Hand Quilt Along, Slow Sunday Stitching

Hand Quilt Along, Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been another busy week.  A lot of my spare time was figuring out how I was going to make a Victorian House block for my mini quilt group with the quilt guild.  Everyone was making two different house blocks.  The ones I chose were to make were a lighthouse and Victorian house.  We are going to assemble this to raffle off for our guild.  The lighthouse was no problem, I found a coloring page to make my lighthouse block.  I neglected to take a picture of that one though.  The Victorian house was somewhat more problematic.  I found plenty I could make but they were too complicated to make.  After about a week of looking at images, and Pinterest perusing, I finally found an image I cut out on my Cricut machine.  I got it cut out and assembled.  The ladies at yesterday's meeting were pleased.    Me and my big mouth volunteered to do an apartment building for the next meeting which will be at my house.  I have a lot of yard clean up to do before that though.  

This week has been problematic for my daughter Katie's children.  First they were not able to go to Adventure Club, because someone in Klara's class tested positive.  So Katie asked me to pick them up after school Wednesday-Friday.  Wednesday morning about 10:00 Katie asked me to pick up John-John, his whole class had been dismissed, until next Tuesday as 8/29 kids tested positive.  John-John had Covid at Thanksgiving.  So I took him home and then picked up Klara after school.   Thursday I was just supposed to pick up Klara, but Katie picked her up early as she had a sore throat.  She had a sore throat last week too and was treated with antibiotics.  She got some more antibiotics for strep throat, and still has a bad cough.  Hopefully she is on the road to recovery now. 

Wednesday this week, I had a luncheon with the Single Ladies from the quilt guild which was nice.  

For my Friday mini meeting, I got this much done on this Ella Maria Deacon block.  

While I was looking for my landscape fabrics for the house blocks, I came across these blocks.  They are from a 1999 calendar by the Piecemakers Quilt Shop.  I had started this lighthouse quilt in 1999 and then set them aside.   Each year they would have a different theme,  and the quilt patterns came with the calendar.  I have about 5 of these calendars, and 2 of the kits.  I think it is beyond time for me to get this finished!

This will be my one of my hand projects I will be working on for the next few months, along with finishing up my Ella Maria Deacon blocks.  

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

Thanks for stopping by!

Stay At Home Round Robin

 

I was really happy to see that Gail @Quilting Gail was hosting the Stay at Home Round Robin again this year.  You can read all about it on her site above.   Each week one of the co-hosts gives us a border to put on our quilt.  This first week we were to choose our center block.   

This is what I made last year, and I ended up donating it to Victoria's Quilts who donates them to terminally ill patients.  

This is the orphan block I decided to use this year.  Can't wait to see what the first border is!

These are a list of the co-hosts for this SAHRR. 

• 1st Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
• 2nd Round: Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
• 3rd Round: Roseanne & Sue @ Home Sewn by Us
• 4th Round: Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
• 5th Round:  Gail @ Quilting Gail 
• 6th Round: Chris @ Chrisknitssews

I will be linking up at @Quilting Gail.    Thanks so much to Gail for hosting this again, it was so much fun last year!  

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

Another week has come and gone, and I can't say I have gotten much accomplished.  I don't know what has been wrong with me, but I haven't really felt like doing anything.  What I have done is spent 1 whole day reading, and 3 whole days playing MaJong.  I got the game the other day on the AARP newsletter and couldn't stop playing it.  I kept telling myself I would stop when I won, and I kept losing!  I did finally win, but kept on playing to get a better score!

I did get this embroidered this week, the  Kathy Schmitz's Gathered Blessings.  I got the month of January done. 

Other than that this week, I watched Klara and John on Monday and they went back to school on Tuesday.  Kyleigh also left for college in Boston, her last year in nursing school.   Things were a little dramatic before she left.  She is on a swimming scholarship and they had a meet this weekend.  Apparently the pool was not kept up to snuff the 3 weeks on vacation, and they were going to have to go to other pools to practice.  This is a team that usually beats them, and she really wanted to work her hardest to beat this team for once.  I haven't heard the results yet, but she was all stressed out before she left.  

