Harley quilt progress

Another Harley shirt quilted.

I hope to get a few more quilted this weekend, but I do have to work on that suit for my nephew. It is going to be a busy weekend with a girlfriend coming over to hang out on Saturday too. I did get the border outline done on the sampler. At first it was looking like the ends were not going to meet up, but low and behold they did! Here is where I was yesterday and where I am now.

Have a great weekend!

Enough with the cross stitch

I wanted to get the rest of a DVD watched before I had to take it back to the library, so I cross stitched while I finished watching it last evening. I can't FMQ while watching a DVD. I have to stop with the cross stitch at home and get to working on that Harley quilt pronto! Here is where I was when I posted on Wednesday and where I am at now. The band with the circular design was fun to stitch.

Harley quilting and Elizabeth progress

I finally have the first Harley shirt quilted. I need to spend less time cross stitching and more of my evening quilting! LOL!!

Speaking of cross stitching, here is where I was yesterday on Elizabeth and where I am now. It was so cold and windy yesterday at lunchtime - 14 degrees with the wind chill - that I stitched instead of facing that walking. Yes, I wimped out.

Buttons, fabric, cross stitch, and snow

Yesterday the third of four buttons fell off the jacket I wear at work. The other two had fallen off months ago, but I just hadn't bothered to sew them back on.

I decided it was time to get them sewn back on.

The lightweight ultrasuede fabric I ordered finally arrived yesterday. This will be used to lengthen the sleeves on the green suit my nephew dyed. I want to do a flame border to jazz it up a bit. I now have the Heat and Bond, the ultrasuede, and a flame design so I'm ready to attack this project. I will take some pictures of the process. The things I learned in the year I spent at the shop that made clothes for Western horses will come in handy for this. I guess there was a reason why my life took a lot of twists and turns in the early 2000's.

I need a new cross stitch project. I have been wanting to stitch this sampler. I like the ship on it.

I started on it yesterday and I already have a good start.

We got some snow yesterday and last night. Not much more than a heavy dusting. Most of it will disappear by tomorrow afternoon with the sunshine and temps in the 40's. Meanwhile, at times, the flakes are big and fluffy. The falling snow is quite beautiful. I think this is more snow than we received in the entire month of February.

Vintage Buttons and road cases done.

I didn't push myself this weekend; I just worked at a nice pace and got a couple things done. I finished the Vintage Button small for my sister. I couldn't decide if I wanted to add some embroidery at the edges. I finally decided I would add some so I did that this morning before work. Here you can see the difference. It is subtle, but I am glad I added it.

I needed to get the road cases fixed for my nephew. I started on the easy one; easy because I could sew this on the machine. It was still a bit of a wrestling match though.

Here is the tear.

I took out the row of stitching next to the tear, tucked the fabric under the best I could, zigzagged it, then cut a piece of ultrasuede and stitched that to cover and catch the fabric. I think that ought to do the trick!

The other case had a torn pocket. This I had to do by hand, so I got out a curved needle, a pair of needle nose pliers, and some quilting thread.

That was hard work! After running three rows of backstitching, the pocket is now reattached. Not exactly beautiful, but it will keep the Ipad from falling out of the pocket.

I wound bobbins for the Harley quilt so I am all ready to start quilting it.

So glad it is Friday

I will have sewing progress for you on Monday. After I got home from work I took a walk around the yard and saw yellow. Yes, the daffodils think it is spring and you can see the yellow blooms. It is going to get into the 20's over the next four days and there is snow in the forecast. They are not going to be happy. These are next to the house so they get a lot more heat because the residual heat from the brick.

This week has been Women In Construction week. Believe it or not there is a national organization call WIC. I don't belong and never had a desire to belong to WIC, but at work they have done a few things to highlight women. We now have several female engineers and of course, all the admin staff is women. They had a luncheon for us yesterday and each of us received a Yeti tumbler custom printed on the back. A company saying we have is Great People. Proven Results. They changed that to Great Women. Proven Results. to put on the tumblers. I am kind of on the fence about that, but at this point - whatever! It is a nice tumbler.

I will run out to get the quilting thread I need for the Harley quilt, but other than that I plan on staying home this weekend and getting some stuff done. Have a great weekend!

Harley progress and cross stitch status

The Haley quilt is now pin basted so it was time to dig out some quilting thread. Looks like I am going to have to get some navy blue and dark gray because clearly what I have on hand will not be enough. I have more black thread. I looked it up yesterday and this will be the eighth Harley quilt I have made. It will be the 13th anniversity of the death of the lady's daughter who has the poker run.

I finished up stitching that small I had been working on.

I got a small start this morning on the Vintage Buttons small I am stitching for my sister. She asked for it to be stitched in purple or charcoal. I am stitching this in purple.