Thursday, November 5, 2020

Thursday....

 It seems like nothing is moving along this week. Might be because I have been playing my phone games at night and in the car line rather than stitching. 

Normally, Thursday is my day off. I did however log into work today for a little bit (because I said I would) to check on the status of something that ran last night for a Blitz Day change I made yesterday. It worked so I promoted it to production this morning and updated everything I needed to for it. I have not heard on the other one... I'll check on it tomorrow. We don't promote things to production on Fridays.... don't want to cause errors on a weekend! Blitz Day's at work are when we stop working on the long term projects and work on some 'little' things for the business customers that will only take less than a day to get done. We tend to do them at least once a quarter. I got a couple assigned to me yesterday and got both completed.

After that, Greg was still outside with the chickens so I headed out for a bit to hang out with him and the Chickens.  

This is 8 of them. Just Rose missing from the photo, she is around the corner.



Then it was time to find the sewing machine. The quilting on the Cobblestones was started. I just did straight lines (ok, freehand with the walking foot but close enough!) on either side of the grey strip. 



Took a break for lunch (last of the soup, whatever will I have tomorrow for lunch?) and to make the soft pretzel dough. I'm thinking it is 'enough' quilting on it to hold it since I used warm and natural batting. I want it soft and snuggly, not hard and stiff. I was ..... reminded ..... that someone wants to press the binding so I am not allowed to do that part yet. I will cut and sew the strips together while the dough is on the first rise so Emily can press it in half when she is home from school. I guess I can trim it up as well so it is ready to stitch on tonight. 


That leaves me with project 2 today - the mini magic stars quilt. 



I think I know what I want to do on this for quilting so if time allows I will start on that today as well. Might there be 2 finishes this week? Time will tell.


A very bad photo of the pretty birthday flowers that were handed to me last night when Greg got home from work. So bright and cheerful. If only I had fabrics in these colors for the new Bonnie Hunter mystery - Grassy Creek - in my stash. I think I will do it this year (we are not discussing the partially started On Ringo Lake.... but I did finish Easy Street and Celtic Solstice!)  Shopping the stash for possible fabrics will be another post....... I have ideas but we will see what I find.

8 comments:

Julierose said...

Love that mini magic piece--the colors are just gorgeous...
I sewed a gazillion 2.5" squares together this week--finished 60 strips of 6 each..I have no idea where this is going..but just needed some de-stress-sewing...
Hugs, julierose

QUILTING IS BLISSFUL, DI said...

Getting a quilt to the finish line is always fun and rewarding and will be waiting to see where the magic top goes!!! Did you see I am doing the Hexagon project??? Are you working on yours???
luv, di
nice chicken photo--too!!

QUILTING IS BLISSFUL, DI said...

OPPS--forgot to say Happy Birthday--and those are really pretty flowers--enjoy--
luv and hugs, di

Moneik said...

Those would be wonderful colors for Grassy Creek. I'm using purple, pink, green, and yellow. It's fun shopping for new fabrics to add to the stash to use in the quilt.

Karen - Quilts...etc. said...

Cobblestones is looking good and love your flowers - happy birthday

The Joyful Quilter said...

Looking forward to seeing how you quilt your Mini Magic Stars. It looks SEW good in solids!

SusanfromKentucky said...

That mini Magic Stars quilt is beautiful! What a beautiful bunch of flowers for your birthday, too! Happy Birthday, Deb!

LIttle Penguin Quilts said...

Pretty flowers! It sounds like you'll have Cobblestones quilted in no time - I hope Emily got that binding ironed for you. :) I always think it's fun that your kids get involved in the quilting projects!