What We’re Working On

 Last week I mentioned that we have had quite a few quilts go out from our Prayers and Squares group and that it would take  a couple of weeks to show them all. I have the rest of them here for today. There is a very special heart quilt where the colours and the heart theme were requested by the recipient. Four of us worked on it and we were able to get all the piecing done in a single day. That same day saw us make the back and get it layered for quilting. There’s a very bright blue and yellow quilt, sent to a young teenager undergoing treatment for cancer. Her favourite colour is yellow. And then a very bright and happy quilt going to a man whose wife passed away after a lengthy illness. In addition to those finished quilts there are a couple that are in the making stage. I love making samplers and have one in the works. The last block was released today, so I may get the last block sewn up today. There is something so satisfying about sewing a single block. They are usually able to be finished in a single sitting and give a wonderful feeling of accomplishment. We have a lot of batting scraps sitting in a large tote at the church. I am considering doing this sampler as a quilt as you go in order to use some of them up. I also have plans for doing some Christmas baking on my to do list for today as well, so it’s kinda up in the air if I get to that sampler. But there’s always the time that the baking is in the oven.  Anyhow, that’s it for today.

Slow Sunday Stitching

 My cross stitching has been put on hold for the past week. I need a new pair of mittens and found
this book last year. I actually started a pair last year and never finished them. When I picked it back up this year I decided I didn’t like what I done, so I ripped it all out and started over. However, now that I have them this far, they are way too long for my hands, so I need to rip back a bit and finish them off differently than the pattern says. Maybe...... I’ll put them in time out while I decide what to do. I really don’t want to rip back, but I know I won’t wear them if they are too big.  Anyhow..... I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching and then probably bite the bullet as the saying goes and get to frogging. 

What we’re working on

 We’ve had quite a few quilts go out in the last month. I think I’ll do a couple of posts to record them here. A lovely quilt in earth tones,  and another lovely one in blues. And then there is a second one, also in blues for a special request. This one is also getting a border of the darker blue. And then there was this quilt, made out of large hexagons.

So far, our tally for quilts for the year given out is 49. And December isn’t finished yet. That’s quite an accomplishment for a group of 7-10 ladies. I’ll link up to Mid Week Makers

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’ve been absent from the blogging world for a bit. The monitor screen on my computer died and it too a while to get the problem diagnosed and then even longer to get a solution implemented. But it’s all good now and I’m back in blogging mode again. 

Just before the computer problem, I finished my Swans for the winter series of At Home In The Woods. Here are all three side by side. 

I did finally decide to order a frame for it but it hasn’t arrived yet. 

I have since started on the spring series and the first one is a Jackrabbit. He’s very cute. I love the texture in his fur. I think it is that texture in all the animals that drew me to this series. Anyhow, it’s almost time ti leave for church, so I’ll post this and link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching

Slow Sunday Stitching

I had hoped to finish up the Swans stitchery this past week, but that didn’t happen. There are 1 1/2 trees left to do and one small bit is the evergreen branches and it will be done. Hopefully this next week will do it and then it will be on to gridding the fabric for the next set of 3. Once I get this done I’ll un-hoop it, press it and get a really good picture. And then I can also measure it and see if I can order a frame for it online. There was a comment left last week about checking the thrift shops for frames, which is a great idea. I would likely have to modify any frame I found there to fit this piece though, and I don’t have the tools or expertise to do that, unfortunately.

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching and maybe finish this up today.

Slow Sunday Stitching.

 The Swans stitchery is close, so close to being finished. The swans themselves actually are done. All that is left is the background stitching, finishing the greenery and pine cones at the top and some more snow flakes, also in the top half. I am soon going to need to measure this and figure out how to frame it. I do the mounting on foam core board and stretching myself, so all I need to do is get a frame. However, that is the hard part. There is a framing place here in town, but it is terribly expensive. I have found a Canadian order frames online place, but I’ve never used them before so I’m hesitant about how that will work. I’m half thinking of ordering a frame for one of my hymn pieces just to see how it works. If it turns out all right I’ll order one for this. None of that though is likely to happen before Christmas, so I’ve time to figure it out. 

I’m linking to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching

What We’re Working On

 We have, as usual, many projects on the go at our Prayers and Squares group. Janet finished off a lovely 3 yards quilt. There is a finished Rick Rack Nines, a Bonnie Hunter design from one of her books. Sorry about the scrunched up picture. The quilt ended up bigger than I expected and I don’t have enough floor space to completely lay it out.

And because we’ve been making so many quilts, we’ve been busting through our stash at the church which meant going fabric shopping. There is a lovely quilt shop about an hour away in the little town of Minden called Remember Me Quilts and More. Marg and I made a trip down there for some much needed stash enhancement. We picked up some red fat quarters, just because it is impossible to have too many reds and we had very few. We picked up fabrics for a quilt for a specific person, in greens and creams as requested. And then we picked up a lot of backings and backgrounds. We are hoping to get working on some quilts to use up an overflowing bin of 2 1/2 inch strips that will need backgrounds and constant fabrics to calm to calm them down. Hopefully this will keep us going for most of the winter.

I’ll link up to Mid Week Makers