corona-cation, episode 3

sun is finally out and springtime temps have returned....corona sewing blitz continues and happy to report another finish!

it's  the asian autumn wall quilt....leaves are cherrywood solids, background a small asian piece that was just too pretty not to use, now used up and gone from the stash!   in the hoop is the 'home sweet home' wall quilt, fitting as today is my 4-year anniversary as a marylander--a topic for another day.    

probably be my first april finish....in the meantime, have been adding centers to the joseph's coat flimsy, which is more time consuming than putting together the rest of the top.  

but before anything else, a special request from a special downton abbey fan....2 sets of pillowcases in homage to her favorite masterpiece series....

hoping you are finding the silver lining in the world-wide cloud.  i know that each day that passes, i feel more and more blessed to be free from worry and stress, even though this thursday is yet ANOTHER non-quilty guild meeting day.....aarrrrrgh!

someday is today

we all have those things we want to get done "someday"....one of mine is this rug that needs repairing...

a long time ago in another galaxy, i was going to braid chair pads.  the wool and necessary tools were bought and i actually got one done--i needed 4--and then set aside for garment sewing, work, house maintenance, landscaping etc.   then i met a woman who actually made rugs, small ones.  we agreed to swap....the bag of wool with the one chair pad for a rug....the sewing of the braids has come loose in several places.  i love this rug and now have the time to fix instead of just vacuum around it....and then there's this....

the farmer's wife sew along flimsy....it's been at the bottom of the basting pile for far too long and been thinking about it....came close to tossing or giving away a few times, but i really like the blocks and realized it's the setting fabric i don't really like.   have decided to deconstruct and find something more to my liking in the stash....now that i have a lot more choices....finally, happy to say the basting blitz is finished for now with these 2 added to the quilting pile...the hexie stars and the scrappy "orange is the new neutral" quilt....

i had just enough pellon left for the stars, so that 3 yards is gone....the orange will be quilted with a large baptist fan stencil that came from a barb vedder giveaway.....hoping to get back to the machine today and tackle the "wildest dreams" stars....hoping to have joseph's coat ready to baste by end of month so can get it quilted in april....i shall conquer the UFO list!

corona-cation, episode 2

after a saturday away from sewing, played catch-up today...first, a task that had been postponed--new cover for the ironing big board...

then vacuuming with a bit of a temporary blip....the binding for my stars sew-along was tacked to the bulletin board and just touching the floor and whop!  in a flash the power nozzle ate it!

after gingerly removing it and tossing it in the trash, decided to see if it could be salvaged.  it had been way too long to begin with, so what was worth keeping will be enough for my small quilt...

early this morning the folding table went up and basting commenced....first the solids honeycomb sofa quilt...

then the flamingos and the stars sew along piece....

next up is the orange scrappy....took a bit of a break to make my low sodium pizza for lunch, light supper and a piece left for breakfast....the small amount of sodium in crust mix and mozzarella is legal for me when divided among 3 meals...

to be honest, i do miss pepperoni but the 'new normal' forbids it.  and managed to fit in some exercise using the hallway railings and some free weights i have....for nonquilty entertainment, the us army band is live streaming concerts every day thru thursday on youtube...check it out!