Last week I was trying to plan out my projects. I'm happy to report that I made a small amount of progress. I was able to piece the Jimothy block. He's going to be turned into a pillow cover. We need to decide if it will be a bound pillow or a stitch and turn out-type. And he needs to be quilted first. But it's progress! Something to remember for next time is to really reduce the stitch length on the tiny pieces. The pattern is from Getting Jazzy with It. Her instructions were good and I really liked that there were alignment marks on the bigger units so you knew where to line up adjoining paper chunks.
I have decided on a pattern (actually a mash-up) for the dress to wear to the wedding and ordered appropriate fabric and have had the patterns printed. I'm waiting on both to arrive.
I've decided to tackle the smaller of the chicken cross stitches first and have made a small amount of progress. For some reason, I'd stitched one comb and a little bit of body on each project before setting them aside. Anyway, I figured if I started with the smaller, easier one, I'd feel like I accomplished something because it would be easier to finish.
I've considered how to recover the dining room chairs and might go with the easy selection there as well. I'll need to remove the seat from one of the chairs to measure how much fabric I might need and go from there.
No further progress on anything else. I did order a quilt kit that has a six-week stitch along starting next week. I thought maybe I'd try to work along with that so that I'm not left with yet another UFO. I'm not that into Halloween, but somehow I always get suckered in by cute Halloween projects (see Ghostie Girls runners, still not sewn). Speaking of Halloween, I found a pumpkin vine growing in the rock retaining wall behind my house. The pumpkins in the garden are ready to harvest.
I have made zero progress on my OMG. I have one week. Yikes, thought I had two. Weekend plans, perhaps?
I'm still trying to make my way through my quilting queue. Here are the quilts that I've worked on since last week.
First, three more memory quilts for Annie, quilted with Diagonal Plaid Bias. These all have a strip of t-shirts down the back as well, which you can see in the first picture. I still need to make the binding from the backing and bind three of the four memory quilts.
We met up with my son for lunch on Friday. While leaving campus, we saw a delivery robot.
He also came home briefly Friday night and we brought him a camera lens Monday evening. I enjoy every second. I won't get to see my daughter for another couple of weeks.
Smoky the rooster has started to do some really creaky crowing most mornings. We're taking that as an encouraging sign because they stay silent when they're ill. Henry leaves the coop most days but has to be put back in at night. Peanut had really been struggling and we unfortunately lost her last night. 😭 Here's a picture of her and Smoky from back in April before all this started.
Monday morning I heard some weird noises and looked out the window towards the coop. The three bigger hens were in the garden and they were making alarm noises (at a much lower volume than the alarm noises Silkies make) because there was a FOX! NOOO! Smoky wasn't alarming, but he was patrolling the area under the coop. Luckily Henry and Peanut weren't out. The other hens (Penny, Poppy, and Nugget) hopped up into one of the garden tanks and froze. I went out two separate times and circled the entire area, hoping to scare away the fox. Ugh. Not how I wanted my day to start. The entire area is as reinforced as we can get it, above and below ground, but I would hate for a clever critter to figure out how to sneak in and kill our pets.
