Wednesday....

It started. The boy started bugging me about making his quilt yesterday. Emily was home sick yesterday (she got sick after scouts on Monday night - right after we got home. At least I didn't have to clean the car as she made it to the bathroom!).... and was feeling better around noon. That lead me to pulling out the triangles for her to play with on the floor for her quilt. I'm not sure I am liking the green triangles... these is that color in the owl fabric but..... I'll let it simmer for a bit. It might get changed out.

She learned the hard way that the cats like to help out if you leave the room..... as fabric was scattered and a cat toy bear was resting on the overturned fabrics! 4 rows up from the bottom right is the white cat toy bear Maxie must have been playing with. Doesn't she look innocent up there on her perch? What Mom? I didn't play down there with the fabrics! I'm not sure how that got there or what happened!

I told Aidan after dinner if he practises his guitar.( which he helped make - beef stroganoff over egg noodles after Emily and I made individual apple crisps after Aidan's science experiment with apples - turns out the tart ones turned brown first!). He went and practiced so..... we had to start his quilt. We washed his fabrics already and he pressed them. We started with the stars.... I cut out the 128 - 2.5 inch squares and had him start drawing the lines on them. Yes, he learned there are steps and lots of prep work. He had a little help on about half of them.... someone was getting frustrated with the fabric moving and his lines not being where they should when the fabric shifted.

That led me to start thinking about my next hand piecing project (I know, I still have to add my triangles to the trip quilt to square it up). I saw the hexagon flowers in the drawer from the RSC Challenge a few years ago... sitting and waiting.
I also did one in spring colors for a small one to see how to hand stitch them together.

I had one last row that was not working correctly so it got put aside. Well, it came out last night and got fixed. The last row is now attached. Now I need to figure out how to finish it off to make it square - add white hexies all around and then cut to make it square? Turn under the 1/4 inch seam and appliqué to a border all around? I'll think on that one for a bit. It reminded me how to put these together so I also need to decide if I will add the black surround like I was thinking to the RSC flowers, make a bunch of black hexies to put in between the 'rows' of flowers like this one with white, nix the black and just sew the colorful flowers together as is..... so many decisions.

Time for a quick shower and then working today. I'll let these thoughts swirl in the back of the mind and see what happens with them.

Slow Sunday Stitching...

I hope to add the last side of the purple onto the trip quilt later today.  I'm not sure if the quarter square triangles will start next... or if I will add another row or two. Right now... I am leaning toward making some qst's out of the same purple to finish this one off. I am thinking it just wants to be done. Of course... it will need a very good pressing, checking for seams that might need some fixing and then it will be prepped for hand quilting.

Linking up with the other Slow Sunday stitchers. Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers from Canada. For some reason my kids have school tomorrow but are off next Monday. I'm thinking someone doesn't know how to read the holiday calendar two years in a row!
Also hoping the readers in the path of hurricane Nate fared well.

A Finish!

Can it really be? Did I actually complete something? Why yes, yes I did!

Crayon Box

Not a boring backing.

I finished the hand stitching of the binding on this crayon box quilt at bowling Thursday. This was not a UFO... but rather a project from the RSC Challenge this year. I believe I somehow started this on the multi color month I think? It is a little one finishing off at 44x58.

That means I can start something new..... ok, most of these are new purchases for the triangle quilt for Emily... but a couple of the pinks came from stash. I have 132 - 6.5 inch triangles cut out. I need 204....must search a little more in the stash to find the last ones needed.

From some of the above scraps I cut out my 4 inch squares to make the last of the spring blossom blocks. 5 will get made at some point.

Linking up with the RSC Challenge. Since I had a 3 hour nap after bowling this morning with the kids (and the splitting sinus headache finally went away) I might have sewing time later tonight when I know I won't be tired!

17 in 2017.... September

I've been working on my hand pieced trip around the world quilt top for the month of September. When I pulled it out back before Hurricane Irma was set to arrive in Florida - I was on the first side of round 23 the dark pink round. These are 2 inch squares I am adding onto the quilt in rounds.

My helper Maxie Cat

Round 23

I believe I am now on round  28 - the light purple and it just needs one last side to get stitched on which will probably happen today at bowling.

Round 28 = 112 purple squares. 

It is around 60 inches square at this point. I am thinking it might be close to being finished. I think the kids have selected a medium green leaf print for the next round..... I might end it off after that with some dark blue quarter square triangles. But..... I am reserving the right to change my mind!

Linking up with Meridythe for the 17 in 2017 for September. Somehow this UFO did not make my list...but I assure you it has been in process on and off since January of 2014!

Shopping with Aidan....

The kids were looking through my quilting books a few months ago and both decided they wanted to make quilts. They each picked one out. Since Emily will be helping (laying out fabrics and determining how it looks) with the 60 degree triangle one this month, it was time to humor the boy and let him pick out his fabrics. We headed to the store on Saturday night to run a bunch of errands.

He picked out a quilt pattern by Kim Diehl called Twilight Hopscotch but wanted to have it done in teal and orange.

The big decision was what to use as the background color. He didn't like the white or cream ('it's too bright mom!'), I suggested black and he nixed that idea - 'too dark Mom!'. I pointed him to the grey..... he liked a light one but decided it was too light and instead picked a medium shade. He is quite happy with his choices.  He has decided the stars and the big squares will be teal and the little squares orange with grey as the background. I suggested the background be teal but he was having nothing to do with that choice!

When asked how long it will take him - he responded, a couple of years I think!.
So glad he realizes it will not be done tomorrow!

October in Pink.

Emily was a wee bit upset when the springtime triangle quilt left the house last December. I told her I could make another one. Well, in my head I figured I would do that when the pink month came up in the RSC Rotation. October is the month when pink was selected.

I had made this quilt back in March/April of 2014 with a Triangle quilt along over at sassy quilter.com. I think I will just refer back to that quilt along and work on making another one this month. This week I hope to combine steps 1+2 - assuming I can find the colors Emily wants in the stash.  That would be selecting fabrics and cutting out the 200 and change of the 6 inch triangles. I think I cut mine at 6.5 inches when I made my original so if I have enough fabric I will do that again. Anyone else want to join in?

Slow Sunday Stitching.

Progress has been made on the hand pieced trip around the world quilt this week. The blue got finished and Emily selected the purple - which got cut out (112 - 2 inch squares) and have begun being added. I hear a darker green might be the next round.... but we will see.

Linking up with the other slow stitchers at Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching.