Sunday....

I survived.... and we still had all adults and children alive and well this morning after a night at the drive in with 500 other girl scouts! Thank goodness the weather went north... and other than a few sprinkles when setting up and at the start of the movie it was clear and warm around 68-70 all night.

Our tents this morning as the sun was rising. 

John at the drive in goes all out for us... he closed to the public for our event, fed us dinner, free popcorn and soda refills until midnight and served us breakfast in the morning. He even brewed coffee and cocoa and had it out for the wee hours for those staying up to watch the movies. Movies played until 4:50 this morning. I confess I headed into the tent to lay down during Goosebumps 2... and listened to most of the last movie from in there. It will be an early night tonight for me.

After our ritual photo's of the girls in front of the concession stand wall....which I did not get this year but another Mom did... we hit Dunkin donuts on the way home. Emily is in bed sleeping. I got a shower and teeth brushed and feel so much better. Time to sit and relax with some slow stitching and remember the fun the girls had and the great memories they made.
Movie #2 was a little scary for a bunch of them so they went into a tent and Ms. Jill had brought UNO. They had a blast learning and playing that game with about 6 of the 10 girls. It was fun listening to them inside the tent playing with flash lights from inside going all around! A few came out for the Grinch movie #3... but a few fell asleep as it was close to midnight!

Hope they are all set to sing tomorrow night. We are singing some Christmas carols to residents at an assisted living facility with the other girl scout troops that meet Monday's at our Church.

Linking up with Kathy and the other slow Stitchers today as I get a few more stitches in on the baby hearts quilt since I finished off the dish cloth a little while ago.

Emily made some muffins - cherry and chocolate chip - pretty yummy. Recipe can be found here.

Weekend.....

Not much to show other than a new to me pattern I am working for a dish cloth. This one is easier than the trinity stitch I was playing with before. Just a single crochet and a treble crochet. Easy peasy and a cute design that appears! I have a few more rows to add onto this one before I can finish it off.
The pattern can be found here. I had it saved off in my pinterest board for knitting and crochet patterns.

We have rain in the forecast today with potential thunder storms tonight. Lets hope that both don't happen! We will be tenting out at the local drive in theater today with about 500 other girl scouts. We have 10 girls and 4 adults attending from our 2 troops. I need to clean out my car and pack the tents and gear we will need for the night. I should pick up the house a bit too..... but I think a quick pack, shower and then I'm hitting the sewing room to work on 4 patches for Aidan's Hopscotch quilt. I 'might' also pull my cream fabric (if I can find in in the sewing room mess!) and play with some cream and green for the log cabin blocks I am planning to make for The Lake Elmore Lake Association. I really want to start that one but kept telling myself I needed to finish off Aidan's quilt first. Well, that has me avoiding both! I decided I will take turns and work on both of them!

Graduation quilt.....

Another year, another graduation quilt needed. This year Sally graduates from high school so she is needing a quilt for her graduation present. The good news..... I am almost out of nieces and nephews... just her younger brother is left to graduate in 2 years! Then my 2... but that is a long way off, thank goodness!

Sally has selected blue and yellows.... and a simple zig zag type pattern. She is a no frills type of person. I'll have to get out some paper and colored pencils and see what I can come up with ..... I was thinking of having the values go from light to dark.... but we will see what the paper drawings come up with. I grabbed this lot of fabrics to play with (70% off at Joann's on Sunday!) along with what I have in my stash for her quilt. I think I got 2 yards of each....the yellows are different values even though it did not show in the photo. I know I have another light and medium yellow in my stash to go with this light and dark yellow.

Wish me luck!

Some links for ideas for this quilt... so I have them in one place!
Rachelmhayes easy quilt for beginners.
blue zig zag - looks like easy half square triangles.
quilting cubby - like how this one looks.
Fons and porter version.
Super Zig pattern.
Chevron quilt.

Slow Sunday Stitching....

