Slow Sunday Stitching

 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

What We Are Working On

 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.

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.