Slow Sunday Stitching

 I finally finished our granddaughter’s stocking on Friday. It was her last day of school before the Christmas holidays, so I thought I’d better get it done while I knew she couldn’t walk in on me. Since then, I’ve set my cross stitching aside just for a little while in order to work on finishing the edges of my Connections lap quilt. I wanted to keep the irregular edges, so I’m trimming and sewing a little bit at a time. It’s slow and a bit tedious, but I like the look. It is also having the added bonus, which is why I picked it up now, of keeping my feet warm while I work on it. 

I have more baking to do for our Christmas dinner, so I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching and then get to the baking. I’m thinking of doing up some pie crust today that can go into the fridge to cool and then make up the actual tarts later this week.

What We Are Working On

 This will be a short post today. We had 2 finishes this week. The log cabin, called Tea Biscuit by Laundry Basket quilts. And a Carpenters Star variation that Janet has been working on for quite a while, in between other quilts. The Tea Biscuit quilt has already gone to its new home. Our final count of quilts given out in 2025 is 44. For a small group of 7 ladies year round and  3 or 4 more during the summer, that is an astounding number of quilts finished and given away. I’m looking forward to seeing what the Lord will do through us next year. 

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

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’m steadily working on the Raccoon from The Year in the Woods series. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy these. It is such a relaxing stitch. I love the texture in the animals. And, I have discovered that there is a second series of these animals. But, I will resist, other than maybe substituting something for the eagle that will be coming up for maybe something a bit more Canadian. But I have lots of time before I have to decide that. The Eagle is #7 and the Raccoon is #4 in this series.

I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching. Then I have a quilt that needs to have the quilting finished by Tuesday, so I think I’ll get at it after posting this.

What We’re Working On

 We worked on getting a few things finished this week. Marg is almost finished her blues/greys sampler.. And here at home I cut a bunch of reds and beiges into 6 7/8 inch squares to make a 48x60 quilt. It is fairly fast sewing. The layout, on the other hand, is challenging, but I like the final effect. I can hopefully get started on sewing it together next week. We also managed to make 3 quilt backs and then layer the 3 quilts. I think we have 5 or 6 now that are waiting on quilting. I brought one home that needs to go to a recipient by next Thursday, so I’ll work on getting it quilted over the next couple of days. I’ll get a picture of it before it goes out.

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

Slow Sunday Stitching

 Cross stitching has again grabbed my attention, to the exclusion of all other hand stitching, at the moment at least. I did lots on the Raccoon. The tail is complete and I’m working my way across the bottom in an attempt to get all the green stitched. However, I’m getting a little tired of the green, so I may start on the pink for the flowers and the brown for the stems just for a little variety.

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

What We Are Working On

 We finished all four of the quilts for the young boys who lost their home to a fire. One of our members, Marg, is a speed whiz when it comes to attaching bindings. She did 3 of them yesterday afternoon. We do our bindings completely by machine. Our group is called Prayers and Squares because, after we finish the quilts, we put ties into each quilt and then we pray for the recipients as we tie the knots. Then we tell the person receiving the quilts that, wherever they see a knot, they can know that someone prayed for them. After all these quilts were bound, Susan put in the ties and we prayed for these 4 boys. There are forest animal silhouettes, 

black bears, 

moose in a pond 

and fun bright camping trailers. I was able yesterday to get back to sewing on the log cabin blocks I made ages ago. Just one more row to add and it can get a back made and be layered. It is from a pattern by Laundry Basket Quilts called Tea Biscuits. I altered the size of the blocks to use up the scraps we had. 

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

Slow Sunday Stitching

 In my slow stitching this week I was able to complete a couple of things. All the stitching for our grand-daughter’s stocking is finished. I still need to sew it all together, but that can all be accomplished on the sewing machine. The other thing I finished is the Jack Rabbit for The Year in the Woods stitchery. I’ve gridded out the next section and gotten a small start which will be the Raccoon.

We received almost a foot of snow over night and it is still coming down, so we decided to stay home from church. That gave a good opportunity to cut, bake and decorate some gingerbread cookies, the inspiration for the stocking. Every year since our grand-daughter was about 3 we’ve done gingerbread cookies. It’s a favourite thing to do every year. She’ll be 10 in January. I’m hoping the stocking will stay with her and remind her always of the fun making and decorating cookies with Grammy. There are more cookies yet to decorate, so we might end up doing that after school for the next day or two.

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