Slow Sunday Stitching

 

I’m popping in to share a bit of progress on two current projects and a possible new start.  Go check the other Slow Stitching posts at Kathy’s Quilts

First, the octopus biscornu is getting really close to the back stitching stage. 

The piece with the orange coral will be the underneath piece

And Gingerbread Saltbox is coming along nicely too. 

The snowman potholder thread keeper was a gift years ago from a friend . There are sandwich sized ziplock bags sewn into the spine. Room for lots of thread, needles, threaders, tiny scissors, whatever you need! Handy for sure. 

I received a prize during Christmas in July from Linda at Texas Quilt Gal. Some beautiful gold sparkly cross stitch fabric complete with shiny Christmas-y threads. 

I was gifted this beautiful chart.   I think there is another project on the horizon. 

I LIKE Thursday 11-13-25

 

LeeAnna suggested this conversation starter:

Nov 13 2025

Do you decorate at all for Thanksgiving? Special dishware? Wall hangings? pumpkins lining your  walkway? whatever!

I do. Some examples. 

A Turkey Banner from Patchabilities. It is not new, but a favorite.

This is a  wall hanging I made last year!  Oh, look!  The electricity is back on! 

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And a shot of my small buffet. Full of some old favorites and a couple of new stitches. 

I want to see the aurora borealis so badly. We tried last night. But saw nothing. Maybe too many clouds.  We drove 20 miles out of town and got only a really dark sky!  POUT!

When I was at my stitchers group, we lost electricity. Luckily there are lots of windows, we opened the door and the sun was shining. The whole town was without power for several hours. That’s unheard of. Now we know that a huge problem at a power plant near the Utah border was at fault. I was wondering how I was going to fix supper, but it’s back on at this writing, 4:29 pm MST. So no excuses in the kitchen tonight! 😆

Thanks LeeAnna for keeping this going!

Check out The list of participants at I LIKE THURSDAY over at Not Afraid of Color. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Slow Sunday Stitching.

 

Sharing this morning with Kathy for Slow Sunday Stitching. I’m so grateful for this group of stitchers and this place to celebrate the art of hand stitching with needle and thread. Lately, it’s been hard to get down to my sewing room . It feels too far away from Mr. Busy. 

My Thursday Stitchers group provides me with much needed emotional support. Last week I worked on the last octopus on the biscornu. Five more legs and an orange starfish and the main stitching will be done. I’ve decided to work on it at home. I talk too much at stitching group, I keep loosing my place!LOL

At home I’ve been working on the Gingerbread Saltbox from Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilting.  I really like to stitch in the season, so I’ll continue working toward the finish on this Christmas house. 

I have a few other Christmas ones to work on too..  I maybe should have done a Christmas in July marathon stitch. 😀

No Bronco game to watch today  so we will rooting for a couple other teams. The Vikings, the 49ers, and the Bills. Better gather my supplies and get busy. 

Happy Stitching!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2025

 

Is coming to an end. I laid out my potato chip blocks . First like this:

Then like this with the dark neutral blocks in the 3rd column . The blue row has an extra blue one as a place holder. I’m building a few more dark neutral blocks.  I’m still unsure and not really pleased. Nancy from Grace &Peace Quilting, suggested more random. I wonder if my OCD will allow me to do that! LOL

Here is the latest. 

I’m also building a pieced backing for the string quilt. It’s a puzzle!!

Not in anyway a final layout. Just up on the design wall so I remember what is what. 

That all for now!

Linking up with ScrapHappy Saturday.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

I LIKE Thursday

This week was pretty ordinary. The weather has cooled off , it’s been more windy, but no snow yet. In my opinion that’s a good thing. 

My Holiday Cactus had bloomed. 

Of course last Friday was Halloween. We had only 15 Trick or Treaters.  Did not run out of candy. These are my great grands.

Top to bottom  Rumi from KPop Demon Hunters, Lex Luther from the new Superman movie, and Wednesday Addams and an inflatable chess piece, a King.   I love my Boo Crew. 

I layer some stitches on The Gingerbread Saltbox. A chart from Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilts. It’s a December chart  so scroll almost to the bottom. 

Tonight, Thursday, we are watching Thursday Night Football. Raiders at the Broncos. Start of 2nd qtr it is Raiders 7 - Broncos 0.  I’m not happy. 

 Nov 6 2025

Do you enjoy podcasts? can you direct us to some you like?

I have listened to one. It’s called “ mobituaries”. It’s Mo Rocco telling stories about famous or important people who have died. I enjoy it . It’s reminds me of Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story”. 

This from his timeline, it’s also a book. 

Go check out “ I LIKE Thursday “ at Not Afraid of Color. Thanks LeeAnna for keeping this meme going. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

 

Slow Sunday Stitching

  

A few finishes this week. 

The THANKFUL Doodle from Heart in Hand is fully finished. I say this idea first when a friend brought hers to Show n Tell at our Thursday Stitchers.  I’ve learned, since then, that Heart in Hand calls it a FRILL. They have a tutorial on YouTube. 

Frill Finish from Heart in Hand   I don’t follow all her steps, but it is very close. I had a slab of green florists foam from Hobby Lobby that Mr. Busy cut for me on his scroll saw. An electric knife works or a serrated knife from the kitchen drawer. I wanted this thicker so we glued 2  pieces together. I used a scrap of fall colored fabric and a piece of 2” wired ribbon rescued from a floral bouquet a long time ago. 

Then I finished  HELLO AUTUMN into a larger than normal dough bowl filler. There is no real technique, but there are several videos on YouTube for finishing dough bowl pillows. No room on the buffet for my dough bowl, so I propped up AUTUMN against a paperweight. :)

I work on the octopuses at my stitching group on Thursdays. It’s getting closer to the finish line. 

And the Gingerbread Saltbox from Melisa at Pinker n Punkin Quilts at home in the evenings or during football games on the weekends. 

 There is always another design calling me. 

I’m linking up with Kathy’s Quilts, Slow Sunday Stitching event 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.

Table Scraps Challenge

 

October is nearly over. Time for the Table Scraps Challenge. This month the “color” was Light and/or Dark NEUTRALS. And the TSC prompt was denim.  I haven’t made a couple of denim button front shirts that I like to wear over tanks in the summer, over tee-shirts in the fall and spring and over long sleeve shirts in the winter. 

A favorite well used one with a Fall theme had seen better days. 

Faded is ok with me, but holes in the elbows…..not ok. 

So I went to my crumb blocks box and found a light neutral piece and a dark neutral piece. I put a scrap of light weight Heat n Bond on the back of both pieces. I rounded the corners of each one and ironed one on each elbow of my faded denim shirt. 

I whipped stitched each one into place. Then went back and blanket/buttonhole stitched both. I began practicing some embellishment stitches.      ⤴️

       Looks like I need more practice ⤵️

I finally ended up using a small embroidery hoop to save my left hand. Stitching on a sleeve takes constant rearranging of the fabric and your grip!

I preserved, even adding an embroidered butterfly to a worn spit on the sleeve placket. 

This is the left sleeve. 

And finished.    Maybe it’s just mending, but I used an interfacing, so it’s 3 layers and I “hand stitched/quilted”  them.  And I used up some of my scraps and save a shirt from the landfill. 

Sharing with like-minded quilters/makers at The Joyful Quilter for Table Scraps Challenge. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful.