Hand Embroidery Progress

I love to hand embroider in the evenings while watching TV. This embroidery was done a couple months ago while on vacay and then waited for inspiration to hit as to how I wanted to finish it. Often times I look through my old photos to see what I have done before. 

The embroidery pattern is from Chestnut Junction.

Adding some detail with prairie points on top and on one side, with the additions of little black buttons.

Making a little progress on this embroidery that I started last weekend. 

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Tuesday weekly goals

Hey there, hope you all have had a wonderful week of sewing therapy.  I needed lots of therapy this week, lots of sleepless nights, darn full moon!  

Anyway last weeks goals were lofty in hindsight but I did pretty well with them.

1. I made another Halloween flimsy yesterday so it needs quilting ASAP. ✅ 

Yes it is quilted, bound and listed. I am pretty sure I bought this panel a year ago at Quilt Cove in the Twin Cities.  The twisted ribbon border was a new one for me to make.  And there is that cute Candy Corn fabric I picked up at Walmart. It finished at 30"x47". 

2. Quilt another fall pumpkin embroidered wall hanging ASAP.✅  Yes it is quilted, bound and listed too.  The embroidery pattern is by Chestnut Junction.

3. Quilt another turkey table runner. ✅ Yes, they all look the same though as I use the same fabric because that is what seems to work best for this runner. 

4. Make more Pumpkin Harvest wall hangings.(my pattern) ✅ One done. 

5. Make sunflower wall hanging. (my pattern)- That is a big fat NOPE!

6. Work on whatever else I can squeeze in! ✅ I finished two other items and I will post them later this week. I mean you need something to come back for, right!!

Have a great week and don't forget to go check out the other bloggers who participate in the To Do Tuesday link up at our host Linda's blog.  Oh wait I forgot to list this weeks goals, LOL

1. Sunflower table runner

2. Fall S swirl runner

3. Fall panel wall hanging

4. Whatever comes along;)

Other Linky parties I am joining in with are:  Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, and Put your Foot Down

Weekly Goals and Finishes

That was a very fast and furious week wasn't it!!  I had quite a list of goals to meet this last week, I didn't do to bad.

Here was the list:

• Sunflower table runner ✅  Yes indeed I finished one of these.  

• Green gingham table runner 👎 Nope not even cut out.
• Strawberry table runner✅  One of these done and blogged about HERE.

• Pineapple table runner ✅ One of these also done and blogged about in the same post as the strawberry runner.
• Continue on embroidery project ✅ Finished the embroidery and will wait until inspiration and time hits to make into a wall hanging. Hmmm that is a really bad photo! 

• Continue on Accuquilt tutorial-✅ made great progress, but I can't show you anything until June 4th or after. 

• Make project for Foodie Blog hop- My day is May 23rd -✅  In case you missed that I presented it yesterday in THIS post

• Attend long arm meeting on Saturday-✅  Indeed I did attend, it was wonderful to see these people again, it was sometime last year when I last attended. We are planning to have Julia Quiltoff come to our little group this fall to teach, so excited!!   Another member brought a couple of garbage bags full of scraps from a quilter that passed away from Covid last year.  She let us all go through it and pick out whatever we wanted. Yes a few pieces came home with me. 

All in all I was happy with my accomplishments for last week.  I kept busy for sure!  

Here are a few goals for this week:

• Finish Accuquilt tutorial-due on Friday.
• Make two runners with some new fabric I bought last week
• Quilt and bind a patriotic runner
• Bind two donation quilts. 
• Make whatever else I want;)

Have a great week everyone!!  And be sure to hop over to To Do Tuesday and check out everyone's accomplishments and cheer them on for next week.

Weekly goals and finishes

 Where or where did this past week go...zip zoom it's gone!!  Let's check and see what did I cross off this list this week.  Here are the goals I set.

• quilt the hand embroidered wall hanging ✅
• quilt a Valentine table runner 👎
• work on a watermelon table runner ✅
• start working on a tutorial for Accuquilt ✅
• that's enough, I want time built in to maybe play a bit with whatever I want ✅

The hand embroidered quilt did indeed get quilted, bound, listed and sold!!  

