Dedemac I also got a new bedstead and armoire from DD today, so lots of rearranging to get everything back in order. Tonight I am sitting with my feet up watching the food shows and removing stitches from the unneeded bedskirt. 😀

Quick check -in this morning. Quilt on longarm with last border (including corners) waiting to be done, 10 out of 17 Pokemons embroidered, scrappy pinwheel slightly over 40% assembled. Making progress!

On Friday and Saturdays QOV Sew days we made enough blocks to make 4 tops. 288 blocks not counting the extras made. 2 completed tops were also sewn from those blocks. While I didn't get much of my sewing done this weekend, I did manage to stitch a few wool applique blocks. Birdhouse and flower blocks left from some other project that I decided to finish and put into a small wall hanging. I have two Community quilts to machine bind today but it remains to be seen if that will actually get accomplished.

Everyone has been so productive!
​​​​​​​After the morning storm rolled through yesterday, the sun came out and created a beautiful 85 degree day with not much wind. (Living near the coast makes it windy a lot.) I just didn't feel like sewing, so I fired up the hot tub and spent the day outside. Now, I'm fixin' to press the wide back piece for the nautilus quilt and spray baste the sandwich. And probably make another block for the pink shell quilt.

Well if it helps aashley, I was not productive yesterday! I did cook some dinner and spend some time with the hubby and some thinking about my project. I've decided that much like I did on the Bonnie Hunter project, I will put on the mitered inner border first and then put on the outer border. I was concerned about all the skewed pieces and trying to make a nice smooth miter for the corner. Instead of adding the pieces to the borders, I will make and miter corner units first and then connect those and put them on square. I did stay stitch the outer edges, and cut out some foundation papers for the corners. Putting it all together might happen today -- but first we go bowling.

Peoria is a town that has a St Patrick's Day parade -- we will avoid the crowds and potential traffic issues but I am wearing some green for bowling :) Top of the morning/day to all of you!

Working on a string block quilt. I have been working on this quilt since 2018! Work on it some, put it away for awhile, work some more, put it away. I know it will eventually be completed. Eventually could be in 2024 or 2044, no telling when. At least I like the project.

Relax and put on some nice music and grab a glass of wine or something and frog it. You only did one pass not the whole quilt.

It has been fun watching the Christmas string quilt grow and I have also followed the BH thread and watched all the progress. You are a better quilter than me to tackle all the bias pieces on her quilts, too many small pieces for me.

aashley333 I would be able to do the cross stitch pattern but I think I would be overwhelmed with the seam allowances in the pixel quilt You go girl!!

Not Re-evaluate - Change in direction!

Love the way you set the blocks, it add so much to the whole quilt and each block.

Sewbizgirl-- Awesome finishes

It's been a nice quiet afternoon here. DH has been off with the church high school group and I just started the corned beef in the pressure cooker, I warned him that when he left the living room would have a fabric explosion! I kept it to just the dining room table, when he left I grabbed the box of Pieced Squares" and decided to sort them and see if anything would work with the blocks from yesterday. Found a few but also found a few other abandoned block projects. These were just HST's not trimmed or squared. the red and tan and the smaller 4 patch block are 2.5 square. I've found and also set up 4 place mats that should match the table runner I made for a friend in 2020. Just have to finish squaring up all the HST's Happy sewing every one.
I enjoy doing miniatures.

Well, yesterday was a very frustrating sewing day. Started to work on month 6 of Solare only to realize that I cut some of my pieces too small ...... ugh ..... had to dig through scraps from the previous months to find fabric to recut those pieces. Then as I was putting the inner star together - it's not fitting ..... another ugh ..... take them apart to find out the triangles in a square were too big - sigh - okay trimmed and was then able to put the whole block together. Finally, picked up the blocks for a short photo shoot. Came to the quilting board to check on the VQW thread and post my progress and when I pulled up the photo of my blocks ................... one of the blocks had a section that was upside down! I fixed that section this morning and now I have started on month 7.

Well, I did some sashiko this morning before leaving retreat. Since I got home, I've done a couple loads of laundry and ran the dishwasher. And paid attention to the cats of course! It has been a wonderful and productive weekend for me. Hope it was for all of you too :) See you next month.

Thanks for hosting again, I have been hand stitching a binding this afternoon, with the windows open, loving some fresh spring air!
There is still more machine quilting to do on this project but it has been stabilized to the edges, and I wanted some handwork 😀