Slow Sunday Stitching

I’m almost out of 2 inch squares for Connections. A couple of friends are coming up to our area at the end of June, so I’ve put it into quilty time out until then. In the meantime I pulled out a project I started back in 2019, according to this blog. It originally was intended to be a rainbow colour challenge project, but it ended up in the started, never to be seen again, bin, up until this past week. I’m trying to decide what to do with it. I have quite a few yellow/gold/purple bits done, but I’m not sure I like the look. But I’m also not sure what else to do with it, which is how it ended up  in a bin. Although, looking at the photo, it is kinda growing on me. I think I’ll keep going.

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching and then maybe see where this will take me.

What We’re Working on

 I only have 2 pictures to show today. We worked on other things yesterday, but I didn’t manage to get my nose in to what they were working on to get pictures. Next week we have a bunch to layer, so I should be able to get pictures then. In the meantime,  I have pictures of the UFO’s I’ve been working on. Hopscotch Butterscotch is a finished top. And then I dug through the Prayers and Squares cupboard and unearthed an older one I started there a couple of years ago. For some reason, I wasn’t happy then with how the squares were playing together, so I put it into quilty time out. Sometimes all it takes is looking at something with fresh eyes and a little playing in Electric Quilt computer program. Here is where it sits at the moment, with the red decided on for borders.                                                                             Here is what I am aiming for. There will be leftover triangles, which I have decided will get pieced into the backing, preventing the formation of yet another UFO. When this one is done it will mean 12 out of 16 on my UFO list finished, or at least to the finished top stage. I think there is one more that I can get done and then reward myself with a new start, or 2.

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

An old UFO done

 Way back in 2012 I joined in on 2 different challenges. I love doing challenges. One was New York Beauty blocks and the other was a colour challenge. I combined the 2 and did the New York Beauty blocks in the colours for the challenge of the month. I got lots of the New York Beauty blocks done, and then for some unknown reason, it sat and aged. Fast forward to 2020 when I decided it was time to finish it. The piecing was done and the long arming was done and then, once more it sat in quilt limbo. I think moving and getting settled and renovations and more renovations may have had something to do with it. Plus it is a small square quilt, maybe 54 x 54 and I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. So, lets do another fast forward to a couple of weeks ago when one of the ladies from the Prayers and Squares group posted a gorgeous picture of a New York Beauty quilt and she asked if I was up to doing something like it. I replied that I already had done one, which inspired me to go searching through the piles of quilts to find it and pick out a binding and get it finished. So here we are today, 13 1/2 years after it was started, finally finished. I think it is going to get used as a table topper of our kitchen table. Here’s a close up of the binding, my signature striped binding,  and four of the blocks . I started this year with a list of 16 UFOs. This finish means I have knocked 11 off that list.

Slow Sunday Stitching

 As has been the case for the past several months now, I’m continuing to work on my Connections quilt. I have units made for the next row. I need to sew them together and then add them to the main body. Here’s a close up of one of them. I haven’t a whole lot else to say, so I’ll go ahead and link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.

What We’re Working On

 We were very busy quilters yesterday and got lots done to the point where photo taking was possible and necessary. Pat has been working on this fun quilt in an attempt to decrease the amount of 3 1/2 inch strips in the bin. Somehow it didn’t even seem to make a dent, isn’t that always the way. It still needs a good pressing. Marg finished binding a bunch of quilts, most of which have already had their time in the spotlight, so she grabbed a kit for another wildlife quilt. These are so popular. It will get five more friendship stars around the opposite corner and then long borders to fill the space. Yes, we noticed that one of the blocks has an oops in it. I’ve been working on this Moonlight Stroll quilt on Thursdays for about a month now. It needs its finish borders and then will be ready for quilting. We are thinking this one is going to be added to our fund raising pile. And then lastly, there is a Bonnie Hunter quilt that has been in progress here at home as a leader/ender for a long time. It is finally time to the move it up to finish it stage. I think it is called Hopscotch Butterscotch. It has final border of piano keys still to go on. I’m hoping to have it done by next Thursday so we can get it layered. I’ll link up to Finish, or not, Friday

Slow Sunday Stitching

 It is a glorious spring day out there. Warm and sunny and so far no bugs biting. I suspect that will change before this time next week and I’ll be bleeping the nasty critters known as black flies. But for today, I will enjoy it. I took my 2 pieces of Connections outside to get a photo and yahoo, I’m officially 3/4 of the way to being finished. This is what I will be doing for the rest of the day, sitting outside and stitching. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching

What we are working on

 We had another productive day at Prayers and Squares yesterday. We did some talking and planning around our fund raising for the summer and I think we now have a workable plan. There is one quilt for sure that we are going to be taking donations on and will offer tickets in return for the donations. It is the Aurora Ridge quilt , designed by McKenna Ryan, that I finished earlier this spring. It is currently hanging at the church and can travel to the events that we have planned to enter. We finished bindings on a number of quilts yesterday, and we figures out a pricing formula and we hope to sell some of these in the coming months. We think the animal ones will go quickly, or at least that’s our hope. The moose quilt got its binding, a lovely dark blue to set off the centre. I’ve been working on a Great Granny Square quilt here at home for the past few months. This past week I got it all together, quilt as you go style. It got a binding yesterday. The back is interesting too. There was a panel with the large spiral prints on it that would have been difficult to work into a quilt but made perfect backing for some of the blocks. And then, Janet did the quilting on this scrappy quilt. We have a couple more quilts left in the pile to be bound and also a couple in the to be layered pile. All in all, we are being very productive. I’ll link up to Finished, or not, Friday

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’m slowly stitching away on my Connections quilt. Once again, thank you to all who sent me 2 inch squares. Unbelievably, I have gone through almost all of them! When they first arrived I thought there would be more than enough to finish this, but no. I’m going to go scrounging through my stash here and at the church and cut bits off things to get more. I’m almost halfway through the second half of this quilt. Hopefully when the other half of this half is finished,  it will declare itself done.

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

What we’re working on

 We had 2 quilt top finishes yesterday at Prayers and Squares. Marg finished this one, using the animals from the Moonlight Stroll series. And Janet finished this scrappy one. Here at home I've been working on another Pat Speth sampler. It is well over halfway finished. I am hoping that a couple of hours on it this afternoon will finish it. Then it can go onto the pile waiting to be bound. This will make four in that waiting list. I’ll link up to Finish, or not, Friday and then get into my sewing room to finish this one.