Slow Sunday Stitching

 It was another busy, fun-filled week.

The week started out on Monday going to Half Moon Bay with granddaughter Kyleigh, and her dog Maple.  The weather was perfect, in the 70's, we had a beautiful day on the beach, and had a great lunch in town at a Mexican restaurant, I can't remember the name.

Maple met a friend to play with on the beach who happened to have 3 legs.

We ended our day in Half Moon Bay by visiting the orchid nursery.  I bought 3 and Kyleigh bought 1.  That huge one was on clearance for $18. I found out why when I got home and repotted it.  The roots were half dead, but they should be able to recover not being crunched in that super tight plastic container.  We found out there is a new orchid place the next building over.  Maybe next time we will visit that one too.

Wednesday was workday at my house for our Community Service where we cut batting and binding and bag them up to get ready for pin basting day in a couple of weeks.  

This week I was able to get a baby quilt top put together.  My daughter Kristen requested it for a coworker that is having a baby.   I used my Accuquilt to cut out the stars, and the kitty, fox and frog applique dies.  The blocks I made at day camp last week.  Hopefully I will get a chance to quilt it this next week.  

I also finished a few blocks for the Scrap Meets Thrift Challenge by @reproquiltlover on Instagram.  These are 2 inch blocks.

I also got this week's block done on the Kathleen Tracy Civil War Mini Quilt on Facebook.  

This week was also the start of Barbara Brackman's new applique BOM for 2025,  Liberty Birds.   I got my pieces cut out and am ready to applique.

This next Tuesday I have two board meetings, the Quilt Guild Board Meeting in the morning and Begonia Society Board Meeting is meeting at my house in the evening.  I have been trying to get my yard cleaned up before they get here, lots of weeds and to make sure there are no frozen begonia's sitting by my front door.  Several died or had all the leaves fall off in our frost earlier this year.  They should come back, I just didn't want them out front.   I did get this done, and my back mowed in anticipation of the rain we are supposed to have the first part of the week.  

As if I don't have enough to do to get ready, I got it in my mind to quilt a table runner I made last year for the On the Road Again blog hop.  I don't have any table runners, except this unfinished one.  I've got it loaded up, ready to quilt on Sunday.  I want to get it finished before the board members come over Tuesday night.  It should only take about 2 passes on the machine.  

I have been working on my hand quilting this piece.  I just have the red applique to quilt.  This will be in our Red and White Quilt Show in May.  I am finishing it into a pillow for a friend of mine in the guild.  Her mother passed away last year, and I finished the applique, and am almost finished quilting it.  I will gift it to my friend and her sister after the show.  

This is what I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching.  I will be linking up at Kathy's Quilts.  

In my walking around the park this week, the California Poppies are blooming.  

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Slow Sunday Stitching

 It has been a fun-filled busy week.  Tuesday evening was the monthly Begonia Society meeting, and we received our challenge plants for the year.  Initially we pay $5 for a plant, and then in October we bring it back in dead or alive to show how it is doing.  Members vote for their favorite and the winner wins a prize.  The next March we receive a challenge plant for free.  As long as you show the plant or carcass you keep receiving a new plant.  I didn't think to take a picture of the plant, and I still need to repot it.   I found out that I am hosting the Begonia Board meeting at my house April 1st.  I need to get my yard in order and a lot of weeds pulled.

Wednesday was our guild meeting, and I got to show my SAHRR.  They took a lovely picture of it while I was up on the stage.

This I will be donating to one of the hospitals we donate to for Mercyful Quilts.

Wednesday afternoon I got to see grandson Jaeger and meet his girlfriend who came home with him from Albuquerque for spring break.  Jaeger plays La Crosse for UNM.  She had to go back early, but it was so nice to meet her.

Saturday evening, part of the family went out to dinner, as Jaeger was leaving Sunday evening to go back to school.

Thursday through Sunday afternoon last week I had quilt day camp.  I spent a lot of the first part of the week prepping my projects.  One project I wanted to work on was a baby quilt.  Daughter Kristen asked me to make a baby quilt for a coworker.

I cut out a bunch of Sawtooth Stars with my Accuquilt and realized when I got to camp and was sewing them together I got the dark and light pieces mixed up.

