A Finish

Good morning, my friends. It's a sunny day today, but don't let that sunshine and clear sky fool you. It's very cold out. Looking at the day's forecast, we won't even break into the low 50's until later this afternoon. There was a frost warning last night, but it didn't get that cold. My flowering plants and trees were thankful for that.

Thanks to those of you who wished me well for my first day of physical therapy yesterday. It went fine. I've been given a series of isometric exercises to do. I'm still skeptical that it will help, but I'll be a good sport and go along with it anyway...starting today. I'll substitute in the PT exercises for the arms and still do the leg workout on the Bow-flex.

Before I left, I had some time to spend in the sewing room. The boss joined me there.

He helped me lay out the blocks for the Raggedy & Friends project.

When we had them properly arranged, they looked like this.

All of the vertical sashings were added as I made the blocks. To sew them together, I'll just need to add horizontal sashings and cornerstones. I went digging through my stash of red solids. I'd hoped to find a brighter red, but the best I could do was this brick red. I needed 20 of those, and I needed 20 black sashings.

There was time to sew together the first row before it was time to head out.

I'm hoping I can finish sewing it together today. There's also a yellow border to add, and I think I'll have plenty of time to finish it today. The yellow border was pictured in the pattern, but it so happens that my backing fabric has plenty of yellow too.

When I got home from my appointment, there was plenty of time to finish off the binding for the Amish Sampler. I turned all four corners...

And then there was just about half a side to go to finish it off. And Ta-Da! It ends up at 61 x 61 inches.

Here's a peek at the back.

I thought I'd need one more day to finish that, so it's nice to have it done ahead of schedule. This was my project for April's

And so I'll link up there when the party starts at the end of the month.

Today, I'll work on finishing off the Raggedy & Friends quilt top, and I'll make a back for it. If there's still time in the day, I'll start sewing together the Kittens in Cups. This was my project for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge in 2025.

Mainly, it needs sashings. I'll use the same background fabric used in the quilt blocks. Already I have a backing fabric for this one. On a recent quilt shop outing, I found the perfect fabric for them. I saw this one in the fabric store, but I wanted a different color.

Going online, I found this one in an Etsy Shop, and so there's no excuse for not getting this quilt into the quilts to be sandwiched pile.

Okay, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Before I can do anything in the sewing room, I'll get back to my slow-stitching. After that, I need to feed the birds. Despite the cold weather, it's a good day to walk around and see what's going on in the garden. It's been nasty and wet the past couple of days, and so I need the check in on things and dispense attaboys as needed.

So, off I go. It's going to be a good day to stay inside and sew some more quilt blocks into flimsies.