Sunday Stitching

 I have progressed this far on Lucy. Friday night I joined the Chookshed Stitchers for 5 hours and did some glue and hand basting on the hexies and squares that will fill in those 4 corner squares. It should not take too much time to get those stitched together. Now the question is, do I stop here and find another hand project to pursue (the book is in the mail), or do I carry on with my last plan to make 13 more to double the size? The original had 56 crosses. I am aiming for 25. I still have so many interesting fabrics to fussy cut as well as a whole bin of already basted hexies waiting for some fussy cut show stoppers. I am loving this project.

This is what the backyard looks like right now. I had no idea the scope of that stonework. They would not let me anywhere near it while it was going in. I still have 400 bulbs to plant before the snow.

 

Linking up with Kathy at Slow Sunday Stitching.  

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blessings,

Chris

Slow Stitching on a Sunday When I have 18 Coming for a Turkey Dinner

 

I am a bit slow these days. I found a whole bunch of comments awaiting moderation approval. Silly me. I'm sure I had seen all of them in my inbox but did I reply to the comments? I will have to go back and see. Life has been full and busy. We went away a couple of times recently. I have been thoroughly enjoying working on the Lucy blocks. I have a system going now that makes it fun and not too messy. I want to get caught up on these before pulling out the huge bins of fancy fabrics and fussy cut more hexies. I am aiming for 25 crosses for now. But, alas, I have 18 for dinner later today. Lots of help so I can relax.

This has been my hand-stitching this year. What did I ever do before discovering English Paper Piecing? Oh yes. I did needle turn hand applique. I will get back to that in the New Year. That is only 12 weeks. Linking with Kathy at Slow Sunday Stitching.

Blessings

Chris

A Quilt Finish

 I want to shout it from the rooftops that I have completed a quilt!!!

This is the first WIPS-B-GONE finish.

Disappearing 9-Patch in 30s Repro fabrics

The backing is a novelty print from Joanns purchased 

many years ago.

And I finally get to show off a quilt roll.

The baby shower is on the patio in half an hour. Guess I need to get it wrapped. 

Blessings,

Chris

OMG October 2022

 So I did not meet my September OMG goal. No surprise. I did not meet it in  June or May or April either. So now it will be my October goal to finish the wedding quilt. I did make progress. Just not enough. In the meantime, we are hosting a baby shower (my Sweetie's idea to welcome new neighbours) this Sat evening on the patio. It is finished. Mostly. A few more shrubs will go into the ground in the spring. But for now, it is done and paid. 

The baby quilt is one of my ufos the Disappearing 9-Patch that I had intended to finish and give to one of my 4 youngest grandchildren, but they are all in school now and too big. This new little one should enjoy it. 

This is one of 4 ufos I am planning to finish up for WIPS-B-GONE with Leanne at Devoted Quilter. I still have to do the binding but have a couple of hours tomorrow afternoon to get that done now that the quilting is complete. Everyone else is posting progress on Instagram but I do not do Instagram so will post here when I have something to show. 

We have new neighbors on 3 sides of our farm. So my Sweetie thought it would be nice to get everyone to meet everyone and then he thought surprising the mom-to-be would be nice too. He has so much more time to think and play now that he is retired. My goodness, it was exactly a year ago that he announced that he intended to sell all the cows. And, we have such a nice patio to hang out on. Too bad it is October and a bit chilly. But that is what sweaters and jackets are for. 

Blessings,

Chris

Some Hand Stitching

One of my summer quilting goals was to have 12 completed Lucy crosses. And I succeeded.    

Now my Lucy focus will be to stitch together several of the sashing and cornerstone units using the already basted white hexies. I took time to count them out and calculate how many I have and how many I need. Lots. I caved and am now gluing the one-inch squares. They are just too small to hand-baste. I did try.  

Linking with Kathy at Slow Sunday Stitching.

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Blessings,

Chris

Sunday Stitching

 

Friday night I joined the Chookshed Stitchers for 4 1/2 hours to hang out and do some stitching. I had dropped one of those red stripey hexies so could not complete this block for Lucy. This will be block #12 when completed. My goal for this project for the summer was to have 12 completed crosses. I will turn my focus on making sashing and corner squares for a while. I have lots of white hexies basted ready for the one inch gold squares to get caught up. I am using glue for those because they are just too small for my large arthritic fingers to hand baste. 

In the meantime, this has sprung up in our backyard. I wanted to stitch out there the other night, but the workers were still out there tearing the whole thing apart because the liner leaked. We wanted a patio for the hot tub and to place to entertain outdoors and this sort of showed up. Landscaping will happen soon. Then, I plan to plant 500 spring bulbs. They are on the porch waiting.

Linking up with Kathy at Slow Sunday Stitching. 

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Blessings,

Chris 

September 2022 OMG Goal

 I participate in a monthly Virtual Writing Retreat with my online writing group Christian Book Academy. We meet monthly for 2 days and write. I have been part of this group for about 4 years. Sometimes, I have written blog posts, which is what I am doing now. Other times I worked on coursework for my doctorate. But I finished all that more than a year ago. But starting mid-September, I will be refocusing my attention on making significant progress on the 3 books I have been writing on and off for the past few years. There will be a week-long Christian Writers Conference and another retreat at the end of the month. 

Our retreat generally starts out with some encouragement about the writing, editing, and marketing process. Progress is the keyword this month. What exactly does progress mean to me? Duh . . . I had no idea. We are told that progress is taking one small step forward. Then doing it again. We are told we should take time to celebrate our progress. This in our writing. I celebrate progress in my quilting. I take pictures as I start, work on and complete blocks, and sometimes finish quilts. And that is what my blog is all about. Well. Mostly. It is also about family and farm and travel and ministry. And for me, writing about my quilting progress and successes is to celebrate them. Now to take that attitude into my writing. Quit whining and complaining about lack of completion. Instead, celebrate the progress. 

My writing goal for September is to make some progress on at least one of my book projects. Which one? I will pray about that and see what direction God gives me this month. 

My quilting goal is to finally and completely finish the wedding quilt. End of story.

Linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts.

Blessings,

Chris