Pinwheel Quilt -- Slow Sunday Stitching

 This week I focused on hand stitching the binding onto my pinwheel quilt.

I got a few stitches in the binding before going into the school for work.  I got to work about 25 minutes early because I was a "good mom" today and took our son to the bus stop.  Normally he walks down the 800 foot part of the driveway to catch the school bus.  It was only 35 degrees and windy.  I had him wait in the warm truck until I went to work.

After school my husband called me, letting me know he was having trouble with his work truck.  I drove to the rescue to take him to get parts so that he could work on it along side of the road.  

I am VERY fortunate that my husband is such a patient mechanic.  He LOVES to fix things.  It's a bummer he had to work on it along side the road.  Luckily he was able to limp it to an empty baseball field parking lot.

A few inches here, a few inches there.  I'm so happy I had it with me.  Moving towards a finish.

His simple fix didn't work.  Luckily I'm a AAA member and a tow was necessary.  But look at those beautiful, red trees in the background!  Ahh fall.

Big progress the day I took it to sub at high school.  I had three study halls a planning period, and part of my lunch:

I only have the little bit where the clips are to stitch for the finish.  It wasn't terrible to hand sew through that vintage sheet back.  I'm enjoying shopping for a new thimble on eBay.

I finished the vintage embroidery quilt!

My next project that needs a hand-stitched binding is the shirtings crib quilt.  The binding is on.  It's ready for the sew-to-go bag this week.

I'm linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching here.