Moving It Forward Monday

 I loaded my friend's quilt onto the longarm frame.  I'd like to get it done and back to her this week.  I decided to quilt it with clamshells for a fun texture.  The back is a white re-purposed sheet.  I am quilting it with white thread.

This is LuLu.  She was in the first litter (of two) that were born at our house during the pandemic.  She lets me pet her at the food bowl from time to time, but is timid the rest of the time.  That doesn't mean that she doesn't like to be near.  She is very in tune to where I am.  All of our cats are outside cats.  She likes to hunt across the drive from where I longarm quilt.  She often times comes to visit me while I am quilting in this nice, warm, sunny spot.

The above photo also shows you a glimpse of how far this part of the house is done.  See, the drywall is up but not finished...

Remote learning continues for another nine weeks.  He 's doing so good at home it looks like we shall keep him home all year.  He is really maturing and figuring it out.  I now leave him in the kitchen to do his work while I am quilting.  I can check on what he is doing on his learning program from my phone where I am.  I'm only 50 yards away...

I'm linking up with Beth at Love Laugh Quilt for Monday Making.

Magnet Fishing Friday

 The weather is in the high 60's today.  We explored a new magnet fishing spot and visited a favorite spot at Deer Creek Reservoir.

Friday Finish Wanna Be -- November OMG

I don't have a finish to show today.  I decided to set a goal to finish my Spider Web QA even though Halloween is done and gone.  The last time I worked on it I was having a tension problem on my longarm.  I was in the process of stitching a free-hand web of some sort around the spider.

My son really likes this quilt.  Since I'm not really working maybe it would be a great item to give to him for Christmas.  I need to get out of my funk and finish a few things before it gets too cold to quilt in the longarm area.  

Since I have taken the photo above I pulled the quilt off of the longarm frame and folded it into a ball.  I removed the poor tension stitches.  Some of the stitches still remain.  The batting and all are still attached.  I wonder how hard it's going to be to re-load as it is.  We shall find out.  Wish me luck.

The #Spiderwebsewalong was a quilt along I found on Instagram.  The pattern was designed by Lindsey at Pen + Paper Patterns.  You can see a lot of her cute pattern designs in her Etsy shop here.

I'm linking up at Elm Street Quilts for the November OMG goal setting linky party.  

Sister's Choice Quilt

 Here's a photo of a quilt made by my old guild friends.  We gave it to one of the members that is going through some medical treatments.  She is dearly loved.  Sister's Choice blocks made this quilt.

WIP Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Oh what a week it has been.  Here's what happened...

I quilted it with the 7 Treasures of Buddha giant template board from Circle Lord.  Nice texture!

I left my camera unattended in the truck with the "helper".  This is actually the only photo I have of this particular friend and me together.
 

Even though I finished a project on my list, she gave me another to quilt.  The weather is in the mid 60's today.  Woohoo.  Looks like I could get a little quilting done this week and possibly next!

It's been a long night.  It does matter to me who wins the presidential election.  I voted.  I encouraged my circle of friends and family to vote.  Although I am not going to voice more of my political opinion, I strongly feel that no matter who wins, The KING is still on the throne.  (I'm referring to God.)  He was there yesterday, he's there today, and he's going to be there TOMORROW.  We serve a good God.

I got a few stitches done on my Linen & Threads SAL.  

My Garden Party (design by Bonnie Hunter) still sits on my sewing machine awaiting the little red border to make it easier for me to longarm.

I currently have 60 on-going projects on my list.  They are separated into stages.  This seems like a lot of projects, but I used to have 93 items on my list.  I love the fact that it has gone down so much.

Pieces Need to be Cut & Sewn

 1.  Cheddar Jack cat pattern from 

 2.  Digging up Bones (Owen's dinosaur quilt)

 3.  Rock Island Campfire Quilt

 4.  Picadilly Circle

 5.  ...And Sew On BOM at Quiet Play (one block to go)

