Design Wall Monday

My days are a little off kilter this week. I am staying with my mom for a week and have completely lost track of time. I was going to bring my sewing machine and projects with me but in the end just decided to bring some hand stitching. I forgot how dark mom's house is though so I may not get to work on any of it.

The bluebonnets in our front pasture are having a banner year but I haven't had a chance to get a photo. Yesterday, a neighbor texted that he has been admiring our bluebonnets and sent this photo in the text.

I took this photo of my design wall Friday and I'm afraid it will remain this way for awhile.

Join me at Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts to see what other quilters are doing this week.

To Do Tuesday

I like to write my blog posts in the evening after Hubby has gone to bed and the house settles into quiet. The tapping of my keys, the ticking of a clock across the room, and outside the coyotes are yipping as they make their nightly run across our field from one creek to the next. As I sit here writing this post, my mind is racing with them, thinking of all the things I need to do in the coming days and stopping now and then to dwell on this project or that. Eventually I'll start typing again and try to shape my thoughts into a plan for the week. These To Do Lists on Tuesdays have helped so much to plan ahead and stay on task.

Last week's list and accomplishments:

✔ Put on binding for Night Sky
✔Put on binding for Night Sky (posted Thursday)
✔ Finish ripping out all the blocks of Blue and Yellow Glory Boxes Glory Be!
X Make a redwork Christmas block
✔ Make a Christmas gift bag
✔ Make backing for Christmas Among Friends
A last minute discovery of a fabric problem made me scrap the original backing that only needed one seam, and find three other fabrics that would work together, and I barely had enough.

New goals for April 6-12, 2021:

• Press Christmas Friends top and back and deliver to quilter on Friday
• Starch Glory Box blocks and add missing pieces to several of them
• Make four Crowning Glory blocks
• Finish Santa redwork
• Bind Baby Bow Tie
• Make quilting design for Dark Star

Back in January, one of my first goals was to find my irons. I have yet to find them. How does one misplace two irons?

Linking to:
To Do Tuesday at ChrisKnits

Design Board Monday

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I'm still not sure I should be trying to remake this quilt, but I have soldiered on with the blocks I could salvage. There weren't even enough full blocks to make a good sized lap quilt, so I looked through some block patterns and found a block that will compliment the Glory Box blocks. It is called Crowning Glory. Since both blocks have Glory in their name, I think it needs a new name to go along with its new look. Glory Be! I made one block Sunday with similar colors from my stash. The white fabric I used is actually a beige on white. Here is the one new block with the old blocks around it. I think these colors will work. If I make a few more and feel it needs more color, I'll have to beg a ride to the fabric store. Below is my plan for the revised quilt, crudely made in MS Paint.

I still have one block that needs some pieces ripped off, and then I get to start starching the blocks back into shape before re-adding pieces. This was my main To Do Goal for the week and I don't think I'm going to get it finished. I also need to do some long neglected housework and paint the siding on the back porch today. I fear that quilting may take a back seat today. Join me at the linky party linked below to see what other quilters are working on right now.

Linking to:
Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

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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Night Stars

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Began May 2011, finished April 2021. I almost had it finished in March.