it.  

I have continued working on the #scrappymeetsthrift challenge on Instagram hosted by Taryn #reproquilt lover.  I think I am up to 85 blocks out of 240.

I am also participating in the 100 hexies challenge by @sewfoxymama on Instagram.  I am up to 63.  I am going to use part of them as the front of a zippered supply case.  

The morning of our last day of the quilt show, I went to straighten out this staghorn fern on the side of my fireplace.  It was crooked.  It hangs about 6 feet up and is on a 2x4 that I had thoroughly soaked the day before so it was really heavy.   I tried moving it with one hand.  It came off the wall and hit me in the face just as I was about to leave for the quilt show.  It scraped off some skin, so I put a Bandaid on it and went to the show.  

The next day it started bruising.  I will be attending my grandson Jaeger's college graduation with a black eye, hopefully a little lighter in color.  

For Slow Sunday Stitching I will be working on this month's Liberty's Bird from Civil War Quilts by Barbara Brackman.

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching, and  Frédérique @Quiltingpatch.

Check out the Hand Quilt Along Links Below.

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, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and Laura

Thanks for stopping by!

Scrap Happy May

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.

I continue to work on the Potato Chip blocks for my guild's Community Service.  Last month my daughter and I made up 6 kits to take to our 5th Wednesday sew day.  We take our machines and either quilt, or put together a top.  The six kits took up 1224, 2-1/2 x 4-1/2 pieces.  I need to get cutting up scraps again.  I have some blocks done   I have 2 more blocks to do, these are flannel.

I also continue to use scraps in the Scrappy Meets Thrift Challenge on Instagram.  I have a bunch of scraps cut out.   I am using my Civil War reproduction scraps.  This is hosted by Taryn @reproquiltlover.

These are this weeks 2 inch economy blocks.  

I am also participating in the 100 hexies challenge on Instagram by @sewfoxymama.    These are some I made this week.

That's it for this month.

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

Thanks for stopping by!