EMD - Tuesday check in.

Well, I printed off the instructions for the month 5 blocks. I looked through them and look - one block has cutting instructions. I picked fabrics, cut them and then sat down and saw - those were paper piecing measurements. Well, shoot. Second time I have made that mistake so far with these blocks. Sigh... a few days later I measured the long parts and added the .25 inch seam allowance all around. Those were some funny measurements but the width was 2 1/8. What to do...... I opted not to cut down the triangles... I just laid them out and sewed them together. I had to pull out one long seam.... and put it on the other way! Sigh. This is the finished block. I still need to press and trim it down to size with those oversized triangles but it is a completed block!

February OMG - goal

February One Monthly Goal. I have this little bucket of 'projects' that I would like to move along this year (OK, I've had this bucket of projects sitting here for 2 years.... shhhhh)

I might add a couple since I found a few while looking for something this month.

And the winner picked for the month of February is: 

 This is where Feb 1 started. I rolled it on Friday night and yes, that is the end of this quilt. I hand pieced this multi trip quilt a few years ago using 2.5 inch squares. It is 90x90 with 3 rows of 3 colors. It is the first quilt I put on this hand quilting EZ3 Grace Frame a couple of years ago. I think it is time to get it finished. 

This was Sunday's progress. The middle 5 squares of this block were quilted in the blue section. Pink and dark green to go before the last roll of this quilt. 

February OMG is Finish Quilting The 90x90 Trip Around the World Quilt on the frame.

I rolled it Friday - I have 1 roll left. Maybe I'll even get it bound this month? We will see.

Linking up with the February 2020 OMG. 

This is the whole quilt. The middle and right sides are quilted. Each color block is 30x30 inches.

Superbowl Sunday....

I've deemed the house picked up enough for the day! Time to relax. I have one kid home with me.  She just finished her 'stables' and will be playing with it this afternoon. I hear we need to make a soft flooring for the horses this afternoon as well.

Hubby just headed off to work and the boy is out shopping and for lunch with Grandma for his birthday. He will be 12 on Thursday! How did that happen?

I'm not sure which of these I will work on but it might be a little of all of them. That is the advantage of having multiple projects - depending on what mood you are in you can pick any of them up for a bit.

Yesterday I was trying to keep warm at horses working on Emily's blanket. It was in the 50's.... I didn't check the weather and was happy to have a sweater in the car I could go and grab for under my coat.

I attempted Aidan's multiple colors for the sheep finally this past week. It is not a favorite thing to do but I do like how the pattern of the sheep is coming out. I need to do 3 sets of them..... lets hope the first set gets done this week.... or maybe tonight?

Then there is hand quilting. I rolled the frame on Friday and have yet to add a stitch. I do see hand quilting in my future today. The end is in sight!

My spot was taken over this morning by Ms. Sophie. She is 15 and spoiled rotten. I noticed she is not eating her special dry kidney food very fast.... so went to the vet and picked up some wet food for that diet. She is eating that better. She is getting a little ornery in her old age and swiping at the other 2 cats lately. Guess she is just letting them know she was here first and own's the house!

Linking up with the other slow stitchers over at Kathy's Quilts. Stay warm.

RSC in orange and green?

I finished up one more bright green star and nine patch block before moving along to a 16 patch in orange. These both used 2.5 inch squares. Looks like 5 weeks of orange this year.....

I am sadly lacking in lovely oranges...... or I might be. I'll have to sort through the 3+ bins of scraps and see if I can pull some oranges to play with this month. I did not see any in the 2 inch or 1/5 inch strip bins and used up most of the few 2.5 inch strips for the 16 patch block. I did see a few scraps hanging around on the wall, but they are small bits and less than 10 kinds of fabrics. I 'might' have to augment in that color..... we will see.

Head on over to the rainbow scrap challenge and see what others have been doing with their scraps.
I'll be watching Emily at horses in the morning. She didn't go last week and can't wait to get on a horse to cantor.

Rolling.....

That's right. I got to roll the quilt top and look.... the end of the quilt is in sight! I'll work on the next 5 blocks for the next little while before I have to figure out how to get to the last 5 squares..... I can't remember hot long I left that leader.... I am hoping long enough so that it will roll down and allow me to quilt the end.

My supervisor Peanut is in his kitty sleeping tower making sure all is well.

EMD Tuesday...... or not!

Sigh... I seem to have been concentrating on something else.... and opted to get another 1.5 hours of actual work in yesterday and had Greg pick up Emily from school. Aidan was home sick so no pickup for him. Today we have 2 kids home from school. Aidan's fever seems to have subsided but still has the congestion and terrible cough, sore throat and tires easily. Em is starting with sore throat, headache from a stuffy nose and I think she might have an occasional cough. Between the 3 of them it is cough, cough, cough in my house right now. The congested chest liquid cough. Sigh... lots of hand washing for me!

So... I have been concentrating on hand quilting rather than prepping and doing my EMD blocks. But.... I have about 40 minutes left of hand quilting on the green before I get to turn the frame!


I made some cranberry orange scones last night (and prepped the coffee maker to be all set to go!). Boy, were they yummy this morning. Looks like I get ALL of them..... as sick people are not interested! Into the freezer they will go =) I swapped the heavy cream with lactaid milk so Emily can eat them and they came out just fine. I used 1 cup of craisins.

Slow Stitching......

Progress has been made on the trip quilt on the frame! I was able to roll the quilt again this week and start working on the last set of colors. I got the first part of the blues quilted yesterday and will start on the pink today. That should get me to the green this week and hopefully I get to roll it again soon to work on the middle section of this row.

I should be tying  a new skien of yarn to the crochet project as I am almost at the end of the current skein. I hate when it gets down to the near end as it gets all tangled up while pulling it.

Linking up with the Slow Sunday Stitchers where we enjoy making slow progress on our projects.