My personal too unannounced goal inward Jan is to destination 3 small-scale quilts from the quilts-to-be-quilted pile. Threads of Hope for Project Quilting was simply a fun diversion. As for the quilts-to-be-quilted pile, ii are at i time finished: Going Bananas, too the newest, Lucky Charm. This is my adaptation of a free pattern I institute on Canoe Ridge Creations. My version ended upwards at 22 x 22 inches.
I love tabular array toppers too tabular array runners, too I've been endeavoring to cause got i of each for every conceivable flavour too holiday. This is i for St. Patrick's Day. I had about ideas close how to quilt it, but it actually all came together as I was going along. I used a white YLI quilting thread on top.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 greenish variegated thread from Threadart inward the bobbin.
And I don't know if yous guys attention close the thread names too colors, but I post service these images for my ain reference as much as anything else. Sometimes I expect dorsum to come across where a thread came from or to teach a color publish too thus I tin reorder.
So I was settled on quilting the Spiral Clover from Lori Kennedy's weblog inward the 3 greenish clover leafage sections. Although I practiced several times, it was hard to teach the "leaves" spaced correctly too sized equally. The leafage on the left side ever wanted to stray also far away from the other two. Nevertheless, I got 'er done. Having the textile strips helped approximate the positioning of everything.
Here's how it looks from the back.
I actually didn't know what to do inward the stalk section, too and thus I simply winged it amongst this design. It's uninspired, but it works.
In the borders, I did a motif that was meant to locomote suggestive of clover leaves. They didn't infinite out simply right too thus that I could do i inward the corner. The corners simply got a big loop.
The outer edge is done the same way, but I turned it the other direction.
Once I decided on the motifs for each section, it quilted upwards pretty quickly.
Here's how it looks from the back:
I had a overnice vivid greenish quarter yard fight to role for the binding.
It took close an hr to hand-stitch it, too that puppy was finished.
Here's how it looks from the back.
Also yesterday, I made a expert chip of progress on the Let's RV cross stitch piece. I'd missed my stitching fourth dimension the twenty-four hr catamenia before, too and thus I gave myself extra fourth dimension to operate on it. Now, the whole right side is finished, too that's the terminal I'll role the carmine floss. There are a few lilliputian mistakes inward this. Sometimes I miscount too sometimes I forget to stitch a job somewhere. I'm non accustomed to looking at cross-stitch patterns, too and thus my mistakes come upwards from misinterpreting things rather than carelessness. So far, null has bothered me plenty to gear upwards it.
Now I've moved the hoop. There are about words to stitch across the locomote past times earlier I motion to the left side. Here's how it looks too thus far.
For dinner terminal night, Mike smoked about Cornish game hens inward his Traeger smoker/grill. Mike has never taken much involvement inward cooking, but the Traeger seems to cause got awakened the caveman inward him. He's been spending quite a chip of fourth dimension looking at smoking recipes, too these Cornish hens were his latest creation. I've asked him to shipping me the recipe he used too thus I tin add together it to my database too portion it amongst you. These were actually good. The brine made them too thus moist too flavorful, too the smoking makes them beautiful.
As a side dish, I roasted about sweetness potatoes similar baked potatoes. These cause got a "hot dear browned butter" that goes amongst them. It's i of my favorite ways to swallow sweetness potatoes, too it's a expert stand-in for traditional baked russet potatoes. You tin abide by the recipe for Roasted Sweet Potatoes amongst Hot Honey Browned Butter right here. It certain makes my sewing twenty-four hr catamenia terminal longer when he takes over inward the kitchen.
It's been mutual coldness too windy here, although at that topographic point has been no rain. I had every intention of getting out for a walk yesterday, but it was too thus danged mutual coldness outside, I couldn't convey myself to teach out the house. Sadie knows what to do:
Smitty simply hangs out on his kitty pole looking out the window.
Wake me upwards when it's summer.
Today I actually am going to teach a walk in, but it mightiness locomote on the treadmill. There's null on the calendar inward the way of housekeeping chores, too and thus it's going to locomote about other NBS day. On today's agenda, I'll locomote getting afterwards that terminal row of blocks for the Shop Hop quilt. It'll locomote expert to cause got that i sewn into a completed flimsy.
What's going on for your Monday?