Embroidery Wednesday - Frost McChill

I finished the 4th Frosty in this series by Melisa over at Pinker N Pumpkin Quilting

He joins the first three laid out here on my recliner.

 

I have the 5th one all traced out and ready to go. I had a company meeting on Zoom this morning, so I got a good chunk of this completed when the cat was not demanding I pet him. It has been a few weeks since I have brought him into my office while I am working. I transferred him back to the bedroom tonight and when the dog went crazy an hour later, I had Emily check to see if he scooted back to the office. Yup, he did! I guess he figured the dog can't get to him in there.

ABC Scrap Challenge.

 This year Joy over at The Joyful Quilter modified the Table Scrap Challenge into an ABC Scrap Challenge. I figured I'd combine a few things like the UFO Challenge and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge of Blues in January into the ABC Scrap Challenge this month. After all, I did make this quilt with lots of scraps! Don't look at the floor, it needs a deep clean very badly!

Hoarfrost is #20 on my Winter UFO 2023 Challenge and it is a blue and white quilt which ties into the Blue month of the RSC. Joy picked the letters C,R and J for the month of January. Let's see how creative I can be to tie this in! 

Hoarfrost reminds me of Snow Crystals in January. As for the R - Well, if it is not cold enough... those little fellas fall as Rain! I know... quite a stretch but I'm going with it! ;)

RSC in blues.

I made another set of 4 of these this week. The dinosaur fabric from when Aidan was little makes me smile.

I have another side of binding to stitch down on Hoarfrost and hope to have that completed this weekend.

It was a frosty start to the day in Florida. Emily needed to scrape the windshield before we headed out for the early feed at school of the animals.

 A quick stop at Dunkin on the way home and a quilt on my feet to warm them up, before we head out for her horse riding lesson. Her fellow Cadets in her girl scout troup are coming over this afternoon to work on building their free library house for their Silver Award. Greg is helping the girls to build it. He'll do the circular saw, but the girls will be using the hand saw, drills and hammers to build it. 

Linking up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Thank goodness we will have other blue/teal months. Not many scraps were played with in January.

Frosty McChill

 The third frosty is completed. 

Hoarfrost - binding time...

 Hoarfrost is #20 on my Winter 2023 UFO list. I was able to get it pinned and quilted last weekend. I finally trimmed it on Thursday and cut some blue strips to make the binding. I need to sew the strips together today and then press it and attach to the top of this quilt so I can hand stitch it to the back. It is a cloudy and dreary day in Florida. I think it might be a movie and binding afternoon.

Since this is blue... I'm linking up to the RSC. I hope to play with some blues this weekend. Maybe some crumb blocks? Scrappy log cabins. We will see what the fabrics decide they want to become!

Wednesday Embroidery - Frosty McChill #2 is done!

 I was busy stitching away Tuesday night listening to my audiobook as I finished the stitching on this little guy. I am not happy with the snowflakes, but I figure I'll get better at them by the time I am working on the last one!

#1 was Let it Snow.

#2 is Sled Time.

I have the 3rd one traced and ready to go!

 

Quiltfiction quilt along.

I enjoyed doing the Hand Pieced Quilt Along with Patty Dudek and Kristin Esser in the past. There is not a stitch along with them this year, but Patty is doing one with Frances O'roark Dowell called Loves Me, Loves Me Not over at QuiltFiction.com.