SLOW SUNDAY STITCHING

 Last week was pretty relaxing, able to work on my own projects for the most part.  I did have Community Service Pin Basting Day, and one day had lunch with my friend Jandra, who happens to be Kyleigh's fiance's grandmother.  

I made Jandra a bag like the one I made for Kyleigh's BD and I had also made myself one.  This one is mine, and Kyleigh's was similar.  Jandra's had beige handles.

This week I also made a bag for my stepdaughter Dawn's BD.  Dawn likes turtles and I had bought this panel to make a bag sometime ago.  I decided to use Soft and Stable to pad it.

A project that got put on hold with my broken arm was an on-line quilt class I was taking with Angela Walters, Negative Spaces Quilt Along.  I bought the panel and did the first lesson, and then broke my arm.  The second lesson was for the patterns on the blue section, which I got done this week.  I am hoping to finish this up and bind it and give it to my youngest granddaughter Klara for her birthday in late October. 

I also got some applique prepped for the upcoming Out of the Dark Blog Hop hosted by Joan at Moose Stash Quilting.  This is one of my projects for my upcoming Zephyr Cove quilting retreat.

The highlight of the week was Saturday when my family and I and went to help granddaughter Kyleigh pick out a dress for her wedding next October.  She looked beautiful in everything she put on.  We went to two bridal places.  

This was the group that was helping her choose.

I'm not saying what she chose, but I think she did make a choice today.

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching continues to be the vintage double wedding ring restoration.  

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching and https://quiltingpatch.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by!

Scrap Happy September

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've been absent a couple of months.  I broke my arm and wasn't blogging.  I am currently getting ready for a quilt retreat soon.  

In July, we had another 5th Wednesday for my quilt guild Community Service.  I spent about 10 days cutting up flannel scraps for more Potato Chip quilt kits.  I was able to make up 6 kits.  

My granddaughter is getting married next October and I am making a Double Wedding Ring quilt.  The centers and ovals are not scraps, but everything else is.  I spent over a week cutting the pieces out on my Accuquilt.  I will be going on a quilt retreat later this month and this is one of the projects I am going to work on.

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

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SLOW SUNDAY STITCHING

 It was a busy week all around.  This was the week for our guild board meeting.  This week I continued to prepare for my upcoming Zephyr Cove quilt retreat.  I got more of Kyleigh's Double Wedding Ring pieces cut out.  

Also Kyleigh's best friend is having a baby boy in February, and his father is a pilot, so I found a pattern on Etsy, and got it all cut out as well.  This was a pattern by One Bee Lane.

Thursday I had two appointments, with the dental hygienist, in which I was determined I needed to have some "deep cleaning" in several months.  

The second was with the hearing aid specialist after a hearing test.  One of my hearing aids stopped working three weeks ago.  I found out earlier in the year that my current hearing aids were out of warranty and would no longer be serviced by my prior hearing aid specialist.  I decided to go with the Kaiser system this time and they have been ordered and will arrive in a couple of weeks, and I have an appointment October 8th.  

Friday afternoon was spent setting up this year's Begonia Show and Sale.  These were the sale plants.  

This was an arrangement I made for our auction table. When I ;eft Saturday afternoon it had the highest price on it of $45.

These are some of the entries in this year's show:

These are what came home with me:  I have a lot of repotting to do next week.  I got 12 plants in total.  I went a little crazy!

The show ends tomorrow, I'll need to go pick up my plants after the show.

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is repairs on the vintage quilt.    

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching and https://quiltingpatch.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by!

It's Been A Long Couple of Months!

 When last I wrote, we had just had our annual quilt show, the last day of which I acquired a black eye when a staghorn fern fell on my face.  Later that weekend my family and I flew into Albuquerque to see grandson Jaeger graduate from University of New Mexico in Nuclear Engineering.

He was accepted as an intern at the Sandia Facility, and plans to stay in New Mexico and get his Master's.  We are all so proud of him.  

