Slow Sunday Stitching

 Happy Easter to everyone who celebrates it, the best, most excellent day of the Christian year! He is risen!! We are off to church to celebrate in a few minutes. I’ve just time enough to write and post this. It won’t be a long post. I’ve made progress on Connections. I have two rows and a spacer row all stitched together and a partial spacer row in place. I’ve removed a bunch of the papers as I’ve been sewing so I have more pieces to glue baste again. 

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

Slow Sunday Stitching

 My Connections quilt is growing, although not all that fast. But that’s OK, it is, after all, slow stitching. It now measures about 30 x 46 inches. I would like it to be a lap sized quilt that I can use next winter. I’m aiming for somewhere around 48 x 60. So I will keep going and add rows as I get them finished. I have a row and a bit of another one ready to add. But I think I might work in smaller sections before adding them to the main piece It is getting a bit cumbersome to handle. I’ll have to do some measuring of the sections to figure out how many rows to do before adding them. Actually, I don’t need to do that. All I need is another piece the same size as what I’ve already done. The hexagons, triangles and squares are all 1 1/4 inch finished sides. Once again, thank you to all who sent squares so that I could continue with the quilt. 

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching and then maybe go do some measuring and figuring.

What we are working on

 We had multiple projects come to a finish yesterday. We have found over the past few years that the quilts we have a hard time keeping up with are those that are needed by men, especially men who are/were very outdoors orientated. So we try to keep some outdoors themed quilts on hand. Most of the time, as soon as we have one of them done, it is gifted out. So our focus lately has been to get more of them done. We also have found that they are the ones that do well for selling as fund raisers. We finished 2 tops and their backings yesterday that will fit either of those uses.  We’ll get them layered next week. We have a couple more of these beautiful animal panels to do. The Star Trek quilt is fully finished, with a fun star themed binding. And then Janet found a partially finished baby quilt in our to-be-worked-on pile and added a couple of borders and then did the quilting to finish it. The borders took it from “meh” to wonderful.

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

Slow Sunday Stitching

 My evenings this past week have been taken up with stitching on Connections. Thank you to those who sent me some of their 2 inch scrap squares. You have increased the connections found in this quilt and enabled me to keep going with it. I’m sure I have enough now to be able to finish it to a reasonable usable size, most likely a lap quilt to perhaps use next winter. It currently measures about 29 inches long by about 42 inches wide. I’m working now on adding the single row to join these 2 sections. After that I’ll likely start a new section and perhaps make the next ones longer. Although, thinking about it again, 60 inches long is a good lap quilt length. I have lots of time before needing to make that decision. For now, it is just fun. 

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

What we’re working on

 This is going to be a very quick post. I only have one photo, of the finished Star Trek top. we didn’t get a lot of sewing done yesterday. Almost as soon as w got to the church at about 1 pm yesterday, the power went out. Marg had a thermos of hot water and some tea brought from her house just down the street and we had a relaxing and fun tea time. When the power wasn’t back on by just before 3, we decided to call it quits and go home. And of course, that’s when the power came back on. In the time between 3 pm and 5:30 pm we layered 7 quilts. The backings all needed to be pressed which is why we couldn’t do them while the power was out.  Anyhow, here’s the Star Trek quilt.  It is one that was layered yesterday. I’ve brought it home and will get it quilted sometime this week. I’ll link up to Finished, or not, Friday