Yesturday was such a lovely day. The ladies came for our monthly Saturday Sew Day. I am so glad that we all decided to continue to gather together, once a month, to sew. It's been really nice. At the moment we are all working on different things, while still some of us are working at the Smith Mountain Morning quilt. Only one person yesturday was actually working on that one....lol....can you guess that she is the one that is the furthest along on it.....lol. More on that one in another post.
One of the ladies is making a Row-by-Row quilt, with various different designs per row, from more than one book. I completely forgot to get a picture of her barn blocks from the last sew day, but they were gorgeous with a block within the barn block. She also made some pine trees another time.
This time she was working on these cute bird houses. There are two of each made so far. She plans on making one more bird house, which is like a bird hotel with many entrance holes. These blocks will get their entrance hole later. They will have to be appliquéd on. This row will be cute, with the different houses in different sizes and fabrics. I can't wait to see how she puts it all together into a quilt.
Another person brought the blocks for this quilt, to assemble the quilt. There were a few blocks missing, which were either brough by another one of our group later in the day, or made up during our sewing time by a few ladies. Then this person managed to finish assembling the whole top before she had to pack up to leave. She was really sewing up a storm while she was here!!
This quilt and these blocks were a joint effort. We all, as in the members of the HHQG, got together at the November's guild meeting to sew up the blocks. People were instructed to bring some strings from their stash of bright colours. All the colours were quickly sorted in colour families and each group took a colour basket and started sewing a total of seven blocks. It's amazing what can be done at a guild meeting. As the saying goes, many hands make light work.
As for me, I was working on the units for my Christmas quilt that I just started recently. I finished all the sewing of the one side, stitch and flip corners, while everyone was here, then after they all left, I decided I wanted to try and get the second side done. I managed to get half of them done.
Today I'll be trying to finish the rest of them and maybe even iron and trim the back triangles off. We'll have to see how that goes. I may just take some time to assemble the last two NICU star quilts.
On a side note, I have to say that I love the friendships and comradery that we have as a group. I keep thinking about the comment I throw out yesturday and the reply/reaction I got back......lol. My comment/question was, "what are the chances of getting this Christmas quilt done in time for Christmas"? LOL, said as a tongue in check comment. What I got back were chuckles and a single word....delusional......lol. Then there was a bit of banter back and forth with some teasing going on....lol. I am glad I got them laughing and smiling. I did mean it as a joke.
I really don't see me getting this done that quickly.......however the joking around and teasing could be taken as a challenge....... As I was sitting here writing up this post and playing back the events of yesturday, just for fun I looked up the phrase, "issued a challenge".
This is what AI came back with: When someone is "issued a challenge," they are formally invited to compete, dispute, or prove something, often leading to actions like a "challenge for cause" in law (questioning a juror's fairness) or simply a "dare," "provocation," or "invitation to compete," depending on the context. The person receiving it might be called the "respondent" or "accused," while the act itself is a "challenge" or "motion".
So ladies......I am now seriously debating whether I take you all up on the "challenge"!!!! LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL can I do it? I don't know but the words above, "formally invited to compete" is pretty hard to resist!!
Take care everyone.
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