Five Shadows

Just a quick pop in to say grand babies are a wonderful addition to life. And I did very little quilting this week.

To-Do Tuesday, October 31, 2023

1. Twilight Stars QAL Keep up with two blocks per week.
2. Wednesday is our second meeting of the month of my church sewing group. Local hospital called asking if we would make drain pouches for surgery patients. That is something we did in the past, so sure, we will make them again.

1. Twilight Stars QAL

That’s all I did this week. Two blocks for the quilt along.

2. Church sewing group. While others worked on the pouches and turbans, I cut out fabric to make little seatbelt pillows for surgery patients. I’ll photo them once I have a few made.

I’ve been spending time snuggling with new twin grand babies. And helping out my daughter in her fall garden. Also doing whatever else she finds helpful – dishes, cooking. The days are flying by as I spend them with the littles.

Oh – Fun thing!

Daughter and I were talking about bread making. I shared I had read an article about bread found in the ashes of Pompeii and food historians had figured out the ingredients. One was Nigella seed, which I had never heard of. She said she grows Nigella flowers for the flower arrangements she sells. So we harvested the pods and have seed to try out the Pompeii sour dough bread! That will be sometime in the future. How cool that she new the seed and grows the flowers!

Today I’ll be shopping for my son and family as they spend time in NUCI with their two 10 day old babies. Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow!

To-Do Tuesday, November 7, 2023

1. Keep up with Twilight Stars QAL
2. I don’t seem to be getting much else accomplished. So I’ll leave this one open ended.

Linking to To-Do Tuesday hosted by Carol of Quilt Schmidt.

I love Autumn! It should be a time of crisp weather and lovely changing colors. So far we are having record highs, it was almost 90 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday! And so far our Maple tree is turning brown instead of shades yellow, orange and reds. I’m hoping it will soon surprise me with it’s color brilliance!

On to quilting – Yippie! I finished the Hexie Panel quilt!

Read all about it in this post.

I need to buy a back for the Hexie quilt, and luckily the LQS is having a moving sale! 30% off. I try to buy backs from the clearance wall, but didn’t see anything I liked with enough yardage on the bolt last week. But I just got a notice from the shop, Edward’s Sewing Center, that they just added 200 more bolts to the clearance section, so I’ll run over again to take another look. 30% off their already discounted clearance section is hard to pass up!

Happy Little Things BOM embroidery for the block is complete.

One little goal for this week is to do the piecing with the fabrics shown. That way I’ll be ready for when block 3 is released.

My big goal for October is going to be to finish the quilting on a much neglected quilt.

This was supposed to be a wedding quilt for my son and DIL. I was hoping to have it completed by their first anniversary. They will be celebrating their 7th anniversary this month! I better finish it before the cold weather sets in or another year ticks by!

I did at least half of the quilting on it last month, so now is it a WIP or still a UFO!?

Last To-Do List:

1. Keep working on Hexie Panel quilt. ✔️So happy! Quilt top all pieced!

To-Do List:

1. Finish September’s Happy Little Things block
2. progress on son’s wedding quilt

Linking to To-Do Tuesday

Celebrating with Winnie the Pooh!

My goal for June was to salvage fabrics from an old nursery set, turning them into a usable quilt.

I used three parts of the set. The border print was taken from the bumper pad, the solid green fabric was crib skirting, and the appliqué pieces: Pooh, bee & butterflies are from the curtains. The green and white strip for the back and binding are an old sheet.

Pooh and the other appliqué pieces are placed to cover holes in the green fabric.

Isn’t the label the cutest?!

This was made for a family friend who was given the old set. A friend of hers found it at a yard sale. She asked if the pieces could be made into a quilt. Mission accomplished!

Linking to One Monthly Goal hosted by Patty at Elm Street Quilts. Hop over to see what other quilters have accomplished this month.

Amy Garro of 13 Spools is such a clever quilter! In 2016 she is going to host The Tribal Block Club. Check out the link to learn more about the 6 blocks and 3 quilt patterns with endless possiblities she will be on-line teaching. The early bird cost is $29 before January 1st, then it is $39. I’m all signed up and looking forward to learning more about Amy’s modern look.

Have you seen Amy’s Paper Pieced Modern book?

More pillowcases! I’ve been having fun pairing up fabrics for the pillowcases. That task is more time consuming than the actual sewing them together. I think I’m just about at a stopping point. After I pair fabrics in my stash with the new Riley Blake Chevrons and Riley Blake Dots I just purchased from Craftsy, I’ll be moving on to other projects.

Pillowcases will be donated to ConKerr Cancer.

22 made this past week, 50 total this year

Last week I linked up to Stitch All The Things To-Do Tuesday List. It seems I’m having difficulty following my own list! Those baby quilts that need quilting? They have been left untouched. But all those pillowcases make up for something, right!?  Plus I get the Stitcher’s Garden quilt back from the longarm quilter – that was unexpected!  Of course binding that quilt went to the top of my list. I put a flange binding for it and returned it to the quilt shop. Oops! I’ll have to get it back for pictures.

My To-Do Tuesday list this week:

personal sewing goals: How about one baby quilt FMQed and bound? Featherweight Club – 3 blocks.

quilt shop sewing goals: Prep and sew one block (maybe more?) of Dance of the Dragonflies by Annette Ornelas. Continue working on the Laundry Basket Quilts Jolene Star table topper and a Sweet Mint table runner, patterns by Edyta Sitar.

I’m linking to Connie’s Linky Tuesday and Christine’s To-Do Tuesday

Do you have a favorite charity you sew for and donate to?

The inside back is now complete! In the last class, I attached the buttons and cording along the back edge.

Next up is to make double welting to attach to the inside  arms to cover up staples. And then attach fabric to the back of the chair. There is only one session left to this series of classes. I won’t be finished. I will still have other trim to add and also the bottom dust cover. I think I’ll use youtube to walk me through the final steps.

I’m pretty pleased with how the chair is coming along!