Sunday Quilting Upate

I stopped sewing early for me tonight. I'm tired and if I'm going to be healthier I need to go to bed when I'm tired. Normally I'm doing this blog post after 10 PM, night it's only after 9. A much more reasonable time since I do need to get up and go to work in the morning.
Here are the updates!!
First Washington Medallion:
These are the two blocks I had holes in them last week. All done!! Thanks Jane for the extra fabric.



Here are the blocks I made this weekend. I was going to do those last 6 seams, but decided not to. No sense pushing the edge of the envelope. These are the last of the 6" pieced blocks for the borders of the Washington Medallion. I'm so glad. This week I'm going to start adding the side triangles, these blocks will all be on point.

Farmer's Wife Sampler:


I started working on these for a break from the other blocks. Also six inches but not so many small 1/2 square triangles. Plus I'm really liking the Pink and Chocolate. These are two different lines but I'm sure they will all look great when they are all mixed together.





And last is the practice piecing I'm doing for the Mystery Quilt 2010, those non traditional Baptist Fans are pretty bad. I did OK on the wiggly cross hatch. I'm so glad I decided to do a practice piece.
Well off to bed for me.

Take Care and have fun stitching!!

Sunday Quilting Upate a Little Late

I really had a busy 3 day weekend, between being on call and taking all the Christmas decorations down. It is always fun decorate for Christmas and it is always nice to get back to normal.

My sewing was interrupted a lot on New Year's Day by being on call but that is part of my job and it allows me to live in doors and eat both of which I really like.

I did manage to get 2.5 borders of the 3 on my Mystery Quilt. I was going to put it on the frame but the more I thought about my experience with last years mystery quilt. I decided to do a practice piece first.

I'm really glad I did. I'll be making nice Non- Traditional Baptist Fans by the time I finish the practice piece. I didn't get very far on my practice piece, just the markings and two little fans. The thread broke once, sure sign to me it is time to take a break. I haven't gotten back to it again.



I also worked on part 9 of my Block of the Month Washington Medallion. As you can see I'm missing a few pieces of fabric. Some were along the line I cut something wrong. Luckily for me one of my friends who is also doing this quilt but is not using this fabric is going to give me some so I won't have holes in my quilt block. One of the blocks as you can see is just as I left it last night at my machine. There is even a pin in that one seam that is waiting for more pins and to be sewn.

This evening Richard & I went to Empty Nesters for Family Home Evening, that for folks with no kids at home. There was a pot luck dinner and we gave the lesson. We do have young adults at home but they work most evenings so they aren't here. Now it is time to call it a day.

Night all and Happy Stitching!!

Sunday Quilting Upate

Well most of my finished things for the past week I have already posted. The December Mini the Angel and my Sassy Cat. Last night I started working on my New Year's Day Mystery Quilt 2010. The quilt it self is not the mystery, it is the quilting on the quilt that will be a mystery. I did this same mystery last year. It was hard but fun. I also learned a lot. So I'm going to do it again this year. It is offered by Long Arm University Here is the post from last year mystery quilt.
I'm so glad Cindy posted the piecing instructions early. I should have my top ready by Friday morning when the mystery starts and have it loaded on the frame.
I have a class sample to get done this week also. I have been looking at the patterns and deciding which blocks to make. That isn't a lot of progress is it, but it is some. When the shop I teach at asked me to do this as a class sample I thought it was a good idea. I'm just tired now, so I don't really want to do it. I'll probably get more excited once I get going. It's just my other projects seem so much more fun.
I have also drawn some Farmer's Wife Sampler Blocks in EQ6, I guess more than a few, I have drawn 30. I started drawing in November, so I didn't do them all in one week. I'm waiting to start this after the New Year, but it is very tempting.
Well Happy Stitching and enjoy these days before the New Year.