Hocus Pocus...Focus

With a little magic and a lot of focus on my part....I finally can say the bear is done. I was making a bear for a friend and it has been over a year since she gave me the fabric. She is very patient!
There has been much procrastinating on my part.

 

quilt from 2020

Honestly as I sit here looking around my quilting room, I have not accomplished very much at all this week. Of course to get anything done at home...you must stay home! Last week I taught a class at guild, new kitchen counter top installed, curled in a bonspiel on the weekend and this week has been more curling, sewing with friends, a day of shovelling snow, fixed a sewing machine for someone and finally Friday supper out at a friend's house. That is quite the list, guess I was busy after all.

machine fixed and ready

The top of the to-do list is to get my hexie quilt on the hand quilting frame, after that I have strip sets all ready for the next quilt I am teaching in the Spring and should start putting that together. I have a small quilt from 2020 that needs a backing and also some batting pieces sewn together for it. The next in line would be a quilt for a friend that needs a binding to finish it. I may have to do some finessing to the sandwich in order to accomplish that. So many things to do and seeming not enough time to do it. More hocus pocus required.

hand stitched quilt top

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         I also rescued this hand stitched log cabin quilt. A guild member's mom pieced it and now it needs some TLC to complete it. Of course with it being hand stitched it deserves to be hand quilted!

My apologies for the weird spacing, still learning how to place the pictures without moving my words all around! Have a great week!

A little late this week!

 This week got away from me and now it is Thursday and I am just getting around to posting. I am challenging myself to post at least once a week if not more. So here we go with this week's happenings.

Sunday evening while watching the curling final, I accidently spilled very hot tea on me. Needless to say OUCH!! I have a pretty red tummy and one bad scar. You get the good, bad and the TMI on this blog. So it has been light weight shirts and sitting up very straight to keep it from hurting. Today it is finally itching so must be healing. Looks like a really bad sunburn.

guild quilt to finish

sneak peek of baby quilt backing

In the quilting department it has been a week of bindings. The quilt I had machine quilted last week is bound and finished. I believe it was a Bonnie Hunter mystery 2023. No need to rush to finish these quilts!!haha  Today I put the bindings on a quilt for our guild and binding on a baby quilt that I am making for a cousin to gift to her friend. It needs finishing and soon as that baby could make an appearance any day. I am going to keep a pic of it and share later once it has been gifted.

As promised here is an after pic of my sewing room. I moved all the furniture and cleaned. It doesn't look much different but my table is bigger and I have a side table for tools. Most everything else is the same. It hardly looks cleaner but I have been productive this week.

I found many things while I cleaned. Some I knew were there and some that I had totally forgotten about. Ohhhh more projects. 

Next on my to-do list is a memory bear. I am planning to work on it this weekend.

On a good note I got to help out a budding quilter. She is just taking a beginners class and asked if I had some scraps....do I have scraps!! I also collected a cutting board, cutter and a ruler. Wishing her good luck and hoping I have found yet another quilting buddy!!