Nine patch ufo progress

 Looks like binding is the next step. I got this pinned yesterday. Machine quilted today. Ill be hand stitching binding dow later.

I do love days off work with nothing scheduled to do!

So glad I had made my binding already. It just needed pressing.

This was yesterday when I started.  I pinned it on the floor and could barely move last night with back pain. Thankfully it is much better today. Emily walked Bear today for me, since they are off.

I think I'll make sweedish meatballs for dinner, so I need to go get things for that.

Sunday

Today I'm pretending it is my 'Saturday' since I have Monday off... and was transporting a kid most of yesterday. I did get dinner made for me at the expense of hubbys back. Poor guy, he made dinner (steaks, baked potato and steamed broccoli) but was in too much back pain to eat :(. It was yummy though.

Yesterday was Solo and Ensemble MPA (music performance assessment) a little over an hour away from us. Emily signed up for one of each with her clarinet as it was a requirement to be a section leader next year. 

this was their ensemble. my kid is in the middle.

We got there a couple hours early, so I grabbed lunch from the concession area, went to the car and did a little stitching with the windows down. I did have to put a quilt up to block the sunshine a bit as it was getting a little warm despite a nice breeze. I got the four orange hexagons stitched and quilted. Oops, guess the flowered print needs the quilting added.

We stayed another hour or so and observed another friend of hers do her solo. She did good despite being extremely nervous. I saw this hanging up in the room she performed in and loved the saying. How neat to have this in a high school classroom.

I have made some progress on cross stitch when the dog lets me. 

This is where I was a week ago.

This is where it stands now. The counting and careful stitching of the 'neutrals' doesn't show up well, but it is making progress. I like the weekly comparisons as it shows I am making progress on it.

Joy kindly reminded me I have tons of UFO's listed on my Ravelry challenge and we are halfway through already! Yikes. That is my next project today. The dog has been walked, the chickens needed food so a trip to Tractor Supply happened, the kitchen got cleaned up, the chickens got fed and let out to wander in the back yard. Laundry started and moved..... time to go sew! Kids went to Grandma's house since they are off tomorrow as well for Presidents day.  Let's see if I can get a quilt pinned and start the machine quilting on it! I think I made the binding already, it just needs pressing.

Linking up with Kathy and the other Slow Sunday Stitchers. I've watched some of the hockey from the Olympics and figure skating and snippets of curling (I did live on the border to Canada for almost 40 years after all!). 

RSC in green

 I had some of the green strips from the Christmas Wreath that wanted to get used so I made a couple of houses. Yes, I see the boo boo. It will get fixed later today and roof will get flipped... and I see I have 3 red chimneys instead of 2! I must have been sleeping when I did that one last month! Oops. Linking up with the RSC.

I'm off to driving Em to a solo and ensemble MPA (Music Performance Assessment) soon a good hour away from us. I'll take some hand work with me.

We saw the turkeys while on our walks this week. Bear is much better walking by them at this point. He stopped so I could snap a photo or two. I did get to go see Aidan play in his first Tennis match on Thursday. Not bad for just learning tennis last month.

Progress on QAYG Hexagons

 Last night was spent at school watching these below kids from 8 local schools perform their Winter Guard routines. 

Sunday, I spent time stitching these hexagons into twosies. They need to get sewn into groups of 4, and then I'll start making my column to add to the existing extra ones I've done already. I obviously need to add a bunch more colors to the mix first through! Looks like I'll need to prep more of these this week at some point.

Joy kindly reminded me I need to work on my Winter UFO quarter projects. Sigh. I don't like the next stage - prepping and pinning for quilting. Alas, I will get it pressed and pinned today after work. That will allow me to do a little quilting on it Wednesday evening and Thursday, fingers crossed. I'd like to get that old nine patch UFO finished off this month. I was hoping for a finish each month this quarter.... we will see how the next month and a half go! The calendar is pretty full with kid events, but I tend to do better when I am busy... since in my mind I only have this slot of time to do something, so I do it... rather than putting it off until later!

Sunday - a day of rest and stitching?

 I'm still recovering from a Winter guard competition chaperoning (I really don't do anything - just another adult there and I get in free!). We got to school for 8AM and got home after 10PM. The competition was a couple of hours away and we had the added bonus of a handful of the kids were preforming that morning for Pre-MPA for show choir across town. We picked them up after the performance and the school bus booked it to the event. We arrived 20 minutes before the JV was to preform - so no warmups, but they did great and placed 3rd in their division of 9 at the event. Not bad considering 3 people have dropped out - the most recent 2 after winter break so the show was rewritten a few weeks ago. Em is a co-captain this year.

the start of the show.

Em is on the right.

Progress has been made on the Cross Stitch this week.

last Sunday Feb 1

This morning Feb 8.

I just have a small stack of tall houses to glue baste for the current cut parts of Brimfield Awakening. I was able to get a good stack done while the kids were getting ready before we left for the competition. I also stitched closed a hole in one of the snowballs for the performance.

This week the boy turned 18 on Friday, and we will see if he wants to do his 'birthday dinner' today or another time. Friday he was full from a baking contest the Academic club had after school - lots of sweets were eaten! Yesterday Em and I were gone all day and he did his annual birthday lunch and shopping with Grandma. He wants to do Indian at the local restaurant to check it out. We will see if he opts out since it is Superbowl Sunday here in the USA. I'll watch the game and do some stitching while listening. I'm not into football but will watch today. We do streaming services and not cable.... so I ordered Peacock (NBC) here in the USA so I can watch the Superbowl and the Olympics for the next couple of weeks. 

Linking up with Kathy and the other Slow Sunday Stitchers. 

Must go walk the dog, who did not get walked or go out much yesterday while I was gone. 

Happy 18th to my boy today!

 This kid is officially an adult today! Yikes, seems like just yesterday we were taking him home from the hospital... and then back to the hospital twice with high jaundice levels. It was a fun first couple of weeks with him. We are not too big on birthday's in my house, but I did get a few balloons and made a banner that hung outside his bedroom door this morning. Then I blew up orange and blue (Florida UF Gater colors) balloons to have in the hallway as he walked to the kitchen. Emily might have tossed a couple at him as well. 

His Dad made the requested cheesecake with raspberries as his birthday 'cake' yesterday. We will enjoy that later today.... although after school his academic team is doing a party with surprise baking entries and a few blind testers. He made something to bring in, and it will be interesting to see the results. I hear 9 are baking something for the challenge.

I seem to be enjoying the cross stitch and just working on that lately. I finally have a leaf of the 'quilt' nearly completed. Progress! No stitching happened while watching the Tampa Lightning game last night. Way too exciting. That reminds me... need to see if there are any tickets available later this month while we are over that way for the Indy Car races.

Brimfield Awakening

 I have had trainings online at work this week and finally remembered to put my BA stuff near my desk. I was able to glue baste these stacks during one training this morning. 

My tip so I remember - I started on the right side of the house top and went counterclockwise all around. That worked best for me.

I am hoping to have a good stack of at least the big house and the short ones to start stitching sets of 3 on the Winter Guard trip on Saturday. I said I'd chaperone and feel much better this week so should be able to go. Another long day - 8AM to 10PM is the schedule and the competition is a good 2 hours away. Stitching time on the bus is a possibility.