Stay at Home Round Robin, Round 3

The information about this The SAHRR or Stay at Home Round Robin can be found here at Quilting Gail.   

Last week, for round 3, Anja @ Anja Quilts suggested that we put flying geese on our round.  

I really liked the migrating flying geese that Emily @The Darling Dogwood put on her round 3, and I ordered the technique sheet from Deb Tucker's Studio 180 Design.  It arrived on Saturday and I was able to finish up today, just in time for the new round being released on Monday!  

I really like how it turned out.  I will be using this technique again.  Linking up to Anja Quilts for the round 3.  

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Slow Sunday Stitching

I got a lot of slow stitching in this week, namely in the form of Ella Maria Deacon blocks.  I finished this one I had been working on last week.  I really like this one. 

Then I got two more finished.  I had spent last week prepping all these blocks for applique.  

I have two more prepped for applique, and this will be my slow stitching for this week.    After I finish these two, I will be all caught up for the new ones coming out on the 15th.  

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

Thanks everyone for the suggestions last week on my shelf that was coming loose from the wall.  My grandson Jaeger was able to come over late last week, and we took the shelf down, moved it over and two of the three brackets are now in studs, and one that is not, is secured with drywall anchors.    I also went through all that "stuff" that was up there to begin with, and lightened the load, sorting through the books and magazines which will find new homes, removing a container with some heavy fabric, and putting some of my laces and trims I use for crazy quilting up there.  They are pretty light.  I still have a bunch of  "stuff"  on the counters I need to sort through and determine if I want or not.  I am trying to go through everything in that room and weeding out that I no longer want or need.  

For the Stay at Home Round Robin this week the row this week was suggested by Anja Quilts for flying geese.  In looking through the various designers rows, I noticed that Emily @The Darling Dogwood did migrating flying geese and had gotten the idea from Deb Tucker's Studio 180 Design that has a technique sheet with the details.  I ordered one and have been waiting for it to arrive, so I can get my round done before Monday.  Thankfully it arrived in the mail today, and I started making the components.    I still have to put the four sides together, but they are coming out pretty well.

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One Monthly Goal

 

Time to link up One Monthly Goal at Elm Street Quilts.  Patty has lined up some great sponsors as she always does for this month.  Many Thanks for all she does!  

My One Monthly Goal for February is to make my project for the Show Your Stripes Blog Hop later this month.    I have not started yet.  I need to at least get my top done.  

I'll probably  be using some of these fabrics, I haven't made up my mind yet.  

I'll be linking up with Elm Street Quilts for One Monthly Goal.    Again thanks Patty for all you do and for keeping us motivated and on the straight and narrow!  

January 350 Blocks Report

 

The goal for January was 31 blocks, but I was nowhere near that total.  Here's how I did.

Ella Maria Deacon blocks:  3

Crazy Quilt Pillow:  I counted this as 1 block

Kristen's Pillow Cover:  I counted this as 1 block

Stitchery from the One Stitch Club by Kathy Schmitz:  1 block.  

Stay at Home Round Robin.   1 counted 2 rounds as 2 blocks, the piano border and the plus sign border

Christmas Mystery BOM:  1 block

Pieces From the Past Sew Along:  1 block

Hands All Around Alcotts:  The New BOM by Barbara Brackman 

So my total for January is 11 blocks.  I'll be reporting my totals at Prairie Moon Quilts.  

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Slow Sunday Stitching

This week has been one of ups and downs.  I have gotten a lot accomplished, and then come to standstills.

I was able to get this block done for a private Christmas BOM I am in.

This was from the Pieces From the Past Sewalong by Melva Loves Scraps.  This is called the Double T, and it was originally published in the Kansas City Star, not sure what year.  These blocks will be going into grandson Jaeger's graduation quilt this year.

I was also able to work on some of my Ella Maria Deacon blocks.  This one was the one that was giving me so much grief a couple of weeks ago.  Instead of starting over, I trimmed down the last two sides a bit, and made it work.  It is not perfect, but it is 9-1/2 inches like it is supposed to be.  The first version of this block measured 10 inches, too big.

I also finished this block, I changed it a big, and used broderie perse in the corners, different than the original.

For Slow Sunday Stitching this week I will be working on this block, another Ella Maria Deacon.

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

The rest of my week I did some moving stuff around.  I had a record, tape, CD player in my sewing room, in an inaccessible spot and it never got used.  I decided to move it out near the rooms I work in, namely the kitchen/dining room.  I moved my player, record collection, CDS and tapes.  Its all set up now and accessible and I am loving it!  Music has always been a big part of my life.  

In order to set it up out here, I had to move the stuff which was on the bottom of the shelf, which was containers of lace, threads, beads, etc for my crazy quilting.  I moved these containers back in my sewing room on the dresser I took my music and player off of.  I was even able to use a shelf for my Accuquilt dies.  

My problems this week have come when I decided to get rid of some magazines/books on the shelf above  this, which is about 10 inches from the ceiling and goes from this corner, over to the other corner over the closet.   This wallpaper was up when I moved my sewing room to this end of the house, and I wish I had taken it down before I moved in here, but as my BIL was helping us move that weekend  it was sort of a rush, and no time for me to peel it down and repaint.

