RSC in lime green.... or Aqua?

I'm ignoring the green this month for the challenge this week and am working on aqua - for the 9th and final block of the trip around the world quilt I have been working on this year.

Head on over and see the other links in the RSC Challenge this week. As for me, I am headed out soon with the girl scouts for our 'Light up Ocala' Parade in downtown. Lets hope the rain holds off until after we are done walking the parade route.

Thursday....

I seem to have picked up a head cold this week. To try and get over it I took it easy yesterday and got a bunch of hand quilting in on my hugs and kisses. Almost ready to turn the third corner of the border.

Sunday..... slow stitching

I have not done as much slow stitching on my Hugs and Kisses as I would have liked this week - but I did make some progress. Almost done the second side of the first border.. that corner is coming up!

 I also got to try a new marking tool. My grey fons and porter chalk pencil got to the point of breaking whenever I sharpened it. I know I have a blue somewhere and white and yellow but darned if I could find them when I needed them. Yellow was later found in my take with me bag but would not show up on my background! A trip to Joanns with a coupon on Veterans day and I got this..... It actually works really well. Nice line drawn through the template and has stayed on this week while I was working on the border. I love that it came with lots of white and different colors as well.

I also starting prepping some more appliqué blocks. I just need to pull fabrics later today so I'll have my car line hand work this week. I have 10 to go in this series of blocks. There was a recap of my blocks shown here last week.

I'm linking up with Kathy's Quilts today and can't wait for this evening when I can snuggle under my quilt and put some soothing stitches in.

Wednesday - another midget block done....

 This is Overall boy. He got stitched up yesterday. I am out of prepped blocks... must go prep some more!

I decided to go with the 4x4 setting and added a light purple block to the mix. I wonder if I'll be able to pin this one in the afternoon after kid pickup? Only time will tell....

Tiny Tuesday.....

Another night of being up for an hour or two in the middle of the night... so I decided to review where I was in some projects. Must take the kindle out of the bedroom for if it happens again tonight. I believe I have 11 midget appliqué blocks to go in the set of 52. With  7 weeks left in the year, I think this is an attainable goal to have all 52 blocks done and surrounded by yellow by the end of the year. Not too bad considering I started them in January with the plan of one a week.
The acorn was today's posting, snuggled in with the rest of them! Quite a slew of 4.5 inch blocks I have collected.

Design wall Monday....

After dropping the kids to school and popping into work to open the store (just until Greg gets there after his Dad's eye appointment) I plan to come home and play with these twinkle stars.

I think I can get them to a top stage today... with hopes to quilt it up and finish it this week. Do I go with 3x5 setting for a 30x50 little top or 4x4 for a 40x40...which would need one more block to finish it off?

This is the cake the kids and Greg made yesterday.

Slow Stitching Sunday.....

I finally got some quality sewing time in yesterday afternoon! It felt so good to sew with the machine.  I got my two lime green sampler stars done and started assembling my alternate blocks.

Then to round off the evening.... I got some hand quilting in on my Hugs and Kisses quilt while Greg went to pick up Aidan from Grandma. Emily has a sleepover and will be returned this afternoon. Then we'll use some of my birthday $ to go to Yamata's with the kids - it is a Japanese steak house with the habichi grill. The kids love going there (me too!) and watching the show the chef's put on for us.

I also got a little hand stitching in this morning while the boys were busy making my birthday cake (it was last Wednesday). A devils food cake made into a cat using round cake pans..... and hopefully not a snake like the snickering little boy thought would be funny. I don't like snakes! There was a black one in the driveway when I was dropping the kids to Grandma yesterday morning.....yes, I backed up the car and called her to let her know. She came out and shooed it away. =)
This was my helper this morning while the boys were cooking breakfast. I hear our orders are up so must go let Aidan serve us our breakfast - sausage, pancakes and eggs with coffee. Just what I ordered!

Hope you get some time to enjoy a little slow stitching and relax today. I'm linking up with the other Slow Stitchers at Kathy's Quilts. Head on over and enjoy the link show.