I love to share my Quilting projects with other Quilters. My goal is to share my progress on projects that I am working on. I would love for you to follow along with me during my endeavors. I hope you enjoy watching me tackle new techniques and projects. Hopefully you can learn from my "hiccups" and mistakes and make your journey easier.
I am participating in a SAL with a group making Celebrating Mary Brown.
I have 16 blocks ready to applique. Hoping to be in a better situation by the end of October. Here is a picture of Block 1 and Block 9 which are ready to be Appliqued.
Here are pictures of Jan’s top left blocks She has done a wonderful job!
Celebrating Mary Brown: This September Karen and Cathy selected Celebrating Mary Brown as their next project and invited anyone to join in the fun! The following quilters are participating. We will be showing completed blocks on the 30th of each month! Take the time to visit them to see their completed monthly blocks! If interested let Karen know you are interested in joining the group.
Well, the time has come! Cataract surgery is scheduled for 1 October and 8 October! Eye drops start today! AND my “I cannot do anything but sit” vacation time is coming for 2 weeks. No lifting, bending, or running and jumping! I do believe that I can stick to those rules! Clay is finished with his surgery and is just down to drops until 22 Oct! YEA for him.
I have nothing to show today for HQAL because we are having so much fun traveling 100 miles a day (round trip) to the doctor’s office – 8 trips in the last 2 weeks! We are so happy because we are half way through this double person cataract experience. This week and next week will be 3 days going to SA in a row and then it tapers off to only 1 day a week for 3 weeks.
I do have 16 blocks prepared for Celebrating Mary Brown – so when things really are finished I will be able to catch up with all! Be sure to check out the progress of others tomorrow (30 Sep) for their progress on this project!
I do hope that those who are enjoying cooler weather sends some to us here in burning up land South Texas – it has been back to 100+ heat index again!
Nanette
Check out all the ladies who participate in HQAL – I am sure they have been very busy and have some great pictures of their projects.
Celebrating Mary Brown: This September Karen and Cathy selected Celebrating Mary Brown as their next project and invited anyone to join in the fun! The following quilters are participating. We will be showing completed blocks on the 30th of each month! Take the time to visit them to see their completed monthly blocks! If interested let Karen know you are interested in joining the group.
Greetings! We still have wonderful HOT HOT weather to deal with – last week we had 3 days of 100+ and still in the 100 range as far as I am concerned and no rain in sight! We MIGHT have a cool front in mid-October, but not looking good. If we ever get winter I am going to never wear a coat – no matter how cold I get! This has been a brutal summer since August!
On the Cataract front – after Friday we will be down to only 9 more trips to SA for eye issues – 4 November is the last one! Clay has completed both eyes. Other than the dry eye problem that the daily drops cause, he is doing great and will be completely finished with them on the 16th of October!
I will have my right eye done on 1 Oct and the left eye on 8 Oct. We have the greatest surgeon! We have been going to her for 5 years and each time she is bubbly, happy, and always lifts our spirits. She is one of the best in San Antonio. The hospital staff is also great.
I will be so glad to get through my surgeries since I now know the process. I will also have 2 weeks of no lifting or bending over. Hum, maybe I can get back to sewing quicker than I thought. And those lovely 4 times a day (8-12-4-8) eye drop are really fun as they begin to take over one’s life. But it is best to do as instructed because the alternative is not good!
I wanted to let all know that this month I have joined the Celebrating Mary Brown SAL with Karen, Cathy and Julie who have just completed Dearest Boy quilt. I am really looking forward to working with the great quilters who have signed up to participate.
Corliss Searcey has provided such an excellent pattern for this quilt and the cost of the pattern is well worth the money. Corliss is to be commended on her excellent work! I have been working on preparing 16 blocks for this project. I will be behind everyone for a few weeks but I know that I can catch up! Here are the participants and on the 30th of the month take time to visit them!
I really do miss my little quilting world but realize that I do not need to try to work on my projects with so much going on! Less stress is better for Type A idiots!
Nanette
This September Karen and Cathy selected Celebrating Mary Brown as their next project and invited anyone to join in the fun! The following quilters are participating. We will be showing completed blocks on the 30th of each month! Take the time to visit them to see their completed monthly blocks! If interested let Karen know you are interested in joining the group.
I have been working on old UFO applique projects. See my previous post Holiday Lights for more background information.
This placemat lacks the candle wick before it is ready for a border
This is the finished placemat waiting for a border
I am still working on the Table Runner! It is not a difficult pattern, well written, and fun to applique!
I am now working on preparing blocks for Celebrating Mary Brown. There is a great group of ladies who will be participating.
Have a great week!
Nanette
Please take the time to visit each quilter listed below to check on their wonderful hand work. HQAL is a group of ladies who check in every 3 weeks showing their progress on projects and those completed!
I had the greatest day on Wednesday with my September goals so do you think I could have 2 productive days back to back? NO! I had one of those lovely Ocular Migraines. I did some research on them this time and I have found out that if I close my eyes and see the jagged black and white jumping line that I will be OK. So if it happens again, I know what to take immediately. This time it fired up all issues along with the most horrible Meniere’s Brain Fog! This one was different that the other 3 I have had. This one was a classic Meniere’s Ocular Migraine!
No worries because I am fine today – just some allergies! So to show you what a great day I did have here are some pictures. I was checking my blocks for Stonefields and look what I found! 20 blocks for Alexander Bean Pot (ABP) that I had made a year or so ago when I started working on this quilt. I evidently had decided to make 4 of each instead of 2 each. ,.
I have 16 blocks ready to sew and will then cut out another set of 2 of each of these fabrics. Wednesday evening I marked all of the 1” squares to make the Square in a Square corners.
