Slow stitching Sunday

Basting Hexes today

My quilt from another angel

It's Sunday and I wanted to join the others at Slow stitching Sunday.  Sometimes I don't stitch on Sunday particularly, and sometimes I don't get a post up. But today I am reevaluating this top and accidentally  took a shot in this direction.  I really like the blue diamonds this way.  So I think Ill  change my setting set the quilt like this.  I would like to hang this, instead of aiming for a lap quilt.  I've still got border to do and finishing out.  

Daily sewing

I am not a marathon quilter, nor do I make a lot of time for quilting in my day as I've come to see.  I am making progress on my stash as well as the blocks I chose to work on.  So no mater if it's 15 min. and that's all I get, then I'll be happy.  Today it was several hours.  Buddy. the dog and John the husband are getting use to me disappearing every afternoon and are giving me time.  It helps that John is finally getting better.  His broken ankle has taken it's  sweet time to heal with the two wounds that developed after surgery.

So, another day in the room and cutting on scraps and sewing has me making  some progress.  I want to take better pictures and will work on that.
First I started another row of the Puss in the Corner quilt and got two rows done today.

Puss in the corner progress

I sewed up the Hourglass blocks I had cut yesterday and trimmed them up today.

I worked on clearing some more strips and cut another Leader ender I had made a few blocks for.

Carolina Roads. Bonnie Hunter, Addicted to scrapes articles from Quilt maker.

What I like about these blocks are the positive/ negative and they are a good use of 2 inch strips.  This should make a great throw and reduce my stash by a tad.

Daily sewing

Yesterday I was at the point of cutting blocks for Basket quilt and Hourglass blocks.  Since I still had 2.5 inch strips to cut blocks from, all I needed was more white fabric cut to size.  I also had leftover large triangles for the bottom of the baskets.  I took a moment to get over mixing my whites and proceeded on.  I got 8 block sets cut out.  I used my new large clips to hold the block pieces together and I love those.

Then I decided I had had enough of this small purple box and dumped the rest of the box on the ironing table.  I had lots of 1.5 inch strips which will go into the log cabin pizza box where I keep my logs cut to size.  I'm about to get full enough for a quilt again.  I also started cutting some more Spool blocks and realized I was getting side tracked.  I stopped and just ironed and sorted from then on.

Sewing Day with the ladies

Every Tuesday that we are able to get together, myself and 5 of my dear friends have a sewing day.  We bring our own lunch.  The hostess just has to provide coffee.  We work on hand projects and each is different.  There is some embroidery, some English paper piercing, applique or hand piecing.  Week after week we all slowly finish our projects.  We talk a lot, laugh a lot and have a good time.

I've done similar things over the years with various people, some the same as now, but I think this is my all time favorite.

Anyway, I have been working on applique cats for a Halloween quilt for months.  I also have been working on an English paper piecing project for many months.  Yesterday I made progress on both.

Handwork from Sewing Ladies Day

In my sewing room on Monday, I reworked some hourglass blocks that didn't suit me.  I also added a few blocks to the Baskets.  I'm at the point now I need to have a cutting session for both these projects.   

These Hourglass blocks are much better with contrast.

More Baskets

One other project I worked on was putting the to together for the Puss in the Corner quilt which was a swap from Happy Scrappers.  Go here to http://www.elmstreetquilts.com/2017/01/one-monthly-goal-january-goal-setting.html

 

putting together a scrap quilt