HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been another couple of busy weeks.  The last Wednesday in October was our 5th Wednesday at our guild.  We have a sewing day.  People can quilt small quilts we have prepared, or work on quilt tops, make pillowcases.  We work for about 4 hours and have a potluck lunch.  I worked on this flannel panel.  It was shown at our guild meeting this past Wednesday.  

In the green border I quilted holly, and in the white border I quilted meandering snowflakes.

I recently finished these placemats for my grandson and his girlfriend for Christmas.  They live in Albuquerque.  I used the Accuquilt cactus die.  

On November 8th, I went went with daughter Kristen and her Sutter Hospital team for the Light the Night Walk for Blood Cancer.  It was a fun walk.  

I have been working on Christmas presents recently, and I had purchased 2 panels to participate in Angela Walters Season's Greetings Quilt Along.  I was going to give them to both my daughters, but then Angela pointed out you could cut the panels up and make table runners and placemats. 

So I cut them up so I have 2 table runners for my daughters  and 8 placemats for granddaughter Kyleigh.  I still have a lot of quilting to do.  I am working on my domestic machine for these.

November 16th would have been my 50th anniversary.  I told my family I didn't want to spend the evening alone.  So granddaughter Kyleigh made tacos, and I made Mexican rice, and Katie and SIL John brought refried beans and a delicious dessert, Buttermilk cake with buttermilk icing.

My 50 year old bottle of Moet Brut champagne went down the drain.  It had no bubbles and was mostly sediment, probably from not being stored properly.  Kyleigh made some delicious margaritas though.  

Last week was our guild meeting, and we had a lovely Quilts of Valor meeting with 5 veterans receiving quilts.

My guild friend Ann and I have challenged each other.  She has a longarm she hadn't really used, and I have a Handiquilter Moxie which I do really nice meandering on, but basically nothing else.  I challenged her to work on her machine, and she challenged me to do other stitches on the Moxie.

I had a piece of fabric for grandson Jaeger.  He wanted something with cows on it, and I had cuddle on the back. So I put it on the Moxie, and quilted it all over with swirls.

I have been working around the house too.  I recently had the sink taken out of my laundry room.  The faucet was leaking and I never really use it except to put dirty towels in it till I have a full load.  After the sink drain was capped off, I repainted the laundry room and molding.  Then I looked all over for a cabinet to put in front of the capped off pipe.  I was able locate one on Facebook Marketplace.  I put my cleaning supplies in there, and came out with empty shelves in the laundry room.

I decided those empty shelves were a good place to organize my UFO containers.

After I had taken those out of my sewing room, I decided to clean up my sewing room too.  It is actually my supply room.  I sew in the kitchen, and my dining room table is my cutting station.

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching continues to be the vintage DWR I am restoring.  I have 9 more center blocks to quilt on this section, and then I can move on to about 2 rows.  I am hoping to have it finished by our next guild meeting in December so I can show it.

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, Deb, Sharon, Karrin, and Daisy

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

Thanks for stopping by!

HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching

This week was spent chasing several squirrels.  I saw this one snatching up food in my yard the birds had dropped.   Last Sunday, Melisa at Pinkernpunkinquilting mentioned that Kathleen Tracy at A Sentimental Quilter was  hosting  a Civil War Mini Sew Along.  I have tons of Civil War repros, and scraps and joined in this sew along.  I am caught up on all three weeks of blocks now.

Also last Sunday on Instagram I discovered that Reproquiltlover had started a Scrappy Meets Thrift Challenge making economy blocks.  I chose the 2 inch size which means I will probably be making 250 blocks, unless I decide to do a smaller size.  

I spent about 3 days rummaging through 3 bins of scraps and cutting them up.  I am paper piecing these, which are not my favorite thing to do, but this small I feel it is necessary.  I have had a few technical issues of the fabric folding up when I am trying to add a piece.  This is what I have accomplished so far.

I have thoughts of pursuing yet another squirrel, in the form of this quilt.  I haven't cut out any pieces yet, just thought of it.  I am attending a quilters day camp next week and have been trying to get my projects lined up.  

My daughter Kristen showed me this Birch Gnome quilt pattern, and I purchased from Lake Girl Quilts

I love gnomes and love birches, we had some for 40+ years until had to take them down due to disease.  I need to look through my fabrics and see what I can find in the ways of blacks and grays, and something for the birches.  

Also this week I quilted my SAHRR, and put the binding on.

My orchids are blooming like crazy,  

I had a little mishap earlier in the week.  My daughter Kristen and I were about to go to aqua yoga, when I got notification a package had been delivered from Amazon.  I got the package, took it in the kitchen, and my box cutter was missing from the junk drawer.  I pulled out a paint scraper that John had sharpened for me and proceeded to cut my left hand.   John would have told me what a dumb thing I did, and you should never cut toward yourself.  

Needless to say, there was no aqua yoga that night.  Kristen and granddaughter took me to the ER where I got 5 stitches.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is the binding on my SAHRR.

I will also continue hand quilting on this piece that will be a pillow top for my friend.

 I will be linking up to Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.   Check out what is going on there, and also check out the Hand Quilting 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, Connie and Laura

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Hand Quilt Along, Slow Sunday Stitching

It's been a whirlwind week for me.  In addition to my regular singing practice, and quilt pin basting I have had a lot more outside activities.  

Most of the family attended granddaughter Klara's school performance of Starstruck.  Each of the grades, plus the teachers had a dance number with a different tune from a movie  Klara's third grade class performed "Life is a Highway" from the Cars movie.  

Wednesday was my birthday and and the quilters that were at basting day took me to lunch at Panera.   Then that evening my family took me to our favorite Mexican place.  Grandson Jaeger, the slightly taller one, on the right, flew in from a New Mexico for a short break from college.  

Thursday another friend took me to brunch.  Then Thursday night my 2 daughters planned a painting party for me, it included a couple of my daughters friends, granddaughter Kyleigh, Jandra who is her boyfriend Drew's grandmother, and Victoria Drew's mother.  It was such a fun evening.  We got to chose what project we wanted to work on.  When we arrived they had our wooden boards prepared, and the stencils cut out.   We weeded out the remaining parts on the stencils and then painted our boards.    

Kyleigh, Drew and Jandra

They had tons of projects you could choose from

Jandra made this tray for Drew and Kyleigh

Victoria, Jandra and me

Daughters Katie and Kristen are on the right

This was my completed project.  

Friday Kyleigh, Jandra and Victoria and I went to lunch too for my birthday.  Needless to say, I have had a lot of leftovers in my frig, and never felt so loved.  

Saturday night was grandson Keaton's high school prom at his school.   Keaton and Addie make such a cute couple.  They are juniors in high school.  

This week I also received my choices for the $50 gift card I got One Of The Flock, who have a great Etsy shop with wools, felts and all sorts of great kits.  I won this on the Autumn Jubilee going on at From My Carolina Home.    I really appreciate their generosity in this prize.  

For slow stitching this week, I will be working on my woolie gnome project, and putting binding and hand sewing it down on my brother Bill's quilt.  This is going to take awhile I think.  

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, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and  Cathie 

I'll be also linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.    Head on over there and check out what everyone there has been up to.  

Sunday morning, daughters Kristen and Katie and I will be participating in the Breast Cancer march at the state capital, so we will be up at the crack of dawn to be there at 7 a.m.  

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HQAL, Slow Sunday Stitching

Last week I didn't have many activities, so it was nice to take it easy for once.  Last week I joined a local singing group at the Community Center across the street from me.   They perform at local nursing homes etc.   They haven't been meeting for several months.    I haven't sung in a choir in quite a while, and my voice has changed from what it used to be.  I used to sing soprano and alto, but now it is more like alto and tenor.  The songs they are singing are from the 20's and 30's and so I am learning new material.  A few I know such as "Tale as Old as Time", "America" and "On a Clear Day".  It is a fun activity.  I have to say we aren't too good right now, we seem to be all over the place.  One of the guild members told us about it, actually the Chair of Community Services, so I decided to try it out.  

We were supposed to have a 5th Wednesday this week for Community Service where we take pin-basted quilts up to a local church.  The guild members come and bring their machines and we spend about 5 hours quilting, or piecing small tops, or make pillow cases for children's hospitals.  We had to cancel it last week as Cathy, the chair of Community Services developed vertigo in the parking lot of the community center the day before after the singing.  She spent half the day in the ER being tested for various things and all her tests were negative.  But she did not feel up to hauling a bunch of totes and things over to the church for 5th Wednesday.   

I have been working this week on my project for the Get on Board with Sewing Blog Hop celebrating National Sewing Month.  My day is on Monday.  I spent time quilting my project and sewing the binding down.  

I did some not-so exciting yard work and pulling weeds.  My daughter Kristen took me Friday to Costco.  They had gotten some salmon stuffed with crab and thought I would like it.  It was delicious and I have enough for 3 more meals.  I froze the other portions.  

Saturday night I enjoyed watching the new Rings of Power, Lord of the Rings movie on Prime.  John would have loved this, and the House of Dragons that comes on Sunday nights. 

For Slow Sunday Stitching I will be working on the last of the Peter Rabbit blocks.  This is part of my One Monthly Goal, to complete the Peter Rabbit quilt.  The baby shower is on September 24th.

Check out the other 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, Nanette, Sharon, Karrin, Daisy, and  Cathie 

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head over there and check out what everyone there has been working on also.

This next week will be another busy one.  I have a Board meeting for the guild.  I also have an appointment with my Dr. hopefully to get a shot.  Friday I have my mini meeting with guild members.  I also need to take my begonias down Friday afternoon that I plan to enter at the Begonia Show this weekend.  Somewhere in the meantime I also need to finish the mini begonia quilt I plan to donate at the show.  Daughter Katie and I are working both days at the show, Saturday and Sunday.  I also need to make some potato salad and brownies  for the workers at the show.  

Thanks for stopping by!  

Hand Quilt Along, Slow Sunday Stitching

I spent 2 hours tonight trying to transfer photos from my i-Phone to my PC.  I don't know how the settings got changed in I-Cloud, but my PC wouldn't import photos.  What a hassle!  

I think I forgot to check in for the last Hand Quilt Along, the last time I checked in was October.  I did get my Handi Quilter Moxie put together.  The second thing I quilted was my sister's Christmas Quilt.  I finished the binding last weekend.  

Check out the other Hand Quilting Links 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, and Daisy

I had some Christmas decoration helpers last weekend that helped decorate my tree, my least favorite part.  My daughter made a video of it on Instagram here.   

Grandson Keaton got under the tables and lit up all the houses.  

What I will be working on for my Slow Sunday Stitching this week will be this month's stitchery from Kathy Schmitz's One Stitch At a Time Club.  I haven't traced it out yet, but I'm anxious to start this one.  

I'll be linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head on over and check out what everyone else is doing.  

Thanks for stopping by!