Next I traced 10 of the 13 Bitty Blooms by Jacquelynne Steves for a modified Happy Little Things BOM. Check it out as it is a cute quilt with many possibilities. She is selling the Bitty Blooms for $6.00 and it is downloadable.
Next, I washed and ironed the background fabric for Celebrating Mary Brown. I have 9 background blocks cut, marked and ready to complete the prepping process – and that will hopefully be today for the first 4 blocks!
This is the fabric that I purchased for Mary Brown in 2016. It is the same fabric that Corliss used in her quilt! Thanks to Jan, it was one of the great pieces of fabric I purchased on that day – along with some of Di Ford’s fabric line from 2016! I cut and then mark my blocks in order to keep each block on the same grain! Sometimes I forget but with this quilt I am marking each as I go along!
I am glad to be back to ‘almost normal’ today and hoping to produce even more! Time will tell! Have a great week-end and happy stitching!
I do believe that we can forget Fall for the month of September in South Texas. Weather forcast – Hot and Hotter! I am getting used to riding the exercise bike in the morning and it is so much better than walking in the horrible humidity and heat at 6:30 in the morning!
I have approximately 27 days before I will be having a vacation from all quilting projects (cataract surgery), so I am trying desperately attempting to get some projects either finished or prepped for applique for my on-going projects. I am hoping that setting this schedule will get me back on track from the summer time blahs with all the heat. I do believe that I have had Heat Fever (opposite of Spring Fever). I have just not been disciplined with my projects! So here goes – a One Monthly Goal for September. Clay will have his cataracts done this month, so there will be time to do a lot of hand work and I want to have things prepared
2. Celebrating Mary Brown – Karen is leading a group of us in starting this beautiful quilt. I have had the background fabric and a huge stash of reproduction fabrics sitting around since 2016 (along with the pattern in the ‘do me next’ drawer!) so it is time! I would like to get 8 blocks prepared for applique. This will at least help me keep up with them if at all possible after surgery! (being optimistic now). This will be a long project as there are 56 + blocks to applique! The quilt is 90″ x 90″.
Remember the blocks that I posted about on Sunday? The name of the quilt will be Texas Deer Crossing! I will work on this quilt starting in December. I love the blocks and have a setting already ready to go. Tune in after October for more information. NO I am not going into the design business, nor am I going to do patterns! This is just for fun!
Yesterday Clay and I were talking and I told him how much fun I have had in August just doing whatever I felt like doing. I think I am beginning to enjoy Retirement Relaxation after 20 years of it! But this fun attitude did not help me get more projects accomplished, but it sure was enjoyable! Now to get serious again! Summertime is over with and time to produce!
Have a great week. I will see how I do the next 16 days. I am hoping for success in my goals! We need to get these surgeries done and over with. It will be eye drop fun and games, but the outcome will be great – no more double vision and I will be able to read street signs!
Yesterday an animal decided to go on a shooting rampage in the Midland/Odessa area and shot up to 25 people with 5 dead. That animal is no longer walking this earth but he has affected so many lives. What makes someone do this is type of killing is beyond my capability to understand. All the families will be in our prayers.
Today I have reached a milestone in my life – Clay and I have been married 23 years today! A huge Milestone for me as I have never lived in the same place for 23 years my whole life. Clay was a gift to me from God. Such a sweet and wonderful man. He loves me and worries about me and has me so spoiled. We are celebrating a wonderful 23 years together and filled with of all types of good times and those pesky bad times, but we would not trade them for anything because we are always together!
Where do I start for the quilting news? The other day I made 2 blocks that I really love and want to make a quilt with them. These are the blocks that I made using the Biased Half Square Triangle (HST) Method – Here. Hopefully sometime before Christmas I can have a quilt made.
I will use Moda Marble Stars either in Red White and Blue blocks, or Blue and Beige! I have enough of the fabric left over from my Log Cabin qilt to make 5 more quilts – it is called over-buying!!!!
Patriotic Log Cabin – Moda Stars – Flimsy
I have changed eye drops for my Dry Eye which improved my vision a little, so last night I finished appliquing the flames on a long ago UFO that was patiently waiting to be completed. The pattern is one that I must have purchased in or around 2013 in Durant Oklahoma and was able to purchase the fabric that Kate used in making them at the local quilt store! Kate has 3 kits available for sale in her Etsy shop.
I had the 2 place mats completed except for the candle flames, so I finished them last night! I started the table runner after I made the place mats, but it is still in the UFO stage! This is the project that I will work on and hopefully have it finished next week! The Stonehenge fabric is perfect for this project – Of course I need to add the borders, but that will be when the table runner is complete.
When we visited Bobby and Belinda last week, they had a portable evaporated cooler that sat on the porch and really kept us cool along with a portable air conditioner. We ordered one from Amazon and it finally came Thursday. Clay set it up Saturday morning and I love it. It was so nice to have that cooler air blowing our way while we sat on the porch. Nice place to sit and have a cup of java and enjoy the outdoors without burning up. At least I can now go outside and enjoy fresh air during the heat in South Texas. It has been known to reach 90 degrees plus in January so I am very pleased with this purchase as it will be used on and off during the year! It looks like we will continue with the 100+ heat index temps and next week end back into the 100’s for the temperature – probably 105 for the heat index! I am just so happy!
While sitting on the porch enjoying the cool air, 3 of the deer came up to feed. I have given the Doe the name of Daisy and her fawn is Daisy Jr. The young Buck is one of Daisy’s off springs from last year and I named him Blackie! They definitely know who feeds them and we know they suffered while we were gone but after a week of eating corn they look great again.
I do believe this all that I have to share today for Slow Sunday Sunday! Have a great Labor Day and if you are on the East Coast or in Florida, I do hope that you are safe and sound!
Chopin - A Passionate Quilter From Texas 