August OMG - RSC 2018 quilt is completed.

 There is a child under this quilt! It is fresh out of the washer/dryer this afternoon. I hear it is now cuddly.

This is my August OMG quilt finished - bound and the label attached and written on. 

I'll be linking up with the August OMG finish tomorrow.

The kids have completed day 1 of virtual school. Seems they are just doing slide show's the first couple of days and the standard paperwork for the parents to fill out. Somehow I got all the homework! Some teachers are rocking it and some are struggling. Let's hope the kinks get worked out but all in all - it went well today. Both my kids had one of their electives today (Emily had Ag and Aidan Critical Thinking (robotics)), their 'social studies' and science. Tomorrow they both have ELA (language arts), Math and their second elective which is life skills and thinking ahead to careers instead of PE. 

Sounds like so many are in the classrooms in our part of the county, they will be wearing masks all day long as there is no way to social distance. Let's hope the masks do their job and keep people safe. 

A finish!

I did a lot of hand stitching yesterday..... the binding is done on my Squared Away 2018 RSC quilt. I did machine quilt it a bit last Sunday and Emily helped make the binding mid week. It took 3 nights to get the 300 inches of binding hand stitched down. I'll have to take a photo later.... someone has it on her bed already and might have slept under it last night!

**Edited photo taken and added to the post! 

I took the kids to pick out notebooks and folders for school yesterday. They are starting virtual Monday following the bell with teachers teaching either a full period of kids in school OR a full period of virtual kids.  I figured they still needed all the normal school stuff so they went to pick out their things. When we got home I had them check their school portals thinking they might have put their schedules up a day early..... and they were! We will see how Monday goes! Emily has Agriculture first semester and Culinary second semester. Aidan has robotics. Instead of PE - looks like they have a career research type class? We will see what that is all about this week as their second elective.

I did cut out another Endless Diamond block this week. I finally made templates from my paper parts onto my template plastic. I have had it for years and it is nearly gone! I might have to find another sheet of it soon.  Now that the binding is done, I'll start working on hand stitching this block today. All the sewing lines are marked on the back. I decided to make my templates the exact size of the block - so that I am tracing my sewing line onto the fabric around the template and then I cut out using a 1/4 inch all around.  I had made a few templates in the past where they had you use the seam allowance as well but I think this way is easier and quicker.

Linking up with Kathy and the other slow stitchers today.

For those that know how my week was - my mouth is feeling better today and the swelling is almost all gone. A couple more days of antibiotic and root canal is scheduled on Sept 2. I will be so happy when that is all done and behind me.  Hubby update - the shot he got in his back a few weeks ago helped with the sciatic but not his back pain. Unfortunately, the sciatic pain/numbness down his leg has been coming back over the last week. I believe his check in with the nurse is this week so we will see where we go from here. 

RSC Saturday in purple.

Not much sewing this week but... I did make some nine patches last Saturday to go with the stars. I believe I have 4 more stars left so I need to make 4 more nine patches.

The 2018 RSC Sampler quilt Squared Away is machine quilted and the binding is attached to almost 2 full sides as of last night. I'm shooting for another side today - this one finished at 70x80 so 300 inches of binding to stitch.

Linking up with the RSC. Looks like I need to finish up Purple for next Saturday! Where did the month go? Kids start virtual school on Monday. We will see how it goes.

Friday....

 I attempted to start stitching the binding last night.....

But Mom... this is so comfy! Silly Peanut. I think Aidan came in at that point and picked him up so I was able to quickly grab the quilt and spread out a part to work on before he made a bed again. I got one side done while watching the end of Sister Act and the beginning of Sister Act 2. This quilt is my August OMG - so I have a little over a week to get the binding stitched down and the quilt notes written on the triangle I actually remembered to tuck in a corner when I machine stitched the binding. 

I remembered to bring my camera outside with me yesterday one of the times I checked on the chickens with Emily. I grab a handful of their feed and let them eat out of my hand.... which is fine until 'Fred' decides the soft part of my hand is food! And keeps pecking the same spot! Silly Fred. That is the one Greg named on a whim and when he tried to change it Emily decided she liked Fred! That is the middle one with the most white.  The one reaching under her to eat is Lilly (Aidan's chicken who does not like that Emily named his Lilly instead of Aidan's chicken or Chickolata!). The one on the right is Emily's Emma. Mine is named Molly and she is the darkest red one we have and the biggest. Aidan's is the smallest. 

