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/

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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

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Slow Sunday Stitching

These weeks seem to be flying by.  I had my hair appointment this week, and that feels much better with it a bit shorter.  I am not good at selfies, or I would take a picture.  

This week was also pin basting day for our Community Service of our guild.  

The rest of the week I had to myself, which I loved.  I worked on one of the quilts I am entering in our guild's quilt show.  We had room, so I could enter a quilt that was not red and white.

I had my For the Bees quilt, which consists of a bunch of bee embroideries that I stitched from Kathy's Schmitz's embroidery patterns.  

This is the back.  I found this cute panel for the back. 

I've been working on the Civil War Mini quilt by Kathleen Tracy.  I have a bit of quilting left to do, and sewing the binding down.  

I also embroidered this piece.  I am going to make a small tote bag for granddaughter Klara.  I thought I would put he Easter Candy in it.  It was by Joy @Days Filled with Joy

I also finished 12 more blocks of the Econony blocks for the #scrappymeetsthriftychallenge hosted by Taryn @reproquiltlover.  I have 50 blocks done out of 250.  They are 2-1/2 inch blocks.  I am using up my Civil War reproduction scraps.  

I have been working a bit on the yard this week.  My wisteria is blooming.  I am trying to get it to wind around the trellis gate at the end of the garden.

In my new garden, at one end I planted succulents I had had in pots.  This one has gotten huge and is blooming.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is the binding on the Civil War Mini, and sewing label on my bee quilt.

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

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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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