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Sunday.... but not a slow Sunday unfortunately!

Alas... it is cookie season and there are troop cookies to sell, computer entry from yesterday's booths and today's booth to prep for. It was a little chilly yesterday - so it was winter coat weather and gloves in Florida! With wind chill it was low 40's.... but at least the cookies were not melting like other years and 90 degrees!

Emily requested banana muffins...and can we add nuts like Publix does? I guess Grandma purchases muffins for them =). She is scooping batter into muffin tins now to bake off for breakfast.

I'll get a little slow stitching in on an Ella Maria Deacon block while it bakes. This is block #23 that I am piecing by hand. Instead of the broderie perse I will either add applique or embroidery to the middle. Some sort of a flower I think for applique or a cute embroidery of a pin cushion I printed off last fall from JacquelynneSteves.com.
I think this was car line work on Friday progress after cutting it out before getting Emily from school. I believe I marked them in her car line.



I did finish a dish cloth for one of my bowling friends this week. Does that count? Those ends need to get woven in.

Later tonight after picking up the boy from Grandma, maybe I can sneak into my bedroom for an hour and add some hand quilting into the trip quilt. It sadly has had no progress this week. Something about realizing I would be having to take over cookie control and having to train myself on the system and how to do things took up my evenings.

Linking up with the other Slow Sunday Stitchers who might actually listen to the slow down part! At least my girl scout meeting is all set for tomorrow - working on the brownie painting badge! We did the junior drawing badge in our last meeting with lots of different mediums. We will see what they all decide to paint on Monday. I have 8x10 stretched canvas, brushes and paints and pencils to sketch out their drawings first.

RSC Orange

I managed to get a little orange sewing in this week. I finished off 13 more of these blocks with grey centers. I really need a name for these!  **Update - Thanks Sharon for letting me know this is a cobblestone block! *** Their row is all sewn together and waiting for the next color. I might add a strip in between them all in November....we will see.

I added a star and nine block as well. I think I have another close to being done..... I have the nine patches and just need to sew the stars. I'd like to make another couple of these but we will see. 2 will make me happy as I am not sure if they will all go in one quilt or become multiple quilts at this point. Lots of decisions later this year for me!

Linking up with the RSC on Saturday. I'll be busy at cookie booths all weekend as I had to take over from my Cookie Mom and we need to get these cookies sold and help the girls reach their goals..... not to mention have money in our account to do fun things next year!

Trees for Australia.....

The Joyful Quilter had a post about sending some tree blocks off to Australia in March. I decided to pull some greens and make a couple trees. The first was from my book Quilts!Quilts!Quilts!... and is 6x12 so I added extra for the sides. Emily insists it does not look like a tree! Well, maybe a Christmas tree she said.

The second is a free pattern from Sew Brainy Designs. Emily mentioned this one looks like a tree!

They will be mailed off to you on Thursday! There is still time if you'd like to make a few. You can read about her post here.

Feb 18 EMD Tuesday

Well, it appears to take a lot longer than I was thinking to applique these peels down! I got half of the block done last night. Progress anyway. The new set of 4 is out and I need to download them this week. Hopefully I can get a few more stitched on in the car line today.

I did get this block done last Wednesday as well. 

On my walk this morning I saw this turkey crossing the road up ahead of me. After I turned around at the end of the road, I saw 2 more on the other side. I'm guessing they were waiting for me to leave before joining this guy. Hopefully there will be baby turkeys soon. There were a set of 5 and 6 last year but I think the bear in the area had a few of them for dinner. 

Sunday...

Eventually I will get some slow stitching time today. Aidan got 2 free tickets from his teacher for him and Emily to attend an event at a local state park where they are showing the art of Knapping with the Silver River Knapp in.  As in Flint knapping - making tools from stone. There will be all kinds of historical things there and it includes entrance to the museum and state park with trails and the Silver River. The kids go there in 4th and 5th grades for science and social studies trips. 

Hopefully some time will be allowed to stitch down these peels for one of the Ella Maria Deacon blocks.

I'd also love to finish the hand quilting in the green so I can do the final roll of this quilt today.

Linking up with the other Slow Sunday Stitchers.

Orange?

One block in orange. That's all I got this week.

Feeling thankful there are 5 Saturday's in February! I hope to get the other 13 orange blocks done and sewn into their column this week. Linking up with the RainbowScrapChallenge or (RSC).

Cookie booth this morning 8-11, then back to count money and cookies, wait for the other booth cookies and monies to arrive and chat with the other 2 moms in my troop. Home to heat up lunch and a visit from Grandpa. Relaxed and made my one block.... then a cookie booth on the lawn for Emily while I weeded the front triangle bed. Dinner - a new recipe Aidan found in my taste of home cookbook - a creamed herb pan sauce to go on top of the pork chops with rosemary roasted potato and a salad.  Despite making the sauce with lactaid milk, the girl decided to have her chop with BBQ sauce while Aidan and I had the sauce. It was yummy.

Time to finish up the dishes and then settle in for some hand quilting I think. It has been a long day.