Here are all the blocks I've done so far:
There are still three to go before I'm ready to sew this together, and so I'll just keep stitching away at it.
Speaking of finishing books, do you follow the Bibliophile Files on at Sarah Did It? She's published her monthly linky party this morning, and I'm motivated to start joining in each month. I've added her button to my right side bar with a list of the books I'm currently reading.
Sarah is good about setting a reading goal and keeping track of the books she wants to read and the books she's finished. Starting in January, I'm going to keep a list of the books I've finished. For now, I have just the two I've finished recently and the ones I'm currently reading. The Kindle books don't get read as quickly as the audio books are listened to. The audio books are for hand and machine sewing. The Kindle books only get attention when I'm ready to go to sleep at night (thus, a short period of time) and when I'm out and about...usually for some kind of an appointment (thus, rarely). So that's my plan. I'm already setting goals for 2019. I've even chosen my next Rainbow Scrap quilt, but no peeking for now.
For the rest of my sewing day, I worked on the next section for And On That Farm. This one is called "With an Oink, Oink Here." The first task is to piece the background together. With limited amounts of fabric supplied in my kit, this is always nervous-making.
Next, I made a sunflower.
After that, I fused the eye pieces together. You can see the placement diagram below the teflon pressing sheet there.
After that, I made the pieces for the pig's body.
By that time, it was 3:00 and I'd promised to turn on the slow cooker. We had left over chicken and dumplings. I'd refrigerated it in the slow cooker crockery, and all I needed to do was plug it in and turn it on. Also, I promised myself I'd do a housekeeping chore when I turned it on...which I did. Yay me! It's hard to tear myself away once I get started on my sewing for the day. Usually, I'm not very disciplined that way, telling myself I can always do it tomorrow. Working on that, because I hate it when those chores pile up.
So once I had my housekeeping chore done, I went back to work on the pig. From here, just the nose was left.
And there it is! I guess he's eating that sunflower.
After that, I fused him to the background, and this one is finished.
When you see this in the assembled quilt, the sunflower extends out into the border and the sashing,
and so it's only fused just where the pig's nose is. The rest is loose, and it will be fused when I have all sections for the quilt sewn together...sometime during the year 2147. (I like to plan ahead.)
Smitty likes the days when all the "sewing" is limited to the ironing board. He likes to get all comfy in my sewing chair.
With the Friendship's Garden block complete, I'm ready to move on to the 9th of 12 dresses in the Sundress quilt, and so I traced out the next one yesterday morning.
Now it's hooped up and ready to go.
That's where I'll head next. These stitch up pretty quick. Ya' gotta love a block that fits all in a single hoop. Also today, grocery shopping. I can't wait to get out there with all the terrified shoppers getting ready for Thanksgiving! If I get back to the sewing room today (assuming I don't get arrested for murdering a fellow shopper), it will be to work on the next block for It's Raining Cats and Dogs. I'm closing in on a finish for those blocks. More about that tomorrow, I hope.
