Sunday Slow Stitching

 I just checked back on last Sunday's post, and I've hand quilted 3 of the Frosty's this week! That means I just have 3 to go. I really need to mark the last 3 with their cross hatching. I doubt I'll have them done for next Sunday, as I am traveling to Vermont later this week for a Wedding. It will be a very quick trip - 2 flying days and 2 days up there. I'm looking forward to seeing my family again and the cooler weather! 

This is the Frosty I finished yesterday, all the lines spritzed out. I do love how those lines look. I've always loved the look of cross hatching. I like the puzzle of creating a continuous line with the strand of thread I am working on. 

I was asked to be a facilitator at a girl scout Sisters Retreat next month. They have a baggie of squares available. I was originally thinking to show how to hand stitch a four patch and then make it into a quilt to donate somewhere. Instead, what about a take with project? So, I cut some 2.5 inch squares and hand stitched them into a block, then a bit of leftover batting and a larger back that I folded in half and then again onto the front. This is how I did the individual hexagons. I need to work on it a bit and come up with an instruction sheet to send with them. Mine finished as a 4.5 inch little coaster. We have a little under an hour time slot, and there are 3 options of things to do at my rotation. A self led t-shirt weaving (story weaving), the quilting and then a nail art.

I hear one of the other facilitators is making sure her session is opposite my session so she can attend. I got morning, she is afternoon. No pressure there!

 

I'm travelling light with just a purse and carry on, so the hand work for the travel days will need to be small. I think some counted cross stitch maybe? I also need to get a few kitchen towels for Mom and make them into the little crochet tops so she can hang new ones from the oven in the kitchen. It is hard to find the old ones and I dislike the new microfiber ones.

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers.

Civil War Love Letters is a Quilt Top!

This quilt is 60x72... I think. I added a little bigger border with the blue cut at 4.5 inches instead of 3.5. There was 2 yards on the bolt so I just got both instead of the one yard I was thinking. I have plenty for the binding if I don't go with a dark blue :). 

Sorry for the bad photo - I was kinda excited when it was done tonight. My meeting got changed to a Zoom meeting.... so I got more time in the sewing room to get this to a top. This turned out much better than I expected. I'm a happy camper.

Progress....

 You are going to be sick of this quilt soon, but I'm on a roll! I got in the car on Wednesday afternoon and saw this temp! Ok, it was 101 but I had the door open for a bit while I put the waters into the holders and put the windows down. Yes, I have a lot of miles on this 9 year old car! 

I was able to do some frogging of the blocks while waiting for school to let out. I laid out the blocks when I got home. We won't mention I had to think a bit with this process!

Today I was busy sewing them into pairs and sections....

until they were all sewn together. After I pressed it, I had to fix 2 seams. Yup, it got put into time out since the blocks were not finishing at the same size! Sigh. I made it work.

After dinner (Sams roaster chicken, bag of mashed potato, brown gravy and a green leaf salad), I did add a 2 inch strip of the new cream to the outside. I'll add the blue border on Saturday. I think it is about 52x60 now but I have not really measured it.  I seem to have a meeting for girl scout events tomorrow night and then I'll pop to the football game and see the halftime show.

The dog was snoozing in with Greg in his den Wednesday night, so I closed the door and opened the master bedroom door where the cats live. Ollie came right out and sat evaluating the situation about 2 feet from the door. He even jumped up on my recliner and wandered into the sewing room! Peanut got carried out by Emily and he scampered right back into the bedroom but sat in the doorway looking at me. Progress! I went in to spend some time with them later and immediately got a Peanut on my chest and Ollie pulls up the end of the bed. 

Thinking....

I pulled a few blocks to take with me to the store and left the rest on the floor. Bear the dog thought it needed some changes! 

I was unable to find a plain blue in that same shade... but I found this fun print that will work great as a border! I also found a similar cream print. I think I will take the suggestion left on Monday's post and just do the blue cornerstones in the 'middle' area and then put the new cream print on the outside as a small border. Then the new blue fabric as a second border. So.... I have some unpicking to do. 

I did not touch the frosty's at all on Monday but did add a few stitches in last night. Progress.  I should have this one finished off tonight and then I'll have 4 to go.

