All About the Slow

Good morning, my friends. Welcome to Monday and the start of a new week. My day was all about slow stitching yesterday. Stitching and preparing for stitching. At the top of my list was to hand-stitch the binding for the Easter Egg table runner, and that's finished now.

It was easier to see the quilting with the light from our living room windows. Here's how it looks from the back.

With the help of my excellent stitching cat, I was able to sit and stitch the whole binding in a single sitting.

And, while I love the bunnies on this runner...

They had to make way for the new kid on the table.

I was pretty sure I could finish off the last of the four Kitchen Herb blocks, and I did.

Here are all four blocks together. These will go on the list of "small quilt tops to finish," and I should be turning this into a finished quilt top within the next couple of weeks.

With those finished, I'll spend some time stitching the names and places for the next Shop Hop blocks.

Those won't take more than a day or two, and then I'll get back to Grandpa's Bridges. As long as I was doing slow stuff, I readied this block for stitching too. This will be the ninth of 12 blocks.

Here are the blocks I have for this quilt so far.

And, so far so good sticking with my goal of tracing these Raggedy & Friends designs one block per day. Two blocks down, ten to go. These are the designs for the second block. 

So, I'll trace the two designs for the third block today, but then, I simply must get a start on the quilting for Jericho's Walls. I'm no closer to knowing what to do with this than I was yesterday, but there are no more excuses. The quilting starts today.

It's a very large quilt at 73 x 89 inches, and so it's going to take a while. Probably I'll do one row of blocks at a time, but I'm only guessing. Since I have no idea how I'm going to quilt it yet, it might make sense to break it into different increments. One way or another, I'll get started on it today.

Also today, I need to bake something new for our before-breakfast snack. Today's baking project will be Carrot-Apple Muffins with Orange Glaze. I've made these before, and they'll give me a way to use the last Gala apple still hanging out in my refrigerator. There's one small housekeeping chore on the list for today, and I want to take a walk on the treadmill. As always, there's plenty to keep me out of trouble.

We're expecting some improvement in our weather by tomorrow. I'm itching to get outside and do some more yardwork. How are things in your world?