A Lot of Slow Stiching

Most of last week was spent on the road.  So there wasn't much sewing room time. What time there was, was spent on the last few blocks needed for the 2025 Guild BOM. I can't show those just yet. So that leaves the hand stitching I worked on all week.  

I finished up the letters along the bottom and have been working on the leaves just above those.  I still have one color to add to the leaves, then I need to do the back stitching for the vines.  Don't know when I'll next work on this, maybe Thanksgiving?  

I am hoping to have some good sewing room time this week. I have two new projects I'd like to start, but need to finish the 2025 Guild blocks first. Linking up with Patchwork & Quilts, Sew and Tell Monday, and Slow Sunday Stitching.   

Nothing on the Design Wall

Our Thanksgiving holiday ended yesterday morning about 9:30 AM when we hit the road to drive home.  It wasn't too bad till we had to exit 35W to 35 just north of Dallas. It was stop and go traffic a significant part the drive from Dallas to OKC.  What normally takes us about 8 hours to navigate took 11.  Other than the drive back, we had a wonderful holiday with Grad Girl.  We did small business Friday and shopped in Brenham for stocking stuffers.  Than on Saturday we went to The Texas Renaissance Festival.  

Something different for us.  Some of the attendee costumes were fantastic, though it did get hard to navigate around those with very large fairy wings in parts of the crowd.  It was a lot of fun, but boy did we walk. The grounds were huge!  

I did keep up my stitching time, over the holiday. I'd get going on my handwork just before bed and get in a few stitches, just enough to get in my 15 minutes. 

 

I filled in quite a bit of the lower wing. It doesn't look like much, but there were a lot of thread changes. 

The only other thing I worked on while we were in Texas was finishing up the design and starting to write up the documentation/instructions for the 2025 Guild BOM.  The member who has done the BOM for the last 12 years wanted a break this year. She's done some wonderful designs over the years.  But 12 years is a long time to have a block ready each month.  I'm trying something different from what she's done. Not sure it will go over well so we'll see how that goes.  

Linking up with Design Wall Monday and Slow Stitching Sunday

Just Hand Stitching

It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted a Monday post on just stitching stuff.  The eclipse trip, along with prep and recover from knee surgery has limited my sewing room time.  So my stitching efforts have been focused on my long term travel project.  My goal was one full thread of stitching time each day while we were on the road. The first top wing of the butterfly was finished off last week.  

Since I had to go off my anti-inflammatory before surgery, it was really uncomfortable to manage the stairs, so I kept to the hand stitching all of last week.  The hoop got moved to allow for stitching on the bottom half of the wing. 

So the plan for today is to finish off this half of the butterfly.  I'm hoping to cut back on the pain medication today so that I'm not sleeping so much (I slept 6 hours during the day yesterday).  We'll have to see how that works out.  

Linking up with Design Wall Monday, Patchwork & Quilts, plus Slow Stitching Sunday.  

A Change of Pace

For those in the US, I hope you had a wonderful holiday and that everyone else had a wonderful weekend.  We ate a lot last week.  Both Grad Girl and My Guy are incredible cooks. I did my part with chocolate pie, pistachio salad and brownies, all family favorites. I really need to get with my exercise program over the next few weeks so I can endure a repeat round of feasting at Christmas.  

I did get some time in the sewing room before leaving it for holiday prep and hanging out time with Grad Girl.  But I don't have much to show for it. I didn't sew for several days and then spent most of the weekend working on my long term embroidery panel.  

I finished off butterfly #4 and made a start on the next set of vines in the block one down from the butterfly.  I've been working on this butterfly since before October of 2021, so it was definitely past time to get this part of the embroidery finished. At some point the plan is make this piece into a quilt.   

I can't show what Grad Girl was working on becuase she's doing Christmas presents, but she finished off her previous embroidery project just before the Thanksgiving holiday. 

This is one where she traced the design and came up with her own stitches.  It's really cool looking.  I think the plan for this one is to frame it for display in her apartment.  

That's all I have to show for my time with needle and thread this week. Linking up with Monday Design Wall, Patchwork & Quilts, and Slow Stitching Sunday.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 52 of 2021

We had temperatures in the 80's for both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, it certainly didn't feel like a typical Xmas holiday.  Hope your holiday was full of family and fun. Ours certainly was.  

It's week 52 of 2021, so this will be the last stitching stuff post for the year.  I like to close out my stitching year on December 31st, so I'll have the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 in next week's post.  My stitching week didn't go so well. I spent all of last weekend working on company reports, went to bed feeling really crappy last Sunday.  Woke up to a fever and with a number of Covid symptoms on Monday morning.  Thankfully it wasn't Covid, but I was pretty sick till Thursday.  All I did was sleep (and blow my nose) for most of last week. Thankfully I was feeling almost normal by the time Christmas Eve rolled around. But that didn't help the stitching report much. 

• 15 minute days/week 52 = 2/7 days
• 15 minute days/Decemer = 5/25 days
• 15 minute days/2021 = 265/359 days
• Success rate = 73.82%

I at least managed two days with at least 15 minutes of stitching time this last week, that's better than how the first three weeks of December went!  All my reports are done and I'm off all this next week. My hope is I'll have lots of time for stitching this last week of the year.  

My stitching time this week was all handwork, I did make a bit of progress on my traveling embroidery project. 

The Scientist in Training has been home the last couple of weeks. She's spent a lot of her time off working on a Christmas present for her grandmother. She found some line art on line and embroidered a couple of dish towels as gifts.  

  

She did 4 of these cute faces on one dish towel.  

Then two strawberry motifs on another.  Grandma was very happy with her gift.  The SIT says a very sincere "Thank You" to Barbara who blogs at Cat Patches.  Barbara recommended the Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvey sheets as one way to transfer embroidery designs. That's what the SIT used for both these projects, she thought they worked really well. 

I'm linking up with Slow Stitching Sunday this week to celebrate having a bit of time to play with thread this week.  You can link up below to share how well you did at finding time to stitch over the holiday. I hope you had more opportunities to play with needle and thread then I did!  

1. Ivani 2. Gretchen 3. CathieJ 4. maggie f 5. Julie in GA 6. karen

7. DonnaleeQ 8. Melisa - Pinker n Punkin Quilting 9. Shasta @ High Road 10. Colletta's Kitchen Sink 11. Sherrie 12. DawnyK

13. Meloney 14. Amanda 15. Andre at Quilting and Learning 16. Andre at Quilting and Learning 17. Carol @ Quilt Schmilt

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Stitching Time: Week 9 of 2021

This week went really quickly.  All of last week's meetings got moved to this week, so I didn't do much else this week. If I wasn't in a meeting, I was getting ready for a meeting. That also meant we were late getting home a few nights this week.  I just barely managed my 15 minutes of stitching time a couple of evenings.

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Feb = 27/27 days
• 15 minute days/2021 = 56/58 days
• Success rate = 96.55%

Still I managed to fit in some sewing room stuff every evening. Every little bit does add up.  I finished the designing and printing the label for the Red, White and Blue Stars quilt.  That set me up to get the label pinned to the quilt so I could sew it on with the binding.  I've just started hand stitching the binding to the back. 

Red, White and Blue Stars, setting self designed

So I'll definitely be doing some slow stitching later today on that binding.  It's been awhile since I've linked up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday.  

So how was your stitchy week? Did you get in lots of stitching time or did it seem as if life conspired against you so you did everything but that?

1. DesertSky Quilting 2. Julie in GA 3. Chrisknits 4. karen 5. Ivani

6. Meloney 7. Sherrie 8. Quilting Gail 9. Dq at Dreamworthyquilts 10. Amanda

11. Shasta @ High Road 12. Carol Andrews 13. Jennifer in Indy

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Stitching Stuff: Week 50 of 2020

Week 50 of 2020?  Just two more weeks (and a few days) left in 2020.  That's not a lot of time to finish or start all those projects that were on our to do lists for the year.  It gets even harder to work on those to do lists when you have those extra holiday chores, like present wrapping and baking pop up as well.  Sometimes even just 15 minutes of stitching time is just not going to happen. 

This was another of those weeks where holiday preparations and family time trumped my stitching time. 

• 15 minute days/week = 5/7 days
• 15 minute days/Dec = 6/12 days
• 15 minute days/2020 = 305/347
• Success rate = 87.90%

I spent two days wrapping Christmas presents and hanging out with the Scientist in Training and my mother.  We've all been careful to social distance and wear our masks the last couple of weeks so we could have some girl time before the holiday. Needless to say, stitching time just didn't work out with the schedule.  But at least this week was better than last week on the stitching front.  

A lot of the stitching time this week was slow stitching. 

I'm just about to turn the first corner on the binding for Frolic, or what I'm calling The Couch Frolic as this quilt is destined to be draped over the back of our couch.  I hope to make a good bit of progress on the binding this week. Linking up with Slow Stitching Sunday over at Kathy's Quilts.  

Last week I shared one of the ornaments from our annual girls' weekend, which was much toned down this year, no shopping or restaurant dinners.  I've mentioned before that both Mom and my sister were managers of Hallmark stores.  Consequently, I have quite the collection of Hallmark ornaments. Some of my favorites are a special series of Barbie ornaments. 

This is one of porcelain ornaments from that series.  I started collecting the Barbie ornaments before I was married and way before the Scientist in Training came along.  The thought was there might be a little girl at some point in time that would love Barbie.  Well the little girl came along, but she wasn't a big fan of Barbie.  Not surprising as I didn't like to play with them, I much preferred sewing clothes for them. I have fun memories of sewing to my sister's specifications and learning how to sew on a snap from my mother.  

So how are you doing on working in some stitching time this holiday season?  

1. Julie in GA 2. Chrisknits 3. karen

4. Meloney 5. DawnyK 6. Shasta @ High Road

7. Quilting Gail 8. Andree at Quilting & Learning 9. Amanda

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Stitching Stuff: Week 45 of 2020

It's been a week with a lot of uncertainty on both the public and private fronts in our house.  So it was a stressful week on a couple of fronts. The family stuff got sorted out yesterday to a good ending. So at least that stress is gone. So it wasn't the best week for stitching.  When it gets really stressful, a good book is a better distraction and spending even just 15 minutes in the sewing room just doesn't appeal.  How did you fare this week in finding both the time and motivation to stitch?  

When I'm not sleeping well, rotary cutters take on a new danger and the seam ripper sees a lot more action. So there are some days when trying to force those 15 minutes can take projects in the reverse direction. This week had a couple of those days. 

• 15 minute days/week = 5/7 days
• 15 minute days/Nov = 5/7 days
• 15 minute days/2020 = 279/312
• Success rate = 89.42% 

I'm still exceeding my 2020 goal to get in 15 minutes of stitching at least 85% of the time.  Fingers crossed that this week is much calmer on all fronts.  You can link up at the bottom of the post and share how your stitchy week went. 

There's been some slow stitching going on this weekend. 

I've stitched past two corners on the binding for the 2019 Christmas Mystery quilt.  I don't know if I'll get this done today or not. If not I'll come close.  Linking up with Slow Stitching Sunday over at Kathy's Quilts. 

Photography has taken a bit of a back seat this year.  But on our way to pick up take out for dinner the other night, we had to stop and photograph the fall color in downtown.  

I only had my phone with me, but you use what you've got if you don't want to miss a shot. I like all the shadows the lamp light provides, it really makes the leaves just glow. 

That was my week. So how did your stitchy week go?

1. Julie in GA 2. Meloney 3. CathieJ

4. karen 5. Shasta @ High Road 6. DawnyK

7. Amanda 8. Quilting Gail 9. Deana

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Stitching Stuff: Week 42 of 2020

 The work week wasn't horrible, but getting back to the office on Monday after a few days of vacation wasn't fun.  Thankfully, only one late night to play catch up.  So it didn't greatly affect my ability to work in my 15 minutes every day this week. How did you do at finding a few minutes to stitch each day this week?

It was a good week for stitching, there was about an hour of stitching most nights. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/October = 17/17 days
• 15 minute days/2020 = 261/291
• Success rate = 89.69%

I'm on track to meet my stitching time goal this year. It may be the only goal I meet.  Keeping up with the stitching time has helped moved projects along this year.  Even though I'm probably not going to get all the finishes I'd hoped for, there has been good progress so far and there are still a few more weeks in the year. 

Just 15 minutes is enough time to pin a few things

Then I can stitch them the next night. There are three different projects in those pinned piles. 

I've also been working in some hand stitching on Storm at Sea. I just stitched down corner number 4.

