Sunday Sewing Week 14

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Dove of Peace quilt by Jo Moury, free pattern download here.

Happy Easter to all my quilting friends!

What a week! Hubby retired Wednesday after 40 years in the paint business. He turned in his company car Tuesday and first thing Thursday, he decided we had to buy a compact SUV. He doesn't like putting city miles on the pickup, and I will admit, there is not a rougher ride than a 3/4 ton or 1 ton pickup. But I did think we could wait awhile and do some research. Instead, we spent the next few days looking at cars and test driving and by Saturday afternoon, we had a new RAV4. If you have bought a new car lately, have you noticed that most of the interiors are black? So hard to see anything that falls on the floor. One sales person told us it was because black doesn't show dirt. Wrong! Our pickup has all black interior and it shows every dirty footprint and finger smudge.

I took my embroidery with me but just couldn't work on it while we were driving. I worked on it a few times while Hubby ran some errands but mostly, I ripped out the Glory Box blocks. I finished sewing the binding on Night Sky on Thursday evening and started sewing the backing for Christmas Friends on Friday. On Saturday, I discovered that one of the fabrics was polyester and started ripping out the stitches on the backing. I think I need to buy stock in a seam ripper company. I also cut more fabric for the backing (all cotton this time) but am waiting until I have all my brain cells firing before I start stitching again.

All told, I stitched or unstitched every day and used a bit of fabric. Check out my progress in the charts below and the linky parties listed at the end to see what other quilters are doing.

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