What we’re working on

 We’ve managed to get quite a few tops to the layering and ready for quilting stage. The Greens quilt is  done and has been delivered to its recipient. Such a fun and easy quilt to do.Then there is a Bricks and Stepping Stones quilt, from Bonnie Hunter’s free patterns tab on her blog. And a lovely quarter log cabin variation using a fun birds print in the large corners. And lastly, a finished music themed quilt which is going to a gentleman in a nursing home who loves music and the old hymns.
 In process is another Bonnie Hunter quilt called Rick Rack Nines from one of her books.I’ve ben making nine patches as leader/enders for quite a while. I have enough now to make a small version of her design. It’s almost half finished. I think it will finish somewhere around the 50x70 inches range, perfect for a lap quilt. Some of the fabrics in it go back to my very early days of quilting 20 to 25 years ago or more. It’s fun to re-visit them.

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Slow Sunday Stitching

 My plan of last week, to alternate stitching on the swans and the greenery is working. I’ve gotten a lot done and both areas are progressing. The dark green is hard to see in the photo.Another couple of weeks should finish this one. Then I can start the spring series. I already have all the supplies I need for it. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.

Slow Sunday Stitching

 The Swans both have their necks and heads and both have their faces. Which makes for great progress on them this past week. I also finished the cabin, except for filling in the window panes. There is a lot of foliage to be done at the top so I think I’m going to alternate - do a thread length on the swans and then a thread length on the foliage. That way neither seems overwhelming towards the end of the piece.

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching and then find something to watch/listen to while I do more stitching.

What we’re working on

I only have one project to show today. There are others on the go, but I didn’t get pictures last week. This one is one I started a couple of weeks ago and brought home to work on.  The request is for a gentleman who loves music and loved to sing the old hymns at church. So we ordered some music themed fabric for this one and then found a panel with some of the words to hymns that worked perfectly for the centres of these blocks. It’s going to be a bit bigger than our usual lap quilts, but we had to work with the block size for those hymn squares. It will have a blue border around the outside to finish it off. I hope to get it done tomorrow. I’ll link up to Mid Week Makers

Slow Sunday Stitching

 The Swans are growing. One of them almost has the complete body outlined. It’s a lot of fun watching these animals come to life with each stitch added. I would have had all the outlining done last night, except that I discovered an error that involved some ripping. And of course once that happened, the wind went right of my proverbial sails and I quit for the evening. I’m thankful that I do pre-gridding for these stitcheries. That’s what caught the error.  So today I’ll pick up where I left off and keep going. 

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

What we’re working on.

 No surprise to say we have more quilts on the go at our Prayers and Squares group. We had one finish, this lovely aqua and pink stacked coins quilt. It is Beverly’s first ever quilt finish so we all gave her a big “woohoo”! Susan has been making the same quilt, except in greens. It has a recipient in mind already who requested outdoorsy happy greens.  We also finished a quilt that is going to be gifted to our interim Pastor. He stepped in and has been preaching weekly since Easter, in spite of also having a full time job as a hospital chaplain. We are ever so grateful to him and his family. He loves music, singing and playing the guitar. This pattern was perfect for him.  Our regular Pastor had a fairly severe car accident back in March and has been off recovering. He’s due back the week after Thanksgiving. 

Here at home I’ve been working on some paper pieced blocks. It is a block of the month put out by Carol Doak on her facebook group page.Unfortunately, the block in the top right is one inch too small. I goofed when I printed it. I’m not sure if I’m going to try and fudge it to fit or if I will make a new one.  I’m not 100 percent happy with the colours in it so I will likely do another one. I’m also working on using up some 2 inch scrap strips and squares and am in the process of making Bonnie Hunter’s Rick Rack Nines pattern. I don’t have a picture of them. They are currently in a bag waiting to go to P&S tomorrow to choose a setting fabric. And that’s all that’s new at the moment.

I’ll link up to Mid Week Makers.

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’ve gotten a good start on the Swans in my Cottage Garden series of A Year in the Woods. My seasons are kinda off though. I just realized that perhaps I should have started with the autumn ones.... oh well. But then again, come winter I’ll be working on spring and summer themed designs, so maybe that’s a good thing. It will be enough to see winter outside let alone inside too. Living in the woods in the lovely Muskoka area of Ontario, it seems an appropriate themed stitchery to work on. The colours are glorious right now, even though it is a stormy rainy Sunday. But the roads are lined with the most glorious colours of leaves. I am hoping that there will be a nice day in the coming week where we can go for a drive down highway 60 into Algonquin Park and drink in the beauty. But in the meantime, I will work on my cross stitch.

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