Good morning, my friends. The busy weekend is over, and it's a new day. The sky was pretty this morning.
There was a lot to do yesterday morning, but I took some time to stitch the first stitches on the 6th of Grandpa's Bridges.
While those baked, I went to work preparing an apple crisp. I'm riffing off the recipe from the Quaker Oats website.
After that, I did my Bow-flex workout and then headed outside to check in on the Fuzzy Wuzzy dahlia. It's made a little progress, but it still has a long way to go. We're expecting heavy rain later in the week, so I'm really hoping it will open before then.
Instead, I'm going to sandwich this for quilting, and then straight stitch all around the pieces. The top-stitching will also serve as the quilting. I did the two McKenna Ryan quilts I've made the same way, and it works out well. When passing from one motif to the next, I don't cut threads, but leave a long jump thread to be trimmed away when it's finished. It ends up looking pretty from the back. You can see what I'm talking about at this post here.
It was tempting to finish off the palm fronds yesterday, but I was getting close to the time I wanted to make some Sangria. I have a couple of different versions of this. Sangria is Spanish, and so I used a Spanish red wine called Garnacha, which is recommended for Sangria. It was good. I used this large jug with a spigot for serving, and I set it on a frozen gel pack to keep it cold.
So that was a full day and a busy weekend. I'm happy to say there's absolutely nothing on my to-do list today. I'm still going to take a walk on the treadmill, but after that it's going to be NBS. (Nothing but sewing.) I'll finish off my Beach Bums ladies, and I'll probably sandwich them for quilting. The quilting won't happen right away. I'll add them to the "Small Quilts for Quilting" portion of my white board and take them in their turn.
Other sewing I want to accomplish today will include adding borders to the two Joy in the Ordinary blocks I've finished recently. These two:
And that will bring me back to the beginning of my white board work flow. Next up will be to start quilting Shop Hop 2.0. It's been lounging over Eliza for several weeks, allowing its wrinkles to relax out.
There's been no kitty help for the past couple of days. All the activity over the weekend made them nervous. In my experience, nothing brings a kitty around faster than starting a free-motion quilting project. They're all about controlling the speed. So, my friends, it's going to be a good day of doing only what I feel like doing. And when one is expecting a good day, it's makes sense to get started on it as soon as possible.
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. ~ Richard Bach
You definitely put together 5 fabulous fannies. That's going to be a fun finish. Hope you've made good progress on your nothing by stitching day.
Those are definitely some fabulous fannies! You're making me itch to get out my pattern and background fabrics now instead of waiting to work on it this winter.
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