Excuse the dust on this one... it has since been dusted but I didn't get a good photo after. This is September from the book Quilts for All Seasons. This one hung in my grandfathers room at the nursing home while he was there.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Cross stitch....
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Sunday, July 14, 2019
Sunday....
Binding....that graduation quilt still needs a couple of sides bound and hopefully at least one side will get bound today. Worst case... it will get finished up in Vermont if it is not done by Tuesday!
As the sewing area is under construction (painting will finish today and then new floors) I am not really sure what will be taken on vacation. It might be a very old cross stitch to go with the embroidery work I will try. I found it finally while moving things around. Turns out it was in a yellow and blue 'backpack' purse. Amazing the things you find when going through things! This is January from Paula Vaughan's book Quilts for All Seasons.
Linking up with the other slow stitchers at Kathy's Quilts.
Linking up with the other slow stitchers at Kathy's Quilts.
Thursday, July 11, 2019
Thursday....
Someone had a riding lesson today. I didn't have hand work prepped..... so took the knitting.
Emily was riding Smudge today - he is a little faster on his trot than other horses she has ridden!
I used up 4 ends of yarn... 2 of the pinks. The kids said it kinda looks like Neapolitan ice cream... if the blue were brown! These were all bits left of all cotton lily - sugar and cream yarn. Works great for dish cloths..... the dishes won't mind the multi color! The other two leftovers of color and hot pink and lilac =). I heard Mary Poppins 2 is on Netflix.... might have to watch that tonight with a little binding and a little knitting.
Time to change and then go help the kids put the painters tape up and work on coat 1 of the yellow on a few of the walls in the sewing area - maybe 5 of the 9. There are lots of angles in the rest of the room! Lots of shredding and recycling of 'stuff' this afternoon has made a dent in the mess.
Well - 3 walls done (good things the floors will be replaced!). My helpers....
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Tiny Tuesday in pink!
A little umbrella on my attempt at a cucumber plant again.... in a pot this time. We will see if anything grows!
Linking up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge as this is the only pink I have this week!
Sunday, July 7, 2019
Sunday.....
Well, it will be a slow Sunday from 11-1ish while I watch the USA Womens' Soccer team play in the World Cup. I think the graduation quilt might finally get a little of the binding sewn down during that time!
Yesterday was an electronics free day for Emily and I. She did allow me to link up my hexagon flowers post to the RSC Challenge (I need to go visit today) and I checked the radar while at Walmart with Aidan..... after waiting 10 minutes we deemed it 'slowing down for the thunder and torrential downpour' to run to the car with a cart full of bags! We got soaked... and 15 minutes away at home there was NO RAIN! It was quite a storm with the thunder booming in the store and the rain hitting on the roof. Did I mention Aidan really dislikes thunder storms?
Emily was watching me knit a little yesterday and wanted to learn. No photo - obviously as I use my phone for photo's! I cast on 21 stitches and showed her how to knit. She did pretty good... much better than I did while I was learning! 21 stitches was enough for her yesterday!
While looking for needles for her..... I cleared out my pink bag that I just grab to go with me. There is a medley of things in there to keep me busy while waiting - at soccer practice, car lines, dr appts....
There were bits of dish cloth yarn hanging around so they will make a colorful dish cloth or two!
The bag needed a clean out. I found some extra parts cut for the hand pieced quilt along. So I hand stitched them up yesterday! 4 flying geese (I do believe I mixed up the color and white when cutting this set out!) and 3- 4 patches.
Not sure why the 4th one was different colors - but one square got stolen to be used in Emily's who is finally starting to work on hers. We have done a couple of 4 patches this week for her first block! I'll show hers next week hopefully as a completed block 1!
My office and sewing area are being redone (the floor in the office will finish going down this afternoon..... the walls needed a 3rd coat last night. Note to self - don't have the kids help with coat 2 as it will be blotchy!) So everything is out of the office and tucked into the sewing area. Hopefully the office will be put back together tonight and tomorrow... then I can start on the sewing area!
I did pull all the fabrics off the storage wall and some of the bins of scraps and placed them in the bedroom..... so I dug and pulled out some pink scraps for the umbrella's this month. One of these might get finished during the soccer game as well! I use back basting for my applique. I started with the handle and top to stitch from the back and then will use needle turn to stitch it to the front.
First - I need to clean up the messy kitchen. The kids were baking yesterday. Aidan made biscotti (yummy) and did a good job cleaning up after himself. Emily made crinkle cookies - she did not do a good job cleaning up after herself. It is a process.......
Linking up with the other slow stitchers at Kathy's Quilts.
Yesterday was an electronics free day for Emily and I. She did allow me to link up my hexagon flowers post to the RSC Challenge (I need to go visit today) and I checked the radar while at Walmart with Aidan..... after waiting 10 minutes we deemed it 'slowing down for the thunder and torrential downpour' to run to the car with a cart full of bags! We got soaked... and 15 minutes away at home there was NO RAIN! It was quite a storm with the thunder booming in the store and the rain hitting on the roof. Did I mention Aidan really dislikes thunder storms?
Emily was watching me knit a little yesterday and wanted to learn. No photo - obviously as I use my phone for photo's! I cast on 21 stitches and showed her how to knit. She did pretty good... much better than I did while I was learning! 21 stitches was enough for her yesterday!
While looking for needles for her..... I cleared out my pink bag that I just grab to go with me. There is a medley of things in there to keep me busy while waiting - at soccer practice, car lines, dr appts....
There were bits of dish cloth yarn hanging around so they will make a colorful dish cloth or two!
The bag needed a clean out. I found some extra parts cut for the hand pieced quilt along. So I hand stitched them up yesterday! 4 flying geese (I do believe I mixed up the color and white when cutting this set out!) and 3- 4 patches.
Not sure why the 4th one was different colors - but one square got stolen to be used in Emily's who is finally starting to work on hers. We have done a couple of 4 patches this week for her first block! I'll show hers next week hopefully as a completed block 1!
My office and sewing area are being redone (the floor in the office will finish going down this afternoon..... the walls needed a 3rd coat last night. Note to self - don't have the kids help with coat 2 as it will be blotchy!) So everything is out of the office and tucked into the sewing area. Hopefully the office will be put back together tonight and tomorrow... then I can start on the sewing area!
I did pull all the fabrics off the storage wall and some of the bins of scraps and placed them in the bedroom..... so I dug and pulled out some pink scraps for the umbrella's this month. One of these might get finished during the soccer game as well! I use back basting for my applique. I started with the handle and top to stitch from the back and then will use needle turn to stitch it to the front.
First - I need to clean up the messy kitchen. The kids were baking yesterday. Aidan made biscotti (yummy) and did a good job cleaning up after himself. Emily made crinkle cookies - she did not do a good job cleaning up after herself. It is a process.......
Linking up with the other slow stitchers at Kathy's Quilts.
Friday, July 5, 2019
Friday finish!
Well, technically it was a Thursday evening finish! All the hexagons are hand appliqued to a 6.5 inch black background. 167 is the total count! If I do 12x14..... I just need 1 more! I do have one more that was paper pieced that is ready to be added to a background to finish it off. It is in the lower left hand corner. (the first one I did before I decided I disliked paper piecing so hand pieced all the other ones!)
Sorry for the bad lighting.... thunder storms again this afternoon in central Florida. If my calculations are correct this top will eventually finish at 72x84! A few years in the making..... and probably a few years to go!
Linking up with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge on Saturday morning. I think there were 21 pink ones in the mix that got stitched off last month! You know... for the Pink month of July!
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