The Valentine runner did not progress at all.  It will get done at a later date. No hurry for it, although I do sell things out of season so someday it will get listed. 

On Friday I shared the finished watermelon table runner, if you missed it you can see it HERE.  I showed my customer and she loved it and bought it a minute later.  So I made another on Saturday. It's almost the same, however I used a with w/black polka dot for the background on this one along with a red binding.

The tutorial I am doing for Accuquilt got started, I can't show you anything yet except for the fabrics I am using for it. 

I also set aside time to work on anything else I wanted.  I needed another of these patriotic table runners.  If you look closely you will see I used two different fabrics in this one, the blue and the white, last weeks can be see HERE.

Since the embroidered wall hanging sold, it encouraged me to start another embroidered block.

 

This week I have way more things that need making than I have time for I think.  But here is the list of what I would like to accomplish.

• Sunflower table runner
• Green gingham table runner
• Strawberry table runner
• Pineapple table runner
• Continue on embroidery project
• Continue on Accuquilt tutorial
• Make project for Foodie Blog hop- My day is May 23rd  
• Attend long arm meeting on Saturday

I will get started on that list right away!!  

Linking with To Do Tuesday at Texas Quilt Gal. 

Weekly Goals

 Goals for the week of May 3-10 were:

• Pick 2 UFO's to move forward✅

• From start to finish- 2 table runners ✅

• Continue to work on counted cross stitch Summer House ✅

• Anything else I want to✅

Yes I succeeded in moving 2 UFO's forward, in fact one of them is done.  Here is how I left it several years ago, I was not inspired to finish it and stuck it in the back of the closet and furthest down on the UFO pile.   

When I pulled it out at the beginning of last week I felt the same way about it.  Finally I decided it was the red plaid homespun that I didn't like.  So I ripped it off and studied the colors in it before going to my stash and found the perfect coral fabric for it. I  love how it came together now.  What a difference wouldn't you say?  I still need to add some buttons for the flower centers.

Onto the next goal-another UFO.  Well technically this might be a WIP since I did just finish up the hand embroidered center block recently.  But I won't argue the point of UFO vs. WIP, it moved forward and that is what is counting! It started as just the embroidered flower pot block to which I added a dark border before adding the HST's, and pinwheels and framed it all with a couple of borders.  All of the fabrics were scraps from other projects. It needs quilting yet of course. 

I finished the cross stitch on the 'Summer' house. 

Start to finish on two table runners, well I didn't exactly start either of these this week, they were WIP's from the winter, but hey they are all done now!

This one I did start and finish this week.  These are all hand dyed fabric I bought a few years ago at a quilt show, they were just strips x WOF all different sizes.  I cut all of them to the smallest strip size and cut squares and added in a white batik.  There is a little story with this one.  Recently I made a strawberry table runner and I spritzed it with to much water to remove some purple registration marks for quilting. The red border fabric bled!!  Never had that happen before, so off to the internet to look up Vicki Welsh's magic trick she uses when fabric bleeds.  Here is the link  Save My Bleeding Quilt.  I was amazed, it worked like a charm!!!  So then I got to thinking about this hand dyed fabric and I decided to soak the runner top (before quilting it) and wow it worked fabulously!  Read her tutorial, it uses hot water, Dawn dish soap and time. So worth it!!  The hand dyed's really bled but not a thing bled onto the white batik accent fabric! AMAZING!

  I guess this one could fit into the anything else category. Another green gingham one for spring, I sold the other one last year. This one is almost identical, I think one of the three fabrics was new in this one. 

So a good week over all.  And now what do I want to do this week, hmmmm let me think.  

• quilt the hand embroidered wall hanging
• quilt a Valentine table runner
• work on a watermelon table runner
• start working on a tutorial for Accuquilt
• that's enough, I want time built in to maybe play a bit with whatever I want😄

Let's hop over to Texas Quilt Gal to cheer on our fellow quilters with their To Do Tuesday goals, Wednesday Wait Loss, and Midweek Makers