I think this one is Emily's Emma..... although they all like to get onto our shoulder. For me... if I have Molly and she goes to my shoulder, Fred will try and fly and land on my head. It does feel like I am in Hitchcocks film 'The Birds' occasionally. 

And just when we thought August 2020 was the 'going back to school fun' Mother Nature decided to pull this. Is anyone else looking forward to 2021? I might actually stay up until midnight for once on new years..... just to make sure the calendar year changes!  Let's hope some wind shear knocks them down and they don't join up in the gulf. Kids are instructed to do their online virtual orientation today and the video on how Microsoft Teams works. That is the one platform they will use this year.  We will see on Sunday what their schedules look like. 

Feeling better today.

 The antibiotics and tylenol/advil combo seem to be working. I do know when it is time for another dose though!

Yesterday someone insisted she wanted to make binding. So I laid out the RSC 2018 quilt and we auditioned a few fabrics. We decided on grey and I had enough. I cut and sewed them together. She did the ironing to press it in half. I machine stitched it to the top. Now it is waiting to get hand stitched to the back. It will take a while - I believe this one is 70x80.

While waiting for me to cut and sew the parts together I mentioned the little magic stars were ready for their layout. She played with it and came up with this setting. These are pretty tiny - I think each one is 4 inches?

Sunday

Today the kids are planning on heading to Grandma's for the day. A whole day of peace and quiet.... to play with fabrics! I plan to get a little machine quilting in on this quilt - that did get pinned yesterday afternoon.

I'll put some stitches in the third Endless Diamond block.

A few episodes of NCIS will get watched/listened to while I add some stitches to the cat and mouse quilt on the frame. I got to roll the frame and start a new section this week!

Saturday night dinner.... last Saturday I did a traditional one that I grew up with - baked beans and hot dogs. Technically.... not the same since I did not make the baked beans from scratch like Mom always did. I just opened a can of Bushs' baked beans. 

This week hubby mentioned a couple of meals we had not made in a while. I had to go out to the grocery store anyway (we won't discuss that I needed AAA batteries - the whole point of going out - do you think I have any in my house right now? Nope.... completely forgot them at the TOP OF THE LIST!). Anyway... he mentioned taco's and chinese stir fry. Last time I did a Moo Goo Gai Pan and a beef one. I asked which he preferred - the beef one - Beef with Broccoli. Hmmm. Em and I like Moo Goo so I got what I needed for both. There was plenty left so I am set for meals on Sunday and probably Monday lunch. No time wasted on cooking today! Just stitching time.

Linking up with Slow Sunday Stitching as there will be a bit of it in my future today. Must go get my walk in before the temps get crazy hot!

Last Flimsy finish for 2019.....

Or so I thought! I just looked at the photo and looks like I need to find the seam ripper and fix that bottom right corner so it has the sashing in the correct spot! Sigh.... 2 seams to pick out and resew. After dinner I think. As much of a PITA it was to sew all those sashings with the on-point setting I do really like how it turned out.  I had to go out quick and snap a photo before the sun went down so it has not been pressed or measured yet. I'll have to see if I have a backing fabric ready. This one will be machine quilted.... not sure when. I think I'll work on pinning and quilting the Happy Little Things on the machine tomorrow. 

A big Thank You to Chris for sending me a care package of beautiful blues for my Ella Maria Deacon quilt. I'll be using some of them in the coming month's block. She also included a book she wrote about her daughter. I plan to start reading it tonight. Thank you so much Chris. 

The pizza and wings arrived. Time for dinner =)

Wishing you all a Happy and Safe New Years. Catch you in the next Decade!

Last RSC Saturday....

I was hoping to have this as a top but had to stop and play Horseopoly with the kids. A version of Monopoly. The girl had a sleepover last night so other than playing table tennis with Aidan (who needs a dining room table!) we did not have a family game night last night. It got delayed to Friday night.

