BRRRR......it's a sewing day!!!

This was yesterday and colder today!

Yes indeed it is a cold one....-29degrees Celcius with -40 windchill...that is cold,  even indoors it feels chilly! So what is a girl to do...sew of course and if possible do lots and lots of ironing to keeps warm!!!!

so glad nine patches are done

I have been working on a project that requires lots of scrappy nine patches that finish at 3". That finally got accomplished yesterday and today I moved onto the string squares. I have to make almost 300 of them and I think I am only half way done! They do go together much quicker than nine patches but then there is the de-papering to do and a final squaring up so everything is good and square. It is a work in progress for sure.

string blocks lots of them

This past week was our guild meeting and I managed not sure how...to bring home a couple projects to finish. We have a donation table and on it I found some projects that needed a new home. They just jumped into my bag and now they are talking and wanting to be finished.So yesterday I started this one. I got it to the patches sewn together and haven't done anything else since.I was side tracked by the strings!

one of the orphans that followed me home

I found out this week that I was going to be a great auntie again. A little boy who was born a bit early and who will definitely need a quilt. I must get on that soon so he gets it before he is off to school! haha  He was given the same name as my DH so of course thinking that, there must be tractors on the quilt and I think I have just the fabric. More on that quilt in a later post!

My sewing room is a mess and too many projects on the go...it is time to get some of them finished and out the door or at least on the way to their new homes. I also took some time today to check in with my friend Kathy. Slow stitching will get done later this evening cuddled under a couple of warm quilts. Check in with her and all her followers of slow stitching Sunday.




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Happy 2019!!!

It's a new year...a time of new beginnings and thinking that anything is possible. With that thought in mind, let's go digging for those UFO, those projects that you have always wanted to do or just start a new quilt!! What are we waiting for? In the few short weeks of this new year, I have lost a cousin and two of my family's friends have lost family members...so there is no time to waste or put off for another day.

I was working on Bonnie Hunter's leader and ender project for this year and put the top together yesterday...now to find time to sandwich it and quilt it. I have also been working on  mini nine patches for a quilt we are doing as a bit of a mystery at guild. The ladies have seen the picture of the quilt but we will be giving them instructions bit by bit so they can finish the quilt by June.
I will be checking in with my friend Kathy to see what she is up to this year and her slow stitching Sundays! I don't have any hand stitching projects lined up as yet but I am sure they will come along as the year proceeds! Winter is usually good for one hand quilting project but with renovations ongoing in my house that might be a stretch,but it might also keep me out of DH's way!!

 It is my birthday today and at double nickels...or 55 years old, those socks just say it all !!! Here's to a day of sewing and hubby making supper!

Just a bit younger than 55 years