Slow Sunday Stitching

 The row for Connections that I was working on last week is finished and has its spacer row added to it. It is lying on the right hand side of the main piece, but hasn’t been stitched in place yet. I’ve now started on the second to last row needed for this project. The end should be in sight sometime in the next month or two. Certainly it should be done by the time I’ll need it for keeping warm. Just on general principles I’m not going to utter that word here and now. It’s way too lovely to even think about that word, let alone say it, let alone write it down.

So, I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching where there are lots of other warm weather posts to look at.

What we are working on

 We had a quilt finish, other than binding, yesterday. Janet finished the quilting on this lovely scrap quilt made from 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch pieces, cut from the 3 1/2 inch strip bin. There are many other projects in progress but I didn’t get pictures. Here at home I’m still working my way through the blue scraps. I have 12 out of 20 star blocks finished. I’m hoping to get this one done in the next week or two. And in the interests of getting a handle on the bags of fabric we have stashed at the church, I brought one of them home and am in the beginning of the process of sorting and cutting into usable sizes. So far I’m working on yet more blues. I have plans......

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

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