Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’ve picked my cross stitching back up and am slowly figuring out where I left off several months ago. It is strange how it involves a whole different way of seeing doing cross stitch that my eyes are having a hard time picking back up. Anyhow, the Woodpecker from  The Year in the Woods is slowly getting its black outlining done as I slowly get used to looking at the graph and the lines of linen and my red grid lines. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.

What We Are Working On

 We had a couple more finishes yesterday. Donna finished the Trip Around the World quilt she started a few weeks ago. It has lovely colours. It is now in the waiting to be layered pile. Beverly finished the binding on this very scrappy strip quilt. It needs a label and some ties put in and then it will be ready for gifting to someone who likes oranges and blues. We’ve been working on the blocks for next year’s fundraiser, a combination of Marie Noah blocks and McKenna Ryan blocks. We have 4 out of 12 finished.

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

Slow Sunday Stitching

 All of the hand stitching for the EPP mystery I was doing is done. And, I have 8 of the 16 units loosened from the papers around the outer edges and trimmed and sewn together, this time by machine. That means, by this time next week, I’ll be back to my cross stitched critters. In fact, I think after I post this, I will rummage around on the table beside my chair and see if I can’t actually find the Woodpecker I was working on. 

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

What we’re Working On

 I didn’t get too many pictures yesterday. I was pretty focused on finding the perfect fabrics to build loons with. I’m doing a variation of this block. It will have some pieced flying geese in the background. We have started the blocks for next year’s fund raiser. It will be a combination of Marie Noah blocks and McKenna Ryan designs for another Muskoka themed wildlife and countryside quilt. It takes a lot of sorting and a lot of digging in order to find the prefect fabric just right for a loon’s wing. However, I did get a few pictures of a couple of finishes and an in progress quilt top. This wildlife chain quilt is finished and will be prayed over on Sunday before going to its new home. Janet finished putting together this Big Block moose themed top. And Donna is almost finished this trip around the world top. Here at home I’ve been working on a design by Judy Martin called Capistrano from her book Stellar Quilts. I fell in love with the design and had to make it. I suspect it will be added to next year’s fundraiser, since the last thing we need here is another queen sized bed quilt. I’m enjoying the intense challenge of the piecing. It’s a nice change after all the endless strip piecing. It will likely take until deep into the winter before it is done. I think it will be domestic machine quilted as I go in sections. I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’m almost finished with the hand stitching on the mystery EPP project I’ve been working on. There are base triangles to add to some of them. But I think I will do that by machine after the hand sewing on the inset pieces is done. There are 3 more of them to do. I’ll loosen the fabric from the papers and trim them to 1/4 inch so I can finish this by machine. After this is done I’ll get back to my cross stitched critters. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.

What We Are Working On

 We had four lovely finishes yesterday. A fully finished Disappearing Nine Patch and three quilt tops. What a great and efficient group we have. Marcia finished this Disappearing Nine patch. It is labeled and ready to go to a person in need. Tammy finished this Churn Dash top. Here at home I’ve been working on quilt tops as well. Yesterday I got the final borders sewn on to 2 of them. A Triple Irish Chain and a Trip Around the World. I seem to have reverted back to using blues again. I tried for a while to get away from that colour, but it seems to keep coming back. I have fabric here to do another Trip Around the World variation, this time using blues and reds. I’m not sure if I’ll start it this week or not. I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday.

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I’m almost halfway done with the mystery EPP thing I’m doing. This will be the layout. 

I like the pinwheels that form with the yellow triangles. It will be 24 inches square when done. But of course, I can’t leave it there. I don’t have any use for a 24 inch square piece, so I am planning on borders around it. So far, this is the front runner for the ideas for the borders. But that could change by the time I get to it.  I want to keep the borders fairly basic so as to let the hand pieced centre shine. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.