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 I knew I had a bag somewhere or other with a green UFO, started goodness knows how long ago.  With green being the RSC colour for May, it seemed a good idea to move this project forward.  The only trouble was, where on earth had I put it?  I searched through a couple of likely places, remembering I hadn't seen it for quite some time.  At last, there it was, a small bag tucked beneath yet more unfinished projects.  As I used to tell Robin, I'll never run out of things to sew!

When I started this, it ...

Good morning and happy hump day! I’m so excited that I got one of my May UFO goals done, and the month isn’t even halfway over. The pinwheel quilt is quilted and bound! 

I haven’t posted anything here in a week, but I’ve been super busy with a variety of things. I had a goal for last weekend to get the logging on quilt finished piecing. I think it was my January goal from one of my UFO lists. I was able to finish it Sunday.

The weather has been warmer, and it made my soccer watching much more pleasant. Our girls lost again, but they did play much better. 

We had a good turnout for the game. I also had lunch with Roger last week. 

He’s eating carrots. LOL. They were having book fair on the same day, and I offered to buy him some books, but he decided he didn’t have need any at this time. I think he was anxious to get to the playground. 

This is the picture from last year:

And here is Kathryn 12 years ago at the ...

Back in "the day" (2012) Moda Fabrics hosted a "Bakeshop" Blog that included wonderful, free to download, patterns each week. One of my favorites was a pattern that utilized Layer Cakes, those stacks of 40+ ten inch square pieces comprising an entire fabric line, it was called 9-Patchtastic. I pieced this one at that time; here it is pictured on the quilting frame last week, it had hung as a

Back in "the day" (2012) Moda Fabrics hosted a "Bakeshop" Blog that included wonderful, free to download, patterns each week. One of my favorites was a pattern that utilized Layer Cakes, those stacks of 40+ ten inch square pieces comprising an entire fabric line, it was called 9-Patchtastic. I pieced this one at that time; here it is pictured on the quilting frame last week, it had hung as a

 Hi Friends!  Today we'll be taking a look at two projects from the UFO box.  One embroidery project and one applique block of the month project.

Yesterday we went to a tracker show/tracker parade/knife and gun show.

During my bone-mending "sabbatical" from this blog I have been stitching away. Smaller, close to my body movements such as cross-stitch and piecing didn't over-reach my capabilities. I HAD to do something other than sitting still and reading! This Blackbird Designs sampler spoke to me. I'm drawn to "bee" patterns especially, maybe because my first name is actually Hebrew for bee. This

During my bone-mending "sabbatical" from this blog I have been stitching away. Smaller, close to my body movements such as cross-stitch and piecing didn't over-reach my capabilities. I HAD to do something other than sitting still and reading! This Blackbird Designs sampler spoke to me. I'm drawn to "bee" patterns especially, maybe because my first name is actually Hebrew for bee. This

I got half of the shirt blocks up on the design wall.

We had a wonderful Christmas with the family.  All 4 of the grandkids were here.  We are very Blessed.

I decided to work on a few more UFO's before starting something new.  I figure I will keep doing this until I get tired of them again.  :)  The first UFO that I worked on was this...

Oh decisions, decisions ..... which UFO should I pull off the shelf to work on?

Why one ..... why not two?

OK .... so what is my reasoning for two?

One to work on at home using my sewing machine and a handwork project to take along to work on away from home.

This one will be worked on at home.  It was started at a workshop back in 2012 and promptly shelved.  I did finish another one from a second workshop at the same time .... so, why is this one still lingering?  I hate doing log cabin blocks.  During the workshop, the ...

 Christine and I got together this week for a few hours to sew and chat.  Christine cut out squares for a disappearing nine patch baby quilt and I finished sewing my Overlapping Tiles quilt top.   I have not trimmed it yet--I may even do that after it is quilted to avoid all those bias edges as I quilt. The backing fabric is ready--it is the turquoise with the pink flowers that is the constant in the quilt top.  My husband held the top for me to take a picture --it was a bit breezy!

I bought myself a Half Rectangle ...

The July UFO still needs the binding stitched down....slowly, but surely, I am making progress on that one. In the meantime, the number for August has been drawn, and it is 12.

I have one list for quilting unquilted tops, and one list for piecing (tops started and not finished). Number 12 for quilting is Bohemia. I had to go look on the UFO shelf and try to remember which one is Bohemia. I found it:

It's been on the shelf for a few years--I'll have to steam it to get all the wrinkles out of it ...

 This morning we were up at 6:30 am and out the door by 7:15 am. Patrick's MRI and CAT scan was early. I took my "Ruth's Farwell" piece with me to work on. 

I started to do the flowers that I was having trouble with. I did 3 of them and wasn't happy with them. 

They are the ones in the bottom center. When we got back home I showed Patrick and said I wasn't happy with them. He reminded me that flowers are different and not all are the same. Plus they looked ...

This morning I was itching to clean. So, I started cleaning things up. Got tired of looking at my piles. lol I even cleaned up my end table. lol 

Once that was done, I listened to my audio books. After awhile of playing games I decided I needed to do something. I wanted to go down and work on another quilt but realized I'm getting a ton of fabric from someone who's cleaning out their stuff. Since it's a LOT, I decided to wait till it arrives and I can look at the material out of there ...

The May number for the American Patchwork and Quilting UFO challenge was drawn over the weekend.

I'm confused--or maybe I was confused last month. Number 8 on my quilting list is the Flutterby quilt, and I did that one last month.

Here is the quilt; binding and all:

April should have been number 4 which was the Hanging Gardens quilt. No worries, I'll do that one for May. I was a little undecided on a backing, but I have a few weeks to think it over and come up with something.

My number 8 for piecing is a ...

I finished the customer quilt I was working on, and it got picked up yesterday.

We didn't have our BE meeting today. So, I tried to sleep in - but didn't. Patrick did though. 

I started laundry and it didn't go very far. Think I got 2 loads done all day today. We pretty much watched TV most of the day. I did get my monthly beads today. I love the colors this time. 

I have some of them and will add them to what I have. The others I will work on getting them in my boxes. I will do that later on. 

Then I worked on my binding. 

I finished it ...