11th finish for 2025 - a trip to PA

I had a busy and wonderful weekend. I traveled to Pennsylvania to a freind's house for a fabulous visit, but first my finish. I hand stitched the binding on Sunday after I got home while watching football and after a nap. It measures 36 1/4' x 48".

I left for my friend's house at around 8:30 Friday morning and arrived at 10:30 am. Her husband, her, and I sat and visited for a while then she and I took off to run and errand and pick up sandwiches for lunch. That evening we went to the Elk's for trivia night. We had a bite to eat and next thing I knew a giant birthday cake showed up with my name on it! What a fun surprise! My friend cut the cake up and then proceeded to share it with the entire room. You sit in groups for trivia and there were 11 teams. Once my friend served a group, several of them yelled and waved happy birthday. It was so fun. Trivia started and I actually contributed this year! Last year I was no help whatsoever, but there were a few questions this year that were in my wheelhouse!

My friend had a family member put my name on the back of one of Michael's t-shirts. This is much better than the hand stamped one I had been doing. It was quite a surprise!

Saturday we went out for breakfast and it was so good! On the way back we stopped at a little bakery and bought pastries for Sunday's breakfast. The pastries were delicious - so flakey and not overly sweet. The cream in mine tasted like toasted marshmallows.

On our way we visited a cemetery that was built by German settlers. The was made of stone and rotated in a circle. So cool!

I will continue my adventures in PA tomorrow.

Another finish soon

I have less than a bobbin of thread to finish the quilting on this baby quilt. It will be a finish soon!

Yeah it is Friday! Have a great weekend!

A bit more progress

I went home with a stomach ache. I rested a bit and did manage to get a little quilting done before I went to bed early. I am now 60% done with the quilting and my belly feels better. I have circled the area that still needs quilted.

Thank you for the birthday wishes! Today I have mandatory first aid training. I know how to dial 911 so what else is there? LOL!!!

Baby quilt progress and a box of chocolate

I have 40% of the quilting done on this baby quilt. It is going pretty fast.

Yesterday afternoon my nephew, Michael, stopped over at my office and gave me a box of French Mints for my birthday. Yum!

Next baby quilt and a buck

It snowed hard most of the day yesterday, but not much in the way of accumulation thank goodness. We also got a bit of grapple. Last evening I started quilting on another baby quilt.

After work I got a haircut and saw this buck just standing next to the road. He stayed long enough that I could take his picture before he wandered back into the park.

Several of the guys at work said they would have hit him with their car! Those guys!

Baby quilt, cross stitch and snow!

I kept busy this weekend. The striped courthouse steps baby quilt is now all quilted and the binding is sewn on. I will be doing the hand stitching later this week. Another finish soon!

At the last minute I decided I needed to do a little cross stitch for a card. Here is where I was at 5:13 Saturday afternoon. I got a late start on this because I had a bloodwork appointment that I didn't get in until a half hour later than the appointment, then I stopped at Michaels for floss, Hobby Lobby for the floss Michael's didn't have, Giant Eagle then Marc's. That burned up a lot of time!

Then at 8:42 pm Saturday.

By 2:00 pm Sunday it was done.

Not thinking, I had picked this Pirate + Robin hand dyed floss. I only had one skein, so by the time I was halfway done with the stitching I was wondering if I would have enough. I did have enough! I used two strands which then equals to 21 yards of stitching! I used another yard - of the green. This floss comes in 10 yard skeins and is nice to work with. It has a soft shine to it. The green I used was a Cosmos thread.

I need to plan better! LOL!!! We got our first snow! It started late last evening and it still lightly coming down.

Quilting progress, leaf blowing, organ cover fit, and radon results

First, I found that your comments were going to my spam box! What the heck? I think that is now fixed. I got a bit more quilted on the courthouse steps quilt. I only have three more blocks to quilt.

I was so nice outside last evening, I decided to leaf blow the front and side yards. Here is the before and after taken from the garage. I have a lot of leaves to blow in the back yard, but I was getting tired of wresting the leaf blower after an hour so those will have to wait.

My brother sent me pictures of the organ cover with the organ inside. He liked the new cover because it was stiffer than the old one so it made it easier to put the cover on. He was able to get the cover on by himself. I think it fits better than the old one ever did.

My radon reading are in. Before the system was installed the reading were 2.9 to 7.6. The readings for the last 12 hours were 0.0 to 0.4. I would say the system is working! Have a great weekend! I will be breathing easier!