Hello my bloggy friends… I usually find it fun to blog 2 or 3 times a week… but time has slipped away from me and now I realize it is almost a week since I have shared with you! For shame!!! lol
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| Squirrels play in our bird house and birds live in the trees! Silly animals 🙂 |
Well, Saturday the 9th of August, my brother and his family moved into their “new” and they hope final home to raise their family in… on that day I also finished their quilt top… AND before they had their old home cleaned out for the new family I had the backing all pieced in the shape of a cross made from fabric with the 10 commandments on it… I am just soo excited with that progress…
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| Where I finished up “The Byrum Quilt” |
Flimsy pictures you say?? Well first of all this is TOP SECRET right now.. and second of all the top is 94″ square… yep, HUGE!!! The backing measures out 104″ square itself as well… so we plan to move the living room around for the pinning of the quilt sandwich this weekend and will get pics then! Yippee!
Look for a post Sunday for Slow Sunday Stitching with Kathy as I will be linking there and delighted that (once the batting arrives to the pinning party Friday) the pinning will be over and the hand quilting will begin! Yippee 🙂
In the meantime.. I do have something fun to share … I have been doing some hand piecing on my hexi star flower table topper…
Now I have 2 done
and am working on the 3rd… there are 7 to make before I join them to make the flimsy properly 🙂
I started this project to try multi-tasking… as hand piecing affects different parts of my fingers than hand quilting… so we shall see how it goes with both projects going!!! Very soon I am hoping!!! lol
Meanwhile, my honey has put together a little railroad for himself on a piece of plywood we salvaged for free (someone hurricane shutters they decided they didn’t need… in Florida really???)! Check this system he has designed!
He has 3 working trains… one from the 60’s, one from the 70’s and one from the 90’s all working together on the track he bought on eBay for a deal and has carefully sanded each piece to get great connections all around.. screwed in each piece of railroad… and the trains love it! So fun that we have interesting hobbies… to us anyway! ha 🙂
For my hand piecing project I am staying organized and using my portable design wall to hold my pieces in place together :).. my bestie Connie made them.. along with my design ideas .. during her July visit for our birthdays… this was my birthday present and I think she rocked it!!!
Here on the left is my portable design wall as it was intended to be used… and being used today on the right!
I love the buttons Connie added that we both fell in love with during a visit to the LQS 🙂
So what are you up to this week?
Well.. must go for now and fondle my fabric! lol
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