Slowing down on Sunday

 I had a great chunk of time in the sewing room on Saturday and got a quilt pinned and machine quilted, a binding made and machine attached to the front. That allows me to do some hand stitching on the binding this week. When done this is going to knock 2 things off my UFO list. This quilt is 72x84. I just used the walking foot and did a meander curvy line every 3-4 inches or so across the quilt. 

The potato chip quilt on top and then the Full Stop blocks along with a bunch of other 'trial' blocks were cobbled together for the backing of the quilt. The blocks were so happy to get used and into a quilt. I pulled a solid brown from the end of the bolt mystery box that arrived this week for the binding. 

I believe this is a smile from the girl and Doc this morning. Her riding partner arrived before us and this one was in the pasture and would not go to her even with a carrot bribe. Emily got out of the car and was walking over to the fence and Doc walked up for pets and attention from her. I guess he knows she is the one that rides him! I just think she is a horse whisperer.

I believe we are heading over to Grandma's today for family game day. The kids finally don't have homework that needs to get done for Monday, since they have the week off for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the USA. Aidan has an early 1AM for us, F1 race in Las Vegas so I'm sure he will be sleeping in tomorrow morning. 

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers. I'll be snuggling under this quilt hand stitching the binding Sunday night to a Christmas movie I think. 

Full stop and more Hexagons in brown...

I did a little sewing to expand the rows on Full Stop. I think I 'might' grab the purple and red row and combine them into one - that's a lot of blank space in those rows!  I have the pink row at the bottom but moved it up a little.... now that I am thinking of changing the red/purple row... we will see how they look after that change. I hope I get a little time to play with that tonight. The kids will be officially on Thanksgiving break at 3:45 Friday and don't go back to school until the 29th. I hear Christmas decorating will be happening in and outside of the house! 

I have prepped oodles of brown hexagons and a few are into the light brown or beige category. I was surprised with the variety I had on hand. These are the first 8 sewn into their groups of four to add to the pile of over 300 of them. I should get a couple more of these sets completed at horses tomorrow with Emily. The boys are going out on a charter in the gulf to fish in the morning. We will see if they come home with anything!

I was asked how I was connecting them. I am just putting 2 right sides together and stitching them together. It looks a little messy on the back... but how often does anyone really look closely at the back? 

Excuse the cat hair - they need to 'test' the softness of everything in the house. 

Linking up Friday with the RSC

 

Full Stop

 These are the rows for my Full stop. I need to check and make sure they are all going the 'correct' way. Then.... since I did not use a consistent background I need to find some white on white fabrics and make them all the same size. My asterisks are the longest row so I think I'll add a little to each side of that one and then make all the others that size - maybe up to 56 inches across? That should be a good lap size I think.  I doubt this will be the final look but we will see how they look once I have added the white to lengthen each of the rows.  Maybe one more row with the letters Full Stop? Hmmmmm.

Linking up with the RSC. How are your projects coming along?

Saturday RSC in bright green

I just finished off this green placemat. It has become my 'go to' when I don't know what to make. Using 2.5 inch strips it makes a nice colorful addition to the table. 

While I was in the sewing room I added a few green periods for my Full Stop.... and at the end I added the ... as this will be at the end of the quilt. I used 2.5 inch squares and used 5 inches between the periods and 2.5 inch white squares between the ...

Linking up with the RSC and The Table Scraps Challenge. I have had the windows of the house open all afternoon and I am enjoying the cooler weather that finally arrived in Florida. Almost time to close up the front windows for the night. 

 

Finishing off orange

As I was looking through the blocks I am making for the RSC - I saw I had not done the Full Stop one. Angela mentioned a dash at the beginning of the month. I decided to give it a try - 2.5 inch by 4.5 inch for my dashes. I added a top and bottom to that in white. Then I added a 6.5x2.5 on each side and stitched them together. I think they came out pretty good!

I also stitched together the butterfly's and basted them. Next year I'll work on adding them to a background I think. 

I never got to the garden path blocks in orange. Oh well, that's what the catch up months are for.

