My Sunday Slow Stitching

I think I mentioned it in a previous post, about a group of bloggers who will use Sundays, as a day to take time to do some handwork.  I thought it was a great idea.  They do their handcrafts and post about them to a main page with a link to their own blog.  I don't link in, as I've never done it before, but I thought when I can, I'd like to join in by doing some of my own handwork.

Yesturday was Sunday and this is what I've been up to.  I finished this block, which is part of my quilt called Gathering Flowers.  I've written plenty about this quilt in previous posts.  This is the block for February.  You'll have to pardon all the wrinkles from handling it.  I won't bother to iron it until I am ready to trim all the blocks and start assembling the quilt. 

After I completed the above block, I was really motivated to do some more handwork.  So after lunch I started working on this 2024 Temperature quilt.  This is the block for February.  I had about 1/3 of the outer circle appliquéd on, from a previous hand stitching session, and yesturday I was able to finish all of it.  Even the inner circle!! 

By this time it was done though, I had to take a break.  I needed to give my hands a bit of a rest.  So I went down to my studio and tried to catch up on some of my Smith Mountain Morning blocks.  I haven't been sewing for almost two weeks and I was already behind by a week.  Considering that I have it listed as making four blocks per week, I needed to make twelve blocks to catch up.  As today is now Monday, I have another four to do for this week, so that makes me sixteen behind.....

Luckily, I was in the mood to work on them and I had four of them done, before I had to go back upstairs to make dinner.  So today is another day and I am hoping to catch up a bit more on these blocks.  

On Saturday, I was able to cross off two boxes on my list of required blocks.  Yesturday, I was able to cross off two more boxes with the above two blocks done.  Now I have twelve blocks of the Smith Mountain Morning left to do and one last appliqué block from the Welcome to the North Pole wall hanging.

After dinner last night, I thought I would enjoy some quiet time stitching up this next block.  I got the building stitched on and the left roof piece is done.  The second roof piece is almost done, but about one inch left up at the top peek.

As this last picture was taken in the evening, the colours are quite a bit off.  The background is actually a dark denim colour, the edges around the block are a piece of the backing which is a dark but brighter teal, and the building is a bright light blue that stands out more then the snowflakes.  The roof is mainly red and green with highlights of gold, but in the picture looks more gold and red.

I am not sure when I will be able to get back to this appliqué block, but as it is for the month of February, I still have another couple of weeks.  Though I am not going to stress out about it.  This wall hanging is just for fun, and just for me, so there is no deadline.  I'll get to it as the mood strikes.  

Take care everyone.  Happy Family Day!!  Take some time to spend it with your loved ones if you can.