Joining Kathy for Slow Sunday Stitching.
I finished Spring String
I need to focus on my gratitude! This week there were some things to celebrate!
Mr Busy and I have 5 great grandchildren. Two live just minutes from us. That gives us the chance to celebrate moments like these.
Then the results:
Monday, I finished the stitching on this Lizzie Kate design called Spring String.
Not sure how I will Fully Finish it. I like the looks of the white frame on the chart cover. But I don’t really have a place for that size on a wall, so I may just do a flat finish, if I can get my friend Christine to walk me through it!
I’m reading this book this week. It’s about the plight of women committed to insane asylums in the 1860s. From the back cover: Kate Moore recounts the stunning true account of one women who fought back against a tyrannical husband, a complicit doctor and nineteenth-century laws that gave men shocking power to silence and confine their wives.” It’s chilling to me, to understand how shockingly close we may be to this kind of thing again!
During the same time period as the book I am reading, Wyoming was granting women the right to vote! For that I am grateful!
LeeAnna asked this week:
do you have a favorite summertime drink?
At home, I mostly drink iced tea in the summer. Sometimes Crystal Light strawberry lemonade is in my bottle! Out for dinner, I’ll choose a Moscow Mule, a Margarita shaken, or a local (from South Dakota) wine called Red Ass Rhubarb! Don’t be put off by the name it is a great red with summery fruit touches! 😋🍷
Joining LeeAnna and friends at Not Afraid of Color for I LIKE Thursday.
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Heathy and Hopeful!
Today I’ll be joining Kathy and others for Slow Sunday Stitching! And there will be a birthday party for certain very special 8 year old!
She and her Daddy baked her birthday cake!
I think I need to stop making plans for my stitching! Last week, I did watch the Kathy Schmitz video for the July part of Woven Wreaths! But I didn’t lay a single stitch!
This is technically the second week on the July calendar, so I hope to finish Spring String
and I’ll play catch up on the bird on Woven Wreaths.
Mr Busy and I have completed our binging of Your Honor on Netflix, and last night we watched Fancy Dance on Apple TV+. I recommend them both.
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!
Luckily there was some sewing this week
I had a goal of 4 Split 9 blocks! But the parts for eight blocks were cut and on my sewing table, so why not?
I also finally cut one inch 😳 sashing pieces to make a trial block called Square Pegs! In the event you can’t tell it’s a Bonnie Hunter pattern! 🙂 I struggle with little pieces! What was I thinking? Do I need new glasses? A better 1/4” guide? Yikes!
I'm going to have to redo that bottom row. My verticals are way!!!! off! 😖
Then I set a One Monthly Goal for July! I failed April and May, though I finally did get the shower curtain finished and hung up. June I was just lazy! My OMG for July has some aqua, I will quilt this small quilt!
Linking up with Angela and friends at Scrap Happy Saturday Sharing aqua, teal, turquoise, ocean. pool??? colors this month.
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!
I haven’t been making any goals, since failing in April and May! If you don’t set a goal you can’t fail. But then again, if you don’t set a goal, you won’t succeed either!
So for July my OMG is to get the Princess Jasmine quilt quilted. I’ll use my Bernina using a wavy stitch or a straight stitch or a combination.
I have the top done,
the batting cut and the backing constructed. No possible reason not to complete it! Right?
Linking up with Anne Marie at Stories From the Sewing Room.
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!
I had a Seasonal finish, but it wasn’t a quilt! You’ll forgive me, right?
I started it on Thursday the 27th. It looked like this on Sunday. I know, I know! I’m not a fast stitcher. But I enjoy the slower pace of not always in a hurry.
A closer look. The other 3 little stitches were finished last year!
I’ll link up with Alycia at Finished or Not Friday! And I have taken note of her flag block directions and plan to make a quilt like that! To keep me focused in the upcoming year!
Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!
I almost didn’t write a post today! I have been feeling walked on and hopeless in the last week. I didn’t go to our 4th of July Parade. My excuse was it was cool and I didn’t want to walk several blocks and then stand for an hour.
As we were on the phone with our son, a B1 Bomber from nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base, flew over the parade and then our house. It was deafening! I am hoping our military is strong and resolute in the coming days!
But I must be hopeful! I must believe that we as an American people will be ok. So I will try to tell you about some likes.
I finished this little stamp stitch and it joined others on my buffet. You can see all the little stitches above. ⤴️
I’m reading The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore. I’m just getting started and it’s not exactly an easy read, but important!
I hung some of my other July, Independence Day patriotic decor.
The local committee that organizes and runs our Quilt Show
in October posted this on their Facebook page.
It made me grin!
I learned that our oldest great grandson, his mom (our granddaughter) and his grandma (our ex-daughter-in-law) went to see Hamilton at the Gammage Theatre on the ASU campus in Tempe AZ.
My front porch this afternoon!
Happy Birthday America! Long May She Wave!
