Winter came to visit this weekend. We woke up Saturday morning to this. We got about 3" of wet heavy snow, which is melting now and soaking into our dry ground. We sure appreciate the moisture if not the cold temps.
There is one small finish to report before the week begins. The Bah Humbug pillow for Christmas is done, and I even had an 18" pillow form for it. The expression on the face of the cat is why I bought this kit in the first place. The only quilting on this one is stitching right up around the applique. I replaced the wool backing in the kit with a Christmas print from my stash. The red binding came from the left over binding drawer.
It's Veteran's Day week, so it will be busy and very inspirational. We awarded 3 quilts yesterday at a Veteran's luncheon in a nearby small town. Three more will happen at a large Veteran's event tomorrow here in Mitchell, and finally there will be 2 on Wednesday morning at a Veteran's program at a nearby high school. I'll try to share some photos near the end of this week from those events.
There is a lot of binding to do. Candy Lane quilt is nearly done. There are 5 placemats ready for binding. And the binding strips are cut for a Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt.
I'm hoping to get a few more of the Dresden blocks made, to get closer to having enough to assemble the quilt top. Green and orange blades are cut and ready to sew whenever I do manage to get some time this week.
Because of all the patriotic quilts happening this week, I plan to get back to work on some Quilt of Valor projects that are WIPS in my studio. One project is pinned into rows, and the other needs more blocks made. And there will be one final Blockheads block posted on Wednesday. Mine have been red/white/blue, so that makes 3 Quilts of Valor projects going on at once. Not to mention a stack of orphan blocks left from previous QOV. Oops!! Maybe there are 4 patriotic projects going on.
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