What We’re Working On

 We worked on getting a few things finished this week. Marg is almost finished her blues/greys sampler.. And here at home I cut a bunch of reds and beiges into 6 7/8 inch squares to make a 48x60 quilt. It is fairly fast sewing. The layout, on the other hand, is challenging, but I like the final effect. I can hopefully get started on sewing it together next week. We also managed to make 3 quilt backs and then layer the 3 quilts. I think we have 5 or 6 now that are waiting on quilting. I brought one home that needs to go to a recipient by next Thursday, so I’ll work on getting it quilted over the next couple of days. I’ll get a picture of it before it goes out.

I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday

Slow Sunday Stitching

 Cross stitching has again grabbed my attention, to the exclusion of all other hand stitching, at the moment at least. I did lots on the Raccoon. The tail is complete and I’m working my way across the bottom in an attempt to get all the green stitched. However, I’m getting a little tired of the green, so I may start on the pink for the flowers and the brown for the stems just for a little variety.

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.

What We Are Working On

 We finished all four of the quilts for the young boys who lost their home to a fire. One of our members, Marg, is a speed whiz when it comes to attaching bindings. She did 3 of them yesterday afternoon. We do our bindings completely by machine. Our group is called Prayers and Squares because, after we finish the quilts, we put ties into each quilt and then we pray for the recipients as we tie the knots. Then we tell the person receiving the quilts that, wherever they see a knot, they can know that someone prayed for them. After all these quilts were bound, Susan put in the ties and we prayed for these 4 boys. There are forest animal silhouettes, 

black bears, 

moose in a pond 

and fun bright camping trailers. I was able yesterday to get back to sewing on the log cabin blocks I made ages ago. Just one more row to add and it can get a back made and be layered. It is from a pattern by Laundry Basket Quilts called Tea Biscuits. I altered the size of the blocks to use up the scraps we had. 

I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday

Slow Sunday Stitching

 In my slow stitching this week I was able to complete a couple of things. All the stitching for our grand-daughter’s stocking is finished. I still need to sew it all together, but that can all be accomplished on the sewing machine. The other thing I finished is the Jack Rabbit for The Year in the Woods stitchery. I’ve gridded out the next section and gotten a small start which will be the Raccoon.

We received almost a foot of snow over night and it is still coming down, so we decided to stay home from church. That gave a good opportunity to cut, bake and decorate some gingerbread cookies, the inspiration for the stocking. Every year since our grand-daughter was about 3 we’ve done gingerbread cookies. It’s a favourite thing to do every year. She’ll be 10 in January. I’m hoping the stocking will stay with her and remind her always of the fun making and decorating cookies with Grammy. There are more cookies yet to decorate, so we might end up doing that after school for the next day or two.

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching

What We Are Working On

 There were only 3 of us at Prayers and Squares yesterday, but in spite of that we got a lot accomplished. We were able to finish the 4 quilt tops that we started last week. If you ever need a fast but effective quilt top, the BQ designs from Maple Island quilts will do it. These were very close to being quilt in a day. And if we had a full day, rather than an afternoon, they would be a quilt in a day. We were also able to get backings made for them and get them all layered. I brought 2 home to quilt, probably with either wavy lines or a straight grid of some sort. This one has a gorgeous scenery print with moose. Then there are some fun bright trailers. There are the black bears that were finished last week. And then animals silhouettes in a forest. We might be able to get these into the hands of those 4 young boys before Christmas.

Circle of Friends Progress

 I am exclusively working on Circle of Friends here at home in an effort to get it done and off my UFO list. It is now 2/3 put together. I need to assemble the last border, add it to the already assembled blocks section and then add the section to the whole. Maybe this afternoon will finish it. It has waited long enough. I need to have some lunch and then I’ll get back to it. 

I’m linking up to Wednesday Wait Loss

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’ve been very lazy in my slow stitching for the past week. Nothing was appealing to me. I didn’t want to sew on little pieces, and I didn’t want to knit, or do much of anything. However, last evening as I was sitting here, I saw my much neglected cross stitching sitting beside my chair, so I picked it up and I did a bunch on it last evening and again today. It’s my Year in the Woods project. I think it has been months since I did anything on it. According to the last post about it on this blog, it’s been since last January. Looking back, that makes sense. Hand quilting and then hand piecing on different quilts took over. I’m not sure how long I’ll keep this up, but I seem to have forgotten how much I like cross stitching, so it might take over some of the other projects, for a while at least. I’d also forgotten how much I like these designs, so it’s a good thing to get back to it. It’s like saying hello to an old friend.

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching