I finished the quilt top for the Annual Bonnie K Humter Mystery Quilt Along.
This is the top before quilting.
It came out pretty good. I like the borders the best I think. But I also know that I'll be losing those points in my binding. Oh well!
I got ready to load her up on Freddie, but I had a bad sound when I tried to roll him along the rails. UhOh!
So I figured it was one of the front wheels, so I called APQS Support, and they sent me an email with the directions on how to fix it. Nothing too hard, really! BUT...one little thing, this screw. There are two screws that need to be removed from this aluminum rail guide, I got one out with no problem, but the other one? NO WAY! I stripped that screw head so bad!
It's in an awkward place underneath the machine, my drill was too bulky to get a good grip on the screw head, I went on line to see what folks were saying to do about a stripped screw head, and then I ordered a screw extractor from Amazon. It came, and Thursday I gave it a go. No luck. SO I headed to my local hardware store and got a different kind of extractor and new screws. And since I was in the neighborhood, I stopped at Lowes and got a 3rd kind of extractor.
I tried my best, but gave up and called my back up. Ben. He came over and just like that he got that dang thing out! He's magical. BTW the one that worked was the Speed Out Pro.
Just look at this little bugger! GGGRRRRRRR!
Got the wheel tightened back up and Freddie is back in business.
I didn't have free time to quilt until Saturday, but I got going right away!
I had updated Quilt Path to the new version, so I was hoping all would go well. And it did!
I pieced a backing for it, I LOVE this print fabric, it's by a designer named Sue Penn freespiritfabrics.com/sue-penn-collections/. I've had this yardage for awhile, and knew I couldn't cut it up, so it made a perfect backing!
I just LOVE IT!
And despite the cold I had to get pictures.
A little above zero now...better than overnight, it was -12!!
These Bonnie Hunter quilts are always so pretty. A ton of pieces, but it always goes together really smoothly. This one finished at about 80" square.
I used a new-with-the-update design in Quilt Path. Pearls with Loops.
And here's the back-I love it maybe more than the front!
Dang, I LOVE this fabric!
I have a couple more pieces of Sue Penn fabric, it might be coming up on a back soon!
The first week of January brought some unseasonably warm weather around 50degrees! So we made the most of a couple days and hit the playgrounds.
This is one of my favorite playgrounds, it's just a few blocks from Aunt Jean and Uncle ben's house and is great because it has the padded playground surface. It's like rubber padding, and so it's never muddy and you never have sand or pebbles or wood chips in your shoes.
See the nice surface, when you walk on it, it's like walking on puffy slippers!
He's so cute! Love that dimple smile!
Two days of play! WOW!
This is Kent Park, which is closer to home, but it has the wood chips. Still an excellent playground.
Snowpants are a must at any winter playground, not only because it's chilly, but the slides always have dew or melted snow on them!
Nice to look back on these days since tomorrow the high is supposed to be 3 degrees.
And it's coming together! I just have the border to make now!
This year it's kind of not my favorite, yet anyways.
In past years I've liked it a lot more. Something about those X in the middle of the alternating block, not my fav. But when it's all done It will be fine I'm sure.
I've also been working on this project for my Sister. She had a basket full of ribbons she earned at horse shows over the years. She saw on social media that it could be made into a wall hanging. Well it sounds easy enough......
It is a project, that's for sure. But it's coming along. Ribbons are different to work with, they just ravel away if you breathe on them!
But I think I'll have them stitched into submission eventually! I'm using monofilament thread, so that's different too. And I'll have to figure out a project for all the rosettes too I think!
Ben stopped over to visit the other day, so I asked if he wanted to put together a Christmas present for Dylan. Sure!
There is a little copy cat here..... Anyways, It's a table and chairs set I got for Dilly. Assembly challenged the adult and amused the toddler.
Here's the finished project.
I took Ringo for a nice Christmas Day walk at Kent Park. The weather was very nice!
I sewed small string backpacks for the kids to put their Christmas haul in. It's a very cute, handy project. The directions can be found at Sew Can She.
We had supper at our house on Christmas Day and handed out the gifts. Not that we handed out appliances or anything, but, I paid for Bean to have these beautiful appliances installed at their house.
For some reason I didn't take pictures of presents opening! Only this one!
And the annual family snapshot...always a challenge.
At least Bean looks happy in their picture!
It was a bust few days wrapping up with Soup and sandwiches at Julie's house.
I rolled up the saran wrap game once again. They seemed to like it pretty well again.
This year I had smaller items to roll in the wrap, so a smaller ball.
Everyone had fun with that.
Phew! I'm going to go sew a little bit now and relax!
The annual Bonnie K Hunter Mystery Quilt is in the works, now's my chance to catch up on this rainy day!
Waiting for the predicted snow to arrive and prepare for another week of Dilly Duty!
