It's Not Much, But It Is A Start for 2019 Finally!

This afternoon I did a little review reading on my new project.  I had a busy day yesterday with my GS's 24th birthday celebration, and didn't have time to get into the quilting mode at all until this afternoon, and after church this morning, I needed to rest a bit before I got into the idea of quilting.

I think you may remember over last year I bought lots of vintage embroidery pieces at estate and garage sales.  Today I read over the information I had received from the lady who made the quilt that I saw at a quilt show in October, I think, 2017.  Hers was absolutely beautiful, and I still get excited just thinking about it. 

I didn't make much headway today, but I did get my plastic templates drawn and cut so that I can begin digging through all that embroidery work and crocheted doilies, and see what I can come up with.  I'm sure I'm the only that would try to do it "my way" (as usual, right?).  Her instructions didn't say cut the templates from plastic, but I decided that would be easier for me in selecting the portions of the embroidery I want to use.    So here's what I accomplished this afternoon:  (not very much)

The drawing on the left is what she sent me.  I copied it and cut the nine sections, used my Add a Quarter ruler to add 1/4" seam allowances on the heavy template plastic, and cut  the sections out and numbered them like her drawing.  Of course, I'll remove the white paper from the templates so I can see the embroidery better.  It should fit together just fine I think.  I'll make a test run for a block from scraps in my stash, just to be sure it will work.  Then I can start laying those templates over sections of embroidery and get started.  I'm really looking forward to getting started.  It will be a slow go for sure, but hey, it's a start for 2019!  I just hope I can make it work for me just half as well as the lady whose quilt inspired me to try!  It was so nice of her to share her information with me, a nobody she had never heard of, from several miles away from where she lives. 

I still have not even plugged in my Janome since I got it home from the shop, but will do that tomorrow.

Just have to tell you I got rid of a few more things (that belonged to my grandson) that I had removed from the closet,  As we were eating his birthday cake, I asked if he wanted the Lincoln Logs he had played with as a child.  I almost fainted, but he said he would like to have them!  (He's single; lives  alone in his own little apartment.)  I immediately went and got a big can and another box of them, and put them in a big sack and said "Take them; they can't stay here any longer!"  I also showed him four pair of size 6&8 shorts (underwear) that he wore when he stayed with me one summer; one pair had monsters on them.  I said, "If you want them, take them!  If not, I'm going to donate them!"  He immediately said to donate them all!   He also took a large metal high school mascot emblem that had been made in his Shop class; it was heavy.  So that got rid of a few more things that had come out of that closet!  When his brother comes who will be 26 in March, he's going to have to pack up his model car collection that he put together as a little boy!  That will be really good!

If my sewing goes well this week, I may try to clean a small closet a bit; it has lots of stuff that needs to go too!  I am determined to slowly go through everything!  (I just hope I get it all done before I die!  Otherwise, my son and his wife may hate me forever!)  Oh well, I AM going to work on my quilt(s) a bit each week too!

Hope all is going well with all my quilting buddies, and that you are staying warm.  It's supposed to be down in the teens here Wednesday, windchill anyway.  I don't like that, but my calendar shows nothing that I have to leave the house for this week, except get the mail at the street, and feed the birds, thank goodness!   I'm sure some of you wish it would be that warm where you live!

I'll be watching to see what all of you are working on!

---"Love"