So that night I went home and recut things.  I was able to get 12 sewn.  I am going to have some applique blocks too with the Accuquilt fox, butterfly, and frog.

I also got about 18 of the 2 inch economy blocks for the Scrap Meets Thrifty Challenge on Instagram by Reproquilt Lover.  

I found a red print in my stash from the Shelburne Museum from the Clarissa Wright Alford collection to alternate the blocks with.

The other thing I have been working on at Day Camp are the Gnomes and Birches. by Lakegirl Designs.  I got all 24 gnomes sewn, I just need to sew the noses down.

Sunday at Day Camp will probably start on the birch blocks.  

At Day Camp the organizer/member of our guild shops for prizes according to the number of people we have attending.  The prizes are up on a table for several days so we can look at them.   When my name was called this time I picked this backing fabric for the gnomes.  There were 3 yards of wide backing.  There were a lot of layer cakes and jelly rolls available earlier in the number calling, but my favorite ones were picked. The quilt store Sew Katie Jean pulls names out of the hat and has prizes too. I left early Saturday so I could bake Jaeger some cookies to take back to school with him.  Apparently my name was called after I left for the Grand Prize.  I will find out Sunday what that was.  

This is my gnome backing with a couple of gnomes on top.

What I will be working on when I get home from Day Camp tomorrow afternoon is still quilting this piece.  I didn't get much hand work done this week.  I'll be linking up with Kathy's Quilts.  

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Slow Sunday Stitching

 

                                                       Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I don't know that I will have a typical St. Patrick's Dinner tonight, but I might be able to go get some corned beef from the deli and have a sandwich.  

It's been another busy week, with community service quilt pin basting day, and Katie and I worked at the plant sale on Saturday in the Begonia booth.  I bought a few new plants, and a Cymbidium orchid at another booth.

One of the highlights of my week was getting my Ella Maria Deacon quilt back from the long arm quilter.  I had requested custom quilting and Leisha outdid herself.  I spent several days just looking at the beautiful quilting.  I need to get the binding on this one for our May quilt show.  I showed it to one of the quilt show organizers and she said they needed to set up a rack so both sides could be seen at the show.

This week I also finished another quilt binding for the quilt show.  This is my Blessings Quilt.  One-fourth of this was started in 1999 and then put in a bag for over 20 years with the fabrics.  I pulled it out of the closet last year and started finishing up the embroidery and making the pieced blocks.  

I also finished up 3 more blocks for granddaughter Klara's wall hanging.  I got one of the sloth blocks done before her birthday, then my embroidery machine needed to go into shop for some problems.  I plan to get this together and give it to her for her Easter.  I cut the sloths out with the die from Accuquilt, and cut the words out with iron on vinyl from my Cricut machine.  I asked granddaughter Klara if there were some words she wanted me to put on this, and she suggested "Its temporary".

For Slow Sunday Stitching this week, I will be working on the binding for my Ella Maria Deacon quilt.   I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head on over and see what everyone has been working on.

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SLOW SUNDAY STITCHING

It was another busy week for me.  I had a Dr. appt, for some headaches, I wake up with them, and go to bed with them.  I had a head CT that was clear, so I guess it is my sinuses causing the problem and got a nose spray.  I had a dental hygiene appt, but found out I am going to need deep cleaning, which will happen this coming week.  

My daughter Katie asked if I could watch the two younger grandchildren for 2 days, Thursday and Friday while she joined her husband in Las Vegas where he was at a business convention.  So I watched John and Klara Thursday and Friday.  It involved getting them to and from school in two different school districts but we did fine.    I didn't think of getting a picture while they were here, but this is a fairly recent one of Katie and the kids.

I worked on Klara's sloth wall hanging while she was here.  This was intended to be part of her BD present from October, but my embroidery machine rebelled and ended up in the shop.  These were from my Accuquilt sloth die.  In one of their examples they had "hang in there" on their wall hanging.  I asked Klara if she would like that, or she had some other phrase in mind.  She told me she would like "Its temporary".   I have all the blocks done now.  

I hope to finish this up, and give it to her for Easter.  

This week I also worked on a lot of slow stitching.   I got the binding on, and sewn down on the Blessings Quilt but don't have a good picture of it yet.  

I also finished up the my project for the International Embroidery Month Stitch Along by Crabapple Hills Designs.  

