It is a quiet morning at my house. Well, other than the neighbor across the street playing weird music before 7AM that woke me up! Sigh. Better than the 2AM it used to be but this is the second Sunday this has happened. Deep breath, I am enjoying the quiet house all to myself with some coffee and catching up on blog reading.
I have been stitching up a Hexagon each day this week (except Friday and Saturday as I was too busy doing cross stitch! Oops) I'll just whip up 3 of them today! Once these are prepped, the stitching goes quickly. I will plan to prep a few more of these today. Sometimes I feel like working a certain color and all I have right now are blue/teal prepped.
The gobble gobble I started on Tuesday has been taking most of my time. This is a free pattern from Melissa who is so kind to make and share her talents with us. I transferred the pattern to a block sheet as it was easier for me to read that way.
The bulky quilt addition of circles has not finished, but I will get the last 5 done today. I'd like to move the String of Beads quilt to a completed top stage. I'll probably do these during the F1 race in Brazil today. It was quite a Sprint race yesterday.
Hand quilting - I have neglected the quilt in the frame as I did not like my choice for quilting on it. It came to me this week, I really want to do a Baptist fan pattern on it. I'm just going to free hand it I think (Yes, I'm too lazy to create the pattern although I might change my mind on that too!) I do need to take out the quilting I have done on a few of the blocks first.
Linking up with Kathy and the other Slow Sunday Stitchers. The drizzle rain has ended at my house and the sun is bright and shining. A last 'warm' day before we get a freeze warning tomorrow night in Florida. It does happen and I'll enjoy grabbing out my jeans and sweater to be cozy! It will warm back up later in the week to our 'normal' temps. I am really enjoying these cooler weather systems that keep dipping down to us.
Somehow I have 3 days off in the middle of the week, so hubby and I will attempt to tackle his Dad's house a bit. It needs to be cleared out, cleaned and then someone to do some plumbing work and painting outside so we can list it for sale eventually. He is extremely happy in the assisted living quarters closer to us. He has his own room and things, they do his medicines, meals, cleaning and laundry and check on him throughout the day and help in the bathroom and dressing if needed. He is quite content for a 90 year old man.
I forgot - I also need to make some wands for a Wizarding event next weekend! Oops. I guess I will be drizzling hot glue onto chopsticks today as well. Then I'll go grab some spray paint and get them colored up for next Sunday's event. Emily was planning to do it, but I ordered the wrong glue sticks for our hot glue gun.
Your QAYG hexies are coming along! Your idea is helpful for my Fields of Fancy BOM! It sounds like you'll have a Sunday of stitching bliss!
ReplyDeleteMelisa's cross-stitch designs are always fun and so enticing! I started another mini sampler this week - with a turkey on it - forgot to include that in my post. You got me back to sewing those hexagons, too, which are also addicting! Hope you get a chance to do some quilting on that pretty quilt. So glad your FiL is happy at his assisted living place, too!
ReplyDeleteI did a Baptist Fan only once and although it looked good it took a lot of extra time marking it - I do have a stencil for it though. I think in last couple years I have more and more just done for simple grids - I get the hand quilting affect I want but not all the fancy stuff.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with your upcoming busy week, Deb. What a glorious race today--I cannot believe how Max V. managed to do that from pit lane start. The whole field was so scrappy throughout...a fun watch!!
ReplyDeleteI've never attempted Baptist Fans--but i do love how they look...
Hugs, Julierose