Tiny Tuesday

I did this block last night after the kiddo's were in bed. We watched The Hobbit - which turned out to be a pretty good movie! I need to work on the embroidery skills but I'm calling this one done for now.

All the blocks so far this year. This has all been hand pieced. I see a blue sashing to separate these blocks. 20 done, 32 to go! These are from the Midget Appliqué series from sentimental stitches.com. Each block finishes at 4.5 inches.

The kids made a list of things to do yesterday and crossed them off as they did them. Yup - they made a list again today. I love that they added Mom sewing time while we play! Emily is the top - much neater. They crossed off breakfast already.

Monday....

I've been thinking and looking at my green TATW block and I am just not happy with it. The colors on the end are just not working for me. I dug a bit over the weekend and found some more colors that will finish it off better. Based on the amounts I had is how the rounds were determined.... I got them cut out this morning and marked the biggest pile this morning while cooking a burger for Emily for lunch. Now to unpick from the white round out and then add these new squares on in the evenings this week.

Time for a little lunch for me (the kids already ate - hungry at 10:30 after an hour of weeding and mulching outside before it got too hot!) and then I plan to pull the batting out and cut the amount needed for the snails trail quilt. I made a backing for it last week and hope to get it pinned today. Fingers crossed for some quilting time tomorrow!

Slow Stitching on Fathers Day...

The kids were up early to wrap their fathers day gifts and I had to print out some pictures to go in the frames they decorated. He got his dark roast coffee made in his french press and home made chocolate cake muffins with glaze. They taste just like the chocolate cake donuts from Dunkin donuts and take about 25 minutes to make - mostly being oven preheat time!

After some working today for me (Dad will be home with the kids for his Fathers Day!) we'll have a nice dinner on the grill and then some family time. After they are in bed I'll settle in to finish the green block and start on either the purple or red one. That is all that is left to the middle before I start on the borders! So excited!!!!!

I was working on this blue one Friday - I figured that counts for the RSC Challenge!

VTQuilter - blue block

VTQuilter - Sophie testing my quilt.

Aidan was working on a super secret project on Thursday with the sewing machine. He pulled from my scrap pile and made this monster for his Dad. The face is on the top side - two black eyes, pink nose and yellow mouth. The red tie and then the purple and red legs. All his own idea.

VTQuilter - Aidan's Monster for Dad.

Linking up with RSC Challenge for light blue and Kathy's Quilts for Slow stitching Sunday.

Where did the week go?

How is it Thursday already? Today is the last day of swim lessons so the parents and family are invited onto the pool deck to see the progress. MIL is planning to head over to see some of it - and I hope I don't wilt in the sun. Normally I am outside the fence in the shade provided by the fence and can tolerate the heat until the 10:40 swim lesson is done. It has been reaching 99 degrees with heat indexes over 100. It was 107 yesterday afternoon when we got in the car to take Em to the doctors for her cold that is just not going away. almost 3 weeks and she still wakes with a terrible cough. She has so kindly passed this lovely cold onto me and boy does it sap your energy.... or maybe that is the heat?

Hopefully the hubby does not read the blog - as someone has been busy working on his fathers day gift on his sisters sewing machine.

He even had me do a video of him explaining how to sew! It was too funny. Time to fill up the water bottles for swim. Think we'll try and hit a different library today for the afternoon program we missed at our's due to Emily's dr. appt yesterday. She just has a cold that doesn't want to go away. Which means I'll have it for the next month or two. Bummer.

Tiny Tuesday....

I finished this on Sunday night with a few embroidery stitches and then added the yellow surround on Monday afternoon watching a movie with the kids. We hit the pool last night once the air temp went down a wee bit and the sun was not as strong. Thank goodness for air conditioning.

Happy Anniversary to my parents - 52 years!

This picture was from their 50th anniversary celebration out at their camp a couple of years ago. Back row are my brothers David and Michael. Middle row left to right is me, Terri and Joanne. Not the greatest picture but that is the one I have.

It also happens to be my nephew Ben's birthday - Happy 23rd birthday Ben.

Would you believe it is too hot to be outside? Yup - feels like 99 degrees today and yesterday it hit 99 degrees on my thermometer. The pool at 89 degrees last night around 7PM felt great. After swim lessons this morning Grandma took us out to McDonalds for lunch. Then it was time to head home and clean and pick up the house. The kids did pretty good picking up things with me and dusting. We cleared out a few drawers and a book case of my cookbooks as well as the hutch. Then it was break time for popcorn and a movie. Winnie the Pooh was on tap for today. Now it is back to cleaning after our break and maybe pool time later when it cools down a bit.

Slow stitching Sunday....

I have had a lot of slow stitching this past week. A couple of midget appliqué blocks (1,2)were made, my 2 inch trip quilt got a light blue row added and I made progress on my hand quilting of the Hugs and Kisses quilt. Three more blocks completed.

I have four blocks left in the center! I plan to get some slow stitching in this evening after a day of making play dough for Emily, weeding a bit, working and then the evening with the family. Some slow stitching is just the thing to unwind with at the end of a busy weekend. Hopefully my handy dandy helper decides to not help so much on Sunday night as she was on Saturday =)
This is what happens when I try to quilt.

inspecting my stitches.

Marking this quilt as hers!

My quilt Mom! Stop quilting and let me snuggle already!

Head on over and see what others are slow stitching at Kathy's Quilts on Sunday morning.