Small Vacation

Jim and I are taking a mini-vacation tomorrow and Wednesday. I won't be blogging those two days but will have much (hopefully) to report back on Thursday morning since where we are going revolves around quilting. 

A new knitting project

Okay, so all I do is a knit stitch and all I make are scarves. I like to do stuff with my hands and this seems like a great way to get something done while relaxing on our Sunday afternoon. I'm not wanting to really learn all the knit stitches and this is good enough for me right now. 

I did manage to get a grid marked on the interior of the table runner DW decided to not want to stitch out. I did this while Jim was grilling hamburgers for lunch.

Today I'll be working on Sandy's quilt on Marty and trying to get that done before we leave early tomorrow morning. Rory will be here with the dogs and they love her so that works out well. 

Weather Changes Everything

Well, once again, it's a good thing goals are written in sand and not stone because I certainly missed my goal for yesterday. Right at lunch our thunderstorms started and there wasn't any sign of them letting up anytime soon.

We went to Midland to get groceries and mail a package to Germany instead of long arming. When we finally got back home around 4:30 it was still raining pretty good and then around 5:00 it started letting up.

My long arming mojo had disappeared. No storms expected today so the Farm Girl Vintage II should be completed by days end. 

Here's one piece of the Farm Girl I particularly like...

When we did get back I did a Love Letter and a Cowboy Boot block.

It doesn't look like this one would be that difficult to blanket stitch but on those curves and points it's basically one to two stitches at a time as well as all the turning. 

DW was naked and I knew what I wanted to put on him next. It's a Judy Niemeyer that I did early this winter and it's small in size. BIG in the quilting and some of it needed to be marked before loading. I got the back on to frame iron and started right in.

It doesn't look like much but there was a lot of measuring involved. Oh, and geometry. My favorite. 😈

Simply Marvelous

We had a beautiful drive over to Elm Creek and struck gold in the baby quilt department. I'll be making this pattern...

With these fabrics...

Baby cottons for the top and flannel for the backing

Since it's a girl quilt we needed to be not so blue. While I was waiting for Jim to shower before we left I did get three squares marked on the Quilt-Along top...

Starting the marking

Jim is working on the yard today and I'll be starting on Marty. Iilas quilt is probably going to take the better part of this week; it's pretty labor intensive but certainly well worth it. 

Blogger is Being Difficult Lately

It's having trouble importing my pics, it wants me to follow other blogs (like I have time to read any more than my own), or it wants me to change my profile information. WTH? 

Checking on other blog platforms has been done in the past and finding nothing as easy to use as Blogger seems to be the result. But lately, with all the advances in AI and technology, they are becoming very code heavy and are harder to use. Which, to me, sounds counterintuitive. 

Yesterday was like a regular work day but doing my own quilting rather than customer work. Do you ever wonder how I get the channeling around the piece work in the quilt?

Chalking my perimeters

On a positive note. The Produce Section is quilted! I love this part of the quilting process...

Getting ready to remove

I have to check the backing to trim any stray bobbin threads that didn't get pulled up during tie-off. Occasionally there will be a few hanging around. 

I rummaged around to find the binding for this and it's not where I thought it was. Jim moved my queue totes to under DW (you can see them in the pic above), and he thinks he saw the binding in there. Or, I have fabric left over to make more if necessary. It may or may not get attached today.

I'm looking forward to snuggle Sunday with the girls and I have a scarf I've been working on (knit-wise) and hope to relax and work on that all afternoon. 

On To Long Arm #3

Since I finished the sheep last night after closing time, I'll be today, and an unknown amount of subsequent days, I'll be working this quilt on DW... 

Linda's Judy Niemeyer 

This is what will be going into said quilt...

Look at all the fun!

This is a digitized pattern available for purchase on line. It's several hundreds of dollars. I'll NOT be doing that. I am, instead, going to be driving, with the customers permission.

I have a lot more marking to do this morning to get me started, but the quilt is basted in and the preliminary markings are in, as are the first couple of thread picks. 

I have a customer coming to pick up today. I think. She said Thursday, and I don't know if she meant today Thursday or next Thursday, and I didn't question if it was this Thursday because I thought yesterday was Tuesday instead of Wednesday. 

While I was working yesterday, Jim started on a holiday project we haven't tackled since we moved up here in '18...

Our little Snow Village by Department 56

Here it is in the daytime...

I got the wings blanket stitched down on the dragonfly last night and have gotten all the black shapes cut out for those blocks that have them. I have to construct those and work on the non-black shapes still. 

While I like Misty Fuse appliqué product for pliability, it's not the easiest to work with. I may just start spray basting things down or using a glue stick, because honestly, I have to clean my iron this morning (I wasn't paying attention) and I have plenty more shapes to make (salmon, parts of the loon, and parts of the orca) as well as others I can't remember right now.