Friday's sew and chat day with the HHQG

I had a very nice time at the Friday's sew and chat day with the HHQG.  We were six of us, that showed up for the first sew & chat of the 2025/26 Guild year.  Everyone working on their own thing.  I brought a few things with me to work on.  Didn't know how much I could get done in the day, so preferred to have more, then run short of stuff to do.

We did some sewing and chatting from about 9:30am-3:00pm, and I primarily worked on the houses that I spoke about in a previous post.  All together, I made 28 of them.  Whoohoo!!  That is good progress.  I started with 5 stacks of house parts, and finished one full stack.  So assuming they all have about the same amount, I have another 100-112 left to go.  I know I will not need this many for this current quilt I have planned, so there will definitely be another house quilt in my future....

Did you see the HST (half square triangles) above, in the bottom left hand corner?  For each of the houses, constructing the roof, yields two HSTs.  That makes 56 HSTs to add to my Ocean Wave quilt pile.  This is the best way to accumulate them.  You just keep making them, as leader/enders, and they continue to pile up.

I also did a sample block of a Jean & Plaid quilt that I will be making.  This is the third item from the recently added items.  I'm off to a good start!!  Tackling 4 quilts all at once, in one day.

Yesturday was very productive!  My sister came and painted the ceilings in the quilting studio.  I installed the last of the casings around the windows, lightly sanded the first coat of paint on the peninsula, then painted the last coat.  Yeah!!  After my sister left, I spent the rest of the day cleaning up all the tools, paint cans, vacuumed, put furniture back in place and an overall clean up.  I am so happy with all that was accomplished.  Today I have some quilting to do, then maybe I can play some more with these houses.  We'll see.

Take care everyone.