Anyway those chickens are a UFO and are attached to the shelf.  When I was taking stuff off the shelf, I heard a creaking noise and realized the L-brackets holding it up were coming away from the wall.  John is no longer able to do anything like fix this, and I asked him what I should do.  He told me  to take the nails out, and put in long screws.  I tried one, and it just keeps going around and around, won't tighten.  So the rest of my week, I have been discouraged and try to come up with a solution.  All the stuff up on that shelf has been taken down, and is sitting in the middle of the room.  If I don't come up with a solution, the shelf is unusable and I will have to find another place for the boxes that were up there.  It will be difficult for me to get it down too, the board is about 8 feet long.  

When I get discouraged I tend to spend my time reading, and I have read about 9 books.  Two days I read all day long!  I read on my Kindle App and belong to Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.  I read the Winter Black Series by Mary Stone.  Winter Black is an FBI agent whose mother and father were killed by a serial killer when she was 13 but she was left knocked out and in a coma.  Her little brother was taken by the serial killer, and she finds out in the later books her brother is still alive.  

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Stay At Home Round Robin, Round 2

 

The main information for this blog hop can be found here at Quilting Gail.  

This week, Emily @The Darling Dogwood told us to add plus signs for our second round.  

I decided just to add plus signs to my corner squares.  I searched for an interesting print in my stash to put on the sides.  I'm really happy with the way it came out.   That plaid was a mess to get straight.  I think it was printed crooked!  

I'll be linking up with Emily @The Darling Dogwood.   

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One Monthly Goal, January

 

Time to link up for One Monthly Goal at Elm Street Quilts.    Many thanks to Patty for this monthly motivation and all she does!

For the first time in a number of months, I finally met my goal for the month.

I set my goal here.  I wanted to make another pillow cover for my daughter Kristen's BD.  I meant to get it done for Christmas but it never happened.  She liked this one I made for the Hello Fall Blog Hop and asked me to make her one.  The cover actually fits a bed sized regular pillow.

This is hers.  I wasn't able to do the acorns for hers as I somehow screwed up the fusible that I had attached to the little bit I had for the acorns and I couldn't pull the paper off.  And when I did, it ripped the loosely woven wool bits apart.    It didn't seem to matter to her.  I did more quilting on hers than I did on mine.  

These are both of them together.  

I'll be linking up at Elm Street Quilts for One Monthly Goal.  

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Hand Quilt Along, Slow Sunday Stitching

Time to check in again for the Hand Quilt Along.  Three weeks ago, I was here on this Kathy Schmitz One Stitch at a Time Club Stitchery.  

I finally was able to finish the piece this week.  

Also on the slow stitching front, I finished my project for the Hearts On Fire Blog Hop.  I made a crazy quilt pillow.  I used my Cricut to cut out vinyl to iron on the "Crazy for You on the front, and the piece on the back.  

Please check out the other hand quilting and stitching 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, Gretchen, Daisy, Connie, Monica and Sherrie

This week for Slow Sunday Stitching I will be working on another Kathy Schmitz stitchery. I haven't gotten started yet.

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Head on over there and see what everyone has been doing.  It's my favorite day of the week to check out blogs.

This week after I got my Hearts on Fire Project done, I made this pillow cover for my daughter Kristen whose birthday was Thursday.  She asked for one after she saw mine that I made for the Hello Fall Blog Hop.  

My One Monthly Goal for January was to make her one like mine.

I put a zipper in her back.  I  made an envelope opening for mine, but I didn't particularly like it.  I don't like putting zippers in either, but hers looks much better.  

Here are both of them together. 

I will be linking up with Elm Street Quilts for One Monthly Goal.  

Kristen loves sugar cookies, and for her birthday I always make her some for her BD and she was thrilled with both the cookies and the pillow cover.  

I have to share what our younger daughter Katie posted about her sister on Instagram for her BD.  I was reading it to John and couldn't read it without crying.  

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Happy birthday to my beautiful sister Kristen.  

Someone who is able to befriend anyone, can talk to anybody. Someone who can tell the full plot of a movie or TV show. An excitable, loving kind, funny, smart, determined and stubborn and wonderful human. An avid reader and you like the extraordinary. You have a large vocabulary and you are an excellent speller of most any word. You can put together a "mean mix" of songs. You probably have the best "staged" sorority laugh in a picture despite never participating in one. 🌟

A wonderful wife, mother, sister, Aunt and sister-in-law. I couldn't have asked God for a better sister you have shown me time and time again but a wonderful person you are and that you do try to believe in the good of others. And you'll prove whoever you can wrong, if needed. 🧐

I love you for it. I love everything about you. I look up to you as my big sister. We could have been Irish twins had we been born 7 months closer but it didn't work out that way.

Thank you for always including me and my family in any activities and allowing me to tag along with your girlfriends.

I will gladly follow behind you, be there for you to get through life with the best sister anybody could ask for! Happy Birthday Kristen Alys! I love you always and forever. 💞💜🦋.

Thanks for stopping by, and hope you have a good week!

Stay at Home Round Robin, Round 1

 

The main information for this blog hop can be found here at Quilting Gail.

For the first round of this SAHRR, Chrisknits chose a piano keys as the first round.  

The block I chose as the center was an orphan block that has been hanging around for a long time wondering what was going to happen to it.  I took a class back in the late 90's with Jenna Kimball.  I never made anymore blocks, not that I don't love applique, but it always got tossed back in the unfinished pile.  

I have tons, and tons, and tons of scraps I have cut up into strips, and I searched for some that were Civil War type fabrics and began sewing them together. 

Linking up at Chrisknits.  

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