March 2018 UFO finished!

It's finished

barely

Scrappy stars with
alternating squares of brown.

It has now taken it's place in
the donation-comfort quilt pile.

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Elm Street Quilts and
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Monday Design Wall-26 Mar 2018

I need to finish my March

UFO project and get

it off my design wall....

I need to decide

1.What type of border(s) am I going to add, and

2.If I going to keep this quilt or pass it on.

My design wall has a wire strung across

the top, where I hang project.

Over the Spring Break, my 

Husband wants to finish the wall

by sheet rocking and painting.

Sounds good to me....

Linking up at Small Quilts and Doll Quiltsl

Love, comfort and Service

I was raised to give comfort

and service to those around me.

My parents were wonderful

examples of always looking

out for others.

I contribute to a different

charity group each month with

my sewing or knitting.

For April, I have found 

Hands2help Charity Quilt Challenge 2018

I am going to contribute a 

finished quilt to the 

which is based in Utah.

There are other service groups 

through the Challenge to

sew for too.

Are you ready to take the Challenge?

Little bits and pieces to finish

Today, my Slow Sunday Stitching

will be finishing out a list of

quick handwork I have put off

for way too long.

First up, sewing down the 

hanging sleeve on my

February UFO Butterfly Hanging

I messed up the quilting

on the back,

which required me to pull out

the quilting, re-quilting an area

from the back and now

re-attaching the hanging sleeve.

Next...binding off my current

knitting project,
Lake Edge Scarf

I started it for a Christmas gift,

but it turned into a knit a little here,

knit a little there project. After

binding off, I will block it.

Lastly, the ongoing embroidery

quilt blocks. 

I want to finish the cross-stitch

borders around each of the 12

blocks (9 done with 3 to go)

then move onto the leaf borders.

I also want to post a photo of my

new hair cut. No before photo...

I had long grey hair, so

I cut off about 8 inches and

went short and dyed brown.

It is going to be nice for the

warmer weather months, if

the weather ever gets warm.

What are you Slow Stitching today?

Design Wall 12 Mar 2018

After yesterdays crazy day of

broken water pipes and

cold bottled water hair washing,

I think I need a day of sewing.

I am going to sew the March

BOM star block from my

local quilting store

K and H quilt shoppe

What is on your design wall?

Linking up to Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Slow Sunday Stitch

The day started out with the

surprise that we did not have

any water in the house pipes.

There was a break by our 

Pond and the City had to

shut down the surrounding

water system.

Huh...wash hair with bottled

water...okay...it will work.

Whoa...very "refreshing"

(translate: COLD!)

We have attended Church

(where we could not

use the drinking fountains

or restrooms for the first while)

Onto an afternoon of stitching...

I am back to working on the

cross-stitch quilt blocks. 

I attended a Vintage Quilt show

at the Brigham City (Utah) museum

and felt inspired to finish my own

hand embroidered quilt. 

The quilts were all amazing and

had wonderful stories with each

one displayed.

I am linking up to Kathy's Quilts

for Slow Sunday Stitch

Three generation of creating

I am a member of hand quilters

on Facebook. Each week, the

administrator lists a theme 

for our post. This week is 

the Dresden Plate pattern.

Here is my Dresden Plate.

 This wall hanging was begun by

my Grandmother in the 1950's.

She passed on the partial sewn blocks

to my Mom in the 1980's. My Mom

was a fabulous seamstress, but did not

enjoy quilting, so I inherited the

blocks in the 1990's.

I finished sewing the blocks, then 

hand quilted the hanging. It was

gifted to my Mom for her 

70th birthday. 

I inherited it when my Mom

passed on. It hangs in my

Family room.

Monday Design wall and plans

On my design wall, or rather...

on the floor....

I laid out my solid fabric (brown) to see

if it is what I want to use to finish my

scrappy stars March UFO project.

After some reviewing, and taking in

the opinion of Devil Kitty, I think it 

is going to finish out nicely.

This week's goals:

1.Cut solid squares and sew

together scrappy star quilt top

2.Get top to quilter for finishing

3.Applique more flowers to pieced

blocks for 1930's quilt top.

What is on your Monday Design Wall?

Snow Sunday Stitching

For days, the Weatherman has said

we were going to get buried in Snow.

Each day, they would move the Storm

to another day.

This morning...it arrived!

Snow = stay inside and stitch

For my Slow Sunday Stitching

I am appliqueing flowers and leaves

to various pieced quilt blocks.

 The blocks are part of a UFO project

I was going to do for another month, 

but decided to start doing the hand

work on Sundays.

I am using 30's-50's prints for this project.

I love Vintage colors and patterns.

I have sewn all the pieced blocks.

Now to finish piecing and appliqueing.

What are you Slow Stitching?

March UFO Project

I looked at my list and

have decided to do my

star block project

I think I have enough blocks to make

a small quilt top. I do not know

what I will do with it, once it is

finished. Maybe keep it....maybe

donate it for a comfort quilt.

What are you working on for March?

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