Slow Sunday Stitching -- Lots of Progress!

 

I made a lot of progress this week on the embroidery project.  Look, I got the bear's whole face done!

I'm parked by the pool being the lifeguard for the day.  I usually swim with him, but I'm covered in poison ivy and haven't called the doctor yet.  I'm waiting to see if it dries up on its own... Yeah, right.  Never mind that... I have a doctor appointment Monday morning.

Linking up with Kathy at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Check out all the cool slow stitching projects!
 

Welcome Home Sampler Top Complete

It's finally a top!  Here's my Welcome Home Sampler (just one block was modified).

 

Welcome Home Sampler is in the book, Welcome Home ~~Surround Yourself With Country Warmth, by Cheryl Wall.

I'm pretty sure this quilt will be quilted with an edge to edge design.  I'm not sure which one yet.

Gypsy Wife QA Thursday

 Here's block #3, week 3, called From the Heart:

The cream-colored background fabric is from the Jen Kingwell collection called Gardenvale.  I'll be using several of the fabrics from Gardenvale because I've had a layer cake for a while that I just never knew where to use.

I've had the Gypsy Wife pattern booklet by Jen Kingwell for a few years.  I love all that it has going on with it.  I love scraps.  What a great quilt to use strips!

Angie, who blogs at GnomeAngel is leading us in a sew along.  I was tempted with a sew along with Gypsy Wife when I bought the book and life got in the way.  Now that my 100 blocks for the City Sampler is done (also an Instagram quilt along led by Angie), I am going to let myself start another.  Each Thursday a block is assigned. 

WIP Wednesday 8.16.17

The countdown to school is totally ON.  Next week at this time the kid will be at school.  I will be doing a 5K walk and then off to my longarm.  A new customer quilt is coming today.  She said it is a diamonds pattern...  I think it's a big star.  I'll comment more on that later.

Here's what happened this week:

Surprise.  I couldn't help myself anymore.  I started ANOTHER new project.  I needed a project for my school bag.  I've been getting Kim Diehl books from the library and fell in love with this project:

 

The quilt is called Short and Sweet.  It will be close to 33.5" square.

 

 

It's from this book.  I'll have the quilt top finished enough to return it to the library in time!  I won't have all the little applique pieces done, but will be able to do it with the above pic. 

 

This is my slow stitching project in the to-go bag that I keep in my truck:

 

 

Today I made the 4" (3.5" finished) Marvelous Mini Monday block for the mystery quilt at Temecula Quilt Company.   This is the little log cabin block:

 

I finished the last block that I needed to complete the quilt top for my Welcome Home Sampler.  This quit is in the book, Welcome Home ~~Surround Yourself With Country Warmth, by Cheryl Wall.

 

I made four-patch blocks and added another row to my Go-FOUR-It quilt:

 

 

 

I played with neutrals for the RSC17 and made more triangles for the on-point setting it the above.

 

 

I entered this photo of my chickens for the Pets on Quilts contest at LilyPad Quilting. 

 

 

I finished a Block Lotto project which was also my August OMG goal and APQS UFO Challenge.  I won these blocks in the Block Lotto on 12.31.2014.  The Block Lotto (which Sophie who blogs at Sophie Junction) so beautifully runs.  This quilt measures 61.5" square.

 Angie, who blogs at GnomeAngel is leading us in a sew along.  I was tempted with a sew along with Gypsy Wife when I bought the book and life got in the way.  Now that my 100 blocks for the City Sampler is done (also an Instagram quilt along led by Angie), I am going to let myself start another.  Each Thursday a block is assigned.   Here are my first two blocks (Colour Wheel and Pershing):

 

Linking up with Susan at Quilt Fabrication for Midweek Makers.  The linky party is here.

 

Linking up with Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts for Let's Bee Social.  The linky party is here.

 

Marvelous Mini Monday

Today I made the 4" (3.5" finished) Marvelous Mini Monday block for the mystery quilt at Temecula Quilt Company.  This is the little log cabin block:

You can still join in on the fun at Temecula Quilt Company.  I think this is the last block and next week we will see the big reveal.  I found a teaser photo on Instagram, but it only shows a tiny part of the quilt.  I was hoping that they were set on point, but it doesn't seem to be the case.  We'll see next week!

Linking up in The Quilting Room with Mel for Fiber Tuesday 123.

Moving It Forward Monday

I finally decided to work on the last block that I needed to complete the quilt top for my Welcome Home Sampler.  This quit is in the book, Welcome Home ~~Surround Yourself With Country Warmth, by Cheryl Wall.

 

I substituted the stars and house on the left side with trees.  I just don't like those kinds of stars that were in the pattern.  I substituted the shoo-fly blocks with Ohio stars.

 

Linking up for BOMs Away! at What A Hoot Quilts!  The party is here.

 

Also linking at Em's Scrapbag for Moving It Forward Monday.  Check it out here.

Slow Sunday Stitching

I love the reality show called Big Brother.  Here's the stitching I got done on the road trip home from vacation PLUS catching up on episodes of Big Brother.  I also plan to start stitching in the living room while watching tv sometimes.  (This is a totally new thing to me because I finally got our son a new chair and I can have mine back!)  Duh...

 

I'm linking up with Kathy for Slow Stitching Sunday.  Check out all the fun projects on her blog, Kathy's Quilts here.