Yesterday was a stressful day for some reason. So much to do and not enough time to do it. Today.... I plan to relax and putter with a little of this and a little of that and some hockey watching in the afternoon before I head to pick up the kids tonight from Grandma.
I plan to add some stitches into block #11 of the Endless Diamond block and get it finished up. I started stitching this at horses yesterday. Then I'll switch to hand quilting on the frame to make some progress on the Cat and Mouse quilt while finishing up the hockey game. I make the middle 4 diamonds, then the corner parts with a color on each side of the white diamond. Then I add the white sides to all 4 corners before adding them one at a time to the middle. They are a little wrinkled since I just pulled them out of the bag I took to horses. Block #12 is prepped and ready to go as well. I try and get one of each color of the rainbow in each block pulling from the scrap bins. Hand piecing lines are drawn on the back of each. Linking up with the Slow Sunday Stitchers and Oh Scrap.
There will be some machine and fabric playing in yellow to make a couple of nine patches and friendship star blocks this morning. Then I'll play around with those blocks added to 18 others (or 23? not sure if I want a 48x60 or 60x60 quilt) and get them sewed together. I had hoped to do this Saturday, alas that did not happen.
First it was horses with Emily.... we left the house at 10 and got home close to 1. Then I made my butternut squash pasta with brussel sprouts for lunch ( and used up the leftover supplies from the last time I made it!) Then it was lots of water testing..... we seem to have gotten a 36 gallon aquarium on sale 1/2 off on Monday for the boy to get fish. We tried the water at Petsmart Friday night and it was too high in the PH so no fish. He was very disappointed! I prodded Greg to help him adjust it and we had to made a trip to the store to get distilled water to swap some out....... a little more testing and it was around 5PM. I had a zoom wedding at 6:30.... the pet store has been understaffed the last 2 times we went so when hubby offered to take him (despite being in the car killing his back)... I let him! It was a good thing too, they arrived home at 6:30 as the wedding was starting! (Congrats to my niece and her husband!) Myrtle the chicken attended as well - Emily was holding her. This is the one Greg named and is currently in her own 'cage' inside as she is sneezing and seems to have a respiratory infection. Antibiotics are arriving on Monday for her. Tractor Supply gave us another little barred rock in case this one does not make it. Emily named the new one DC - Daisy Chickolotta. She is a baby and about half the size of this one.
After the wedding and dinner was picked up, it was time to deal with the e-mails from 2 of Emily's teachers. Seems she is having issues with submitting things - documents not saving and work not being turned it. 3 weeks in before the teachers raised a red flag? Seems she is too shy to speak up in class. It was an extremely frustrating evening trying to have her show us around in teams, what she could not figure out and her brother trying to be our tech support. Figured out one thing just started so we showed her how to use chat to let the teacher know and ask how to proceed. Just need to do that with the other one... she was 'done' by the time we got to that subject. A very stressful evening.
The boy was tickled pink though - he got to watch his silly fish swim all around and get used to their new home. He got 4 velvet swag sword tail (orange), 3 hb blue guppies and 4 algae eaters called Otocinclus catfish to start.
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Oh! This quilt is going to be gorgeous! I love the way it is coming along!
I love your rainbow diamonds! Hand sewing can be so soothing in times of stress, too!
on line teaching for students and teachers must be so hard to adjust to and then of course for the parents too! I'm so glad I never had to deal with that. Our granddaughter in California is doing on line but there is talk that it will switch to classroom in October - depends on it cases keep going down - heaven knows how large the school is it is a high population area.
I love this quilt - there really is like 3 patterns to showcase when it is time to quilt
Wow, you need a rest from your weekend! Love the blocks and all your colorful scraps. And a chicken attended a wedding! This is such a crazy year. Good luck with the online school.
What a day you had, Deb! It definitely has to be stressful when things aren't working right with the school/tech issues. Hope it goes more smoothly now! Love the little penguin in the diamond! You could do some more fussy cutting of other fun little designs, too. Wishing you a relaxing day!
Wow!! You are making such good progress on your Endless Diamonds project, Deb!! Hoping things work out with Em's teachers. Congrats to Aidan on his new fishy acquisition! :o))
So much going on! A zoom wedding is a unique development for 2020! Enjoy your diamond stitching and hope you get lots of time for relaxing today!
Your Endless Diamond blocks are coming right along--it will be a finish before you know it--
And you are becoming quite the 'farmer' there with all the chicks and now fish!!! and you already have the cats!! oh talking of cats--how do they like the fish????
My daughter really got herself into 'fish' a year or so ago and she ended up with 5-6 tanks--and one big mess!! she got rid of them when she moved to Ill--now she is big into gardening--indoors!!!
relax some today--sounds like you are ready for some-
luv, di
I love those blocks you are making. They are so colorful! Thanks for sharing with Oh Scrap!
So sorry for all your technical issues. I had my granddaughter over here last week, and she had a proficiency test in math, and I watched the video myself. It said load up the launchpad, and click the R. We could not find launchpad anywhere much less the test. When 18 year old grandson got here, he looked it up in Google and was able to find it. How is a 6 year old supposed to do that herself? Plus the day before she missed a meeting with her teacher, and I had no idea where she was supposed to go. Good luck on everything! Lovely blocks you are making though!
This is the first zoom wedding, I've heard about. So much better than in-person right now. Hopefully you have the tech issues resolved for school. I think many are having problems. 🙁🙃It has to be very hard for the kids. I love your penguin in the quilt! ~Jeanne
Amazing Endless Diamonds! Hope all goes better “with school”this week! It must be hard to be the shy kid online! I know our Zoom Family calls are chaotic and it’s hard to get a “word in edgewise” as my Dad used to say!
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