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Wow, the weekend flew by

Posted on August 18, 2014 by Terri | Comments Off

I can’t believe it’s Monday evening, already, either. I guess time does fly when you’re having fun.

Friday we headed back out hiking. It was so much easier this time. We got there 1 1/2 hours earlier than the last time and because it was a Friday there were fewer people so we spotted more wildlife. I saw the largest jackrabbit I’ve seen since living here, a chipmunk and this guy.

Can you see him? Right in the middle of the picture is a very well camouflaged Sonoran Horned Lizard. He was a bit camera-shy because there were some mountain bikers zooming nearby.

This weekend was my “Virtual Quilting Retreat.” For new followers, we treat one weekend a month the same as if we were driving/flying to a retreat. You can stay in your pj’s if you want. I tend to not. I cook easy meals, or try to use my crock pot, and tell Mister that I’m unavailable that weekend. It doesn’t always work out that I can sew Friday – Sunday uninterrupted, but I do tend to get a lot done when I plan it out. Right now there are 8 members and we “meet” on Facebook at the beginning of the weekend to share what we plan to work on, then Sunday evening/Monday we share what we actually got done. Pictures are highly encouraged. I want to figure out how to do link-up on my blog, so I can do that for people who don’t want to join because of Facebook.

My goals for this weekend were 2 Temecula Quilt Co. 4″ BOM blocks finished; August’s Blue and July’s Red Guild Scrappy Block of the Month Challenge; and get Son’s quilt binding finished.

Friday night was sew-in at my LQS and I’ve been taking the Temecula Quilt Co. BOMs with me since they’re all together in one container and easy to tote back and forth. I was there from 6 – 11 p.m. with a stop for dinner. I managed to complete one TQC block, get started on another one, and completely cut out the 4th (I’d previously completed the first one).

I also bought several 1/8yd cuts of neutrals to use in my Wild & Goosey blocks

Saturday I took a sewing break to work on a cross-stitch piece and to iron and trim out some of my scraps. These are 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3.5 strips, bricks, and squares. The blue to the side are the strips I’m setting aside for Jamestown Landing.

Sunday I worked on my Guild Challenge and finished up the blue block

and then I finished Son’s quilt.

By that time, my shoulders were very tired, and it was time for HBO’s True Blood to come on so I shut it down.

I had planned on getting started on my July Red Guild Challenge block today but my vertigo problem has cleared up so I went to Zumba this morning, then it was time for lunch, then I passed out for a nap, then I went with Mister to Lowe’s for bolts for his new pull-up bar (and a new gadget for my Featherweight), then made an egg run, then home to feed the puppies, then started our dinner, did the dishes, and here I sit at 7:30 p.m. too pooped to sew! I may pick out the fabric tonight though.

I do have a couple of new recipes to share that are delicious. Tomorrow 😀

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Posted in Falling Charms Quilt, Guild Block Challenge, Jamestown Landing, Wild & Goosey

Stitchin’ and Sewing’ Stuff

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Terri | 2 comments

I headed out this morning and got a couple more books spiral bound. I’m trying get a couple done every month and I still have quite a few to do. It’s helping me decide if it’s a book I love, or one to part with.

I’m still working on getting myself organized to see that I get sewing done. Out of sight, out of mind for me if I don’t and I forget what I want to work on. The list I’m working on now consists of projects I’ve already purchased fabric for.

I really want to get back to my Farmer’s Wife. I ♥ paper piecing! I already have several blocks printed out and ready to go but fighting with the book was no fun. Now I don’t have to worry about that anymore.

The other book is 1 of 3 Bonnie Hunter books I have. I bought String Fling specifically for this pattern:

Jamestown Landing. I won’t be able to get started on it until I get my Union Star runner finished because I have so many blues pulled for it. Of course, after I got the book, I immediately fell in love with a few more, especially Pineapple
Crazy.

These 3 paper pieced patterns are first up in my to-do list.

I need a name tag for Civil War Club and then remember that guild meeting I talked about on the 5th? I went, and I joined, and I need a name tag for that, too! I have some charms that the quilting fairy gave me during Quilt Camp that I’m going to incorporate into it some how.

I am an official member of Nimble Thimbles and the Arizona Quilters Guild. The guild members were so very welcoming and I had a good time. There are several things that I’d like to participate in, one of them being their Scrappy Block of the Month Challenge. They pick a color each month for 9 months and I make whatever block (needs to be the same block) that I choose out of those colors. At the end of the year, at the Christmas Party, they want you to have a finished flimsy. I need to catch up, so I’m going to attempt to make one every 2 weeks, working backwards, starting with this month’s color…Blue! LOL I’ve chosen Fox and Geese from Quilter’s Cache as my block. I’ll need to make a purple, pink, green, yellow, orange, and gray, to catch up.

I’m also going to start piecing some Wild & Goosey blocks (another Bonnie Hunter design found in May/June 2013 Quiltmaker) from my scraps. I haven’t decided what to do with this one yet as far as how often, but I’d love to do a block a month for now until I see how many scraps I’m going to have to use without cutting into yardage/FQs.

And last but not least, I have a stitching finish! I can’t remember the last time this has happened and this little design was just the thing I needed to get my stitching mojo back. I’ll be taking it to my framer at the beginning of September.

Mister starts back to school next Thursday, and I’m looking forward to us being back into a routine. I never feel like I get anything done when I’m not on a schedule of sorts.