Linking up Saturday morning with the RSC.

 

Teal wrap up

Why he thinks he is helping while laying right here I have no clue. Peanut is a very needy boy!

I have parts for Erin's butterfly. I need to hand stitch the middle curve then baste it still. The full stop question marks, the garden path blocks and one of the scrappy squares in teal.

I'll link up Saturday for the RSC where we will find out Septembers color for the challenge. 

 

Full Stop

 

Question? Lots of questions with the start of school this year. Linking up with the RSC.

Marion county Florida did put a mask request in with a parent opt out effective Thursday Aug 19th.  I am waiting to see what the numbers are on Monday in our schools for this past week. According to the district 3300 of 42,000 children are opted out of wearing one but the kids say it is about 50% wearing/not wearing in their classes. Our open house has been rescheduled from Aug 26 to September 16th. Hopefully our local numbers are in control at that point and the hospitals are not overrun. In January.... 170 patients in the 3 Ocala hospitals for COVID was overwhelming staff. It has been over 300 all this week. I hear ER room waits are currently 12+ hours to be seen. Things are not good down here in Florida.

Emily and I did mask up and attend her beginning band meeting last night and we came home with a clarinet! I get 3 concerts this year. We will see how she does. I played clarinet from 5-12th grade in school! Aidan plays guitar but does his lessons through Guitar Center. 

Our plans for today.... or rather the other 3 in this household will be making California Rolls for dinner - sushi! Greg saw a kit for about $10 and ordered some of the supplies. I had cucumber, avocado and picked up imitation crab for the inside. I wonder what I will find for dinner tonight as the three others will be having the above!

Dark Blue - Full Stop

The sewing machine works! I managed to make some of the Colons for this month in dark blues. 

Aidan made a sponge cake last night with frosting. A little dry- I think that is why they add jam or a liquid to it - but it was pretty yummy.  Only 2 small slivers left!

Linking up with the RSC.

 

Saturday in Purple....

Lets see how the month went in purple, shall we?

I added a few blocky blocks in purple this month.

I stitched ahead and got my 30 purple Hexagon QAYG done.

I added my purple Erin Butterfly to the pile.... missing green and red I see...

2 of these purple blocks were added to the pile. I am missing the green in this set so I'll catch up on the next green month.

Linking up with the RSC Challenge. I hope to finish up the table topper today.

Thursday, the boy and I headed to Fort King here in Ocala. It was a self guided tour of the grounds with posted information to read all about the various wars. They rebuilt the fort walls a couple of years ago. We were the only ones there. We liked the garden, where we saw herbs, egg plant, tomato, peppers and a few other plants growing. This pretty butterfly allowed a nice photo. After the fort Aidan and I went out to eat at Moes Southwestern Grill. It was a nice Mom and son outing.

 

RSC in purple.

It was so nice to pull a fresh new color this month - and I do love purple! I did finish up a little bit of the Full Stop in red - it will be a small row! Just playing around with offsetting the rows a bit this month.

My first 5 hexagon QAYG blocks and somehow the orange peel template came out and a few peels were cut out and these two were stitched down. I just draw on the fabric around the template and cut out with a little seam allowance. Pin to the square and then needle turn applique it down. I have no clue where those are going but a little stack are prepped and in a tin by my recliner.

This is the last orange peel quilt I made with the RSC challenge - not saying it will turn into something like this but who knows what the fabrics are thinking!  You can read all about this one I called Hugs and Kisses here.

I'm tapped with bringing Emily to horses later this morning. Blueberry muffins were made for breakfast and I have the whole hot and humid day in front of me with no plans past taking the girl to horses. I probably do need to pop to Joanns and find something for a backing for the graduation quilt... that I do need to get to a top stage today so I can pin it tomorrow.

Linking up with the RSC.

 

Finishing up blue and starting red at the RSC!

Happy May 1st! Growing up - the first Saturday in May was 'Green Up Day'. A day to pick up all the things accumulating on the side of the roads over the winter and 'Green Up Vermont'. Things are pretty green down in Florida.... you know - without the 5-6 months of snow for things to accumulate under!

