and a Trip Around the World. I neglected to get a picture of the Trip quilt with its final borders. 
I’ll have to make sure to get a picture after it is finished. Tammy put together a scrappy quilt that we call triplets using some pre-cut 3 1/2 inch squares from our scrap bins. 
It is almost finished. I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday. I’m moving along quite nicely now on my Woodpecker from the Year in the Woods series.
I think I’m back in the groove for cross stitching again, which feels quite good. The outlining of the wings is almost done, as is the tail. Then I can go back and start filling it in. I have seen lots of people lately talking about the Pattern Keeper app for cross stitching. I’ve never closely investigated it because it wasn’t available for iPad and that is what I had. However, the battery in my iPad won’t hold a charge any more, and I’ve noticed that I can get an android device for the same price as it would cost to put a new battery into my more than 10 year old iPad. So I am closely considering doing that. I used to have my cross stitch patterns kept in a knitting app on my iPad which also worked well. These days I’m very low tech with the printed pattern, keeping track of the line I’m on with an index card held in place with paper clips. I think I’m ready for an upgrade.
I’m linking up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.
I’m happy to see that the trick of cross stitching is coming back. The Woodpecker is slowly growing. I’ll be moving onto his tail soon. 
I’ve learned that if I clip a file card under the line I’m working on it is much easier to both see and keep track of where I’m at. In other news, only slightly related to slow stitching, this is what we woke up to Saturday morning... snow on the ground. 
Thankfully it had melted by mid afternoon. It’s an indication that the time is coming when it is good to stay indoors where it is warm and dry and take the time to slowly stitch. That picture, by the way, is my very lovely view from my stitching chair. I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching.
We had another productive day at Prayers and Squares yesterday. Tammy brought in another finished quilt top. When she first started coming out to our group, she was a newbie quilter. Now, she is cranking out a quilt a week. She looks over the fabrics on our shelves, picks a combination she likes, takes them home and a week later brings in a finished top. 
Diane took home these Bricks and Stepping Stones blocks last week and brought back a finished top.
During the summer of 2025, the members of our group did a bit of a challenge where we each picked a block pattern used the same red print fabric and made a block for a sampler quilt. Barbara is working on putting it together. 
Here at home I finished the appliqué portion of the loon block for next year’s fundraiser. 
It is a variation of a McKenna Ryan design. And also here at home I’ve been working on finishing the borders on the centre mystery square.
I need to add the dark brown triangle border to the top and then it too can be added to our ever growing pile of quilt tops for our Prayers and Squares group. Hopefully I can get that done today. I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday.
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate this weekend here in Canada. It has been a gorgeous weekend here. Yesterday was sunny and warm, for this time in October. And the colours in the trees here in Muskoka have been glorious! I wasn’t actually planning on writing a post this weekend. It has been crazy busy here. We had our Church family dinner at the church yesterday, following the Worship service. It was wonderful to gather with our church family and enjoy a traditional turnkey dinner. And today we are having our family get together. But I’ve got a few spare minutes before everyone gets together today, so I can do a post. Last week I was struggling getting used to doing the cross stitching. Gradually this week it has gotten easier and I’ve made some good progress on the Woodpecker. 
During the evenings after working on it, I went back to some knitting and have finished, except for grafting the toes, a pair of socks I started back in the summer.
I’ll link up to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching
We got a lot accomplished yesterday. Unfortunately, most of it wasn’t photo worthy. And I also missed one picture. Tammy brought in a finished quilt top, that somehow I didn’t get a picture of. Marg is working on the beginnings of a new quilt. So far it is just a lot of half square triangles. There will be pictures in future posts. Janet was working on sewing together a lot of batting scraps, also not a lot of fun for photos. Susan has started a new quilt. No photos there. Tammy and Janet also spent some time picking out and cutting backings for 6 or 7 of the tops we have waiting. They may end up getting layered next week. Diane is putting together a Bonnie Hunter design called Bricks and Stepping Stones. 
And I finished the top from some squares I put together a couple of months ago that then got packed into a box and semi forgotten. 
It still needs a border of some sort. If I can find some of the leftover strips, I may do a scrappy border of some sort. Here at home I’ve been working on adding borders to the EPP mystery centre I started a month or 2 ago. 
I’m hoping to have this done perhaps by next Thursday. I have several more want-to-do quilts hovering around in the back of my mind that I’d love to get to. I’ll link up to finished, or not, Friday.
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. 
