Heatwave and another finish!

hexie in process

It has been a hot few days. I open windows in the evening and early morning to cool off the house and then close everything back up. That worked for the first few days but then it just got to humid and hot. Luckily we had a good storm and the temperatures have dropped and I can begin to cool the house again. With all this humid weather the gardens are doing well...at least something likes that kind of weather!

I have had little ambition for big projects so my hexie quilt has had many pieces added to it with a long way to go yet! I also finished a lap quilt which has a funny story.

Pick you a daisy

Many years ago(over 12 years I think) Kathy of Kathysquilts blog fame donated a UFO to her guild's program "adopt a UFO". She figured she would never finish it. A mutual friend of ours adopted the quilt and later gave it to me to adopt. It has been in a basket, moved 120 miles to our new home and has been in another basket. I thought it was time for it to be finished. I always told Kathy that I would finish it so nicely that she would want it back but she doubted it!! I always knew what I wanted to do and last week I started to see my vision come to fruition. Two days were spent gluing edges of the appliques, then sewing the appliques down on the top and preparing a backing. Then it stalled again because of the heat! Yesterday, I pin basted it, machine quilted it, squeaked out enough binding from one of the backing pieces(I did a patchwork backing) and completed the binding last night. The petals are a little fluffy because I didn't want to use steam a seam product on them or spend the time to hand applique. This will be a donation quilt to some organization. It is finished and I think it is fun and some little person will love it. My plan is to give it back to Kathy and let her decide where it will go to live!!Hope you like it Kathy!!

Today's plan is to see if it is going to rain or not and if it stays nice...we are going fishing!( my hexie bag will be with me). Slow stitching will be making more diamonds to fill in the holes in my main top(see the pic above,Belle is being so cute near the quilt) so that soon I can get it finished as well. I have been working on this quilt for over 7 years...it is time!!

So I will be checking in with Kathy and her slow stitching day to see what everyone else is working on. I have noticed a lot of cross stitchers joining in...seems to be a resurgence of this craft.I might have to dig out one that is partly done and I haven't worked on since moving here(12+years ago) Have a great week and stay healthy and cool!!