Day 14

Here are 25 of the little squares. 

11 more to go! 

Days 12 and 13

Finished:
16 large blocks
9 small blocks

To finish:
25 small blocks

I just noticed I sewed one piece backwards. Oops. I guess that makes only 8 small ones finished. I’ll have to seam rip it tomorrow and switch it around. 

We have a floor and a wall

Here is the before of the garage. 

https://gthfaith.blogspot.com/2021/02/garage-before-and-afters.html?m=1

Days 10 and 11

It doesn’t look like much, but I’ve chain pieced 144 of those little blocks at the top and they are ready to be sewn into the little 6” versions of the stars. So you should see some more stars tomorrow.  

Days 5-9?

It may not look like much, but this is 36 small 6” star blocks in progress. I’m chain stitching them; so there won’t be any exciting pictures until all 36 are finished. 

Time spent this week: 2 hours

We’ve all been fighting some cold-like bug (that is not the flu or Covid) and has effected each of differently - mainly we are just tired and congested. So not much sewing this week because the kids all needed lots of mom time.  So this week has been filled with lots of art project, models, read alouds, and audio books. The World Cup has given us plenty of math practice with its wacky scoring system. When the World Cup stated we colored all the flags and looked at where country is on the map.  We take the county flags down as they are eliminated. 

Extra picture of quilt

I don’t think I ever posted a finished picture of this quilt I made in 2021 for a friend of ours with brain cancer. If you look closely I quilted the words, “We rest on the, our shield and our defender” into the quilting. It is kind of a pun. You can say to the quilt, “We rest on thee”. :) But it was also a prayer and a reminder of God’s grace and goodness. Nothing can touch us apart from his plan. 

We were memorizing Psalm 121 at the time. 

I left my eyes to the hill, from where does my help come from. My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth! 

What a glorious reminder. 

Christmas quilt 2022 - Days 2 and 3 and 4

Here are the first 16 blocks.  They are 12” blocks; the next 36 will be 6” blocks. It takes about 15 minutes to do two blocks if there are no distractions… so I am guessing it took about 3 hours to do all these.

I’m going to try chain stitching the little blocks to make the process faster. So there won’t be any exciting photos for a while. 

Mud room in garage window

Two new windows in the garage and the siding is painted. We may put a window box on it in the future. 

Jared is in the process of installing new gas piping under the house. I’m thankful he is willing to do that because I hate heights and small places. I did conquer my fear of heights last week and sweep off the porch roof (after this picture was taken). But I don’t think I’d make it long under the house with all the cave crickets and possible snakes. *Shudder.* 

A new quilt - can I finish by Christmas.

The start of a quilt project  

A school project  - we just finished studying most of the continents and some of these countries. So we are tracking the wins and losses in the World Cup and calculating points and such for math. These flags for a review of the ones we knew and encyclopedia skills to find the ones we didn’t know. 

It’s that time of year when I try to finish a quilt by Christmas. This one has 52 blocks (which are cut of 364 squares). 

Time spent so far: 3 hours

6 blocks down and 46 to go. 

A new house project - garage mud room

We are turning half the garage into a mud room and laundry room. The first step was demoing the wood paneling, sheet rock, and insulation board. There have been a lot of trips to the dump so far. Next up is starting to build!! 

Here is the before of the garage:

https://gthfaith.blogspot.com/2021/02/garage-before-and-afters.html?m=1

Lots of shoes

Doll hair

Someone gave us two American Dolls. (Which is two more than I ever owned growing up). Though I loved playing with my friend’s Molly and always wished for a Samantha. The hair on the dolls was in terrible condition.  I bought a doll brush and spent about 15 minutes combing out the tangles and it looks so much better. 

Now to stow them away until the baby is 6 or 7. 

Runner - Art Deco

I designed this runner to match some Art Deco hand towels that were on the bride’s registry. The quilting was super funky and fun. 

Beach

Our favorite place. 

Hair

I cut off 12” off my hair this summer and donated it. It sure is weird to have short hair. It hasn’t been this short since college and I’m missing the ease of a side braid. 

Robin Hood costumes

The boys requested Robin Hood costumes this spring and I finally got around to making them. The middle son then wanted to be Will Scarlett. So red felt and cloth was purchased and I started on another costume. They were super easy to sew. 

Bibs in grey

My sister in law loves neutral colors. 

I like things bright and colorful. 

 I made these as neutral as I could. 

Tablecloth to napkins

Some of our cloth napkins have been wearing out after almost 13 years of daily use. So I took this tablecloth that I had purchased many years ago and never used and turned it into 12 new napkins. The bonus was that they were already half hemmed since the table cloth was hemmed. 

Chickens

One of my kids asked for baby chickens for Christmas.  He specified that he wanted them to fit in an egg and that he could hatch them.  I searched and searched for a baby chick pattern that was cute.  And the only one that I could find was one that came with a pattern from ikatbag. It came with a pattern for a big chicken as well as the small one.  One I saw the big chicken pictures I fell in love with it and had to make one (and then two more).  I laughed out loud when I was making this chicken.  I opted not to make the egg chute in the chickens (the original chicken can pop out eggs). 

Picture with the baby for size. 

Picture with the Christmas tree for scale. 

Robin Hood Hats

I recently made 9 of these hats for my kids and some of their cousins. They were requested by my 9 year-old for his birthday party (that ended up being cancelled because of sick siblings).   Usually I don't like mass producing projects. It gets old to make the same thing repeatedly. But this one wasn't too bad and the end result is fun.