As I said, this week I didn't feel like doing much, until today.  Things I need to do are:

Finish my project for the Polar Plunge Blog Hop coming up the end of the month, make 2 house blocks by the end of this week, a lighthouse and Victorian house for my mini quilt group meeting I think this Friday.  I also promised my daughter Kristen, for her birthday on the 21st to make her a pillow cover.   At Klara's BD dinner, Kristen discovered I had made her sister Katie a pillow cover she didn't get.  Well it was for Katie's BD.  They have always been like this, I need to make 2 of everything!  Even in their 40's it never changes!  I also tried to get a digital calendar/journal set up and I think it is finally working OK, but it took may hours and watching videos.  

Today I did manage to get out in the yard and work a bit.  Some of my plants in pots expired due to the extreme frost.  I did get one plant bed cleaned out of dead plants and weeds.  I did manage to get the side walkway finally cleaned up of leaves.  I did get my baker's rack put back over by the fireplace with my plants I had moved when the fireplace dry rot was replaced. I kept waiting for the inspector to come back out and sign off on it, but my plants are doing poorly on the other side of the yard.  

All my flower beds need cleaned out, and I have bushes that need trimming.  In between the rain and the freezing weather I haven't been able to get out, but it was a very pleasant day today.    This is my brick patio that has weeds growing out of it!  This will be next on the list.  It really felt good to be out in the yard today.  Probably what I needed all along!

Also what I worked on this week was making thank you cards for my Etsy Shop on my Cricut.  I was stamping a mermaid and saying thank you, but I decided to design one that I could print up and cut on my Cricut.  I purchased some digital nautical images on Etsy and put the wording in myself.  

Every night I look for a movie to watch, and then watch cookoff's until bedtime.  This week  I have watched Fried Green Tomatoes for the umpteenth time and tonight I am watching Trauma Center with Bruce Willis.  I think John chose this movie tonight.  It is his kind of movie, shoot em up, but it is a good movie.  

I watch cooking competitions because I love to cook.  I miss cooking a lot.  This week I did make my family pasta sauce.  I also made a prime rib soup with Christmas leftovers.  Today I just really felt sick of having frozen meals for one.  My daughter Katie had been talking about potstickers, and I really wanted some.  I was going to go to the place she had gotten them, and then decided to go to the grocery store instead I got some frozen potstickers and decided I wanted to make some bok choy to go along with it.  I  got the recipe here.    I also had a craving for Chicken Marsala.  I usually get a 2-serving ready-to-eat size at Trader Joes.  I recently came across the recipe that I saved to my Pinterest account and I had everything but the mushrooms.  It was fantastic, and I have enough for 2 more meals!  

While I am writing this post tonight, I think there is police activity in front of my house.  I am seeing flashing blue lights coming in through my front door.  I don't know what is going on but they have been there for 10 minutes now.  Thank goodness they have finally left!  

This next week will be a little busier.  I have the guild Single Ladies Lunch coming up, and I think my guild Mini Meeting on Friday.  

What I will be working on this week for Slow Sunday Stitching are my Ella Maria Deacon blocks.  I have had them prepped for a couple of months now.  I just need to get working!  

I will be linking up to Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.  Head on over and see what everyone is up to!  

Thanks for stopping by!

One Monthly Goal, January

 

It is the beginning of a new month, and time to link up One Monthly Goal @ Elm Street Quilts. 

My One Monthly Goal for January is to finish my project for the Polar Bear Plunge coming up the end of January.  I have all the pieces cut out, I just need to sew them on and find some small beads or black buttons.   My day is January 27th so I need to be finished by then.  

I will be linking up One Monthly Goal at Elm Street Quilts, and many thanks to Patty for this continued motivation!  

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching, Happy New Year

 

Happy New Year to all my fellow Slow Sunday Stitchers!   I had a quiet New Year's Eve, had appetizers, potstickers and a shrimp cocktail.  

Last week, Christmas was spent with family, a nice prime rib dinner, and all the fixings.  

My daughter took a lot of pictures which she sent to me through Google Photos, that I tried to download to my I-phone but it keeps saying it is having trouble saving.  

After dinner we all played a game, I don't know what it is called, I think center, left and right.  You put $3.00 on the table, with everyone standing around the table, and you roll dice.  According to the roll of the dice, you put a dollar to your left or right or in the center.   There are also dice with a dot on them, and if you roll one of those you get to keep your dollar.  We played 2 games, and I won both games!, a total of $84!  