 6.  Go Four It!  Scrappy 4-patches started as leader/ender, June 2017

 7.  Patriotic Folk Animals (from Americana Quilts Book) 8/8/19

 8.  Leah Day Building Blocks QA

 9.  Jelly Roll Rug

10.  Classic Meets Modern BOM

11.  Veggie Patch from Katie Mae Quilts

12.  Mod Mod QA (from Block Lotto, circles w/lines)

13.  Owl's Well That Ends Well (RSC19 project started 1/26/19)

14.  Kevin the Quilter's Sapphire Stars Mystery (started Summer 2017) I can't find it!!!

15.  Temperature QA (changing this project to a table topper)

16.  Kite Girl (RSC14)

17.  Amish Country BOM (from Lynn, Johnna's mom)

18.  Cabins at the Lake (from Fons  Porter Magazine) only one house block complete.)

19.  2.5" Scraps from Dani -- making "cracker" blocks

20.  Waffle Blocks (August 2019 -- RSC19)

21.  Little Houses (3.5" blocks)

22.  Pumpkins & the Beanstalk (a 2nd quilt)

23.  Dresser Scarf (My Grandma's WIP from the 1970's found 1/1/20

24.  Linen & Threads Mystery SAL, Started 1/1/20 for my sew-to-go-bag

25.  Slabs with White Rectangle (RSC14 started -- needs blocks each month)

26.  Bonnie Hunter Box Kite class from March 2017

27.  Unity Quilt Along with Bonnie Hunter (started 4/1/2020)

28.  Orange, pink, grey kite blocks 2015

29.  Maroon Sampler Quilt

30.  Gypsy Wife QA started in August 2017

31.  Kathleen Tracy's 2019 Mystery Quilt Facebook QA started in March, 2019

32.  2016 Plus Blocks (from left over pieces of Soul Searching Blocks

33.  RSC16 Folk Art Birds

Blocks Still Need to be Made

 1.  Bluepatch Mystery Quilt

 2.  Scrap Crystals (RSC15)

 3.  We Can Do It Skill Builder Sampler

 4.  Drunkard's Path Variation quilt

 5.  Finding Nemo Scrappy Trip quilt 

Blocks Are Made But Need to be Sewn Together (and/or Some Sashing)

 1.  Block Swap Adventure Orange/Yellow Sampler (2011-2012)

 2.  Cruise blocks won from Libby

 3.  Orange/Blue Fish Blocks That I Won

 4.  Split Stars (blocks won from the Block Lotto, October, 2012)

 5.  African Violet baby quilt (Block Lotto inspired)

 6.  Tall Fly (blocks won from Block Lotto; October 2012)

 7.  Fortune Teller (RSC14)

 8.  Sonja's Windows string quilt

 9.  Block Swap Adventure (2013) Churn Dash Blcoks

10.  Tula Pink's City Sampler 100 Modern Quilt Blocks 5/17/17 QA

11.  Flower Baskets (blue and white with some applique) Block Lotto win 10/1/18

12. Pre-printed cross stitch pillow sham (May 2018)

13.  Cathy's CRAZY BY DESIGN Dot Dot Dash Bag, Won April, 2018

Quilt Back Needs to be Made (Tops are Done)

1.  Card Trick (pink and blue)

2.  Hunter Green Star Quilt

3.  Good Fortune -- A Bonnie Hunter Mystery started Thanksgiving weekend, 2018

4.  Soul Searching -- Julianne sent it to me on 8/29/19

5.  Sand Castles -- Bonnie Hunter string quilt started January, 2019 -- an RSC project

6.  Bonnie Hunter Garden Party (started 3.18.17)

Ready to Longarm

1.  Bubble Gum Pink & Navy Quilt

2.  Patchwork Quilt with blue inner borders (CM) received 11.2.20

3.  #SpiderSewalong quilt from Instagram

I'm linking up at Quilt Fabrication for Midweek Makers.  I haven't linked up here for quite a while.  Remote learning and biking the Ohio & Erie Towpath Trail has been keeping us busy.  Check out all of the fun projects!

Moving It Forward Monday

I managed to work on this quilt on my longarm frame a little more this weekend.  The temps here are 45 degrees.  I put on my Carharts and quilted.  The machine is not cold enough to skip yet.  Yeah!

I am quilting it using the 7 Treasures of Buddha giant template board from Circle Lord.  Oh how I miss the fine people at Circle Lord and their products.  They are so much better quality boards than the ones I get from the other place that sells template boards.  They are longer, they don't have as many burrs, my stylist fits into the grooves nicely.  The only place I have found used boards is on the APQS site once in a while.  I have a lot of them, but some of the newer boards that were on my wish list aren't easily found.  If you see any of them for sale out there in bloggy land, hook me up!

When I loaded this quilt I didn't do any pre-planning where the quilting would land.  I did see that the circles were very close to the block size.  I got lucky and they match up nicely!  Woohoo!

 

Slow Sunday Stitching

 I worked a little on my Linen & Threads Mystery SAL this week.  This is the last school bowling practice for a while.  Some of my flower parts are a little lop sided.  Oh well...

I brought my sew-to-bag from the truck to the house.  Maybe I'll have better time to stitch somewhere in the house... I don't like the lighting where I sit in the living room.  I don't like those lights you hang around your neck.  When I'm at my computer I rather sew on my sewing machine.  I'm not working as a substitute teacher like I have in the past because our son is a remote student this year.  The school that I am subbing for next week doesn't even allow subs to bring their own reading material!  I must be up and walking around all the time.  I get it.  Somehow I'll find more time to stitch--somewhere.

I'm linking up at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  I haven't stitched on this for about a month and a half!  Wowzers time flies when you're having fun!