 

September omg

 I am in a Ravelry Quarterly UFO club where we are encouraged to pull out those UFO's hiding away in the house and get them finished. I have a huge list of UFO's in various places and have a lot of them listed on my Summer UFO list. This stack of blocks are on the list and as I was looking it over I kept going back to this one. I made these one a week back in 2014 from the Civil War Love Letter Quilt.

I went digging in the drawer and pulled out a pile. Do I get credit for knowing exactly where these were? I figured I'd add some cream sashing to them, but it turns out I had already added something to 2 sides. I laid them out and was missing one.... so I went looking in the drawer and found another stack of them! I laid out the ones with the partial sashing. One just has one cream sash on one side. Do you think I still have any of that blue for the cornerstones.... or the cream fabric? I did a quick search and darned if I can find any! Well, I did find one strip of the cream but not enough. None of the blue. Sigh.

 I'm pretty sure I got both at Joann's so I will be heading there Monday with a few of the blocks to see if I can find that shade of blue grey and the creamy floral white print for the sashing. Wish me luck! There were a few more blocks that were not the right size, so they will be added to the back I guess. My goal this month, is to get this quilt finished and quilted and bound. Nearly 10 years... I think it is time to get this one done!

I'll link up with the One Monthly Goal Challenge over at Stories from the sewing room. 

Yes, I see the turned block =) I think there are Gremlins in the sewing area!

Slow Sunday with the Frosty's

 I was doing a bit of hand quilting the last few days and since I don't wear thimbles of any kind, my fingers are a little sore. I have 6 of the 12 frosty's quilted. 

Here are the six that are done in the middle of the quilt. I need to mark the next 3 so it is ready when I want to pick this up again Sunday night. I am marking them using the 45 degree angle line on my ruler. These Frosty McChill's were a free sew along with Melisa at Pinkernpunkin blog.

Linking up with the Slow Sunday Stitchers. 

RSC - Teal kites

 A 3 day weekend! Horses got moved to Sunday this weekend, so the kids headed to Grandma's to help run errands and do a few things around her yard for her. We'll go collect them later today.

The dog got a walk this morning - he didn't pull which is good! He has not been walked this week at all.  I think he knows if he pulls, he doesn't get a walk. Emily is on tap tomorrow to get up and out of bed for his walk. I watched F1 qualifying with Aidan while adding a few stitches to the Frosty's. I have 5 of the 12 crosshatch quilted. I machine quilted the sashing and cornerstones earlier this summer and already added the binding. I really spritzed well and have not had an issue this time with the blue lines reappearing. I hope to get the 6th one quilted tonight while watching Harry Potter. It is September... so I watched the first movie last night. I've seen them so many times, it is nice to listen to while hand quilting.

I tried something new for lunch. I had picked up these frozen falafel's at Aldi's a few weeks ago. I popped them in the oven and made some tzatziki. I had a nice salad with 3 falafel's, tzatziki and hummus. Boy, those babies had a little kick with the red pepper flakes in there. Good, but spicy. I had to get more tzatziki to tone it down. I'll have to pick up another package and have it for dinner some night and see if the kids like it. I still have 9 left in the fridge.

I took a look in the block container and saw I am doing kites and split nines. I was in the mood to make the kites today so got the Accuquilt out and some teals and added 2 blocks. I'm using the 8 inch cube so I believe these are 8 inch blocks. 

We really didn't get any issues from hurricane Idalia, but boy have we gotten storms the last two days! It was a deluge when I went to go get Aidan from school yesterday afternoon. I was nearly to school, going on a road through the greenway with beautiful overhanging trees.... and right before I got there - probably within a few minutes, a tree came down and a truck swerved to miss it and hit a car! The road was blocked. It was still pouring but someone had gotten out to check on them. I turned around and headed the other way to the school. (I am not good with blood at all!)  I saw the ambulance and fire truck heading there a few minutes later as I was heading back, so I knew it was under control. I hope they were ok. I picked up a very soaked boy and headed home. We had a moat at the house! A couple of the roads had flooding on part of the road, but we could get through. This is the edge of our front yard looking out at the busy 2 lane road. The water was over the driveway as well.  It was gone a couple of hours later when I headed to go get Emily. The football game was cancelled, since they were to play Crystal River and they got flooding with the hurricane and will make it up later. The band had a practice, since they got cancelled with school letting out Monday and cancelling all after school activities due to the approaching hurricane. The Atlantic is very busy right now and there is another disturbance forming off the coast of Africa. Just a normal September in Florida!

Linking up with the RSC.