16th finish for 2025

The 6th of the 7 baby quilts is done! This cute zigzag quilt measures 39" x 52.5". The backing was the last big piece of this fabric I had. I remember I bought a lot of it and if you could look close at the fabric you could see it was s Halloween print.

Here is the quilt I made that used much of the dark blue fabric. It is queen sized and I made this one in 2011. That dark green print that I used on the back of the15th finish is the same print as this. I remember the fabric was priced so little, that I just bought all the shop had.

I got the last of the current bunch of baby quilts pin basted.

Progress on the 6th baby quilt and repairs

I nearly finished quilting the 6th baby quilt yesterday. I spent an hour and a half this morning finishing the quilting. I have the binding made so today I will get that sewn on.

I needed a break from quilting, so I tackled repairs. This bag needed a tear fixed

A pair of pants had a hole

Socks had holes at the toes that needed mended

A shirt needed a hole repaired

My neighbor needed some repairs done on his snowboarding mittens.

Also for my neighbor he had a jacket that the sleeves were just a bit loose. I put a little tuck in them. The is no way I was going to try and rip it apart. That would have taken hours. He was happy with the tuck

Today I will be watching football while I work on baby quilt 6, do laundry, and I already have chicken on the stove cooking to make soup for lunches this week. I would also like to get that last baby quilt pin basted and do a bit of straightening up. Most of the snow is gone since the temperatures are above freezing, but the wind is blowing! Sleet is happening right now. Even though it is 39 degrees, with the wind chill it feels like 24! Yikes! Winter is here already!

14th and 15th finishes for 2025 and snow

I am making progress on getting those baby quilts done. Here is the 14th finish for 2025 and the 4th of the 7 baby quilt tops. It was made with leftover blocks and sewing scraps together to make enough blocks to finish this top. It finished 40" x 44 1/2".

Finish 15 measures 40 1/2" x 47". The pink and green fabrics are ones that I dyed years ago. My friend in PA had cut them into strips and I paired them with the floral. I ran out of the pink so I finished it with the green leftover blocks from those other recent finishes. I wasn't sure about the stripe I was using for the binding, but once it was done I think it looks pretty cute. Only two more UFO baby quilts to finish.

We got snow on Thanksgiving and on Friday. Not a big accumulation. It sure is cold though. Here is what it looked like Thanksgiving evening.  Maybe I will get dressed today and get the mail.  LOL!!!

4th is quilted

I had about 7 - 8 minutes of quilting left to do on the fourth baby quilt so I finished that this morning. The binding is already made so this quilt will be finished shortly. This is the same binding that I used on the last quilt.

I am looking forward to four days off. I think I will try making a pot of soup in my new crockpot. I bought this a couple weeks ago when it was on sale.

I am just having a hard time getting rid of my old one. I have had this crockpot for nearly 30 years and it works as good as the day I bought it.

The reason why I bought a new one is because the plastic handles are cracked and breaking apart.

The control knob broke off and apart several years ago, but I can still turn the stem to low, high, or off.

My plans for Thanksgiving are to go over to my neighbor's tonight then spend the next four days in the studio working. I have to start working on getting Xmas presents made. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving everyone!

Progress on number 4, sushi, and the concrete was placed!

I made good progress on baby quilt 4 last evening. I am now 62% done with the quilting.

I had an appointment for a free deep hair treatment after work last evening. Another birthday month treat! They just keep coming! :) I decided to stop at a new sushi place that was just down the street on the way home. The sushi was ok, but their crab ragoon was the bomb! Best I have ever had!  If you don't know, crab ragoon is a cream cheese and crab mixture that is wrapped in a wonton then fried.  

The contractors placed a few more rocks then they concreted the porch, steps and driveway. That is big progress. It will be nice to get the neighbor's lawn tractor out of my garage. He didn't know if he would need it or not while the construction was going on, so it has been stored in my garage for a couple months. Once the concrete has set up for a few days, he will be able to take it back to his house. He had a new trench drain put in front of the garage doors so the concrete has to cure for about a week before it can be driven over.  I have no idea how the rest of the front area will be landscaped. We will see!

13th finish for 2025, and what a weekend!

Here is the third of seven baby quilts done! It finished 40' x 47".

I only left the house to work in the yard and go see my neighbor's landscaping project. Saturday I spent 3 hours leaf blowing the yard. The leaves were wet from the rain on Friday night. I needed to get them off the grass so the grass could dry out. I needed to mow one more time before winter came. After three hours of wrestling the leaf blower I thought my arms would fall off. There were a lot of leaves! By noon on Sunday it was 50 degrees and the grass had dried out. It took an hour to mow and trim.

I was looking for bigger pieces of batting to sew together for baby quilts. It ended up I didn't have any big enough pieces, but what I did was cut pieces for some curved top pouches I want to make for a retreat I will be going to next year. I figure I might as well get those cut as I was going thru the batting scraps. I got 68 pieces cut

and I still have this pile of pieces left. These are not big enough, so I will have to sew pieces together to get the size I need.

Made of pot of Stanley soup. I sure tasted good after I came in from mowing.

Saturday the workers came with these huge rocks for my neighbor's project.

Sunday they were back with more rocks and started the formwork for the steps. Today they are placing the concrete for the steps and porch. I don't know if they will be doing the driveway or not today. At least with the concrete it will seem like they are getting nearer to the end of this job.

I also did laundry, rewound the hose again (I had done it a couple weeks ago, but the hose was cold and it was hard to deal with), caulked a hole between the brick and trim at the front door that the wasps like to try and make it a home, and caulked around the radon pipe and the electrical wire for the radon. I'm thinking they should have done this, but whatever! It's done now!

I found back and binding fabric for the next four baby quilts. I already had the binding for the red one made.

Got the fourth baby quilt pin basted and got a little start on the quilting.

There was a beautiful sunset last evening.  Eventually the sky turned to fuchsia as the sun went down.  

My arms and shoulders are still a bit sore. I rubbed Voltaren all over them last night when I went to bed and I think that helped.