Brother Bill and SIL Char left on Sunday, and I have had grandchildren Klara and John for 4 days this week.  With all the coronavirus going on constantly at their Adventure Club.  

Tuesday the kids and I had an eventful afternoon.  I took the kids for the yearly checkups, plus John had to get 3 shots.  John was anxious about the shots, but it wasn't too bad.   I promised them slushies with boba for a treat.  Right as we arrived at the Dr. Office, a hazard light came on in my car.  I thought it was for my tires.  I checked my tires before we left the Drs' office but they seemed fine.  We drove on over to the slushy place and the light came on twice more.  When I restarted my car to leave the slushy place the hazard light came on again and said the oil pressure was low.  I got out and looked under my car and it was leaking oil visibly.  I called Jeff my son-in-law, and he had my car towed and got the leak fixed, but advised I take it to the Toyota dealer the next day to get my oil changed.  I did that on Friday, and they diagnosed another problem, my oil pan was dented and had a leak.  So the last day of 2021, another $900 flew out the door. 

I haven't gotten much done quilty this week.  I spent most of the rest of the week putting away my Christmas stuff away.  Katie and Klara helped take down the tree on Friday, and Kyleigh helped  me put all the boxes upstairs yesterday.  

Today I spent getting my quilting set up back out in the kitchen and dining room.  

What I will be working on this week for Slow Sunday Stitching is Kathy Schmitz's Gathered Blessings.  I preordered the kit, and received it several weeks ago.  It is a pre-printed fabric, that has 12 small blocks to stitch.   We are going to work on one block a month.  So January is this snowman.  

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

Thanks for stopping by!  

One Monthly Goal, December

 

It's time again to link up One Monthly Goals @ Elm Street Quilts.    Again many thanks to Patty and all she does,  and for this monthly motivation! 

My One Monthly Goal for December I stated here, was to finish this whole cloth lighthouse FMQ project to give to my brother for Christmas.  This also happened to be the last project in my FMQ Academy Class offered by Holly Anne Knight @ String and Story.  

So I finished the whole cloth lighthouse, graduated from Free Motion Academy all in one!   My brother Bill loves lighthouses, and I knew this would be a good gift for him!

I will be linking up for One Monthly Goal @ Elm Street Quilts.  Thanks again Patty for this monthly motivation!

Thanks for stopping by!

Polar Bear Plunge Blog Hop Coming Soon

 

Just a note that the  Polar Bear Plunge Blog Hop, hosted by the fabulous Joan @Moosestash Quilting is coming up soon.  I am working on my project right now.   Can't wait to show what I have come up with!  

 

Monday Jan 24

Creatin' in the Sticks

Samelias Mum

Purring Cottage

Patchouli Moon Studio

Scrapdash

Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

Life in the Scrapatch

 

Tuesday Jan 25

Just Let Me Quilt

Beaquilter

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

 Days Filled With Joy

That Fabric Feeling

Den syende Himmel

VroomansQuilts

 

Wednesday Jan 26

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Hazel’s Daughter 

Words & Stitches

Coletta's Kitchen Sink

Kathleen McMusing

Quilting & Learning - What a Combo!

Quilted Delights

 

Thursday Jan 27

Songbird Designs

Selena Quilts

Ms P Designs USA

Quilting Gail

Karrin's Crazy World

Food for Thought

Bumbleberry Stitches

 

Friday Jan 28

Sew Many Yarns

Inflorescence 

Lianne Makes Stuff

Stitchin at Home

Quilt Schmilt

Lynns Beauty

MooseStashQuilting

Thanks for stopping by, and Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas, Slow Sunday Stitching

 

Hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season!  Wishing you all the best for the New Year, health and happiness!  

This has been another busy week here in Northern California.  Lots of rain and wind.  

Tuesday daughter Katie and I went to the Begonia Society's Annual Christmas Potluck.  There was a raffle too.  I won this begonia, which is apparently a tropical one according to the person who donated it.  I was the first and fourth number called and got my choice of plants, and there was this huge one there.  