I've got one last side to stitch down. I'm hoping to have a finish before the end of the weekend. Linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday. 

How are you doing at working in a bit of stitching time each day?  Even 15 minutes a day can make a big difference in how much progress there is on your WIPs each week.  

1. Julie in GA 2. karen 3. Chrisknits

4. Shasta @ High Road 5. Amanda 6. Quilting Gail

7. Loulee (Manxgirl)

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Stitching Stuff: Week 41 of 2020

 We spent this last week hiking and just hanging out together.  We both had vacation that needed to be used, so we rented a cottage in Eureka Springs, Arkansas and socially distanced somewhere else for a few days. That may seem risky, but at least Eureka Springs has mandatory mask rules. We don't have that here at home.  I took plenty of hand stitching to work on while we were away. It wasn't hard to find at least 15 minutes to make a bit of progress on that front.  How did you do at finding at least 15 minutes of stitching time each day? You can link up and share at the bottom of this post. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/October = 10/10 days
• 15 minute days/2020 = 254/284 days
• Success rate = 89.44%

It's been a pretty good year on the stitching front. With all the social distancing, it's been a lot easier to work in some sewing time most days. The hand stitching this week was on the binding for Storm at Sea. 

Stitching on the binding will continue today.  I've only turned 2 corners so far. SAS is a big quilt, 96" X 112", so it's going to take a few more days to get that binding all stitched down.  Linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday.  

It was beautiful weather for hiking, the leaves are just starting to turn.

We hiked around Lake Leatherwood just outside of Eureka Springs. Even with the leaves changing there are still a few blooming things growing along the trail. 

And a few butterflies are still flitting about gathering up the last of the nectar. 

This Pearl Crescent was taking a rest before moving on to the next set of asters.  

So we had an excellent week of being outdoors, hanging out on the back porch to read or stitch and ordering take out from some of our favorite restaurants in the area.  How did your week go on the stitchy front?  

1. Julie in GA 2. Meloney 3. Sherrie 4. karen

5. Shasta @ High Road 6. Chrisknits 7. katie z. 8. DawnyK

9. Amanda 10. Loulee (Manxgirl) 11. Quilting Gail

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Week 19 of 2020: Stitching Stuff

I head back to the office tomorrow after seven weeks of working from home.  It's going to be weird.  The last time I was out of the office for that long was when the Scientist in Training was born!  I've been working from home, so the biggest change will be in my view and my access to the refrigerator. (Being farther away is not a bad thing!) Getting in my 15 minutes of stitching time a day shouldn't change much at all.  How about you, are you going to struggle more with finding those 15 minutes to stitch once you go back to the office? 

My stitching week went pretty smoothly.  

15 minute days/week = 7/7 days

15 minute days/May = 9/9 days

15 minute days/2020 = 120/130 days

Success rate = 92.31%

I ended up working late two nights last week, I still managed to get in my 15 minutes of stitching time by working on the butterfly panel.  

The bottom wing just needs to be detailed in black then I can move the hoop to the other wing.  

There was also some progress in the sewing room, I'll have more on that in tomorrow's post.  Linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday.  If you want to share how you did at finding time to stitch you can link up below.   

1. Julie in GA 2. Chrisknits 3. Meloney

4. Sherrie 5. DawnyK 6. Quilting Gail

7. Amanda 8. Deana

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Week 18 of 2020: Stitching Stuff

It was a long week, working from home has its own challenges. Plus work was just really busy this week. That cut into my stitching time more than usual. How are you doing at fitting in at least 15 minutes of stitching time each day during this time of working from home and social distancing? 

It wasn't a bad week, it just wasn't a great week on the stitching front.  

15 minute days/week = 7/7days

15 minute days/April = 29/30 days

15 minute days/May = 2/2 days

15 minute days/2020 = 113/123 days

Success rate = 91.87%

A couple of evenings, my sewing time was just 15 minutes as I did have to work late a few nights. But I'm doing well with my consistency at finding time to sew even if I don't have as much time for stitching as I'd like.  

Since we've changed over the calendar to a new month, it's time for an update on the stash report.  

Fabric used in April = 6.85 yards

Fabric used year to date = 22.27 yards

Fabric in for 2020 = 2.5 yards

So how did a few yards sneak into my stash? In my effort to support small businesses, I ended up ordering a few fat quarters from the Spoonflower sale last month.  Aren't these  really cool chemistry fabrics? 

