16 patch and embroidery progress, handed off DWR quilt

I got a bit more quilted on the 16 patch quilt. I haven't bothered to figure out yet my progress by percentage done; I don't have enough done to bother, but maybe by Monday I will have taken the time to figure that out.

For the embroidery, I have all the branches, stems, and leaves done in that color of green. I am now working on another green to fill in all of those leaves in that shade of green.

Last night the lady came over to get the DWR quilt. We kept our social distance so I set up a small table in the garage so she could just walk up and get it. She looked at it, flipped back one of the corners and said "this fabric here, my grandma made me a dress and a dress for my doll out of this fabric." She said she was going to cry she was so happy with the quilt. Whew! Then she brought me a token of her appreciation. Look at the lovely wrapping!

Inside was a cute piece of Staub cast iron! I have always wanted a piece of Staub! I can't wait to get a little chicken and cook it in this pot.

I am taking a day of vacation tomorrow so I will check back on Monday. Have a great weekend!

16 patch quilt progress

I spent a little time getting started on quilting the 16 patch quilt. I am using taupe thread and so far I like the way it looks.

I also got more done on that embroidered tree. It is coming along nicely. I have all the red berries stitched.

Repair job, zucchini, and bobbins

I had a repair job last night on a couple masks for a fellow I work with. He was happy this morning when I delivered them to him.

I was only 74 degrees when I got home from work so I decided to go out to my garden and see if there were any squash growing. To my surprise I found a big zucchini growing! It is 13" long!

I managed to get all the empty bobbins I had wound with thread for the 16 patch quilt. I am looking forward to getting started on the quilting.

Thanks to everyone on your kind comments on getting the DWR quilt done.

9th finish for 2020

In case you wonder where I have been I had an unexpected emergency and had to take last week off. It's all good. What I did get done was the double wedding ring quilt! Yeah!!!! It turned out 59" x 91". I labeled it, washed it, and it is now ready to be turned over to the owner. The colors are dark in this picture, but I was just not that concerned about a perfect picture. I am just glad it is done and soon to be out of my life!

I will show you a couple before pictures. This is how the quilt was bound when it was handed over to me. Yes, someone rolled the backing over the front and zig zagged it!

How I bound it. I think a bit better if I do say so myself!

These pictures show how badly the quilt was pieced and it was falling apart. I think this was the last quilt the lady had pieced and her skills had diminished. I had seen another quilt the lady had made and it was impeccably made.

I did also manage to get the 16 patch quilt pin basted.

I made a step up box out of scraps.

Made 5 masks for a fellow at work.

And decided to get out an old piece of cross stitch that needed finished. I have no idea why I didn't finish it in 1999. I will work on this a lunchtime since I have the DWR quilt done. Here is where it was and where I am at now.

We did get some much needed rain yesterday. We could use more, but at least the plants got a drink of rain water instead of tap water.

DWR quilt progress and weekend plans

I got three melons quilted yesterday so I am down to 5 left to quilt along with 8 centers.

I am taking a day of vacation tomorrow so another 3 day weekend to get stuff done! I need to get the 16 patch blocks on the design wall sewn together so I can get that top off the design wall.

I may have a t-shirt quilt commission coming and I want to be prepared by having the wall blank. I know I will have to mow and of course, I need to make sure I pull any weeds that came up since last Friday.

Have a great weekend!

DWR progress and plan B.

Only another week or so and you won't have to hear about the DWR quilt again! LOL!! Here is a picture of one of the two melons I got done yesterday. I now have only 8 more melons and 8 more centers to quilt.

When I got home from work I went over to look at the liriope to make sure they were all still in the ground, but they were not. It wasn't the chipmunks digging them up; I figured out it was the deer pulling them out of the ground. The plants have not spread their roots enough and can easily be pulled out of the ground. The deer come by, chomp on the leaves, and when they yank, the plants come out of the ground. I was thinking of what I could do to get the deer to leave them alone. I didn't want to cover them so I decided to put chopsticks in the ground next to the plants. I figure the deer's nose will get poked with the chopstick and they will leave them alone and move on. I went thru the house and gathered every chopstick I could find; I came up with a dozen of them. I threw in a couple of pencils while I was at it. So now I will wait and see if this deters the deer.

I should not have bought these grasses. I never thought that the deer would eat them. They don't touch my other ornamental grasses, but those all have sharp edges to their leaves and the liriope does not. I don't think the chopsticks look too bad. I guess I could get more artistic and paint the chopsticks different colors so they look more intentional. I need more chopsticks!

DWR quilt, mowing and masks

I got one and a part melons done yesterday; I will only count the full melon done so I am now at 10 melons and 8 centers to get quilted in 28 days. I can do that!

It was very gray when I got home from work and I decided to get the side yard mowed before the rain let loose.

I did get that mowed then started trimming the front. It started to rain, but I just kept trimming until the rain was coming down just too hard.

I needed to get a couple masks made for one of the fellows at work. He is a nice guy and wanted a mask out of fabric he saw someone else wearing - the skulls and guitars. I didn't have any more with the green skulls, so I made his out of the white skull fabric. I also had to alter two more masks for another person. The elastic was too tight for his broad face. While I was at it I made myself two new ones - the Cleveland Indians and the one with the red skulls.

All of that plus a load of laundry made for a full evening.