Some of This; Some of That

I stitched a few more hexies for BLISS, then embroidered a block for my next neonatal quilt top.  It was restful to sit in the living room watching TV and stitching this little guy who measures 6 1/2" square.

I've made some maze blocks (a kind of log cabin) and hope to have the medallion part ready soon - maybe by Friday. I"m also about finished binding another baby quilt. With these blocks and binding, I've used .63 yds. in the last week.

Lastly, in my destashing, I went through a drawer in my closet and found  the equivalent of 2 yards in scraps I no longer want to play with.  Off to the guild Pay and Take.  That gives me a YTD total of 38.06yds toward the 48 yards I need to reach my goal in December.

I'm linking to Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitching, Sunday Stash, and Oh Scraps.  Do you have some hand stitching to do today or this coming week?

Top complete!

There are nine of those white centers - couldn't find anyone to hold
it up for me.

After three retreats, I finally finished this Christmas top.  Couldn't have done it without Jean Ann Wrights Log Cabin Trim Tool by Creative Grids. Let me use strips of any size as long as they were a little bit bigger than 1 1/2" wide. The fabric I used was a Robert Kaufman Christmas collection - sorry I don't know which one.

It's going into my WTBQ pile.  I"m thinking of sewing a poinsettia in the white parts and some Holly in the green areas.
What do you think?


I'm linking to Finished or Not Friday, Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop? and Oh Scraps!.  Have a wonderful weekend.

Speaking of Retreat

I had a great time at our Guild's May Retreat. And it was so wonderful that my Mom, my daughter, and my daughter-in-law could join me. Here's are some photos of projects that were worked on by the 22 of us:

the spacious room we had to work in

 

our first make and take - a needle case.

Our second make and take - a quilting in the Neighborhood placemat

Some of the projects worked on:

Tracy's first Dresden plate - she made it into a pillow

Katy's Embroidered starfish - felt like chenille.

A pickle dish project

Fern's fabulous dragon quilt - her own pattern for this panel

Barara's Mad Hatter

Carol's tablet holder

Joyce's lovely stack and whack block

My amazing daughter-in-law took to free motion quilting like a duck to water. Her first quilting endeavor.

Once she had it quilted, she bound it.  It is for her new niece.  And my daughter took Deanna's cut off triangles from her placemat and made a mug rug:

Em's our queen of mini quilts from scraps.

The setting is soothing, the food fabulous, the company a joy. Hope you get to go to a retreat this year. One coming up in November.