Not sure where I'm going to use these, but they were too fun to pass up.  Linking up with Quiltpaintcreate for the regular stash report. I'm definitely using up some of the stash. Now if I can just keep the purchases to a minimum the year should end with much more out than in.  

There was a bit of progress on my slow stitching project this week too. 

I moved the hoop so I could get to the lower wing.  Hopefully I'll get an evening next week to make some additional progress.  Linking up with Slow Stitching Sunday. 

A bit of fabric in, a bit out and some slow stitching, not a bad April on the stitching front.  How did your stitchy week work out?

1. Chrisknits 2. Marti 3. karen 4. Meloney 5. Jennifer in Indy

6. Sherrie 7. di 8. DawnyK 9. Deana 10. Loulee (Manxgirl)

11. Amanda 12. Quilting Gail 13. Carol Andrews 14. Andree at Quilting & Learning

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Week 17 of 2020: Stitching Stuff

It's been a busy week on the work front, but I got one big project finished. That felt really good.  Unfortunately my day off turned into just a half day off, but I still got to spend some extra time in the sewing room on Friday.  How hard was it for you to get in your 15 minutes of stitching time this week? 

I ended up working late one night this week, but still managed to get in my 15 minutes of stitching time before heading to bed.

15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
15 minute days/April = 24/25 days
15 minute days/2020 = 106/116 days
Success rate = 91.38%

My success rate is well over 85%, so finding time to stitch has been going really well. It helps that we haven't been going anywhere.  

My late work night produced a bit of progress on the butterfly embroidery project.  

Not a lot of visible progress on stitching in the wing details but there is just a bit.  Hopefully I'll get back to the hand work later this week.  Linking up for Slow Stitching Sunday over at Kathy's Quilts. 

On one of my stretch the leg walks through the house this week, I saw this beauty just outside the dining room window.

It was raining cats and dogs that day, but the roses didn't seem to mind.  

That was my week, a lot of work, a bit of stitching and some raindrops on roses.  How did you do  at finding at least 15 minutes to stitch each day last week?  Link up below to share how successful your efforts were. 

1. Chrisknits 2. karen 3. maggie f 4. Julie in GA 5. Meloney

6. Chocolate Chip Cookie Eating Nana 7. Marti 8. katie z. 9. DawnyK 10. Loulee (Manxgirl)

11. Amanda 12. Quilting Gail 13. Deana

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Week 16 of 2020: Stitching Stuff

Yesterday it was much warmer and sunny.  We took to opportunity to deal with a tree with branches that had overgrown onto the roof  That involved ladders, loppers, saws and very large trash bags.  Plus a dose of Aleve before bed last night.  Even so, I'm moving just a bit slowly this morning.  Stitching time was a bit limited this weekend but I did manage to work in my 15 minutes on Saturday even with the battle of the branches. How did you do at finding at least 15 minutes to stitch each day? 

   
My stitching week wasn't so bad. 

15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
15 minute days/April = 17/18 days
15 minute days/2020 = 99/109 days
Success rate = 90.83%

I managed at least minimal stitching time each day this week.  Enough to make progress, but not as much as I would have liked. Hopefully you had much better luck finding more stitching time each day.  You can link up at the bottom of the post to share how your stitchy week went.  

My April One Monthly Goal is to finish the Winter Quilt Along project.  I'm making progress stitching down the binding. 

I've turned one corner and got the label stitched down. So that counts as really good progress in my book.  I'm hoping to make some more good progress on the binding this afternoon.   Linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Stitching Sunday.  

Did you manage to work in 15 minutes of stitching time each day last week?  Link up below and share your adventures in stitching and social distancing.  

1. Julie in GA 2. karen 3. Stitching Loving Nana :) 4. Marti 5. Meloney

6. Chrisknits 7. Shasta @ High Road 8. Angie in SoCal 9. DawnyK 10. Loulee (Manxgirl)

11. Amanda 12. Quilting Gail 13. Deana 14. Christina's Handicrafts

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Week 14 of 2020: Stitching Stuff

The Scientist in Training and I were up a bit late just hanging out.  She's better at the staying up late thing then I am.  It apparently affects me more than it used to, the 15 Minutes to Stitch linky party is a bit late this morning as I over slept.  

