Feels like Spring outside

 What a beautiful day outside so I took full advantage of it to run the trails in preparation for sap season. I know colder and snowy days are still coming. I also trimmed branches and made sure the trails were clear to make life easier for me once the sap starts running!

Whenever I spend that much time outside, the inside of my house suffers. So today was also catch up day...laundry, vacuuming and bathing the dog. She went on an adventure in the bush and came out so full of snowballs hanging off her. I had to put her inside so they would melt and since she was already wet, bath time ensued much to her chagrin!!

So this post is going up a little late but with still lots of time to get something done today.

Joining Kathy and her followers for slow stitching Sunday. I will be slow stitching later on my hexie quilt.   Yes I am still working on it and it is coming along.  I am hoping one day soon it will be ready for the hand quilting frame!

I have the third baggie of scraps to dig into this afternoon. It is leftovers from a quilt I made my brother in law. I am sure I can make a lap size for a donation quilt or at least that is my intention.

Stay tuned and see what becomes of this pile of scraps...might have to do some stash diving to find enough fabric to finish the top!!

Enjoy your week ahead and Happy Valentine's Day! 💗

Week day post

 It is a rare occasion, for sure to post during the week. I just finished a quilt top and wanted to share it. I was going through some boxes last week and found these baggies of pieces. I laid them out on my ironing board and played with them for a couple of days and found there wasn't quite enough. I found another basket with pieces that were in the same colour family. I settled on  some design ideas and then got down to putting it together. It is always fun trying to use the pieces you have without adding too many more larger pieces from my stash. The only large yardage I used was the dark brown(in the borders and binding) but it was set aside in the basket to be used with those pieces. This quilt finishes at 59x 69 a nice lap quilt that I can donate to Quilts of Valor. 

Jack the ripper got a workout this morning as I was sewing on the last border. I didn't lay out the border blocks and thought it was straight forward sewing. Boy was I wrong. I absently turned a few blocks and the checkerboard pattern wasn't working. It was time for a coffee and some unsewing!! All back together by lunch.

If I get to it, it might get quilted in the next couple of days. That would be a quick turn around!! Probably I will go onto another project for a change of pace.

I see my friend Kathy is also working with scrap blocks and trying to make things fit. Hope she has better sewing luck than I did today!!