Plans For Rerouting The Red & White

 A little while back the red & white top came to a stand still when I ran out of the white & the red was looking skimpy,of course the shop was out of both with no plans to carry it again before Christmas,after looking at a few shoos I finally found a white on white with a different print but the same white hue

After a few ideas of how to make this work so the eye didn't automatically notice two different prints,the shoo owner suggested to use the new print to frame around it "borders "  but as that would make it way bigger than I want I've begun removing 3  rows   from each side, I'm going for a full size not a queen 😄

I'll add the remaining rows to the bottom that was already cut out & go from there

Meanwhile,are you ready for Christmas cookie baking? I picked up these gorgeous big ole  cookie cutters yesterday at the Northport Pickers Holiday Market, can't wait to try them out!

First Holiday Market Of The Season

Its that time of year when we start to see the beginnings og Holiday Open House at  local shops, Antique Malls , church bazaars &  more celebrating the season & today our newest antique  mall launched their first Holiday Market & the vendors did not disappoint

Slow Stitch Party For One

  Trying to work on finishing this drawn out 2 year project that it's almost redicilous😄 for stitches I use regular sewing thread to embroidery to quilting thread, you can only surround yourself with so much sitting on the couch plus not to mention threads, flying pins etc which is not the problem but when the doorbell rings & it's your niece with the baby,needless to say running to & fro for supplies, vacuuming everytime I turned around was my beating me down😄 so I got it all out & moved my work station to the dinning room

Just a few more stitching details on Ann & Andy

Then they will be ready to be sewn onto the mal pages & sewn to the cloth page

Only 2 pages in the tiny Christmas stitch journal from last year

Now that the slow stitch projects have a designated location its more likely to get finished quicker & everythings safety out of reach for curious little vistors😄

October Recap

"Note to self" never make a list of alllll your UFO's it makes it look like you didn't get anything done😄 the last 2 aprons were completed 10/07

The first Fall quilt was completed 10/17 I had added a 4 patch border to this panel  back in Sept,Oct.5th the outter border was added & stitched pumpkins 

This  scrappy strip quilt top had been ongoing for at least 2 years, finally a finished top 10/17

The tiny 9 patch almost made it off the list with multitasking cutting & chain sewing

Along about putting row 4 on I noticed one little block had come unstitched, well once these tiny things are trimmed to size there's no saving them ,the seam ripper is not their friend,as I began to take it out it was like a domino effect ,then it dawned on me I hadn't reset the stitch length,the stitches were too long for such tiny squares,so after all the fun of that I finally got 6 rows together & called it a night

I did get a lot of finishing touches  done in the slow stitch journal & a new plan for the red & white top to get it finished, todays plans are cleaning around the house,finish the last 3 chapters of the book Ive been reading & lots of random sewing & stitching 

Sunday Inspiration

 

Scrappy Strip Top Is Finished!

 Another project marked off the list,the scrappy strip blocks all 288 of them are now waiting in line to be quilted in the upcoming months ,the layout consist of a 16 X 18 layout of 5" blocks,I laid it out on the bed  & it could or could not use another bottom; row but I'm short so my feets are covered 😄for now it is done 

Trying to race from the phone to the ladder before the timer goes off is more challenging than you think 🤣

Finally I gave up & draped it over the fence

Grace was happy to get in on the photo shoot,now to work on the next project to mark off the list 🥰