To-Do Tuesday #41

 Another To-Do Tuesday and linking with Roseanne at Home Sewn By Us

Here is last week's list and progress:

To-Do Tuesday week of November 17 through November 23:

1. Do another stitch and paint project ✅
2. FMQ for 4 days✅
3. Christmas project✅
4. Enter more quilts in Flickr and Pinterest✅

I have been doing FMQ on a Susan Winget Christmas panel.  I am using my BSR and not particular about following the lines exactly.  Some places I go over several times.  Here is the top right of 4 images.

I have discovered a way to use the stitch regulator and not switch to the ruler foot for straight lines!!

A thin wood piece that was a leftover from another project works great.  It doesn't slip and it is easy to hold to make a straight line with the stitch regulator foot.  Here is a photo of how I use it.......

I discovered a new to me You Tube channel with stitching and painting videos by

stitchesbyjulia                I can't wait to try some of her ideas.

I also found out about making manx blocks...........You Tube videos describing these blocks like log cabin all done by hand and a very different procedure.

To-Do Tuesday week of November 24 through November 30:

1. FMQ Christmas panel by Susan Winget 
2. paint and stitch project
3. Bonnie Hunter mystery starts Friday
4. start a manx block

This week will be busy with Aztec basketball games starting.  I would like to do some decorating for Christmas but not as much as I usually do each year.

Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving.  We will not be meeting with our family and it will be just the two of us.  We will cook our traditional menu and Zoom with our family..

I am linking to Roseanne's  

http://homesewnbyus.com/to-do-tuesday-68-and-weekly-list-update/

Be sure to check it out.

and also linking to Free Motion Mavericks

https://quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com/2020/11/finished-stars-and-making-plans-on-free.html 

Be sure to check out this link too

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

To-Do Tuesday #40

Another To-Do Tuesday and linking with Roseanne at Home Sewn By Us

Here is last week's list and progress:

To-Do Tuesday week of November 10 through November 16:

1. make 2 log cabin blocks in the string bean pattern ✅
2. FMQ at least 4 days ✅
3. Decide some Christmas quilting projects ✅
4. Enter past quilts I have made in my Flickr and Pinterest accounts ✅\

I finished my second Kawandi and here is a photo of both of them hanging on my dining room wall

 Birds in the Moonlight and Colorful Cats

Photo of completed string bean log cabin blocks pattern by Pat Sloan

Some FMQ practice with rulers and BSR

Border design in Angela's online ruler class week 4.  The last photo was also from her class............by the way....it is free and a very good class!!

I was wanting to make up some FMQ with my BSR so I scribbled a tree....then I painted it with Shiva paintstix.  This was very quick and easy.  I almost didn't put this here on my blog.....

Here is a page from my Joanne Sharpe 2020 online class notebook when I was setting it up for my daily gratitude.

Last week in our small quilt group Zoom meeting I was telling them about finally donating my wedding dress to Salvation Army.  We all decided to share our wedding photos with each other...........WOW....was that ever fun to see everyone and their husbands when they were young!  I thought I would share my photo of a photo here 

so....that is enough to share now....ready for next week's goals

To-Do Tuesday week of November 17 through November 23:

1. Do another stitch and paint project
2. FMQ for 4 days
3. Christmas project
4. Enter more quilts in Flickr and Pinterest (before I forget how to enter them again)

I am linking to Roseanne's  

http://homesewnbyus.com/to-do-tuesday-67-and-weekly-list-update/

Be sure to check it out......

And another one to check...I am linking to Free Motion Mavericks

http://lizzielenard-vintagesewing.blogspot.com/2020/11/free-motion-mavericks-week-307-picking.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

UPDATE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS...........

I had questions about our wedding and here are some more photos and info.

We got married September 17, 1961 at the Methodist Church in Jefferson, Iowa.  I had just graduated from nurses training several weeks prior.  

Soooo....why did I save the dress all these years and then get rid of it!  

Here is a photo of us and our 4 boys in 1975.  The dress was at my mom's house and I could STILL get into it and we took a bunch of photos.  

We stuffed the dress in a plastic tub and brought it to our house and that is where it has been all of these years!  Moving it from Iowa to San Diego to Mission Viejo to San Diego to Julian and back to San Diego!!!  

I got it out again several weeks ago and it was time to let it go............I decided I would not be able to get into it again....and it looked too good to start cutting it up to use for projects.  I donated it and maybe someone else can enjoy it now!  That is if someone wants to wear a vintage wedding dress!

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

To-Do Tuesday #39

 It's time for me to get back to posting and linking with Home Sewn By Us for To-Do Tuesday

Last time was week #38 at the beginning of October with plans to do FMQing and order the Slim straight ruler that Angela uses. ✅

Also to watch more FMQ videos✅

Also start quilting on one of my quilts after I find backing for them.  I haven't started quilting any quilts......only practice pieces  

I have not been doing very much quilting at all!!!  

I have been stitching on my second Kawandi (last post with photo)

I did a Stitch Meditation and here is the photo...using some selvage pieces.

To-Do Tuesday week of November 10 through November 16:

1. make 2 log cabin blocks in the string bean pattern 
2. FMQ at least 4 days
3. Decide some Christmas quilting projects
4. Enter past quilts I have made in my Flickr and Pinterest accounts

I am linking to Roseanne's   

http://homesewnbyus.com/to-do-tuesday-66-and-weekly-list-update/

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

Slow Sunday Stitching

 Today I am stitching on my second Kawandi that I started a month ago.  I included the needle puller in the photo that I ordered after Kathy mentioned it in her blog.  I have pieces of fabric pinned in place.  I don't want to change this now....but the zigsag design fabric piece stands out a lot!

I am enjoying stitching on our patio on a nice warm day....not too hot and not too cold!!

The tall plant in the foreground was a small plant from a neighbor last Christmas.  We transplanted it to a larger pot and it just keeps getting taller!

This is my purple rose bush and it was totally bare with no leaves several weeks ago.  I thought it was gone.....but still watered it and it has come back very healthy looking.....makes me so happy!

I am linking to Kathy's Quilts    Slow Sunday Stitching

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2020/11/slow-sunday-stitching.html

Smiles and hugs....Caryl