When I went to San Diego, I gave my friend a mug rug in which I used one of my Kathy Schmitz's embroideries.  I decided I really loved it and started another one.

This is what I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching.

I also had a chance to get caught up on Woven Wreaths stitch along by Kathy Schmitz.

I'll be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head over and see what other's are up to!

That's it for now.  Thanks for stopping by!

One Monthly Goal, December

 

Many thanks to Anne-Marie @Stories from the Sewing Room for the monthly motivation and link-up for One Monthly Goal.  

In October, I had planned to make a small wall-hanging using my Accuquilt sloth die for my granddaughter Klara's birthday.  I made her some sloth PJ's and I wanted to give her the wall hanging too.  Unfortunately when I was embroidering the components on the background, my embroidery machine decided it needed a spa treatment, and was gone for 5 weeks.  

My monthly goal for December is to pick up this project again, and finish it for Christmas.  I have 1 sloth done, I need 3 more, and then quilt the project.  

I'll be linking up at Stories From the Sewing Room.  

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HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching

It's been another crazy busy week.  I was preparing for Community Service workday at my house on Wednesday, and preparing to leave for a retreat, which I left for immediately after we finished workday.

Wednesday also happened to be my day of the Monster Mash Blog Hop.  If you didn't get a chance to see my projects, you can read about them here.   I got a little crazy cutting projects out on my Cricut.  

I was also working on presents for my granddaughter Klara's 10th birthday which is the 29th.  Klara loves all sorts of animals, and I found this cute sloth flannel, and decided to make her a pair of PJ bottoms.  I also bought a T-shirt and cut out a sloth motif on my Cricut and used iron-on vinyl.  

The plan was to use the sloth die I got for my Accuquilt, and embroider the cutout down with my embroidery machine and make a little wall hanging.  My embroidery machine had other ideas, and decided to freeze on one screen, and it needed to go into the shop.  So I guess the wall hanging will be a Christmas gift.  I went to TJ Max and found the little sloth stuffed animal, but it is also a warming device you can put in the microwave as a heating pad.

I also bought another T-shirt and cut out this design.

And I made a little tote bag.  A girl can never have too many totes.  

We plan to have a family dinner at my house on Sunday night for Klara's BD.  She might be taller than me by Sunday.  This was taken a month or two ago.  

After our two-hour work day on Wednesday I headed up to our retreat, which was held in Jackson, CA, a quaint little town about an hour from where I live.  It is like going back in time 100 years.  It was hard to get good pictures as the street we were on was so narrow.  The National Hotel had recently been renovated and reopened.  My bed was cozy and except for some very noisy occupants of adjacent rooms, I slept pretty good.  They arranged for us to work in a building adjacent to the hotel, and it was nicely done.  What was great about this place as you walk through town almost every other building was an antique shop.  I loved it!  Another thing I really loved was the Serbian Bakery/Blue Door Bakery right across the street from the hotel.  I had a delicious Caprese Sandwich one day, and absolutely the best focaccia I have every tasted.  I bought one, and one night I had it and some tomato soup for dinner, and I brought the leftovers home had it with some homemade frozen chicken orzo soup.  I might have to make another trip of to Jackson one of these days, really soon!

These are the projects I worked on while I was there.  I put some borders on this embroidery I had been working on.  It was a Bird Brain Design.  I just need to quilt it.

The center of this next one was a wool panel called Autumn Harvest by Bonnie Sullivan.  I had bought the panel and a striped fabric with hose flowers in the center of the sawtooth stars.  Then I came across this free pattern on her website, and ordered a FQ bundle so I could make the different colored sawtooth stars.  I'm waiting for my order of more of the striped border use for the borders.  After I fussy-cut all those centers, I don't have enough.

This is the last thing I worked on at the retreat.  Storm at Sea Blocks for my lighthouse quilt.  At the last retreat I had started putting components together, but hadn't cut out enough pieces for the 22 blocks.  I cut out more prepping for this retreat and starting assembling components.  So I finished 2 complete blocks.  

This will be what I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching, and the Hand Quilt Along for the next couple of weeks.    I found about this on Facebook, on the Woolie Friends Stitch Along Group.  This was block 1.  

This is the whole quilt.

You can find the links for all the blocks here on Calico Patch Designs.

The Hand Quilt Along Links are below:

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

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