I finished up the Full Stop - Asterisks in light blue but did not quite get to the Garden Path blocks. I did start cutting the triangles with my Accuquilt Go! cutter so those will be first on the list for red and I'll tackle them at the same time I think.

As for red - I had started Harmony - a hand piecing sew along with Patti and Kristin earlier this year. My first one I did scrappy blue and white. 

The second was purple and cream. 

This one will be red and white. I got sidetracked when step 3 did not come out to size.... so it got put aside. I pulled it out this week and was able to get the 'Fancy HST's' stitched up. These are my first 3 steps. The group is at the finishing stage in the sew along.  I figured a Red month would be a good time to get it moving along again! Good timing Angela =) I am making the bigger throw size so I'm making 4 of the blocks.

Linking up with the RSC Challenge.

Friday was an interesting day. I headed out to pick up the kids and heard a 'ping' under the car at the stop light. Looked at the dash and a few warning lights were on. I was already late to leave but turned around and headed home to grab the truck keys and let Greg know what happened on the car so he could take a look. It is headed to the dealer this morning. Sigh.

Last night I decided I was sick of the fridge noise (kitchen is open to the living room) so it was time to defrost the bottom part, again. Seems the fridge we purchased from Lowes years ago is a dud. We had the water ice in the door stop for a long time and then the bottom ice stopped. Hubby took it apart and there was ice caked on everything - including in the fan parts - which was the noise then too. Sigh. I think we did this not too long ago- maybe 2-3 months and it needed it again. He tried a tip he found on line this time so we will see how long before it acts up again. We did go looking but $2000+ for a new fridge is crazy! They sure don't make things like they used to. Next time we have to do this he will be fixing the seal.... as that is the next step. I won't mention how many of the door partitions we have had to replace due to cracking... but it is more than 4. The last 'new one' lasted about a month. No, we don't put that much heavy stuff in there - just a bad design and sub par materials I think.

Rainbow Scrap Challenge in Green.

 I got a little green sewing in this week, despite the kids being on vacation.  I swapped Emily's horses to Friday since I scheduled our Kayak adventure for Saturday afternoon. Friday was all booked up when I called. 

After horses, a trip to the Tack Shack to take advantage of their sale (riding pants, boots and a helmet for $89+tax) and a few other errands I got to sew! The extra helmet will be donated to Camp Wildwood for Girl Scouting since she has one that works just fine. She also got signed up for a week of horse camp this summer..... which hopefully should work out this year. It will be her first away camp!

A little chilly at 57 degrees this morning for riding. Liz was adjusting her stirrups.

I finished up a few more of the brackets and sewed them together. Hmmm that row is a little short so one more might get made? Or.... the edges will even things out when it is all put together.

Then I used the more sage greens to make another garden path block. It is the top left corner one. Here are the first 6 this year. I do like how they are coming out.

I'll be linking up on Saturday morning with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I still have one set of blocks to make and a table topper.....

RSC finishing yellow.

 I forgot about the Full Stop yellow blocks.... so I managed to get them all stitched up today and added the connecter to the pink ones. Maybe I'll get the green ones sewn tomorrow? I decided to make 2 each of the two types offered. Single quotes and double quotes. There might have been some unstitching to get the little guys going the correct way in the row.....

Linking up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

Emily and I are off to the drive in tonight. Lets hope the rain stays away. We think we will see Tom and Jerry.... instead of the Disney Princess one. If we are not too tired - the second showing is The Blind Side or the Fantastic Beasts, the crimes of Grinderwald.

RSC in pink

 Good thing we still have a week of pink to sew this month. I have one more of the pink half square triangle blocks to sew up this weekend but I did manage to get a bunch of pink sewn this week.

I got my Hashtag blocks sewn for the RSC Sew Along.

I finished the second four patch and squares (I really need a name for this!) block to go with the one I showed last week.

I made my table scrap runner with some parts I had hanging around and it turned into this 10x15 little table runner that was hand quilted.

Linking up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge where we are playing with pinks this month.