Working from home is finally becoming routine and it's been easier to work in my stitching time.  Last week was really good on that front. 

15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
15 minute days/March = 29/31 days
15 minute days/April = 4/4 days
15 minute days/2020 = 86/95 days
Success rate = 90.53%

So I'm back to stitching more than 90% of the time.  My goal for the year is to manage at least an 85% success rate, so I'm doing really well with that goal. You can share how successful you were at finding time to stitch so far this year at the bottom of the post. 

It's a new month, so here's the stash report so far for 2020. 

Fabric used in March = 2.4 yards
Fabric used in 2020 = 15.42 yards
Nothing in for 2020

March was a bit slower on the fabric out front, but at least there's not been any fabric purchases to date and I'm in still in the black 3 months into the year. Linking up with Quiltpaintcreate for the regular stash report.  

There was a bit of slow stitching this week. Not as much as there has been, but enough to make visable progress. 

I should finish off that top wing sometime this week.  Linking up with Slow Stitching Sunday.  

So now that I've caught up with all the other Sunday linky parties, here's the 15 minutes to stitch linky party.   

1. karen 2. Chrisknits 3. Julie in GA 4. Meloney 5. Marti

6. Shasta @ High Road 7. katie z. 8. DawnyK 9. Loulee (Manxgirl) 10. Amanda

11. Quilting Gail 12. Deana 13. Carol Andrews 14. Christina's Handicrafts

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Week 13 of 2020: Stitching Stuff

Learning to work at home has been an experience. But I'm grateful that we are all together and are able to social distance. After a week and half, I think we've got our work from home spaces figured out.

Sorry there was no 15 Minutes to Stitch linky party last week. My heart and head just weren't in it last weekend, I couldn't figure out a way to even start a blog post. So rather than force it, I just let it rest.  So this week you can share how the last two weeks have gone with your stitchy efforts.  Did you get a lot done or did you lose your mojo like I did?    

It hasn't been a total bust on the stitching front for the last 2 weeks. 

15 minute days/2 weeks = 13/14 days
15 minute days/March =  26/28 days
15 minute days/2020 = 79/88 days
Success Rate = 89.77%

I haven't spent much time in the sewing room the last week. I did better working on my embroidery project while hanging out with the rest of the family.  There was some good progress on that project over the last 2 weeks. 

Hand stitching while hanging out with the family has been the best sanity stitching the last couple of weeks, so I'm definitely going to be doing more of that.  Linking up with Slow Stitching Sunday over at Kathy's Quilts.    

So have you been able to take advantage of social distancing to do more stitching or have you been a bit lacking in mojo the last few weeks?  

1. Julie in GA 2. Meloney 3. maggie f 4. Chrisknits

5. Loulee 6. Marti 7. Pam@AppliquePaintbox 8. Shasta @ High Road

9. Amanda 10. Quilting Gail 11. DawnyK

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Week 11 of 2020: Stitching Stuff

It's been a weird week at work. Unfortunately, that's likely to continue for a few weeks till the spread of  Covid-19 slows down.  Most meetings  have been moved to remote access to limit the number of people in the same room and business travel is restricted.  We're not working from home as yet, but that may be coming.  But so far all the weirdness is not impacting my ability to work in 15 minutes of stitching time. 

This week was really good on the stitching front. 

15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
15 minute days/March = 13/14 days
15 minute days/2020 = 66/74 days
Success rate = 89.19%

Having my embroidery project handy has been helpful.  I've pulled it out a couple of nights when we got home late and put in 15 minutes of stitches just before bed.  

It doesn't look like a lot of progress, embroidery for me really is slow stitching.  But it's very soothing and relaxing, so it's been nice way to end some of the more stressful work days this week.  Linking up with Kathy's Quilts' Slow Stitching Sunday.  

So how has your stitchy week gone? Are you practicing social distancing and hanging out more in your sewing room?  Link up and share how well you've done at working in 15 minutes of stress reducing stitching time.  

1. Chrisknits 2. karen 3. Julie in GA 4. Marti 5. Meloney

6. Quilting Gail 7. Carol Andrews 8. Angie in SoCal 9. DawnyK 10. Amanda

11. Deana 12. Shasta @ High Road Quilter 13. Loulee

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