Running behind here

 Kind of forgot to post this week.  When I did remember, it was either late Sunday night or there just wasn't time before lunch with 'the girls' on Monday.

Now, I  have to try to remember what I finished this past week.  I know I  finally got a coin purse made for the last crossbody bag but don't think I took a picture.  Actually, that crossbody bag has two coin purses because I made a second one after deciding that I didn't like the way the first one turned out.  After I  made the second one, I changed my mind and decided that the first one wasn't so bad after all.

Next up was this super simple one.  It was a panel that only needed a couple of borders before being loaded onto Mo'e where I did some straight line stitching, some ribbon candy stitching and then circle stitching around each gnome motif.  I also ended up doing a simple thread tie in the center of each of the smaller circles while I was able to stitch around the gnome and words in the center block.  Top and back are made of cuddly, cozy flannel.

Next up was 2 bibs for my great grandson who was born last May.

I tried to get the photos of the bibs next to each other but just couldn't get it to work.  Oh well.

One more photo to share.  

Some of the kids and grandkids will be getting either cash or a gift card so I made these stockings again this year.  They are cute but I don't think they're as cute as the ones I made last year. 

I think I have 5 done but I might need 2 more.

And that is it for the past week (and a half).  I still have some coasters I want to make for gifts and 2 gifts that will have to wait til after the new year before I work on them - I need more table space to be able to lay them out - so they'll probably be gifts for next year.

Happy Thanksgiving to my American quilty friends.  My son, a nephew and I are meeting up at a restaurant for dinner tomorrow.  I have no desire to cook or bake for just two or three people.

Take care

Plop, plop, fizz, fizz Oh what a relief it is

LOL ....sorry, but that's what popped into my head when I started thinking about the quilt I finally finished last week.  It sat, half done, from late June until about two or three weeks ago when I  took it off the frame, picked out all the stitching and let it set for about a week while I decided how I really wanted to quilt it. Once I decided what I wanted to do, it was just a matter of doing the stitching around the flowers one night and then around each flower center and petal the next night.  I think I did the binding and label on the third day.

Then, it was on to another project.  The top was done a week or so ago.. I was just waiting for more backing to arrive in the mail.

Gnome Christmas

The quilting is done -- the label and binding are made; I just haven't felt up to finishing it.  Oh, I almost forgot - I want to add a stitch in the center of the smaller white blocks.  I stitched a circle around each motif, but that still leaves a little too much unquilted inside the circles, so I decided that if I got some of my embroidery floss out and took just one stitch in the center of each circle and tie the ends of the floss it should be enough.

Cold weather has arrived and my bones are complaining :( .  I had a couple of craft shows that I wanted to go to over the weekend, but it didn't happen.  I was lucky to just be able to walk Buddy on Saturday morning; on Sunday, he had to wait for my son to come over to walk him.

Hopefully this week will be better.  I have that Gnome Christmas quilt to finish along with a few smaller Christmas gift projects to do.  And, of course, there are quilt tops waiting their turn on Mo'e. I guess I'd better get on the ball here and get myself mobile.

Take care

Making progress

Christmas gifts are almost done. YAY! I started and finished the last crossover bag yesterday.

The matching coin purse was a flop so I'm going to try a different pattern. Before working on the xbody bag, I finished piecing this top that I started the day before.

It's one I've been wanting to do for awhile now but kept telling myself that I had other things that I needed to do first.

 

And before that,

 

With a pillow to match the backing ( which is a cuddly flannel).

Oh! And this was in the UFO waiting to be quilted stash.

And I guess that's it for today...other than maybe to say that I think I found a design I want to use on that quilt top that was on Mo'e for a couple of months and I ended up unstitching because I just didn't like it. Hope to get it reloaded AND COMPLETELY QUILTED this week.

Take care..?

Little behind

I'm a little behind on this post but I wanted to finished the quilt I was working on first so that I'd have more than one photo to show. First off, I was at least 2 months behind on my birdhouse BOM and the RSC2022 so I got those caught up. The birdhouse quilt top is finished and now waiting for a backing before it gets loaded onto Mo'e.

Next up was my Timber Gnome quilt with a pillow to match the quilt backing.

arghhh!!! I took photos with my new notebook but I'm not finding them. OK, found them!

I finished the quilt and pillow yesterday... washed the quilt just a little while ago and just took it out of the dryer... it's crinkly! yay! Rested most of today but finally got some backing fabric stitched together and loaded onto Mo'e then repeated the process with batting and, although I think I made it longer instead of wider, it's the size I needed. Next came the top -- after pressing it to get out the major wrinkles.

Once I get the thread changed (tomorrow), it will be ready for some basic meandering - I do not want to get into 'custom' quilting it. And that's basically it for this post. I still have one more crossbody bag to make and I'd like to make myself a new bag before the holidays....we'll have to see if I get the new bag before the holidays or if it will have to wait til after the new year. take care!