Yesterday forenoon I spent around fourth dimension on the Appalachian Memories block. It's almost one-half finished now.
There was a piddling to a greater extent than to stitch earlier I needed to deed my hoop, but I moved it to the left anyway. It's a piddling difficult to come across inwards the paradigm below, but at that spot are lines only below the quilt block. They stand upwardly for the rails where the barn door would slide opened upwardly in addition to closed, in addition to they extend the entire width of the hoop.
Since I'm using stalk stitch on this piece, it's meliorate if I tin stitch the lines without breaking them. It's possible to choke along on without interrupting the time period of the stitch, but it's easier to only maintain on going, in addition to thus I told myself it was okay to deed to the left in addition to stitch both lines all at once. Besides...it's an OCD thing. This is what happens when you lot alive amongst an engineer for 43 years.
From there, I got my toes done. That was nice. When I got domicile I ate around luncheon in addition to thus got to operate on the finally of the Tuxedo's Tales blocks. This is the Dec block. I commencement fused the cat. The Dec truthful cat is wearing a shawl because, Baby, it's mutual frigidity outside.
There are a lot of leaves in addition to berries on this block, but I couldn't fuse the leaves without commencement drawing inwards the stalk lines. The stalk lines are auto stitched.
With those drawn in, I could fuse the leaves for the mistletoe higher upwardly the plane in addition to the holly branch inwards the cat's mouth.
That was all the fusing, but I wanted to come across how the buttons were going to fit. If you're wondering, know that the plane is wearing ear muffs.
This all worked out, but the holly berries were bothering me. They seem a piddling large.
This blueprint was originally a block of the month, in addition to it was done inwards wool applique. Mine is done from my scraps. I saw this made upwardly at a local quilt shop, but all the kits were gone. I can't scream upwardly if they had the patterns available, but I came domicile in addition to constitute the blueprint entirely on eBay. When I ordered it, the seller asked if I wanted the bundle of buttons that went amongst it. "Sure," I said, because I'm all for making things easier on myself. So, all of that to state that the scarlet buttons were the ones from the packet, but they didn't hold off similar the motion-picture demo on the blueprint cover. So, I looked through around of the other blocks I'd already done, in addition to realized I'd belike used the incorrect buttons on around of the other blocks.
Take a hold off at these side past times side three. I was belike supposed to role the larger buttons on 1 of these.
Oh well...not to worry. I dipped into my ain push stash in addition to constitute only what I needed there. I'll instruct amongst the smaller ones.
With that settled, I got to operate stitching downward all the applique. By day's end, it was finished, except to stitch the buttons on. There are likewise around hand-stitched snowflakes, in addition to thus I'll instruct that all finished today.
Smitty was tired of snoopervising past times then, in addition to thus nosotros quit for the day.
As long equally we're edifice cats, I idea you lot mightiness bask this paradigm I saw on Instagram this morning.
With all that fusing in addition to button-picking, I completely spaced the cranberry coffeecake I was planning to brand yesterday. I'll instruct that done today, in addition to I'll destination off the cat...the fused one. After that, my entirely other monthly is to brand the finally blocks for the Rainbow Jubilee quilt.
There's no coloring pick for December, in addition to thus I'm on my own. Last month, I wanted to brand "burgundy" blocks, but I mean value I ended upwardly amongst rust.
So, onward. It's real mutual frigidity hither today. It's a skillful hateful solar daytime to remain inwards in addition to sew.