A sigh of relief...

Needless to say the world let out a sigh of relief yesterday and there was a change of energy which was noticeable when we went for a walk. Now we can breathe again.

Did not get much done, started to sew the hexies together. 

The pink boots are almost done.

The frame for the February block has been started, nothing else got done. The events of the day grab our attention the most.

The impact on the post because of the virus...

This book arrived yesterday afternoon,  it has been on an adventure of its own. It is a gift for my birthday last year.  The notification kept on saying it was in transit in many places,  just the day before it said in a holding facility in Vancouver? From sea to sea, we are on the opposite side closer to the east coast. This one came and the modern postal system is proving that it still works, we are grateful for it.  Have a basket of threads which looks perfect to play with, the book is a delight and Elisabetta's writing is also so much more. She is a storyteller, making it not just a book on embroidery and stitching. 

Pulled out LE to work on the chevron borders,  they get sewn on to a wash away stabilizer  and applique on to the background.  Once one wash the piece it becomes soft and the stabilizer dissolves. This method is something I invented to get the applique and piecing accurate for the first round which was done many years ago.

The back of the star blocks. 

After looking at the star blocks, realised that only one of the star points was meeting in the middle of the stars.

Unpicked them and stitched them again, it was looking so much better.

A new day..

Diane finished stitching her Holiday Quaker.  She started the next one. Her stitching is her happy place.

The baby blanket is now 25,5 inches long. The pattern calls for 30 inches. Knitting at night time while watching a movie.

The front and back of the star blocks units, ironing the seams for the stars open makes It easier to sew the Y seams.

Sewing the two halves together with the open seams greatly reduce the bulk of the seams.

Matching the Centers of the  stars with a pin helps when matching the star points.

Lastly adding the corner squares on the opposite corners. 

Finished this week's charm row. 

We woke up to this today and more big fat snow flakes coming down.

Relaxing Sundays...

Yesterday a lot of time was spent watching movies, going for a walk in nature. We saw three downy woodpeckers close together in the same tree.  Some more knitting got done, the baby blanket is moving along. Above is this weeks charm row. 

A few more nine patch blocks in pink scraps for Omygosh quilt. 

Cut the pink scraps into sizes to use for the shoo-fly blocks and four patches. 

Star blocks will get squares sewn in the corners next.

Finished the pink hexies for January. 

Forgotten treasures...

The workbox pincushion is embroidered. All the embroidery designs is traced on the Linen ready to be stitched.

Reading another bloggers post yesterday jogged my memory.  Somewhere in the sewing room was the leftover 1930's reproduction fabrics from two quilts, so a big Thank you.

Forgotten about it and in there is partial star blocks, fans triangle squares together with some scraps.

The one colour which I do not have much of is pink, found some more pink fabrics!  Absolute treasure, now some more nine patch blocks can be finished. 

Will finish the half made blocks and then figure out how to use them. Fan blocks a tea cosy for Easter? The stars cushion covers? Any suggestions for what to create with them will be welcome.

Linking to Slow Sunday Stitching. 

A frustrating afternoon...

Found some more pinks and sewed them into sub units for Omygosh blocks. Some will match and others will be scrappy.  The more the mixture of the scraps the more interesting the quilt will be. May switch the blocks up into a spontaneous scrappy blocks,  have seen a number of finished Omygosh quilts and they just have more dept this way.

Practicing the embroidery stitches on this work box, the leaves is a repeat open fly stitch. 

Yesterday afternoon after enjoying a few hours of happily stitching this piece, discovered somewhere a row was missing.  Then started the frustrating part of ripping back the stitching. 

Eventually decided not to over think things,  turned the linen and started all over again, this time with a working copy to mark all the stitched stitches. Just love the pink boots.

Pink blocks done so far.

Hexies, there will be nine pink ones for this month. Linking to  So Scrappy.

A pattern is emerging...

More of this is coming today. Every winter our storms arrive like clockwork on the same day of the week, once the weather settle into a pattern. This year It is on a weekend, so we are prepared and can carry on both indoors and outdoors. 

Found these pinks, ready for sewing components for these blocks. Did not even realize that they were in this box, it had reds and browns in it. Maybe they were added to this collection as there was not as many of them. Treasures to be sewn for my pink collection. 

These hexies got finished while watching the news last night.

Last but not least the charm row for this week is done. Keeping up with one a week.