Buckling down to it!

I have worked really hard on this today!  In-between cleaning house, I sewed and sewed and sewed on this!  Yahoo! One piece is always better than many!

 Closer.  I like the little nine patches!

Have a great day, each of you!

Churn dash update...I guess it is every Monday!

Good morning!  I sewed three more churn dash blocks!!  Hurrah!!  Only a few more to go!

I am trying to eat more veggies each day.  On work days, it is harder, but this is my selection for today.  I just washed them, cut them up, and baked them with a dash of olive oil, salt and pepper.  Lots better than junk food!

I have a zillion of these blocks cut out.  Truly a whole bunch.  Would anyone like to adopt this UFO?  I will send them all to whomever wants them first!

 I have lots of these blocks, all cut out.  Would anyone like these!?  I have the blues cut out, and you would need to add whatever neutrals you would like.  

Just let me know if you would like to adopt these projects.

Have a lovely day!

Julie

OH lookee! A new squirrel just ran by!!

Hello!!!  Is everyone staying cool out there?  Or warm...depending on where you are.  It cooled to 86 degrees with a brief rain shower this afternoon and we all rejoiced!!!

My quilt guild had a recent sew along, using these blocks.  They ae so simple...and would be a great quilt of valor, put with more blocks...so off to the races!  SEE HOW THOSE SQUIRRELS GO?  Hahaha!

I made this little purse, using a block that was gifted to me.  I added the top strips and a zipper and interfacing.  

Tada!  A little wristlet!!  Lori, you will recognize the block.

ON the free table at guild:  One wool yarn ball.  I am still trying to knit in the evenings. 

A selection of pinks!

A very odd brown, which I loved immediately.  I left tons of things for people to pick up, too...so I guess I left more than I took.  Win/win!  Anything left gets tossed in the garbage, so....

 I found this pattern online.  I adore it!!  Scraps rule!

I hope each of you is doing fine!

Julie

Churn dash update for Chooky!

Happy Monday!

I sewed five churn dash blocks this morning.  Yahoo! 

This is my total so far.  I am progressing right along.  Thank you, Chooky, for a fun quilt along!

https://chookyblue.blogspot.com/2022/05/churn-dash-sal.html

It is never tooooo  late to make some churn dash blocks and join the fun, you know!

This is where I am getting my nine patches from.  There are a LARGE number of nine patches in this box.  The boxes are thrown out by the dozens each day, from the hospital, as saline flushes from IV's come in these boxes.  I have a dozen of them that I use to organize my projects, and use them over and over.  Recycling!  Reusing!  

I just loved to piece, and pieced a ton of nine patches! Some of these were from a swap, as well.  

 A lady from the quilt guild handed me a bag, with all of these small scrappy quilt tops in it!  I cannot get them quilted all at once, but going along, I will get them quilted and in the hands of people who can enjoy them.  Thank you, Miriam!

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I was the charge nurse yesterday, at my work.  But...our lone nursing assistant called in sick.  Honestly, I think it was because she knew she would be by herself and worked to death!  So what to do?  I called everyone I knew (PCT's) to come help...no one could.  So, I became the nursing assistant, as well as the charge nurse.   I had a blast!!!  Vitals signs every four hours on 18 patients, passed trays and picked them up three times, up and down to bathroom and up in the hallways helping patient to ambulate, changing linens, doing baths.  I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  A closer connection to these precious patients, striving to get well and get home.    NO thinking involved...just work.  NO trying to titrate drips, adjust ventilators, balloon pumps, impella machines.  Just work.  

Work does a body (and brain) good!!

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Old sayings...Mrs Goodneedle had a wonderful post about old time sayings.  One I remember from momma was, 

"Don't you go borrowing trouble!"  

So tell us all a saying that you remember from days gone by!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I loved reading the ones here:

https://strawberrypatchquiltworks.blogspot.com/2022/07/old-sayings.html

Julie

Dashing through the snow! (I wish)

 Four more churn dash blocks!  I snuck in a couple of nine patches into the middle of two of them.

It is HOT here.  109 by the pickup truck temp gauge yesterday.  Wheww!!!!!!!!!   My plants are trying to survive it, and I have moved them to the shady areas of the backyard.

Hello to everyone!!  Remember Bonnie Hunter's leader and ender quilt from last year?  The fishie blocks?  

Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!: July 2021 Leader & Ender Challenge: FISH SCHOOL!

Well, she has just recently announced her NEW one!  I better get cracking on finishing the old one!!  

I cut all the remaining required blocks today.  Hurrah!!  This will be fun sewing!!!  I used a paper plate and pinned the pieces for each block together.  I often run and sweep, sew a block, vacuum, sew a block, fold laundry, sew a block...you get it!  I get a lot done if the pieces are all ready to sew.  Just kind of game I play to make it all fun.  

Is this not the cutest panel in all of the world?  I was recently gifted a box of NURSE fabrics, from a very kind blogger! I am so excited to make something of this!  The wheels are turned...squeak!  Thank you so much!

Quiltville's Quips & Snips!!: Leader & Ender Challenge 1! Triple Treat!

I could not resist making a sample block of the new leader and ender pattern.  I am going a different color way and making a quilt of valor.  This one goes to the quilt guild, and they take them to the place that distributes the quilts to veterans.

 I got most of it cut out.  Surprisingly, I did not have many dark blues.  But I scraped it out, LOL!!!

I looked in the blue bin, the reproduction bin, and the red, white and blue bin.  I had just enough variety!

Hope you are doing fantastic!

Julie

Happy Fourth!

Lyn!  Thank you for this little quilt holder.  Just right for a 5-inch by 6-inch quilt, for the seasons.  I have had it for years and enjoy it all the time. 

This is another little quilt for the season.

And more red, white and blue quilts.  I discovered that the little sampler has some not quite finished quilting!

While rooting through the little quilts, I found this one.  I think it is from early in my quilting career, because the quilting stitches are tiny and all hand done.  

 See my silly quilting in the black inner border!  That was fun!!!

I often made tiny quilts like this, in the past, so that I could duplicate them later.  This would be a good lead and ender challenge for me!

Hope you have a lovely day!

Julie