Sunday, 30 November 2025

Pulled out my Welcome to the North Pole appliqué blocks

I started this quilt some time around Aug 20th, this year.  I posted about it on Aug 25th, as I completed the first block.  I posted about finishing block two on Aug 31st and then started the third block.  That is exactly where I left off, and exactly where I am at, at the moment.  This got put aside when I started to install the baseboards in my studio and paint the ceiling, walls and baseboards, after repairing the holes from adding in some more pot lights.

I can hear what everyone is yelling at the screen as they read this.....lol.....  You don't think I've said the same thing to myself?  I know this shouldn't come out now, as I already have an appliqué quilt out.  But you know......I've been really good.  All day yesturday I was productive and I also quilted one whole section/pass of the hexagon quilt on the longarm, which took me two full hours.  I had to quit though, after I advanced the quilt and stabilized it, ready to quilt the last pass.  I sat there in front of the longarm machine, debating if I had the energy to do two more hours to finish it, but I had to face it....I didn't.

It was still early and I still wanted to do something, but I couldn't do another two hours of quilting.  While I was sitting there, I spied my blocks under the shelf, so I pulled them out to see what was what with it.....  When I saw that I only needed to appliqué the sign on the first two blocks, I thought, OH!, I can do that up real quick and call it done.....lol.  So, upstairs they came with me to work on.  

The Sprinkles Ice Cream Shoppe now has a sign.  Do you like the tree?  I used a fabric that makes it look like it is already decorated.  All so cute!


The North Pole Bakery now has a sign.  I just noticed that these two blocks have the same red fabric with dots.  Luckily for me this was intentional and the blocks are not near each other in the wall hanging.


So the two first blocks are done.  Yeah!  Now I can think about quilting them.  This quilt is being done as a quilt-as-you-go.  I am going to do this one on my domestic machine.

Today I have some cleaning and Christmas decorating to take care of.  I am hoping it will go smoothly.  Then maybe, just maybe, I can get the last pass of quilting the hexagon quilt.  That would be amazing!  Wish me luck.

Take care everyone.

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