Happy day after Christmas

 To some, it's called Boxing Day.... to me, it's my 29th wedding anniversary...the third one since my husband passed away.  Usually, I go and spend some time with him at the cemetery, but the weather is frigid and the roads aren't great so I won't be going today.  His birthday is in about three weeks and hopefully the weather and roads will not be a hindrance so I can go then.

Anyway, I came on to share a photo of my nephew with the quilt I  made/ gave him for Christmas yesterday.

See my little Buddy behind him checking out my grandpuppie's toy stash.  He destroys all of his, but she only destroys certain ones.

Back to the quilt...the panel in the center and the binding are cottons while the rest are flannels ( yes, flannel is cotton, too, but we know there's a difference).  Some of the flannels were leftovers from previous quilts to make both the top and backing a bit larger.

OK, I'm  trying to share of Buddy opening his gift from one of our neighbors. It shows that it's here, but I'm not 100% sure....wouldn't be the first time Google gave me incorrect info.

 

Either way.....

Take care and stay safe & warm......

Approaching the finish line

 It would have been closer to finish but I decided at almost the last moment to make a quilt for one of my nephews who is joining my son and I for dinner on Christmas day.  I had thought that I would gift him one of my recently finished quilts but they are both gnome themed quilts and I  don't consider them very masculine.  Then I remembered that I had purchased two panels with a red truck on them last year and only quilted one for my annual Christmas quilt.  I already had  flannel piece for the backing but because I wanted to make the quilt a little bigger, I  dug out the leftovers from the aforementioned gnome quilts and was able to add them to both the panel and backing fabrics.  

The quilt was loaded onto Mo'e last night after I finished and removed the quilt that was already on 'him'.  It won't take long to quilt it since I'm going to do a largish meander.

This was a block of the month from Sindy Rodenmeyer of fatcatdesigns.com called 'The Birbs'.  I wasn't going to do any block of the months other than the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2022 because I've been trying to use what fabrics and patterns I have here in my stash, but I  was able to use just fabrics from my stash including the background, sashing, borders and backing after all.

The other quilt that is waiting it's turn to be quilted after being bumped back by nephew's quilt was one I shared in my last post ( that wasn't quite finished).

It's finished now and will be quilted on my domestic machine.  Not what I would call my 'usual' but I like it and  I  really enjoyed doing it.

This next year I plan to stick more to my resolution to use up more of what I already have and to STOP buying patterns and STOP printing out patterns that I'll probably never use.  Just because it's FREE doesn't mean that I NEED it.  And BEFORE I start something new, I'm going to FINISH one of the tops that have been waiting to be quilted.

And on that note, I think I'm going to say so long for now...

Merry Christmas

Happy Holidays

Stay warm and safe

 

Still pluggin' away

 I not only finished my Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2022 blocks, I assembled them into a top AND quilted it.

  I'm so proud of myself ...... actually, I'm just thankful - and very grateful - that I've been able to do quite a few things lately.

I started a new project yesterday.... just a 12 inch block, but it's been a little bit of a challenge - partly because I don't read the entire directions.  I had it pin basted ready to quilt on my domestic machine when I noticed that one piece was stitched on with star points pointed in instead of out like the other three were.  That was an easy enough fix and I soon had it pin basted again only to realize that I needed to add the wool pieces and do the hand embroidery BEFORE sandwiching and pin basting.

Bountiful Blessings

By Vicki McCarty, Calico Patch Designs

I got a little done last night before I decided it was better to leave the rest until another time.

I have a couple of quilt tops laying across one of  Moe's bars - ready to load as soon as I get backings ready.... maybe later today.

Spent some time yesterday trying to find a plastic tower of 'cups' that I  keep some of my buttons in...actually, I've been looking off and on since Saturday....it drives me nuts when I know I have something but can't find it.  I wanted/needed little buttons for the eyes of the birds in the RSC2022 quilt.  Because the button stash I did find didnt have what I wanted, I ended up buying more that weren't really what I wanted.  Then, I found another jar of buttons that would work better....but still haven't found the tower - my son even looked.  Something tells me that I put them in a bin with another project and I checked the bin that has hand sewing projects in it ....so, I guess it will have to remain M.I.A. for awhile longer.

One more project to share this week.  Had been seeing them online and wanted to do at least one.  I don't use laundry pods but my son was using them and saved me his last two containers.  This one is sitting outside on a table where he can greet whoever is coming up the steps to my door.

I still have a gnome to finish. ... maybe later this week.  

In the meantime, I have gifts that need to be wrapped and sent out this week...I need to get busy....

Take care....