I came home the next weekend and went to write my Slow Sunday Stitching post, and my laptop, which was two weeks shy of being a year old was not charging.  I took it up to Best Buy and they sent it off somewhere to be looked at.  It was gone for over a month, and I finally got it back.  While it was gone I tried using my old computer, but I couldn't download the pictures as they were in heic format and I couldn't translate them to jpeg.  On my computer that was in the shop I had downloaded a program that translates the photos, but I didn't want to purchase it again.  

After I got my computer back,  for some reason it wasn't downloading the pictures from my phone anymore.  I tried once, and it started downloading pictures from the beginning of time, I couldn't press the button that said "download new photos".  But somehow the last couple of days it has straightened itself out.  It has continued to  have problems the last three weeks.  

July 9th we were getting family pictures in a park down the road from me.  It was one of those days that 3 things happen.  I got in my car and tried to start it.  It took 3 tries and it finally started.  I prayed all the way to my destination but I made it.  I turned my car off, and then immediately tried to start it again and it was dead.  All this stress caused my irritable bowel to start up.  I headed over to the park bathroom, but it was bolted shut.  My family got there, and I told them I needed to use the restroom "right now".  My daughter Kristen told my grandson Keaton to take me to a bathroom.  There was a Starbucks down the street which saved me.  

We got back to the park and the rest of my family was there, including SIL Jeff's parents.  We started walking down the paved path, and I got about 6 feet into the park and stepped on a rock and twisted my ankle, fell on my hip, hit my elbow and scraped the skin off my palm.  Kyleigh and Andrew got me back up on my feet.  My elbow felt a little strange but we went on to take around 200 pictures.  I wasn't in all of them, but some of them, but I smiled for those I was in.

After the picture session was over, granddaughter Kyleigh took me to the ER where I was discovered to have a broken elbow and was placed in a splint for 6 weeks.  I had landed on my hip and ended up having a basketball sized bruise on my hip, but thankfully no broken hip, just a large seroma which gradually disappeared.

The first three weeks I didn't do much of anything but read 8 books.  

After I visited the orthopedist about that time, he said I could take the splint off while in the house, being sedentary. so I started hand sewing again, and using the sewing machine. 

Before all of this happened we celebrated my SIL Jeff's BD in Santa Cruz.  Grandson Jaeger was here with his girlfriend Shiri

In August, we celebrated granddaughter Kyleigh's 25th birthday.  

We also celebrated daughter Katie's BD.  I made her this table mat with an owl on it.  She set it up on her area at work.   

I have been working on some projects recently.  I made three By Annie projects.  I made one of the Two Big Bags.  

I also made the Catch All Caddy.

I also made the Hot and Heavy Bag for my small iron I take on retreats.

All of these are in preparation for a quilting retreat I am going on soon.  Those three bags took over 2 weeks to do.  I had to watch some of the By Annie videos multiple times.  I am proud I got all the zippers installed.  Zippers are not usually my friend.  

My granddaughter Kyleigh is getting married next October, and I started cutting out her wedding quilt.  I am making a double wedding ring, and thankfully I have the Accuquilt die for this.  I have been busy cutting out all the components.  I will need 81 blocks for a setting 9x9.  There are 54 pieces in each block, a total of 4374 parts.  This will be totally scrappy.

I've been cutting for 4 days now.  I have all the centers cut out, as well as the oval pieces.  I am busy cutting up scraps for the arc components.  

Back in May at our second day of the quilt show, an elderly woman appeared with a quilt in a plastic bag.  She asked one of the women at the admissions desk if she knew of anyone that could restore old quilts.   They immediately brought her over to where I was sitting at the Community Service table.  I looked at it briefly and asked if I could take it home, which she allowed.  I contacted her several days later and told her I would do it, but it would probably take 6 months or so, I quoted a price of $300 which is way, way, way low.  But it was my mistake, so I will stay with that price.  

I have been working hours and hours each day on this.  I have been replacing the worn pieces with old feedsack pieces, and the white with vintage pillowcases I am cutting up.  My plan has been to work on the outside pieces first, and replace the binding, then work on the inside.  I took about a month off because of my injury but am back at work on this as my slow stitching project.  I still need to to quilt the big white centers.  It is really calming to work on this vintage quilt.  The elderly woman who brought it in said her grandmother made it for her father.  

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.  

Check out the Hand Quilt Along links too!  

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!

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!