Five Shadows

Things are moving along. Rather slowly as broken arm hubs came down with bronchitis and I picked up a sinus infection. We are both so looking forward to feeling normal again! Our kids want to meet at a state park Saturday for a little family time, hike, enjoy the Fall colors, and then have supper together. Surely Hubs and I will be feeling better by Saturday!

Here’s what I accomplished before that sinus infection hit.

To-Do Tuesday, October 18, 2022

1. Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden, attach week 28, start week 29. ✔️
2. Quilt two baby quilts, and hopefully bind them too. ✔️ Well, one of two.
3. Meeting with friends of WMWM (Wednesday Morning Women’s Ministry) to cut fabric for charity quilts.  ✔️
4. Thursday Hubs post-op appointment, stitches taken out.  ✔️

1. Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden

Week 28. Isn’t this one an odd shape?

Weeks 1 – 28. And here is the odd week 28 sewn into place. Still looks odd! But future weeks will fill in the gaps in the left corner.

Week 29 coming long. I ran out of glue. And since I’ve been a bit under the weather, darn Fall allergies, I’ll shop once feeling better.

2. Quilt two baby quilts

I only worked on one baby quilt this past week.

Colors in photo are way off. But it’s quilted, bound, and washed.

This photo is true to colors in quilt. I simply stitched in the ditch around the triangle geese.

I did little open free motion flowers around the border.

And a free motion flower in the center of the quilt. This Flying Geese quilt was made with leftover blocks from another quilt I made for my nephew’s baby girl earlier this year. This quilt measures 36″ square. Quilted with Auriful 2600 Dove 50 wt thread.

3. Meeting with friends to cut fabrics for charity quilts.

This also happened before I got hit with the sinus infection – We worked our way through a bunch of odds and ends donated to our group for charity quilts. In the pile were 5 1/2″ floral triangles no one else wanted to bother with, so I said I’d take them. At home I paired the flower triangles up with my solids which I cut into 5 1/2″ squares. Then I sewed two triangles 1/4″ from the center diagonal of each of my solid squares, cut apart, pressed, and trimmed to 5″ for a total of 81 HSTs.

Here’s as far as I got sewing the squares together. I think it will make a nice charity quilt. It will be 40 1/2″ square as is once all sewn together. Maybe add a border fabric?

4. Hubs got his stitches out from his broken wrist surgery. X-rays show one little shattered piece is not cooperating, but the doctor believes it is close enough to the bone to heal properly.  He will have another X-ray taken in four weeks to see how that is going. He has to continue to wear a brace for 6-10 weeks. Praying those bones do knit together and he gets full use of his right wrist again!

To-Do Tuesday, October 25, 2022

1. Homage to Grandmother’s Flower Garden, week 29.
2. Wednesday meeting with sewing group to make mug rugs for school teachers.
3. Finish the HST quilt top.
4. Quilt giraffe quilt top. It’s sandwiched and waiting for quilting.

Linking to To-Do Tuesday hosted by Linda of Texas Quilt Gal.

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