I have finally been making progress on the baby heart quilt. I figured out a solution that works for me in quilting the edges.... without getting frustrated. I had to switch to my pvc square lap hoop and then use a couple of big safety pins to hold the edges of my 6 inch block down by the edge.

Of the 63 blocks in this quilt, I have 17 left to go!

I got a couple of them quilted yesterday while taking breaks from working outside in the garden. I am happy to say the kids have it planted..... we will see if anything comes up! It is way too hot to grow or be out to tend to it in the summer in Florida (for me anyway!). We have beans and peas, swiss chard, beets, carrots, summer squash, red leaf lettuce and radishes. I think Aidan planted some peppers as well. They will grow for him... he has the green thumb in the family.

I am done trying to baby this cold and fear I will overdo today... but it must be done. Seems they are not good at 'putting away'. I need to find a path through the sewing area and office and put all the xmas boxes away, clean up the kitchen (which I have not really gone in since Thursday other than to make turkey noodle soup yesterday) and dig out the master closet.... which had the top rack pull out last night with a huge noise as it came down with everything on it. We were a little concerned as Ollie has been sleeping in there and we could not find him... a bit of frantic digging to try and make sure he was not smushed and then Aidan found him in back of the couch. 3 cats accounted for and I left the mess (at 8:15 last night) until today to deal with. Which reminds me I think the board on my sewing wall is pulling away a bit... so I need to pull some weight off that before it does the same thing in there!
Sigh...... my breaks will be relaxing with some slow stitching. So nice to have something around to work on to relax with.

I'll pop out first thing to pick up supplies to make unicorn ornaments at scouts tomorrow. Then we go over the packing list..... drive in campout is Saturday and we sold out the drive in! Looks like 78 for high that day and low in the 50's. Over 500 scouts closed it to the outside for a girl scout only event - movies, fun, bonfire and smores, tenting and then breakfast and clean up. We have 10 going with 4 adults. Wish us luck!


Linking up with Kathy and the other slow stitchers today.

Friday.... finishing Xmas decorating

The kids put out a bunch of Christmas stuff a few weeks ago. Chilly the elf arrived this morning  in the manger scene the kids put on top of the bookcase in the dining room. The outside lights are in process with Greg and  the kids. They are on a break.... so the Christmas tree is getting decorated now by the kids.

I am resting and relaxing in my recliner supervising while getting a little hand quilting in on the baby hearts quilt. I am working on the bottom edge row. I am trying to not do anything today so I feel better tomorrow.

The kids did good at the drive in last night. The grinch movie was ok - I prefer the original. The nutcracker movie was great. I'd see it again in a heartbeat. Great message and a good feel good movie.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Waking up with a head cold on Thanksgiving is never fun. Turkey is in the oven, potato are ready to be cooked, stuffing is ready to go in the oven and the rest will arrive with Grandma! Emily is all set to make the taco salad for the appetizer. 

Tonight I had promised a drive in double feature for the kids - the grinch and the nutcracker! We were going to go last night... but I figured I didn't want cranky kids today... I'll deal with them tomorrow! They won't get home and into bed until after 11 tonight. 

May you all have a safe and happy Thanksgiving with Family and Friends today.

Two post Sunday????

I made the two light pink blocks I had prepped and then dug into the scrap bin and found a brighter pink... just what I needed to make the last pink block.

I laid them out on the diagonal and needed 2 more blocks... I needed darker ones and decided to switch things up a bit with the last alternate block by doing purple and bright green and a red and dark blue block. It needed a little more of the dark to make the quilt happy. Not sure the blocks will end up in these exact spots... but I am happy with having all 32 of the Squared Away blocks completed. I have plenty of the white for the setting triangles so this might actually become a top sometime this week!

It seems since Emily has a sleepover scheduled with a friend on Monday night (after returning from Grandma's) Aidan might just stay with Grandma another night (Mom is boring by herself especially when she is working at home...... according to Aidan). No meals to plan.... no kids to entertain..... do you hear sewing time? Maybe I can get more parts and pieces of Aidan's quilt sewn while the kids are away.