At the Begonia Society get together a woman came up to me and asked if I remembered her, that we had met several times.   She looked sort of familiar, but I couldn't remember her.  20 years ago or so I was on a Yahoo Group called Fat Quarters consisting of a group of quilters.  A number of us live in the Northern California area and had two meet-ups that I remember.  Her name is Nancy, and she lives in the area and has been a member of the Begonia Society for 20 years.  Katie and I just joined a couple of months ago.  

This week was also one of finishing up Christmas gifts.  I made a bunch of shadow box framed pictures of my family, cutting out card stock on my Cricut.

I finished up the memory bear for Klara.  The label made us tear up as Klara read it.  

I also made another gnome for everyone with the help of my SIL Char.  She likes to do crafts like I do and is a whiz at glue guns, unlike me!   The pants were made from some of John's pajama bottoms with moose on it.  

We had Christmas eve pizza here at my house, mainly because I have my dining room tables taken up by the Christmas village, so it needed to be something casual.  We also opened gifts and stockings here.  Then Christmas evening we will be going to daughter Kristen's house for dinner, a prime rib which I am cooking as I type.  

Sister Mary liked her Christmas quilt.

Brother Bill loved his lighthouse quilt.  Bill has been quite busy since they arrived on Wednesday.   He changed the guts in two of my toilets,  secured some kitchen cabinets better to the ceiling, cut a tree root that was impeding a gate from opening.  He made a big pile of John's tools which I don't need.  He is taking them back in his truck home to Southern California and is going to try to sell them for me.  He tested all the tools before he took them because John had a tendency to buy new tools when another didn't work, but didn't get rid of the old ones.    Bill has an add up while he is here to try to get rid of the wood for free if someone will pick it all up.    He cleaned out a big section of the garage for me too.  Bill doesn't like to sit still.  He was in the hospital last week for two bleeding ulcers apparently caused by aspirin products.    So he has to leave off those for his headaches.  

This is my sister-in-law Char.  She is my sister of the heart.  We love to craft together.  We love the ocean and mermaids, sea life.  Char and Bill will be leaving tomorrow, I shall miss them for sure.  

This is my new mermaid tee-shirt I got and I love it.  I think I am going to wear it to Christmas dinner! 

Cousins Keaton and John.

Me and all of my grandchildren.  

I also finished this Kathy Schmitz embroidery this week while we were sitting at night watching Christmas movies. 

This is one I will work on next, I already had it traced out on fabric.  

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head on over and find out what everyone is working on.  

Thanks for stopping by, and again Happy Holidays!  

Slow Sunday Stitching

It has been another busy week.  I had planned on going to the Christmas Guild meeting on Wednesday, but that day and time were the only opening my SIL had time to take my car and get a new tire.  I had had a screw in the sidewall, and he was leaving town to pick up my grandson Jaeger from college.  

Friday I attended Jaeger's girlfriend's dance recital which was lovely.  

Every year I make the grandkids new pillowcases using fabrics they would like.  This was for Jaeger, he asked for cars.  I found a really nice panel with a red Mustang on it, with a white mustang horse above it racing in the clouds.  It seemed a waste of that panel as it would have been folded in half.  So I plan to finish that into a wallhanging.  

This one is for grandson John.  They have 4 cats.  Last year I bought a panel with a large tuxedo cat.  I found this fabric with cats in the news.  John knows a lot of trivia and has a quirky sense of humor, so I think he will like this.  

This one is for granddaughter Klara.  She likes unicorns.  It says something about being magical.

This one is for Kyleigh's boyfriend Drew.  She said he likes the outdoors, camping, hiking, and redwood trees.  

This one is for Jaeger's girlfriend Cali.  She likes elephants.  

Kyleigh said she didn't want a pillowcase, she wanted another cover for one of her throw pillows with a Santa on it.  

Also I made Jaeger and Cali each pillows with the picture that was taken of them at Thanksgiving.   I had really bad lighting in the house today with the dreary weather.  

What I will be doing this week for Slow Sunday Stitching is sew these pillows closed.  

I also have this memory bear I made for Klara out of Papa's pajama bottoms.  I need to sew him shut, add buttons for the eyes and stitch the nose.  

Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas.  My brother and SIL and sister will be coming in this week, plus I am watching John and Klara Monday and Tuesday since they are out of school.  

I'm going to link up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.    Head on over there and see what everyone has been up to.  

Thanks for stopping by!