Sunday, January 4, 2015

Weekend Stitching

We had another long weekend thanks to New Year's Day. I don't know how I'm going to adjust to working five days a week again after the last three weeks. It has been a wonderful and relaxing holiday season for me.

Thursday night, the clamp for my floor frame broke. I'm very unhappy about this as I've only had the frame four months. I contacted the manufacturer and they will fix the clamp if I send it back, so it will go in the mail on Monday but I have no idea when I'll be able to get it back. This means no HAED stitching, as I stitch those two handed to keep the threads from slipping under the weave. So i dug into my WIP pile and worked on Magnificent Wizard by Dimensions.

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After
 I was also able to work on a couple more AOTH blocks. Block 5 is now finished. Block 1 still needs the satin stitching, which is not going as smoothly on the scrollwork as I had hoped. I am persevering with the idea that it will improve with practice.


Block 5 - AOTH


Block 1 - AOTH
After cutting up all the fat quarters that I pulled for the new baby quilt, I counted them up and approximated a layout in EQ7. The estimated final size for this quilt is about 45" x 33" or more or less crib size. Perfect!


I have about half of my charm squares stitched together.


Ideally, I will get this quilt top put together by the end of the week. (Haha, right. Sure.) As I was telling my sister in law today, the holidays were downright relaxing compared to what is planned for this month and next. Two baby showers, a birthday party, tax guy appointments, dentist trips, eye exams, Dagorhir practice, and I'm joining the sewing group at church. It definitely won't be boring.

4 comments:

  1. You are one busy lady! I have that Wizard in my stash. It looks difficult! Good luck with your return to full time work.

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  2. Everything is looking great. :)

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  3. Awesome progress on the wizard Kaelyn. The quilt is looking good.

    Linda

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  4. Good luck with your busy month ahead! And great job with your AOTH blocks are just wonderful!
    Thanks for linking at MOP Monday!

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