I didn't have enough of the grey sashing to do the setting triangles and corner triangles but I did have a few different pieces of that blue that were big enough for the 4 squares at 20 inches and the 2 squares for the corner triangles. It is a scrappy quilt so I had to pull from stash! I do like how it is turning out. The sashing really calmed it down from too busy and the blue just frames it well I think. Emily took one look and said ' I really like this one Mom'. Sigh... and there it goes! I'll have to see what size it is and try and make it a twin size for her bed I guess.

The reason I had to keep putting all the blocks back down on the floor was these two kept play fighting on it and messing up all my blocks! I had to do a bit of unpicking to figure out how to get this one together so that it has all the grey sashings on with the setting triangles. I am down to the long seams.... and it was a good place to stop for the night. I hate long seam sewing! I'll pick this one up on Sunday with a fresh outlook. Tomorrow - I'm taking the kids to the Orlando Science Museum. I just hope my foot holds up - I seem to have pulled whatever I did last year and that time it took 12 PT sessions to resolve with lots of rest. 

Linking up with the RSC Challenge (Hopefully Angela will continue this in 2020 - I have a plan for next year already!), and Oh Scrap. If you'd like to see my recap post you will find it here. 

It was the Sunday before Christmas....

and all through the house. Not a thing was completed not even the elf! Just kidding. I don't tend to 'make' things for Christmas so no pressure on getting things done =)

I did make a little progress on machine and by hand this week. It is just not very noticeable!

The Happy Little Things got the last block completed, sewn together for the blocks, seam ripped the oops and then sewn again with some borders added yesterday. Not sure if I will add more or consider this done as is?

The cat allowed me to do that much before he settled in and decided I was done with the machine for the afternoon! How can you stitch with this in the way?

I laid out a set of blocks from 2018.. with the thought of sewing them together yesterday. See the above cat photo for that progress. I did make decisions and went with a grey sashing for the on point setting and I love how it is looking.... I see the cats have slightly rearranged things overnight. I'll plan to shut the cats out of the sewing room later tonight so I can make a little progress after we return from Christmas at my MIL's house this afternoon. The boy had recovered to feel well enough to go... fighting with his sister again this morning so he is better!

For the slow stitching....that is the crochet and knitting.
The crochet has made progress. That one is easy to pull out and do without thinking. I believe I am on skein 3 and I plan on 8 for this blanket stitch afghan for Emily.

The knitting. I finished the next section of Aidan's pillow. Now it is the section of the sheep. I am nervous about this as it is multiple colors to make a pattern. Thank goodness for youtube. I have an idea on how to do it but will need to concentrate. Tonight's project I think. 15 rows to make one set of the sheep across. Wish me luck!

Last night Emily and I went to an ugly sweater party at her horse academy. Ms. Liz hired a camel for camel rides! Even I got to take a spin on Kent the camel!

Deb on the camel - it was really high up there!

Emily riding the camel.

Linking up with the other slow stitchers today. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a big Thank you to Kathy who has hosted this wonderful link up for so many years of encouragement.

RSC Saturday...

The kids are officially off school until January 7! Please pray that the kids and parents are still alive on that date!

So far - the boy came home from school sick and right to his room! Fever, not well and chills. Fever this morning and achy so no robotics tournament today.
Emily headed over to a friends 'farm' for a sleepover last night. I hear she is out playing with all the animals (calf, pigs, goats, hens, roosters, turkey and a duck) this morning. We have a party at horses tonight - with camel rides! Tomorrow assuming the boy is better we'll head to Grandma's for her Christmas. If not better, we'll delay it to Tuesday or after Christmas. Don't want to spread his sickness. I never did get the kids for their flu shots. Greg got his a few weeks ago and I got mine last Saturday. Fingers crossed (and lots of hand washing) we don't get sick.

Today.... I plan to play a bit in the sewing room. Maybe, just maybe this 2018 RSC Sampler will become a flimsy? I counted and have 32 blocks. Checking between Angela's and Mari's blogs I guess I was planning the on point setting! Time to lay them out and find a setting triangle fabric in the fabric room. Not sure this is how they will land in the final quilt but it was the first laying out of blocks today.

Linking up with the RSC Challenge where others have done a much better job at finishing things than I have this year =).

A couple of movie recommendations off Netflix - I watched  A Dogs Purpose last Sunday and last night was The Bucket List. Both great movies.