Sunday, November 2, 2025

Slow Sunday in November.

 As November is a new month, I'm going to be stitching one of these hexagons each day! I finished prepping these yesterday, so they are easy to grab at lunch and get one stitched up. These will be grouped into fours and added to my QAYG hexagon quilt from a few years ago that insists on being bigger. I have 2 additional rows already stitched and need 2 more to make it the 88x88 that it wants to be. Each row needs 12 sets of 4, so this will be a long term project over the next couple of months. The blues were at the top of the scrap bins, as you can tell from the pull of fabrics. 



I have not made progress on adding the last 8 circles onto the String of Beads but hope to get it completed this week. 



Linking up with the Slow Sunday Stitchers.

Marching season is officially over with the long practices. They go down to just a couple hours after school on Fridays until the 2 December parades are done. They got an overall Exceptional rating - one step down from Superior they got the last two years. The guard and visual did get Superior ratings. The music was not as spot on as their Thursday performance at the football game. It was a great show, and they should be very proud of all their hard work this season. Would you believe I didn't even take a photo? It was a long ride to get to the venue - Greg and I headed 45 minutes to pick up Grandma and then continued 40 minutes further to the venue. Same route back, and around 8, we decided to do dinner out with Grandma before returning her home and chatting for a bit. It was nice to have adult chats without the kids! Greg and I got home just before 11 and Emily rolled in about 11:15. Aidan put the outside light on for us, as he stayed home and finished applying to colleges, which were due by midnight last night for the early applications. Fingers crossed he gets what he wants in January!

Winter Guard try outs are this week. Emily will do that at the first one, and then she heads off on the Junior class Civil Rights trip for 5 days to Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. 

Looks like I should have lots of time to 'play' this week, if only I would put down my phone and stop scrolling and playing games!

The county Pre MPA from October 21,2025.
This is all the bands. I think we are about halfway through, Belleview HS.
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4 comments:

  1. Chris November 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM

    I stopped playing games more than a year ago. But I do find myself scrolling more often. I like your plan to stitch up one hexie a day. It seems so simple and great progress at the end. All this after all the prep which can be messy.

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  2. MiaismineNovember 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM

    I love your QAYG hexagon quilt. I started on years ago and am eager for it to "mature" - as one blogger wrote. Your idea of sewing them in groups of four is fabulous. I've been sewing mine in rows and it soon became unwieldly. You're so right - prepping them and doing one a day will soon be a finished quilt. Guess what I'm doing today? :) It sounds like you have an active family life - that's wonderful.

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  3. LIttle Penguin QuiltsNovember 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM

    You are really enticing me to start some of those hexies again! Maybe I will prep some this afternoon. Sounds like the band did well, but I bet they are tired. I recall marching band season being very intense! That civil rights field trip sounds like a good one.

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  4. Karen - Quilts...etc.November 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM

    I thought you were done with the quilt as you go hexies - how large will it be when done - nice that you can add on to it.

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