Yesterdays Post

For some reason, yesterdays post never posted. That's why there will be two posts today as I only noticed it this morning. Here's what's on Bernie today...

All hand pieced!

This is a mixture of EPP hexagons and diamonds. She inserted the dolls/doll clothes between all the hexes. This is going to be a very long quilt to work so will be on Bernie for a while. Linda's quilt is about half-way completed and here is some of the quilting going in...

A small sample of the quilting

I was able to get those Red Snappers on Bernies leaders and the loading took 10 minutes, instead of an hour. I was at a good stopping point last night but not late enough for me to come out of the studio. Jim was out blowing leaves (our Oaks are nearly bare now) so I started a new dog bed project for Lucy.

The ravioli's are made

We find Lucy sleeping on Hazel's puff bed, so I'm going to make her one. And the funny thing is, the big dog will probably be on the little bed and vice versa. 

I have one new customer due around 11:30 today to drop off. The neighbors arrived late last night so we'll be spending some time with them this weekend. Jim is on-call, but we need to run errands tomorrow morning so we won't wander too far. 

I'm only open next Monday and Tuesday morning. I'm going on a much needed vacation for the remainder of the week. I've been running crazy since the reunion in July and need to get away from everything for a few days. Shipshawana bound on Tuesday afternoon for a get-away retreat!

Booming

Not only was the ice massively booming last night due to our very frigid temps, but I was booming in and around the house/studio yesterday. Three loads of laundry, some dusting, some bathroom cleaning, studio spiffing, mask making, long arming, block cutting, and hexagon flowers. Makes me tired just going through the list. 

Jim is working this Saturday morning so I'll long arm until he gets home. I think we need to run errands later and then maybe some paper piecing on the Celestial Star Month #12 block. 

This is what's on the frame for the weekend...

Susan's Auction Find

Here's the mask I made yesterday...

A Katie Recommended Pattern

The mask fits perfectly. Here's the problem I have; while talking, the mask has a tendency to slip down my nose and then continues to my upper lip. I've yet to find a mask that doesn't. I would like for this mask crap to end. It's hard to talk to people with them on, but moreover, hard to understand people. 

Two more hexagon flowers were completed last night in my EPP venture in nightly handwork. 

English Paper Piecing

I have a couple of friends down state who do these amazing English paper pieced projects. I like doing it, but am not in love with it. I'll stick to my simple hexagons. It's hand work and it's better than playing mindless games at night if I scoot out of the studio early. And since my yarn is gone, this will take the place of crocheting/knitting.

Here are a few hexagons already ready to get put into flowers.

Hexagons ready to go

See the two flowers to the bottom right? That's what I'm going to do with all of these. The strip on the bottom left was the "original" plan for them while I was constructing them years ago, but have scrapped that idea. 

Same but different

The top above is Robins second one dropped off during our Covid quarantine (she just dropped the bag just inside the back door and I had the mud room door closed off between the main house and that room). It's the same piecing pattern as yesterday's but with different colors. I'll be working on this today.

Here is the block I completed last night after shutting DW down for the night. 

Celestial Star Month #11

Yes, it is supposed to be oval. And I thought I was going to have to run over the Pieces to pick up some more batiks, but have learned that as long as there is a contrasting [similar] color with the opposing pieces, it works out in whatever is put in the not-exact-colors place. 

I may be making more masks later tonight. I seems this stupid "thing" isn't going away any time soon (or at least the restrictions aren't). Mine are getting pretty beat up with all the washing. 

Foxy

We have a pretty good size fox running around the neighborhood. Deb and I pretty much located where he's denning up and he occasionally travels by the lakeside of the house in the morning. Yesterday he was a major distraction for me while watching him travel in his daily quest for food. This is the nice thing about living on a lake, out in the country, on acreage; so much wildlife to observe during my work day.

I finished Kayes quilt yesterday and then loaded this onto the frame...

Robin's Grand Fishes

I'm putting a lot of thread into this already (for some reason) and then read the directions on what she wanted. Loose and snuggly. I'll have to tone down the fishes section so I can balance out those top blocks and the borders where I went a little thread crazy.

While Kayes quilt was stitching out, I managed to open, read about, and set up my new iron. Let's hope this one lasts a little longer then the eight months the other one did. After setting up the iron, Celestial Star month number ten was worked on. 

Month #10 of Celestial Stars

After trimming Kayes quilt and pressing this out, I loaded Robins first top (she dropped off two a while ago) and then started cutting out for Month #11. 

It was early when the lights shut off in the studio so made an EPP hexagon flower to make up for it. Oh, did I mention that?

Okay, so crocheting and knitting scarves is finished for a while. I mean, how many scarves does a person need? And, I'm out of decent yarn anyway. But doing handwork at night is cathartic. I drug out my baskets of hexagons I've been working on for, oh, seven or so years, and started putting flowers together. 

The original plan for these was some type of pixelated top using the colors to "paint" with but I don't want to get that intense with these anymore; it's funny how plans change. I'll shoot a pic of the baskets to show how many thousands of hexagons that have been made over the years and what I have to work with.