RSC in aqua

 I got a little sewing time in this afternoon and got 2 teal/aqua 16 patch blocks done as well as the other purple I needed for that set.

Earlier this week I finished the Arkansas Traveller quilt. It is currently in the dryer.. which is taking forever. We got a new set yesterday, it is ventless but does take longer to dry. We will see how it does with the quilt. This was the photo from Tuesdays finish.

The dryer just sang it's finished song. The backing. 

The crinkly front.

Linking up with the RSC. I was able to finish the Table scrap challenge piece already for next week's link up. 

Cross stitch

 I started a cross stitch. See, it came home and is getting worked on! I guess wearing glasses for this is not too bad.

Ignore the mess, taken from my back yard last night from the pool deck. Such pretty sunsets we have. I did not have my phone for the rainbow this morning.

I laid out the flying snowball quilt. 4 blocks to stitch. Sigh, it wants to be bigger. So, I'll cut another 13 blocks this weekend. That willbe 49 and a 7x7 setting or 84x84. I think it will be happy then. 

As you can see, I had a helper. That is where his bed is, but I picked it up to lay things out. 

We headed to Lady Lake yesterday. Returned the cable box from my fils house. Then got more clothes for him. We also went through a few things. Grabbed some photos and albums for his room. He does not want anything, so I took the hope chest and greg grabbed a half phone table for his den. He said it feels weird taking things while he is alive.  We still need to get it painted, cleaned and cleared. I really don't want to take point on that, but if I do, so be it. It needs to get done. We will hire all those jobs out after we go through things.

Sigh, what did I do?

 I went to a girl scout swap. I brought girl scout books and some crafts and badges that did not get given out in 2020 after things shut down. So, a few boxes and a couple of cubies in my office are empty now.

I was so good, I stayed on the side and chatted with people. I walked around and encouraged other leaders to take things - oh this would be great for this badge work, do you do parties and need a bag of crete paper? I got there early to help unload the trailer of a volunteer that has tons of girl scout crafty things and people leave things at her door! She was unloading all that. Other leaders brought things and exchanged things. I did pick up some Ambassador books (Emily's level now as a Junior in high school). 

There was a table across the room with cross stitcheries. A few boxes full of them. After most had been sifted through and there were only 10 or so people left - tucking things in their respective corners of 'stuff to take'.... I wandered over to look. BIG MISTAKE!

Sigh. These kinda jumped intp my hands. I picked up the cross stitch frame from a different box. Then.... there was a bankers box filled with pattern leaflets and small books, organized into sections. Good lord, that landed in my car! There was a section on lighthouses, ocean scapes, alphabets, borders, birds, flowers, holidays, animals, etc. Very organized. That is still in the car. 

Loons - come on, loons are one of my screen shots of one from the lake up in Vermont. My Mom loves loons.

Isn't this pretty a flower garden path?

This looks like my cats - both Ollie and Peanut. Raey might have thrown this one at me.

This one I loved, a small one but so cute. I might do this before the snowman ornament.

A daffodil for march is a little baggie I believe. I also got dmc rounds in whites and cream - about 5 of them. All the kits have the floss and cloth. I even grabbed a stack of the little cards to put the thread on. The was a quart ziplock baggie filled with them. I took one stack.

Edited to add photos. Another two packages of kits, the floss and cardboard cards and the bankers box.

Before I headed out to the meeting, I finished stitching this guy together. I've only got 4 more of these blocks to stitch up to get 36. 3 flowering snowballs and one more shoo fly.

A little hand work

 After the binding it was back to hand stitching blocks. I did the flowering snowball and parts for the shoo fly. I'll finish that one later tonight.

Since I got a finish, I was looking at my list of UFO projects. I have 2 Bonnie Hunter mystery quilts that have been solved but I am still 'in process'. Ok, they are sitting in their respective boxes waiting to see the light of day again. I did buy the digital PDF's for them last year since I could not find all the directions. I have Grassy Creek and On Ringo Lake. I believe Grassy Creek is farther along. 

I also have all the Birds in the Air blocks waiting to be stitched together. I think that one will happen first, and then I'll see how Grassy Creek is looking. There is something about working on projects with fall colors.... when it is almost fall. 

I've got a quick planning meeting tonight for girl scout events and a get rid of stuff shop. I'll be bringing a box or two of things to get out of the house.... and helping to unload another car or two of things for new troops or various troops. Nothing is coming home with me.  See, I am trying to get rid of things in the house. I also listed the futon/daybed on Facebook marketplace. I'd like that out of the front room, so I can clear everything out and paint the walls. Then have stanley steamer come in and deal with the carpets in a few of the rooms. At this point..... who know's when the county will ever make an offer, so I'm going to make that into a nice usable room again (and kick the boy's racing things out and into his room that he keeps saying he will do and doesn't). I'm going to move my hand quilting frame out there and mount a tv onto the wall. Guess I should mention that to hubby. We have plenty of tv's hanging around this house. That will get it out of the bedroom and the cats eating the ties and messing with batting. I think the purple 1857 quilt will go on that and I'll just do smaller quilts in the hoop - like Harmony, Ella, Erin's butterfly's, etc. That is the plan in my head anyway.

Arkansas Traveller Finished!

 

Woo Hoo! It is officially finished. It feels so good to have this quilt finished and off the list. 

The girls approve. We have been keeping an eye on the rhode island red as her comb got light and she was not acting like herself Sunday night. She is looking and acting more like her likable self today, thank goodness. 

They enjoyed running around the yard. Yes, that weed mess is the garden area and I will start weeding it out and getting it ready for planting in a few weeks.

The beautyberry bush is turning it's pretty shade of purple. I love seeing these pretty berries come out in August.

Time to go cut up the pork loin I got at Sams yesterday into roasts, chops and parts for schnitzel. I'll seal a meal them for the freezer and have fun pounding out some of the chops for dinner tonight. Emily is home normal time tonight, so I'll have her do the prepping and dredging in the flour, egg and bread crumb mixture. I get to do the frying on the stove. A little lemon and salt sprinkled after they are fried sets them off beautifully. 

Squishy goodness in the mail.

 I got the order from Missouri Star Quilt Company yesterday. 

Two sets of two charm packs. A layer cake of rainbow colored prints. Some 3 yard cuts of white, black and snow and then a couple yards of eggshell to make sure I have enough for the flying snowball quilt to be a little bigger.

I got a side and a half stitched on the AT quilt until the dog decided to be a lap dog. I was watching 'The Princess Bride' on Disney + and then I switched to Hulu and found a 'Mad About You' show - original cast just 18 years later as Mabel goes to college! It is pretty good. 

Emily is late today with Marching Band (driving herself!). Aidan is home normal I think. We will see if he gets a parking pass... it has been signed for a week and I just paid his sisters. I'm guessing he has not turned it in yet. They are running low and it is first come first get. He may learn a good lesson on this one... I hope not. I really don't want to have to go pick him up from school.

Slow Sunday

 It has been a busy last 2 days, but time spent with my girl and some winter guard Moms! Friday was the band trip to a pre season game in Citrus county. It was the first time the football team has won a game in over 3 years... it was called for lightning in the area after a 30 minute delay where we all had to go to the busses to wait. After they called it, the band had to go load their instruments into the trailer in their cases, and finish getting everything tucked away. I think they played the touchdown fight song 4 times...which is more than they have played it the last 2 years Em has been in band. Who knows, maybe we will win a game this season?

Saturday, I drove us to Orlando (almost 90 minutes away) for a guard class. It was a higher level than Em is, but she learned a few things in the 6 hours. She was exhaused after the first week of school and a late Friday so we headed out about 45 minutes early to head home. I think she picked up a cold over the week as well.  The first part I was playing on my phone, but then I did pull out some fabric and thread and got the purple shoo fly and the teal floweirng snowball blocks stitched while watching.

This was her before they opened the doors at noon. She signed out a practice flag and riffle from the Winter Guard coach to have for practice. She is in the marching band for football season but will try out for the Winter guard in November. The coach said she will make the team already.

After sleeping in until close to 10AM, (girl is still sleeping with the dog at 11:15) I am having a relaxing morning. At some point today, I'll add hand stitches to this Arkansas Traveller quilt that I did on the machine this week and get my first quilt finish for the year! I should have this completed in a few days. I think the quilt is around 70 inches square, but don't hold me to that. 

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers.

As for starting something new..... I did open the little snowman stitchery ornament this week and seperate the single floss strands into like piles. Then figured out what color is what and laid them out on a sheet of peper and taped the whole lot down. How do others sort/keep track of threads in projects like this? I'm going to give this a whirl after I finish the binding above. A finish deserves a start =)