One Monthly Goal, November

 

Many thanks to Anne Marie @Stories from the Sewing Room for continuing this monthly motivation and link-up.

I actually finished my One Monthly Goal for November.  I stated my goal in this post here, which was to quilt my Scrap Dance Quadrille and bind it. This was a mystery quilt by Carole @From My Carolina Home earlier this year.  I gifted it to an old friend of mine who has been undergoing a difficult couple of years.  I actually sent it to her, and had to have her take a pictures because I sent it off before I took a picture.  

I will be linking up at Stories from the Sewing Room.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

Hope everyone that celebrates had a Happy Thanksgiving!  In preparation for Thanksgiving I participated in the Turkey Trot Blog Hop hosted by the fabulous Joan @Moosestash Quilting.  You can see my post here.  

In addition last week, one of the major highlights of my week was to meet our very lovely Kim @Sarah Lizzies.   I found out she was coming to San Francisco to visit her daughter prior to Thanksgiving and just after.  In fact she is flying back to Tasmania today.  Several years ago Kim had a giveaway of one of the Parisian boots she had made, and I was the lucky recipient of one of them.  You can read about it here.  

I had wanted to give her something I had made, and I had an idea in mind.  Many years ago I had taken a Judith Baker Montano class at Empty Spools in Asilomar and had started this piece.  I was able to finish it up, and gift it to Kim this past week.  

I live about 2-1/2 hours from San Francisco, have never driven in San Francisco, but I made it there OK and back.  Kim and I had a lovely lunch and visited some afterwards and the time seemed to fly by.  I hated to leave, but Kim's daughter was coming to pick her up, and I needed to get on the freeway again and make my way home before afternoon traffic.   Traffic was a mess and took me about 4-1/2 hours to get home, but it was the highlight of my week and an absolute delight to meet Kim, and I wouldn't have missed the opportunity for anything.   One of the kind servers in the cafe we were at took our picture before we left.  

Then it was time to get home and get prepped for Thanksgiving.  We had a full house this year, with my two daughters and their families, and my stepdaughter Dawn who stayed with me.  We were able to get some family pictures in the park across the street.

A couple of our appetizers:

The menu for this year.  

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is finishing up this wool pumpkin.

I'll be linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching and I look forward to seeing what everyone has been up to.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Turkey Trot Blog Hop, My Day

                                                 

The Turkey Trot Blog Hop started Monday,  hosted by the fabulous Joan @Moosestash Quilting.  

The challenge this time is to "Think turkeys, thankfulness, or Thanksgiving fabric.  November also means the beautiful colors of fall, so sew something with orange, golds, browns, greens or cranberry reds".

I love fall, and all those colors.  Many thanks to Joan for another fun hop!

When I first started quilting back in the late 1990's, I saw this pattern in a magazine, and it was one of my first quilting projects.  I thought of writing the gobble, gobble on it myself.  

I have always loved the primitive type quilting and stitchery, and the turkey in the header was also one of my first projects.  

Another of my long-ago Thanksgiving projects was this wool turkey banner.  

A quilt shop in my town that used to be open in the late 90's through 2000's had a craft night once a month and we would make various projects, and one of the projects we made was this stuffed turkey.

Last week, a friend and I went to this vintage type shop that had it's Christmas decorations out, and I found this guy and just had to have him.  It's something I would have made if I had seen the pattern.

What I finished for this blog hop was my Autumn Harvest wall hanging.  This is a Bird Brains Design.  

Last but not least, I purchased a fall panel called Autumn Harvest by Maywood Studio.  It had a pumpkin, flowers, and a squirrel, in my favorite fall colors, and it was in flannel.  I also purchased the striped fabric.  I then found out there was sort of a pattern on Bonnie Sullivan, the designer's website, and purchased a fat quarter bundle so I could make the stars.  I fussy cut the striped fabric so I could make the stars.  After I got the top together, I wanted more of that stripe for the last border.  Luckily I could still obtain it.  I used my leaf die on my Accuquilt to cut out the leaves in the corners, and my Cricut to cut out the squirrels.  

Be sure and visit the other bloggers and see what they have been working on.  Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

 

Monday November 13

 

MooseStashQuilting

Words & Stitches

The Morning Latte

Quilting Gail

The Life Of Grammy

 

Tuesday November 14

Karrin’s Crazy World

Just Because Quilts

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Domestic Felicity

Nettie Sews and Lucky Quilts

 

Wednesday November 15

Selina Quilts

Quilt Doodle Designs

Inflorescence

MS P Designs USA

 

Thursday November 16

Just Let Me Quilt

BeaQuilter

Quilted Snail

Songbird Designs

Scrapdash

Thanks for stopping by!  

Turkey Trot Blog Hop Starts Today

 

                                                 

The Turkey Trot Blog Hop starts today,  hosted by the fabulous Joan @Moosestash Quilting.  

The challenge this time is to "Think turkeys, thankfulness, or Thanksgiving fabric.  November also means the beautiful colors of fall, so sew something with orange, golds, browns, greens or cranberry reds".

I love fall, and all those colors, and am excited to show what I have done in the past and currently.

