Lots of Sewing

Good morning, my friends. The camper is unpacked. The bedding, towels, rugs, and quilts are washed. The birds have been fed, and what else is there? Oh yes...I needed to find room for five more refrigerator magnets. Standing in front of the refrigerator is discouraged at this point. Hard hats are required.

Matthew suggested we might need a new refrigerator if we are to do more traveling. 

Probably I've forgotten something I still need to do, but I spent a good part of the day sewing yesterday. My first task was to reorganize and figure out where I left off. But first, slow-stitching. I've stitched enough on this section of the flock, 

That I decided to move my hoop up and to the left. This is where I'll start this morning.

Okay, and then I headed into the sewing room. This next task was to press the final block for the Snowmen & Reindeer project. It was started and finished on the road.

Sadie helped me trim it to size.

And then I could lay it out with the rest of the blocks. This project will be moving to the "quilt tops to finish" section of my white board. It's third in line to be finished.

Since that was the last block for that project, it was time to choose another. Mr. Random chose project #2 on my list.

Which happens to be another Crabapple Hill project: Over the River and Through the Woods.

It’s almost as if this was foretold while we were traveling. It occurred to me that I didn't have any quilts to celebrate Thanksgiving, and this one came to mind. It's been in my pattern stash for a very long time. Now, I'm kind of excited to get started on it. 

Okay, and the only other thing I needed to do to get back on track was to iron the Plaid Cat stitchery. This was another I finished while we were traveling. 

It's been added to the "small quilt tops to finish" section of my white board, and it too is third on the list to be finished.

All right...so that brought me to where I left off when we started our trip. I'd been working on the fourth block for "Across the Wide Missouri." The applique was finished, but details needed to be stitched in. Here's where I left it.

Most of my sewing time yesterday was taken up stitching in the details on the yarrow and the bee skep.

And that completed the fourth block for this project.

That seemed like a good place to stop for the day.

Today I still have a few things to do in the camper...mainly, putting back all the stuff that was washed yesterday. When I've crossed off all my to-do's, I'll start on my next quilting project. I'm still working at getting my quilts-to-be-quilted pile down to a dull roar. Next up is the Cats in Pajamas project. I spent some time yesterday smoothing and ironing the back, and I'll start quilting it today. For this project, I'll do one row of cats per day. If I can stitck with that schedule, I should have it to binding stage in about a week.

Next up on my list of WIP's are two more blocks for the Northern Wilderness project. I'll be working on the final two blocks for this project. These are the blocks I have for this quilt so far.

And that'll keep me busy in the sewing room for several days.

Oh yes, and as I've been writing, I remember I need to make October's block for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. October's color is “neutrals in dark or light.” I'll need to give that some thought….a dark grey maybe. Here are the blocks I have for this quilt so far.

Okay, so off I go. We got a little rain yesterday. I need to pull some weeds from my weedy herb garden. The rain will have softened the ground making that easier. The whole day yesterday was spent laundering everything from the camper. Today, I'll work on washing the clothes. The coming week is going to get a little busy. It'll be good to get in some sewing today.