I LIKE Thursday. October ‘25

 

I like our local N.E. Wyoming Quilt Show. It gets bigger and better every year. This year there were 433 quilts displayed. 

In the Senior Catagory, this one done by my friend Sherry. 

And my 2025 Stay At Home Round Robin . Many of you saw this one in the making. 

In the Hand Embroidery catagory, this beauty done by my friend and fellow Thursday Stitcher, Aggie. 

My finally finished Hometown Christmas.  Glad to get it stitched, pieced, quilted and bound. It’s Done.

I can’t remember who did this one, but I have always liked this design. 

I don’t know the maker of this one either but it caught my eye..

There was a table of Other Quilted Items. Baskets, bowls, placemats, table runners. 

This one was done by my fiend Connie. She lost her husband in June, but he purchased the fabric for her and she will donate it as a fundraiser to a group she and Rick belonged to.

This one was unique. It’s a variation of the Wyoming state flag. 

This Art Quilt received an award. 1st place in the Small Quilt 2 Person Category.  Meaning one person pieced or constructed it, and a second person did the quilting. 

This one also won 1st place . In the  Youth 9-18age group. I believe this young woman was 14. 

If you haven’t seen enough, just go to the N.E. Wyoming Quilt Show Facebook page.

I’m reading 2 books during Banned Book Week. I wanted to know what all the fuss was about when this one was banned at our county library 2 years ago. It’s back on the shelf now. 

         

And I’m reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 

because I never have and my book club read James by Percival Everett. There was so much criticism pertaining to the fact that it is a retelling of Huckleberry Finn, that I needed to read the book by Mark Twain. 

I read my book club’s current selection last winter, so I was able to read other titles. We meet Oct 20th to discuss, The Frozen River. 

I recommend this one. We’ll see what my book friends think. 😏

As for cozy clothes to wear. I’m looking forward to flannel lounge pants and my worn out fuzzy red slippers. My go-to outfit first thing in the morning. No pictures, I’m in bed as I type this Wednesday night. Maybe I’ll add an addendum to next week’s post. Sharing at Not Afraid of Color

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

October’s First Slow Sunday Stitching!

 

I’m joining Kathy today for Slow Sunday Stitching. 

Seems like slow stitching is what I’m getting done lately. I feel like I need to stay close to Mr. Busy, just in case. He probably hates that, but it is what I do. I did leave him for an hour yesterday while I went out to the quilt show. 

This is my entry, Hometown Christmas. Hand embroidery and appliqués and some piecing. 

My friend Aggie did this Quaker. Personalized with her initials and piping added then applied to a ready made pillow. It’s awesome. 

I’ll be working on THANKFUL today. I used the DMC conversions. I think the  turkey tail seems a little pink, but I’m not changing it.  

It will all be fine.

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Friday 10/3/25

 

I’ll link to Finished or Not Friday because it helps ME keep track.  You can go check to see what other more productive quilters have been working on and have completed. 

Sadly this is the state of my string blocks. They are sewn together, but that is all. 

The small cream border is cut to size, but still waiting to be attached. Why? Because the light green, from September, is still under my needle. 

Our quilt show is this weekend and I hope to visit a vender and find the perfect border fabric. I’m not sure what I’m looking for. The string blocks are dark and busy. Hopefully I’ll find something. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

First October - I LIKE Thursday

 

 

Decided to share this from Ordinary & Happy. Maybe you can find one to be grateful for. 

I’ve taken a bit of a break from posting here with LeeAnna and Friends from not Afraid of Color. 

But this week there are a few things that I remembered to document.   Backwards from most recent to a couple of weeks ago.  Finally the Hometown Christmas quilt is done and ready to be hung at our Quilt Show this coming weekend. 

The Downtown Association has been busy decorating our street corners and planters with Fall Wonderfulness. 

These on the corner near the shop where I like to get my coffee on Thursday mornings. 

I still have green tomatoes on my lonely tomato plant. We haven’t had a frost yet. Unusual!.

My great granddaughter wanted to learn to knit. I had to brush up on my skills before I could teach her. Her recommendation was to ,”watch some YouTube Videos, Gramma”.   I did, and these are her hands. She picked it up really quickly. I’m happy. I will post the finished item, when it is completed. 

And finally, I think the doctors have finally tweaked Mr. Busy’s heart meds to be helpful. Off the BP lowering med and now on one for the NSVT Non-sustained Ventricular Tachycardia .  He is feeling much better overall. So I am deeply grateful for their continued monitoring of his heart issue and working to find a remedy. 

This is just an image from the internet, not Mr Busy’s actual strip!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Table Scraps Challenge

 

Well,  I failed again this month. This has been a favorite challenge since its inception over at The Joyful Quilter.    I’ve let Joyful down again. My focus has been Mr. Bush’s health issues this summer. Between hospital stays, doctor’s appointments, new medications, symptomatic episodes I haven’t been in the sewing room much. September’s prompts were light blue or green and Television/Radio.  I kept thinking radio waves but kept seeing cardiac monitors. So this is what happened. 

Absolutely nothing!!  Again I apologize, Joyful. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

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Hello

 

I’m reluctant to share this before the binding is done, but next Friday it will be hanging in our quilt show. So here goes. I started this project in  October 2018. I’m a good starter. Not so much of a good finisher. I purchase the pattern, from Shabby Fabrics, intent on using us some Christmas scraps. 

I started by cutting the light background rectangles from muslin. Then tracing the designs for embroidery in black.  Some progress was made as this Post on Feb 3, 2019 shows.  Then by September 6th there was this. 

Some progress photos:

March 27th 2020  there was this. 

 Then this: what for a border?   None are right. 

A trip to the fabric store….. I chose the black and red buffalo check

Finally this: 

I waited for a special friend to give it her special touch with the long arm. But medical issues caused a pause. Then I finally delivered it to her, a month later  she had to return it unfinished due to early onset stenosis of her spine. 

In June this year I dropped it off at Blue Bike Quilt Studio , my LQS. Deanna does fabulous work. There were several quilts ahead of mine. 

Last Thursday the 19th of September she had it finished. Then there was binding to attach. 

And now it is almost finished. Mr Busy holding up in the bright sunshine today. You will notice the row of wonder clips along the bottom. Almost Finished. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Linking to Alycia Quilts Finished or Not Friday

THANKFULly Slow Sunday Stitching.

 

Linking today with Kathy’s Quilts Slow Sunday Stitching. 

This has been a hard week, since Wednesday night. I’m speaking of my personal week, not the week we all experienced on the global/national stage. 

I’ve been trying to stay grounded by stitching. Mostly counted cross stitch on this Thankful small. 

This morning, it looks like this. 

I’m a center starter. So the turkey got started first. Then I wanted to get to the word THANKFUL. It will give a better sense of how big this will be. The fabric was given to me, it’s not 36ct linen stitched over 2, as suggested. I think it’s 28 ct. But I stitched over two, so it should be like stitching on 14 ct. You will notice that as of right now, I have the right leg of the A and the KFUL. Then I’ll go back to finishing the turkey’s tail. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopefully THANKFUL.