The Last Post for March 2023 ?!!

 Wow!  Good morning.. but what happened to March??? lol  Do you feel this way too?

In some ways ... with the crazy weather the last month or so... I'm glad to see it go... but how did it happen so quickly???

What is your favorite thing about Spring/Autumn?

I personally LOVE Spring in the USA now for sleeping with windows open when it won't get so cold!  I also love seeing fresh flowers popping all around!

We are rolling closer to listing our cabin.  We found (WE THINK ANYWAY.. LOL) a realtor who will represent us well.  We are looking at mid April... right after Easter when people will be getting antsy to explore the area we live in... it is huge to hike in the mountains and have vacation homes in this area... so we shall see!

The quilt for Rick I was building wound up not working out as nicely as I had imagined... I have chatted in depth with my inner circle but I know my problems and have cried it out and am ready to move forward with this issue now... new quilt ... the PATTERN figured out.... no triangle points to chop off...

and the recipe for THIS quilt block was found on Pinterest by my bestie and originally shown on a 2017 post by THIS blogger

Above is on point for her plan but mine will be plain and straight across instead of in rows.

I plan now to finish that poorly written AND made quilt top and pack it away until we are moved then machine stitch it and quilt it by domestic vintage Singer 319w machine :)

I hope you will follow along as I piece the new quilt for my honey to enjoy this coming autumn as Kentucky is a bit cooler in winter than we are... we are looking near Bowling Green area  and Cave City atm!

I have made slow and steady progress on the quilt I am hand quilting.  I am on the last block in this row...

I should complete this block and the right side stitching today and roll the quilt ... YAHOO!  Linking this progress in hand quilting this quilt with Kathy's Slow Sunday Stitchers HERE <<< ... the next roll completes the CENTER of this quilt!!! :)

My back is beginning to slow me down again... I shall call my doctor this week and see what his plan is.... I am soooo tired of sitting on heat and doing stretches and working on core stregthening when the pain just returns!  It is arthritis the spine doctor said and nothing can really be done but exercise stretching and medications.... grrrr.  Please pray or send happy thoughts for a better answer for me long term!

Have a blessed week ahead my quilty friends!

 

Do you Celebrate??!

St Patrick’s Day on the 17th of March …

Or more FUN on March 18th is International Quilting Day?!!!

I’m about halfway done with sewing the blocks for my honey’s quilt…

I’ve just finished the audiobook “ The Nightingale “.  Definitely engaging and a book that makes great listening as you stitch!

The author is Kristin Hannah… She makes a fictional town in France and it's story of a look inside WW2 come to life!  I got this free from Libby through my local library :)

On Connie’s Granny Squares quilt I am quilting my progress is slower but happening!!!  Here is the second granny square on this second row 🥰

I finished it this morning waiting as we changed monitors....THIS is why my blog was late posting today... my monitor quit working :(

And here was the completed one just before it!

Linking this Slow Stitching accomplishments to Kathy's Quilt linky party HERE <<<

Now regarding my word of the year …

Isn’t that awesome!!!  Thanks for stopping by!

I have made a new closure signature now to my blogs for this upcoming Spring season .... and yes ... we are still waiting for warmer weather to come AND stay in North Carolina USA!!! lol

Roll, Roll, Roll the Quilt.... gently in the frame!

Welcome to my blog this week... if you live in the USA and you change time did you know today is that day to move forward 1 hour???  I ask because I knew but we forgot to change our clocks before going to bed! lol

Joyful is the key word above :)  And I have been very busy this week... The fabric for my honey's quilt came in this week and I made this block...

Now to just make 79 more! lol  I have 8 ready to sew the w halves together already too <3

Before I started sewing the blocks I sewed Molly a spring scarf on my Singer 319w....

Here you can see her wearing it after washing and ironing :)

Most of my time has been quilting this week...

Several people have asked what I use to mark with and here is some of my marking pens for this job...

And this week I bought these...

For my pointer finger on my right hand... helps me pull without reaching so often for my hemostats!  Works great too.... I got these inexpensively at Amazon :)

Here was the photo of the top half of the first row of crochet squares lined up for stitching...

HERE IS... the bottom of row 2 all ready for stitching :)  

I plan to work on this today and would love to hear your reaction to my quilting!!!

Linking all this yummy handwork to Kathy's Slow Stitch Sunday crew HERE!

Have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping in :)

 

Happy March!

Welcome to my blog!  Grab a cuppa something yummy and come on in... see what we are up to!

JOY remains my word of the year and I am finding sew much joy in each day I am living without back pain~  I am still pain FREE!!!!  No medications needed either!  YAY :D

I found this meme on Facebook I saved it for Y'all to enjoy a nice good morning... got that cuppa???! lol

Here is a quilt I would like to make!  It is a 9 patch on point and only 2 blocks make it but when you stand back the edges seem to have a scalloped feel to them :)  I have my own ideas on a border I think theirs is too busy.... but then I love a custom quilted border too! lol

Connie got me this little tin of hand cream...  I use it 2 to 3 times a day to manage my right middle finger discomfort...

Here are the needles and some o the threads I am using on this quilt... A great friend turned me on to DMC needles and I will search high and low and update to a fresh needle only when needed as they don't break easy and they do have a bit of a bendability to them... I use the size 7 for the 12 wt on the left of Aurifil... and #9 size for the 28 wt on the right... I don't use 50 wt thread to hand quilt because it wears too easily for this job.

Here is where I was after blogging last weekend...

Here a long view

and the other end of the inner border is done in short order....

Soon the quilt was rolled!

I reached a point for Connie to make a decision on what color the roses were and she chose the cream I found in my stash of 12 weight Aurifil!!  Yipee :)  The green is the inner border color of quilting and I thought the roses needed to be different!

Here are a couple pics of the first block before the center criss crossed canoes shape was stitched...

The DMC perle cotton in black was in the mail from Connie's stash for this quilt!

The cream roses look delectable.... the chalk you could see above just helps me stitch without the lines going away.

See... this block now has the criss cross canoes center shape stitched!

Here's the 3 blocks bottom half all stitched....

And here is where the 4th sits as I work on it today and hope to roll the quilt and work on the top half of these blocks...

Linking all this hand quilted goodess and other fun things to Kathy's slow Stitching Sunday crew! HERE<<<<<<

Here is a modernish quilt I am in love with!  I will show it to my dil and see if they may like this quilt next year :D

Here is a sweet lamb and some pretty spring flowers and a chik too!  Do you have flowers coming up???  Or do you live down under and yours are full on or fading a bit?

We have buttercups, crocus, tulips and iris we planted last autumn that are sprouting but only the buttercups have bloomed!  We don't get much direct sun in our yard though so it makes plant and flower production a bit low.

Have a fabulous week and be joyful and kind to someone this week :)  I sure will!