A Finished Quilt Top

Good morning, my friends! And Yay! We're home early enough that I can still say "good morning." We've done our grocery shopping already today. I'm hoping I won't need to go back before we reach our final destination in southern California, but that's probably not realistic. Still...I'm hopeful. Without checking today's to-do list, I think grocery shopping was the only thing on today's list. If that's the case, I can spend the rest of the day sewing. Probably, I'll take a nap too.

So my yesterday started with me stitching Tiny Treasure #30. This one has Basketweave stitch, fly stitch, stem stitch, stem fill, and satin stitch.

From there, I forced myself to do a Bowflex workout, and there was just one quick housekeeping chore to do. After that, I went to work finishing the quilt top for the Shop Hop quilt. It ends up at 58 x 58 inches.

I'll need to go shopping for a back for this, and that works out just fine for me. We'll be traveling by plenty of quilt shops during our upcoming trip. Probably I'll find a new-to-me shop some place in Nevada. I know of at least one good quilt shop in Henderson, and I've visited one in Las Vegas, but I know there are more. Eventually, I'll bump into one and I'll look for a back while I shop. I won't be making any more "Shop Hop" quilts, but Mike has encouraged me to keep shopping anyway. He likes taking a nap while I shop for fabrics. It's a bit symbiotic.

My last gasp for the day in the sewing room was to cut the binding strips. 

Now the whole project will go on the quilts-to-be-sandwiched pile. And you probably won't see it again for quite a while. My quilts-to-be-quilted pile is stacking up. And with Eliza still off on her vacation, the only quilting I can do will be on my domestic machine. 

That works out just fine. For today's sewing effort, I'll sandwich and quilt the "S" is for Sew project. It's only 27-1/2 inches square, and so it'll be no problem to quilt it on my domestic machine.

I haven't given a lot of thought to this. I have in mind to quilt a big spool of thread in each of the corners with a looping thread and needle meandering across the border. For the blocks, I'll do something dot-to-dot, but I haven't decided on anything yet. Probably I'll do this in a dark brown thread. Before I do anything, I'll spend some time perusing Pinterest and see if anything catches my eye.

There was no kitty help yesterday. I went in search of some kitties, and I found Smitty tucked into Sadie's studio apartment. I was kind of surprised to find him there since we thought he was too big to fit. There's a warming blanket in there, and so it's a comfortable place for kitties on a rainy day. Sorry about the flare in that image below. It was dark when I took this picture, and the flash reflected off the fencing.

Okay, so the rest of my day will be all sewing all the time...except for napping. First, I'll get to work on Tiny Treasure #31. And then I'll get busy with the quilting. As the days wind down toward our D-day (departure day), I've given myself some tasks to complete. If I'm remembering right, I still have about three days before I need to start getting ready in earnest. We were deluged with rain yesterday, but we're looking at blue skies and sunshine today. It's going to be a good day. I hope you're having a good day too.