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Christmas In July Week 3/ Enlarging The Christmas Top

 

There's something about when leaving the house you can't seem to make it back😄 ,had a hair appointment to shape up my hair ,went by walmart for odds & ends, the nail salon I use is one street over so as long as I was out why not🤷its been months & my toes needed attention 😄 by this time its late & I was hungry so  chinese to go for supper & headed home ,I added another border to the Christmas top on the sides matching the top & bottom which framed it up nicely ,got the binding cut out & handing in the closet with the top waiting its turn to be quilted 

Block Drive

 I should had picked another project to work on today,I feel like I was going nowhere fast 😄 started working on Oh Scrap's Block Drive 

https://quiltingismorefunthanhousework.blogspot.com/2026/05/oh-scrap-new-block-drive.html 

Blocks are made up of yellows,purples,greens,reds,blues & oranges, colors in my stash that no longer will stretch to 4.5" ,with 6 strips in the block I'm finding there's not enough verity of one color ,when I was squeezing out the purples the block came out 8"  not 8.5 ,how did I lose 1/2" 🙆 

I have to get out tomorrow so I guess I'll be visiting the fabric shop😄

Mending, Besties & Gardening

 There's rain in the forecast ,meanwhile its just plain hot, mending the binding on the quilt Terry's grandmother made us for our first Christmas in 1974, 74 was the year she decided to make all the married grandchildren a quilt for Christmas,since we were getting married on the 28th just 3 days pass christmas,she added us to the list,we used it for a little while for shed wanna know lol,through the years it hung  on a wall quilt rack,the years has taken its toil on the binding, nothing a needle & thread cant fix,it will hang again over the antique bed that was Terry's grandparents first bed when they married,this little house is slowly undergoing changes,things that matter most as I go through nearly 50 years of stuff,things that matters most,things that brings me joy,things that make me smile,this year will mark 10 years since he passed & some days its still hard to filter through things

We have Sadie for the weekend & Grace is super excited! Sadie is already telling her secrets 😄

The basil is getting ready to flower &  not sure what to do with it at this point,you can only put it on pizza so many times😄 the squash is finally coming out,I think it'll take till Christmas for the brussel sprouts to come out lol,the Roma tomatoes are doing good so far,I moved the watermelon plant to get more sunshine,it took to the transplant & is blooming!

 

A Slow Day Calls For Stitching

 Oh how I wished it could be a pj kind of day but at some point I've got to get out & pick up dog food for Grace🐕my bad for not picking it up yesterday,we have been going through some extreme heat waves this week with heat index as high as 105🌡️slow days calls for slow stitching,a stitch here a stitch there,stitching in the morning stitching in the evening & so on ,working on pages in the slow stitch journal,this has been a work in progress for the last 2 years,I now know why they call it slow stitching😄 

Only 2-3 pages to finish the little Christmas slow stitch journal from a stitch along last January 

The biggest thing I'm working on today is the final stitching around the binding on this quilt, I'm going for the win by midnight on this one!🤣

Christmas In July Week 2

 

I think I have the biggest Christmas projects done that I wanted to get a head start on, our fabric shops haven't put out much Christmas fabric just yet so Im stil looking for that just right fabric for aprons.but I think I have enough left from the red & white top for pillow covers

I finished up the keyboard boarders & added another white boarder at 3" so we have a 2" white boarder, a 2x4 keyboard boarder & a 3" white outer boarder

It measures out to a 64 x 76 it goes all the way across the bed but I feel it could go with another boarder but happy the way it is "for now" it will be more of a decor part of my ted & white guest room theme for Christmas 

Doing the math ,it comes out 7.5 strips for binding,I cut 8,always leaving room for just in case & mistakes lol I didn't fold it in half as it'll be over in the Fall before I quilt it ,rolled onto a t-paper roll

Then placed over the top of the hanger with the top & moved into the holding room "closet" 😄

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