Embroidery Wednesday

 First off - a photo of the boys. They have always liked to curl up together. Peanut is on the left and Ollie is the bigger one on the right. 

Here is the frosty - he is still a work in progress but is a lot closer to being done with a few more stands of floss added this evening. Looks like he needs his face, some snowflakes and the swooshes for the ice skates. Tomorrow is a late pick up so I should be able to get him finished off. 

Sunday

 I was hoping to have a full day of sewing today. Sigh. Not looking good.

Seems hubby has projects due at school today that are not finished. So, shopping, taking Em for a haircut and then to work with Noelle the cow at school take priority. I also have dinner to make and have to figure out meals for the week. One day is a night out for Aidan's 15th birthday...but not on his birthday Monday. Both kids have other things to do that night. We are going to try Red Robin, the boy's choice and it will be a new restaurant for us.

At some point, I'll get a few stitches in on the 5th Frosty McChill. Melisa created 12 free fun frosty's to stitch a while ago. I am slow to the party but enjoying the process at my pace, mostly as car line wait stitching.

Here are the first 4 that I completed. I really need to get to Joann's and pick up more of the blue floss as I should have enough to finish this one and most of the 6th one I think. 

These two have been keeping me hopping, but I did get them to burn down the brush pile yesterday so we can put the new trimmings from the bushes there again. 

Linking up with Kathy and the other Slow Stitchers.

RSC in pink.

I had an extra set of the wing pieces already cut for the kites, so I pulled a couple of darker pinks (I only have 2 or 3 darker pinks in the stash???) to make one of the kites for the month. It joined the 2 darker blues from last month. I guess I am using some leftover backing fabrics with grey and snowflakes for this set of blocks. 

I pulled out these strips which are extra's from a quilt I made for Emily. I also found a heart gifted to me from my friend Moneik. Somehow these two things will be worked into the ABC (table) scrap Challenge Joy hosts this month with the prompt letters of M and V! It also will check off my Winter UFO #13 to get these scraps into something usable and out of the sewing room! (Don't you love how I keep combining challenges?) There is pink in here too - to hit that Pink checkbox!

While sewing up the kites, I added some more pink flying geese from the parts leftover from Sweet Confetti. I know that had 96 colored fabrics - so there should be 10 pieces in each color with 6 for the last one. I'll have to check the quilt, but I think purple was the six.... so, there should be 4 more somewhere in a basket on the sewing table. These are using a white dot print that I seem to always have in the sewing room for the wings.

Linking up Saturday with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Looks like I just have horses with Emily on Saturday morning. Grandma is taking Aidan out for lunch and shopping for his 15th birthday on Monday! Where has the time gone? His birthday wish is another year subscription to F1. He sure has gotten his money's worth from last year's subscription. We watched a race from 2021 Thursday evening after they had a late dinner. 

 

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.