Slow Sunday Stitching

 Connections is making great progress. By the looks of it I only have 2 more full rows to do. Then I have to join the sections together and I can count this one done. It is going to end up as a nice lap sized quilt for this coming winter. I have enough squares basted to start the next row, but I need to do more of the triangles. So that is on my to do list after I finish this post. It’s another glorious day, so I think I’ll be taking my stitching and basting glue outside into the shade of the screened tent shelter.

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

What We’re Working on

 We have a couple of finishes this week. Barbara finished putting the binding onto this beauty of a quilt yesterday. I do love a diagonal striped binding.

And in an attempt to use up all the blues I have hanging around at home, I finished this quilt top. Did it finish the blues? Of course it didn’t, so I’ll have to come up with yet another design to use them up. It will have to be something using more diamonds since I have lots of those left over. 

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

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’ve made really good progress on the Christmas stocking for our grand daughter this past week. The ginger bread house is almost completely done. All that is left is a few decorations to go on the snow at the top of the chimney. I’m confident that the rest can be completed later this year, before Christmas comes. This is the only slow stitching I did this week. So I’ll link to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.

What We’re Working on

 I didn’t get any pictures of works in progress yesterday. We received a wonderful donation of fabrics a week ago, 4 large totes of fabric. So yesterday was spent sorting and emptying 2 of them. It is a fantastic gift to us. We won’t need to go shopping for quite a while, other than perhaps backing for specific quilts that need a specific back. I have been working on finishing up a couple of things here at home. Last summer we used a Toronto Maple Leafs themed quilt as a fund raiser for our P&S group. Our daughter saw it and thought it would work as a fund raiser for our grand daughter’s school. So I have made another one. It needs layering and quilting yet. I’ve also put together another of the animal themed panel quilts, this time with deer in the centre. It is finished, but I don’t have a picture of the finished top. It too needs a backing and layering. I did manage to find backing fabric for it out of those 2 totes we emptied yesterday. And I finally gave myself permission to start something new. This is a Judy Martin design out of her Block Book. It is a large block, 20 1/2 inches square. At the moment I am thinking of perhaps doing 4 blocks and then using more of the diamonds as a border. I’ll figure it out as I go along. I brought a quilt home yesterday that needs quilting ASAP so that it can go back to be prayed over on Sunday and then be delivered next week. So that will be my first task today. After that I hope to do more of the star blocks. I’ll link up to Finish, or not, Friday

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I didn’t  make as much progress on the Christmas stocking for our grand daughter as I had hoped. Turns out I had the wrong week for her going to camp. It’s this week. So, I kinda have another week to work on it. That’s what I’ll be doing this afternoon in the glorious sunshine. I’m up to piece 15, which is the green frame around the door, out of 80 something. Not bad, all things considered. 

In between working on the stocking I did a little bit on my Connections piece.

I was able to spend an afternoon last weekend with Gail and Christine and they each brought me some 2 inch squares to go in it. I was running low, so their supplies might take me to the end of it.

 I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching and then head out to the sunshine.

Slow Sunday Stitching.

 I started a new slow stitching project today. I have long wanted to make one of the fun Bucilla stocking for our grand daughter, but didn’t really have an idea about which one. Shortly after this past Christmas the idea came to me that we have always done gingerbread baking before each Christmas. She always looks forward to it and so do I. So I thought to look for a ginger bread themed stocking. And I found one and ordered it. What didn’t occur to me was how tricky it would be to actually work on it while living in the same house. She tends to pop in and out of our living area without much warning. How was I going to do it and keep it a secret. Well, this week she is away at over night camp. So I have a full week knowing she won’t be here to see it. I’m going to see just how much of it I can get done in a week. This is the stocking picture. This is where I am. There is a long way to go. I am on piece #4 out of  somewhere around 80 pieces. What I don’t get done this week will get put away until September when we go out to the trailer for a week. After that it will have to be during school days. 

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

What we’re working on

We did so well over the past month or so and had 7 or 8 quilts finished and stored in the cupboard. There is something satisfying and de-pressurising about having a few quilts ahead.  Almost like we can breathe for a bit and relax a bit. Well, that’s done as 6 of them went out this week. So we are back to building up an inventory yet again. They all go to needy people and it is fun and rewarding to make them, so all is good. This puts us up to 21 quilts going out so far this year. That’s almost one a week.

 Janet has been working on a quilt pattern called Iris for the last few weeks. She finished the top yesterday and we got it trimmed. I normally do not like quilts that do piecing on the diagonal that then need large pieces cut off. The waste really bothers me. But this quilt is so striking that it was worth it. And we decided to put the cut offs into the backing so they aren’t completely wasted.

Barbara has been working on this next quilt for quite a while. It was inspired by the landscape style fat quarter in the middle and she’s been adding borders to it. The quilting is now finished and it just needs binding. There are a few other projects in various stages, but I didn’t manage to get pictures of them. 

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