 

Monday November 13

 

MooseStashQuilting

Words & Stitches

The Morning Latte

Quilting Gail

The Life Of Grammy

 

Tuesday November 14

Karrin’s Crazy World

Just Because Quilts

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Domestic Felicity

Nettie Sews and Lucky Quilts

 

Wednesday November 15

Selina Quilts

Quilt Doodle Designs

Inflorescence

MS P Designs USA

 

Thursday November 16

Just Let Me Quilt

BeaQuilter

Quilted Snail

Songbird Designs

Scrapdash

Thanks for stopping by!  

Slow Sunday Stitching

 It's been a busy couple of weeks.  My granddaughter Klara's BD was October 29th, but her BD party was November 4th.  It was a scavenger hunt at a local mall.  There were two pages of items they needed to take pictures of.   My daughter purchased 20 T-shirts, and I cut out 20 motifs on my Cricut.  This was Klara's.  The rest of them had the I'm ten removed.

My laptop is having a hard time transferring pics from my Iphone tonight.  

My pistache tree is showing beautiful fall colors.  

My pomegranate tree has fruit that is just about ripe I think.  

This past week I have worked a bit on my Storm at Sea blocks for my lighthouse quilt.  I still need to cut out more pieces with the Accuquilt die.  

I recently visited a dear friend who is 87 and not doing so well.  I took her this quilt to keep her warm.  I also took her a couple of homemade soups for nourishment.  

 

This week I also completed my One Monthly Goal, quilting this quilt.  I mailed it off to a good friend of mine that has been having some health issues and forgot to take a picture.  I am hoping when she receives it, she can get a picture taken with it, before I have to report in for One Monthly Goal.  This was the Scrap Dance Quadrille mystery by Carole @From My Carolina Home.  

Saturday I attended the Pioneer Quilt Guild's Quilt show and saw some lovely quilts.  I tend to favor the ones with embroidery and applique, my favorite things, but these are some of quilts displayed.

What I will be working on for Slow Sunday Stitching is one of my projects for the Turkey Trot Blog Hop which starts next week.  I will be sewing down the binding.  Head on over to Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching and see what everyone is working on.  

Thanks for stopping by.  

Turkey Trot Blog Hop Coming Soon

                                                 

The Turkey Trot Blog Hop is coming next week, hosted by the fabulous Joan @Moosestash Quilting.  

The challenge this time is to "Think turkeys, thankfulness, or Thanksgiving fabric.  November also means the beautiful colors of fall, so sew something with orange, golds, browns, greens or cranberry reds".

I love fall, and all those colors, and am excited to show what I have done in the past and currently.

 

Monday November 13

 

MooseStashQuilting

Words & Stitches

The Morning Latte

Quilting Gail

The Life Of Grammy

 

Tuesday November 14

Karrin’s Crazy World

Just Because Quilts

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Domestic Felicity

Nettie Sews and Lucky Quilts

 

Wednesday November 15

Selina Quilts

Quilt Doodle Designs

Inflorescence

MS P Designs USA

 

Thursday November 16

Just Let Me Quilt

BeaQuilter

Quilted Snail

Songbird Designs

Scrapdash

Thanks for stopping by!  

 

 

Indigo Way-Quiltville Winter Mystery

 I look forward every year to Bonnie Hunter's Winter mysteries.  I have made I think 3 of them in the past.  

She came out with the introduction post on Tuesday, you can find it here. She usually comes out with paint chip cards to show what colors she used.  Each time the paint chip cards come out, I go up to Lowe's, and I always meet others that are doing the mystery.  This time I don't need the cards.

 I saw the introductory post and knew exactly what I was going to use.  Back in late 1999-early 2000s I was making my Dear Jane Quilt, and collecting reproduction fabrics, especially at Reproduction Fabrics.com.  At that time, there was a BOM offered I never worked on, it was called Indigo Stars.  I mainly hadn't worked on it because you needed to pretreat the fabrics before you used them.

After the Bonnie Hunter's reveal this week, I pulled out the baggie of fabrics and pre-treated them and ironed them all up, and pulled fabrics for the other colors to.  I still need to look for some more reds in my stash, maybe a few more light blues.  

The first clue for the mystery comes out on Good Friday.  I am all ready to go!

Thanks for stopping by!

One Monthly Goal, November

 

It's time to post November's One Monthly Goal at Stories From the Sewing Room.  Many thanks to Anne-Marie for this monthly motivation.

I didn't make last month's monthly goal which was to make PJs and Sloth Wall hanging for my granddaughter's BD.  I got the PJs and top done, but when I went to embroider the sloth appliques down with my embroidery machine, it got stuck on a screen and wouldn't come out of it and needed to go into the shop.

For November, my goal is to quilt Scrap Dance Quadrille, and bind it,  This was one of Carole's @From My Carolina Home mystery quilts from earlier this year.  The top is on my longarm, and I had thread delivered today, so it's ready to go.  I have a friend who hasn't been doing well, and I would like to send it to her.  

I will be linking up @Stories From the Sewing Room.  

Thanks for stopping by!

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.  

Thanks for stopping by!