Friday Fun

Good morning, my friends. We were in and out of the grocery store in less than half an hour yesterday. It left plenty of time in the day for getting the rest of my to-do's to-done, and there was plenty of time for sewing too. Before we left, I stitched up Tiny Treasure #59. This one has satin stitch, stem stitch, lazy daisy, backstitch, and straight stitch.

I'll stitch the last Tiny Treasure for this go-round this morning. After that, there will be just one more go-round of this project before I can start sewing it into a quilt. I have a plan for these. I think it will be cute. More on that later.

So we did our grocery shopping after that. I found neither cherries nor apricots in the grocery store, and so no baking for me yesterday. It seems early for cherries, but I saw both when I was at Whole Foods a few days ago. If I find myself in the neighborhood, I might try one of the specialty stores. For now...we're dessert-less. Oh, the humanity!

Okay and when we got home, I went to work on the binding for "The Story of My Day." It needed to be clipped and pinned, and then I stitched for a while, turning the first corner. 

I'm hoping to get to the second corner today. This is a square quilt, so all the sides are the same.

From there, I had a couple of housekeeping chores to do, but there was still plenty of time in the day for finishing off the Mountains block. It started with this quilt block:

My friend, Miss Pat, tells me this block is called "Delectable Mountains." It was surprisingly quick and easy to sew together. To create the block background, I just needed to add some borders.

And then the applique:

Today I'll get busy doing the top-stitching for the Mountains and the Salmon block below. I have the machine set up with monofilament thread and a microtex 60/8 needle. There are a lot of nooks and crannies in these blocks, and that makes for slow-going on the top-stitching. I still think I'll have time to finish both blocks today.

If I can finish those, I'll make June's inverted star before I get started on the Yoder Sisters project. I've wanted to make this quilt for a long time.

It's another rainy day today, and so I'll be spending the day inside. I want to go for a walk on the treadmill, and there's one housekeeping chore on today's calendar. There should be plenty of time for sewing. 

With that, I'll be on my way. I hope you have a super Saturday ahead of you.