What We’re Working On

 We had a good day at Prayers and Squares yesterday. In preparation for our summer ladies coming back, Marg and I have been doing some cutting. We used to schedule full afternoons of cutting, but I’m finding that way too hard on my back, not to mention the cost of gas to drive there and back an extra day. So instead, we are starting an hour early to do some cutting before we get to our sewing machines. We finished putting together three kits yesterday for those who like to come in and find the cutting already done. They can pull a kit and start sewing right away. 

Tammy continues to work on the 3 yard quilt she’s been sewing on. This one was a community effort. Pat bought the fabrics and chose the pattern. I cut it and Tammy has sewn it. All that is left is one more border to add. Marg has been working on a sampler for the last month or so. I don’t have pictures of all the blocks. These were sitting on the table. And I’ve been working on some star blocks in autumn shades. Here at home I’ve started some pinwheel blocks. The intersecting blocks will form grey pinwheels. These are using large pieces, 4 inch finished triangles, so I only need 12 blocks total for the quilt. They work up quickly. I had lots of reds left from a couple of quilts I did a couple of months ago, so I’ll use up more of them here. There are still more left, so be prepared to see more reds in something yet to be determined.

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

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’m up early this morning, so I thought I’d do my post for Slow Stitching since I’m up, rather than waiting till later this afternoon after we get home from church. The chipmunk for the Year in the Woods is finished. And better yet, I’ve gotten all of the gridding for the next section done as well and all of the flosses wound onto bobbins. I can now start on the Skunk. I hope this is as close as I ever get to one of those critters. Here are the finished Bear and Chipmunk together. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.

What We’re Working On

 We had a couple of finishes yesterday at our Prayers and Squares group. A few weeks ago, Marg started adding to the panel with the cats. It had already been quilted, but needed to be bigger in order for us to be able to gift it to someone as a lap quilt. Using the quilt as you go method, Marg added the pieced borders and then did the binding yesterday. Another quilt that was gifted to us, already layered and the quilting started was this gorgeous autumn themed sampler. Janet has been working on the quilting for the past month or so. Marg put the binding on it yesterday. After Janet finished the quilting on the autumn quilt, she started in on piecing together another sampler. Tammy has been putting this 3 yard quilt together and now has the centre ready for the borders. I’ll link up with finished, or not, Friday

Slow Sunday Stitching

 The chipmunk for the Year in the Woods project is finished and is so cute. I still have the flowers and leaves that surround it to finish up and then I can move on to the next animal, the Skunk. Depending on the amount of stitching time I manage this week, this piece just might be done by this time next week. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.

Slow Sunday Stitching

 My chipmunk for the Year in the Woods got a lot of stitches put in this past week. Its tail is done and now I’m working on the top of its body and its head. Another week or two should finish this one and then I can start on the next, which is the Skunk. Skunks are nasty critters in real life, but the cross stitched one, found here, is very cute. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching

What We’re Working On

 I haven’t done one of these posts in a couple of weeks. Fridays have been nuts here at home lately. We have lots of things we’re working on and lots we’ve finished. So this will be a photo heavy post. Beverly is up to their cottage for a week after ice out. They have to come up to get their dock from where it is stored and bring it to their cottage. While here, she grabbed 3 quilts that needed binding. She has them finished for us now.

The rest of us have been busily working on various projects. Susan is making these blocks to go into an improvisational style sampler. Tammy started working on this 3 yard quilt. Marg started this one originally to make into place mats, but then decided it would do better as a quilt for a child. It is done quilt as you go style. Pat has been working on these blocks. They are almost finished and ready to be trimmed and sewn into the finished quilt. Marg found this partially finished quilt in our cupboard. It had been donated to us like this. She is planning on putting a few more borders on it to bring it up to a usable size. I finished off the Exclamation point quilt. And then started a new one using 8 inch stars., giving a 16 inch finished block. I am planning on it being autumn colours. Each set of light and dark stars uses a fat quarter of light and fat quarter of dark. I have enough cut for 8 blocks, but need 4 more. And here at home I am trying to use up the fabrics that I chose for this years Stay at home round robin. And of course, this type of thing proliferates, because I needed more fabrics. I grabbed a few more that coordinate with the orange floral fabrics. They are all now cut into 2 1/2 inch strips, ready to sew up. We also have finished our group project where each of us were given the same focus fabric and then chose a block from the Quilters Cache website beginning with the initial of our first names. And finally, Janet finished the quilting on this lovely quilt that was also donated to us as a UFO. Whew, that was a lot. But then when I just checked, the last post I did about what we’ve been working on was a month ago, so it makes sense that there would be a lot. I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday.

Slow Sunday Stitching

 There hasn't been a lot of stitching time this past week. Spring has finally arrived in Muskoka. Added to that, every year on earth day the municipalities here have free compost for those willing to go and shovel it for themselves. We had a new raised bed built last year that never got used since it needed to be filled. So that is what we have been doing since Wednesday. All of our raised beds are now full of wonderful compost and are ready to be planted. But, that has meant that there hasn't been time or energy for much else. The Chipmunk for theYear in the Woods got a little bit done. It now has the beginnings of the stripe down its back. I have a little bit more to do for sowing some seeds for early starts for the garden and then I can get back to spending more time again on the chipmunk. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching