Next!

Well, I am back to working on those 2 1/2" strip sets. I didn't have much time to work on them last night since I didn't get home until after 6; I had a hair appointment. I pressed four strip sets at a time and layered them on my cutting mat.

I sliced the strip set up into 2 1/2" pieces and got enough for 4 blocks of each color.

There was only a little bit of fabric left over which is too small for me to keep.

Here are the pieces laid out ready for me to sew into blocks.

I have a feeling I am going to get a lot of blocks to turn into baby quilts from this pile of strips already sewn into sets

and these strips hanging on the design wall that still need sewn together.

I only have four baby quilts left in my stash and two are earmarked for someone. I will just keep cranking them out!

Labeling and meatballs

It took me longer than I thought it would to make and sew the labels on those five quilts, but they are done! I will be passing them out this afternoon. They all go to people I work with. My stamp that I thought was worn out - it's not. I just needed a new stamp pad.

I needed food for breakfast and lunches. I had bought 3 pounds of 90% lean sirloin ground meat on sale at Earth Fare to make meatballs. My house still smells like meatballs this morning. Yes, I will be eating them for breakfast. Here is one of dishes I had filled for taking to work.

13th finish of 2019

The weekend flew by as I was so busy. Let's start with the finish. Sunday I went and did my grocery shopping, did dishes, and at 10 a.m. finally sat down to work on the flannel quilt. I had gotten 40% of the quilting done Friday night. I got it finished between 4 and 5, binding and all! I am glad it is done!

Tonight is label making and sewing night. I need to get the label on the flannel quilt and these four baby quilts as I plan on delivering them all tomorrow.

I gathered up everything I will need to make the labels.

Saturday I went to my girlfriend's house to help again with getting ready for a yard sale of her quilt tops, blocks, and fabrics. We worked for 6 or 7 hours and got a lot done! Look at the blocks in this quilt. I had never seen this design. It was beautifully pieced.

I had taken her an extra table I had and gave her homework to straighten out the garage so next time I go down we can start setting up for the sale. I tried not to come home with anything, but we found a bag of really cool vintage fabrics that will make fun baby quilts. There was also an odd sized piece of flannel and a couple pieces of vintage white fabric that came home with me.

I never had time to get my new mower unpacked.

Amelia Quilter - you are a no reply so to answer your question I use my Pfaff 1475 home machine to quilt and I am the quilt stitch regulator. LOL!! I free motion stitched the meander. I have a nice setup with my machine at the same level as the tables surrounding it so it is easy to support the quilt and move it around. Sometimes with bigger quilts it is a challenge to quilt the middle of a quilt, but I take my time and manage to stuff all the quilt thru the throat of the machine and get 'er done!

Now we're cooking!

I got the rest of the flannel quilt pin basted - yeah!

I also wound bobbins and set up the sewing machine so now I am ready to free motion quilt this thing. I am switching gears and I am going to meander quilt this because that goes faster. I haven't done meander quilting for awhile so this will be a nice change.

My new mower came last night, but I didn't feel like putting it together so I will wait until this weekend. It is going to be a busy weekend for sure. Have a great one yourselves!

Pin basting!

I got the backing sewn and the seam pressed, taped it down, added the batting and top. I now am halfway done with the pin basting. It was a struggle. I felt like I was moving in slow motion, but I am glad to have gotten as far as I did.

Better than nothing

It was a long day yesterday and I was tired when I got home. Now that I know there is a microwave and fridge at the trailer - I had been told the Civil Division operated bare bones and a microwave and fridge were not part of their jobs - I needed to cook something for meals. I cut up the squash I picked last week and cooked mixing it with lo mien noodles, eggs, and soy sauce. I have some salmon that I will throw in too.

After all that I only managed to iron the flannel for the backing for that quilt top. I could of easily sat down and did nothing, but I am glad I went ahead and ironed the backing.

I know tonight I will get home at a decent time so I will sew the backing pieces together, press that seam, and get started on pin basting the quilt.

I did go out and check my sad lookin squash plants. The yellow one is still growing

and I saw another zucchini!

With those two I can count on one hand the number of squash I have gotten this year - 5. LOL!! Looks like the plants are doing there best under the circumstances of growing in acid soil.

Busy crazy times

I was busy the last four days. What I did get done was
1. the top for the flannel quilt. I also got the binding cut, sewn, and pressed

2. worked the merchandise booth for my nephew's band on Saturday. It was a beautiful place and the flowers were lovely. We got to eat at the Inn's buffet, which was delicious, and the two black and white quilts were part of the décor. The show was in a big tent and the lighting was pretty. I didn't get to bed until 1:45 a.m. on Sunday so it took me awhile to get going on Sunday.

3. I went ahead and finished sewing the strip sets together for the 16 patch blocks.

4. My order from Missouri Star Quilt Company came. I bought more Kona solids because they a. sent me a $10 off coupon, b. got free shipping, c. had $6.74 in store credit, d. no sales tax, e. the fabric was on sale. I washed the fabric and then cut strips I needed for the remaining 2 1/2" strips I still had hanging on the design wall.

5. I did get two wheelbarrows of weeds pulled, but there are a lot more that need pulled.
6. I was asked at work to help out on another job so I will be working part time for the hospital job and part time for the Civil Division. For the Civil Div. they are replacing several on and off ramps and replacing a 4 lane road. I have never worked for the Civil Division so this is all new to me. It hit me all of a sudden Thursday afternoon I need to pack all my stuff up at my cubical at the home office and load up the car, because I needed to be at the job site double wide trainer for the Civil jobs this morning! I was packing and tossing crap like crazy! The Civil job and the hospital job are only a mile from each other so that makes it easy with no extra traveling! So far it is very different. Lots of yelling! Yikes! There is a lot of pressure on this job so tempers flair. As long as they don't yell at me it will be fine! LOL!!