Sunday, July 7, 2019

Sunday.....

Well, it will be a slow Sunday from 11-1ish while I watch the USA Womens' Soccer team play in the World Cup. I think the graduation quilt might finally get a little of the binding sewn down during that time!

Yesterday was an electronics free day for Emily and I. She did allow me to link up my hexagon flowers post to the RSC Challenge (I need to go visit today) and I checked the radar while at Walmart with Aidan..... after waiting 10 minutes we deemed it 'slowing down for the thunder and torrential downpour' to run to the car with a cart full of bags! We got soaked... and 15 minutes away at home there was NO RAIN! It was quite a storm with the thunder booming in the store and the rain hitting on the roof. Did I mention Aidan really dislikes thunder storms?

Emily was watching me knit a little yesterday and wanted to learn. No photo - obviously as I use my phone for photo's! I cast on 21 stitches and showed her how to knit. She did pretty good... much better than I did while I was learning! 21 stitches was enough for her yesterday!

While looking for needles for her..... I cleared out my pink bag that I just grab to go with me. There is a medley of things in there to keep me busy while waiting - at soccer practice, car lines, dr appts....

There were bits of dish cloth yarn hanging around so they will make a colorful dish cloth or two!


The bag needed a clean out. I found some extra parts cut for the hand pieced quilt along. So I hand stitched them up yesterday! 4 flying geese (I do believe I mixed up the color and white when cutting this set out!) and 3-  4 patches.




Not sure why the 4th one was different colors - but one square got stolen to be used in Emily's who is finally starting to work on hers. We have done a couple of 4 patches this week for her first block! I'll show hers next week hopefully as a completed block 1!

My office and sewing area are being redone (the floor in the office will finish going down this afternoon..... the walls needed a 3rd coat last night. Note to self - don't have the kids help with coat 2 as it will be blotchy!) So everything is out of the office and tucked into the sewing area. Hopefully the office will be put back together tonight and tomorrow... then I can start on the sewing area!
I did pull all the fabrics off the storage wall and some of the bins of scraps and placed them in the bedroom..... so I dug and pulled out some pink scraps for the umbrella's this month. One of these might get finished during the soccer game as well! I use back basting for my applique. I started with the handle and top to stitch from the back and then will use needle turn to stitch it to the front.


First -  I need to clean up the messy kitchen. The kids were baking yesterday. Aidan made biscotti (yummy) and did a good job cleaning up after himself. Emily made crinkle cookies - she did not do a good job cleaning up after herself. It is a process.......

Linking up with the other slow stitchers at Kathy's Quilts.

7 comments:

Quilter Kathy said...

Enjoy your hand stitching and soccer!
That sounds like a fun day ... stitching and soccer!

Karrin Hurd said...

I’ve been watching 2 of my grandchildren twice a week and I’ve asked that their electronics be left at home. Have fun stitching and watching soccer today!

Chopin - A Passionate Quilter said...

You will enjoy all the updating in the rooms, but such a chore to move and then put back! Ask me, I am the pro! LOL
Good day without those things!

Robin said...

So nice to pass your talent on to the next generation.

Carla A Few Of My Favorite Things said...

I throughly cleaned my sewing room this week. It was working and now the new arrangement makes me smile. You always seem to get so much done in your stolen moments

LIttle Penguin Quilts said...

It's fun what you find when you're looking for something else, lol! What kind of yarn is best for dishcloths? I have a book of simple patterns for dishcloths, but haven't made any for a long time. It would be fun to get back to knitting!

QuiltGranma said...

your umbrella handle and tip look like a letter j! I wondered what words you were going to make then realized my mistake!