Block 6 finished and 7 started

Finished up block 6 on Friday night.

I tried the starch/freezer paper prep method on this one. I see why some people would like it, but I still prefer needle turn applique.

Here is block 7 that I prepped for needle turn yesterday and started sewing on last night.

Not my favorite block color wise, but my daughter - in -love picked the fabrics and the quilt will be for her. Shhhh. She doesn't know about my blog as far as I know so it should be safe to post here as I go lol.

Linking up to Kathy's Slow Stitching Sunday . Go on over and see what others are doing today.

Busy Morning and New Tool Review

This morning I met hubby at the orthopedic surgeon for his 6 months visit. He isn't ready to have the reverse replacement surgery so Workers Comp requires he go every 6 months to keep the case open. Everything was still as it was last time so that's good.

Came home and started chicken wings in the crockpot for supper. Hopefully the nasty storms won't knock out our electricity. I didn't think about that when I defrosted the chicken yesterday. Oh well if it goes out I will finish in the power cooker tonight.

Ate breakfast, did devotional, next up is dishes from breakfast and quilt. I am still trying to finish up the surprise quilt for grandson. They know he is getting a quilt but not the pattern, etc. I promise plenty of pictures of it once he gets it in May for his birthday. Once this one is finished I will have lots of updates as I will be working on lots of other projects.

Here is my latest tool. I really like it. Due to RA in most of my body (diagnosed at 3 with it in 98% of my body. My grandma had it really bad), my hands don't always play right closing pins to baste for hand quilting.

It's called the Kwik Klip and why did I wait so long to get one??? A lot of you probably already use it, but I used it on grandson's quilt for the first time a few days ago. I love it!!

Keep us in good thoughts, prayers, whatever you can, we are in south Louisiana and starting today they are predicting up to 10" of rain over the next few days. I am praying for all of you who are in the projected areas also.

The new Whimsical Block

It is glue basted haven't started hand applique yet. Will straighten up the rough places while I stitch.

The last two pictures are updates on the scarf I am making. The pictures don't do justice to the yarn colors. But give you a closer look at the pattern. I am almost finished with the second section on the scarf. I only knit a short while every day because of RA. 

Updates

Here is what I have been working on (other than the surprise quilt.

This is the latest block from My Whimsical Quilt. I need to prep the next one.

This is the hexi block I am working on right now. Still have alot to do on it. If you see the red hexi block on the chart next to it that is the one this will be when it is all grown up.

This isn't a very good picture. Will try to get a better one for the next update on it. This is the scarf that I am knitting right now.

Please go to Slow Stitching Sunday at Kathy's blog and see what others are doing today.

Hi There!

No pictures today. The quilt I am working on right now is a birthday quilt for our youngest grandson who will be 3 in May. His mom stalks my blogs sometimes and since it is a surprise I won't show it until his birthday. But it is super cute!

I'll have pictures to update on the hexie sampler and possibly the applique tomorrow or later today.

This was mostly to say I am still here lol. Hopefully I will be posting more regularly on here and stalking all my favorite blogs and actually have time to comment. I read them everyday but had started reading them in bed at night and not as easy to comment from my kindle. Trying to go back to reading on the computer so I can post comments.

Stash busting?

Is it really possible? To end up with less fabric after a project than you had before? I aim to find out this year.

Here are the "rules" I have set for myself.

Before buying any fabric other than backings and sometimes backgrounds,  I have to search through ALL my fabric in all the holding places, some in plain sight, alot not in plain sight. If there is nothing that will work, I can buy exactly how much I think I will need. NO EXTRA even if I love it. (that will be the hard part).

I must make a dent in my many yards of Ricky Tims hand dyes. Those are the fabrics I have a hard time cutting into.

I must add the leftover fabrics from my Baltimore Blue quilt to the stash and stop saving it for something special.

How will I reward myself if I stick to it? Well I will buy more fabric of course silly. LOL. At least then I will have a place to store it.

Check out A Quarter Inch from the Edge . She started it lol.

2016??

Hard to believe another year is over! Onward to 2016!

Today my slow stitching project is my hexie project. I have thought about trying inklingo for a really long time after seeing how well it worked for Karen over at Karen's Quilts. Finally about a month ago I bit the bullet and downloaded one of the hexie sets. So far (I have 3 done so far) I really like it. I enjoy hand piecing and really didn't like hexies when whip stitching and using EPP. I know alot of people love it, I am just not one of them. The printing on fabric scared me but Karen over the last year or so answered alot of questions for me and it is really easier than I thought it would be. Here are a couple of pictures of the project I am planning on working on this year. Since I have alot of other projects going also it will be a long term project.

First picture is the one I am working on right now. It will be the red one in the second picture. I have 2 of the first row flowers done and one of the jacks looking one on the second row finished.

Linking up to Kathy's Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday. Go by there and see what others are working on today.