Snow Day Complete

Good morning, my friends. It was a fairly relaxed day of sewing. There were no to-do's on my list, although I did go for a walk on the treadmill. From there, it was sewing, sewing, and more sewing. Our weather is still pretty crappy, but it should be a little improved today...temporarily, at least.

There was just one more snowflake to stitch on the Snow Day piece, and I finished that easily. It still needed to have the Sticky Fabri-Solvy rinsed out. When it was dry, it was picture ready.

It still needs borders, quilting, and binding. So I'll set that aside for a bit. Finishing the embroidery was my goal for November's

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

There was still time in the morning for some slow-stitching, and so I took the first stitches on the top scene for Over the River and Through the Woods. This one is going to take a while.

My next stop was to start quilting the embroidered blocks for Grandpa's Bridges. I'm sticking with a sort of rock wall motif at the bottom, clouds in the sky, and then some of the siding on the bridge structure.

Same thing here, except I did more of a leafy vine toward the bottom.

Pretty much the same thing here, except I did some trees and branches above the roof of the bridge.

Here's a peek at the back. Probably I'll stitched a single line around those block borders just to separate them on the quilt back.

So, that was a good amount of quilting for a day. I'll stick with doing a row of blocks for the next several days, and then I'll get started on the block borders and the quilt's inner border.

Moving into the sewing room, Smitty was there to help.

We laid out the first block for the fourth row.

And then I made the second block and sewed them together.

I might have had time for a third block except that I noticed I'd used the wrong color in the spot circled below. It's already fixed in this image, but that took whatever time I had left in the day. It's sometimes hard to distinguish those creamy brown colors when I'm looking at the pattern picture. It's easy to see errors, though, because the colors follow a diagonal path.

So, I laid out the third block, and I'll sew that one together today. There should be time today to finish this fourth row.

And since finishing this quilt has become a mission, I've already ordered fabric for the back. It hasn't arrived yet, but it should be here before I finish the quilt top. Zebra...of course. Probably I'll give this a black binding, but I might opt to give it a zebra binding too. I might consult Matthew about which he would prefer.

There is one other quilt for quilting that has not yet been sandwiched. You might remember the Stair Steps quilt top I finished back in July. This too is a large quilt.

If I'm going to be sandwiching quilts, I wanted to get a back for this one. I ended up selecting a 108-inch wide backing for it. Might as well make it easy on myself, right? And that arrived in yesterday's mail. I think this will work out just fine. Probably I can use that for the binding too.

So that was my day of sewing. Today will look a lot like yesterday. I'm kind of excited to be more than halfway with the Zebra. Matthew is also excited to see the whole thing sewn together.

All right then. I have just one to-do on my list, and I want to get in a Bowflex workout today. Mercifully, we've been having leftovers for dinner, and so there's not much standing between me and my sewing.