Little house sew along

 Melva released the latest block today and after a trip to visit my FIL and then a visit to his house to check on the handyman and pay him, and a lunch date with hubby at Millers Ale House, I got home a little before 2PM. Doggie, kitty and chicken tending and some pool checking and I got a little time to check blogs. I forgot today was a release day but I was looking forward to this block. I had fun picking fabrics and sewing this one up. All 7 blocks are put back onto the shelf with the box of the jelly roll I am using. Linking up with Melva and her fun sew along.

This photo is sideways, but I needed something as a leader and ender and had cleared off the house block things when I pinned the quilt last Thursday. I cut some 'ends' of the purple and creams and made some 2.5 inch four patches. Then I dug into a bin and found these extra's from cutting out Brimfield parts from a charm pack. I'm trimming them to 2.5 inch hst's and will just sew them into sets of 4. No plan, but making use of extra bits. 

I'll move onto cutting some more Bear Paw parts to add more of those blocks for Aidan's graduation quilt... which is coming up way too quickly!

Greg and Emily finished off the Cat run on Sunday and other than me and Aidan grabbing the cats (while the dog is shut in a room) and placing them onto the run... the promptly run right back into the master. We will see how long it takes them to try it out.  We did have one fail, one shelf needed some help to keep it into the wall. Turns out the bit above the slider is solid concrete! Em had fun drilling through that! Greg did a little modification with suggestions from Aidan and it appears to be holding up better. Once the cats start using it, we will see how it goes. I need to rehang my quilts and the hangers that were taken down to put these up.

Flower garden is officially finished

 I finished the hand stitching of the binding last night while rewatching The Residence on Netflix. I do like mysteries and this is a fun series. I really hope they do another one. This one is hand pieced, hand appliqued, machine quilted and hand stitching on the binding. 82x93. It was fun revisiting all the pretty fabrics in this from the last 10 years. 

Sunday, I had a afternoon at Painting with a Twist with Girl Scout Volunteers. I'm not sure about this one. I did not like the 'henna' type stuff that is really light on mine around the edges. It was a fun couple of hours though. 

Now to pin the big quilt on the frame that is not getting hand quilted. Pinning and then a machine swiggle is going to call it good I think. Hoping to get that one finished in May. Not sure about June yet, but I'm shooting for one a month this quarter.

Oh, if you are interested in the MSQC Christmas box, it is on pre-order through the end of April. It is a fun gift to yourself in December and I have loved opening the box for 25 days. I hear there is more fabric this year? Time will tell.

Almost done a UFO

 

An old rsc quilt getting towards the finish line. I just measured this and it is 82x93 inches. I started hand stitching the yellow binding down last night. 

In 2014 I started hand stitched (not epp) the flowers. Another year I basted the edges down and appliqued to the black squares.  Sewed them all together another year and added borders. Then it sat. I rolled it onto boards last month.  I finally pinned and did minimal machine quilting down the long column lines as a squiggly in black. The around either side of the blue border. I added the yellow binding to pull the yellow center color out and finish it off. I'll be hand stitching the binding during hockey games this week. It feels good to move a old quilt top into the almost completed column!

Linking up with the RSC.... sometimes it takes a while but those RSC quilts do get finished eventually!  

Friday

 

I love my Merlin bird app. I think Diann pointed me to this a couple of years ago. The birds were chirping a lot yesterday. 

I spent time Thursday working on this. It got pinned, machine quilted and then I got frustrated making the binding. No discernible right side for my fabric choice threw me. I've not made binding in a while.  Ill try again this afternoon, sine I have hockey time tonight and hand stitching binding wold be a good fit. This is a big quilt, I think 84x93ish? 

Hoping for a finish this month.

Hexagon qayg

 

I was stitching on these Sunday while watching my lightning lose in overtime. The column on each side is completed. 

 I prepped some reds and a couple others to go with 2 that were done as a set of two. No clue where their partners are.  That should fill the three empty spots with the pinks I prepped this weekend. I should have all for this row completed by the time game 2 ends tonight. Then it will be assembly time.

I think I'll just get these 3 sets done, washed a few times to shrink a bit to better match the existing quilt, then add them on and call it done.

That will have this checked off the list so I can work on Brimfield.  I might have got more fabrics for that project last Saturday. 😁

Little house sew along

 

I was able to get the next block completed! I love the little block in this one. So fun to make.

Linking up with The Little House Sew Along over at Melva loves scraps.

Sunday slow stitching.

 I've been plugging away at these Hexagon QAYG blocks to add to the existing quilt. I was thinking 4 rows but might just do 3 as these will become the third row to be added. It is a little blue heavy, but will work overall in the scrappy quilt. I purchased some pinks yesterday at a quilt show and prepped 4 of those to stitch this week. I'll be working the rest into sets of four and then will stitch them together into a column. These are all hand stitched. I've been enjoying stitching these on the back screened in porch in my new comfy chairs while listening to audio books. I finished a CJ Box book Back of Beyond this week. Thank you for the recommendation of the author (Jenny I think?) I'm waiting on my Libby app to have a copy of the next audio book available... but I might just get it off Audible. It was that good!

I've been adding to the bottom grassy part of the cross stitch this week. I'll probably work on the last part in the quilt and then go back to the grassy area this week. Linking up with Kathy and the other Slow Sunday Stitchers.

I was able to attend a local quilt show on Saturday. Lots of pretty quilts, although almost all were long arm quilted. I did see some variety with machine embroidery, cross stitch worked into quilts - I forgot to get a photo of that one, but it was really neat with various Halloween themed stitcheries. Lots of 1st time showing a quilt awards were noted with a pretty red ribbon on their quilt, at their Ruby anniversary of the guild. I took a few photos and made sure to get the quilter information on the quilt tag.

I loved this one. Lots of hand work went into this one.

A Kim Diehl quilt. Which reminds me I have a kit of her pattern to do!

This one made me smile! Actually, one of the awards to vote on.

There were two of these quilts. I saw this one and went WOW! Two friends bought the kits and worked on them together. I like how this one finished. Although the use of colorful buttons was a neat addition in the below quilt.

A little retail therapy. I felt it was only fair to support those vendors. I think I got something from all but 3 of them. I was low on pinks so was trying to add there. There is a new cross stitch shop opening across town (45 minutes away or so from me) next month. I'll have to go check it out. I might check out the guild and see if I 'fit in' there or not. Now that I don't need to shuttle kids and they are pretty independent, I can get back to doing a few things for me!