Slow Stitching

Hello all and a very Happy New Year, 12 days into 2020.  

I haven't done any posts as I have been slow stitching and it has been slow.  Just the one project I have been working on, my Grandmothers Flower Garden quilt.  Here is the first half hanging on my design wall next to one of my machines.  You can see at the very top that there is only one row left to sew the hexis between the flowers.  It will be the last row put together.  The end is getting nearer!!

This is the second half that I have been working on.  (Gibbs helping to make sure that it doesn't float off the floor.)  When sewing my first half I would make a row and then sew it to the last one.  Making a white row and then a colored flower row.  I was working with the whole half by the time that I finished the half.  This time I am sewing a white row and a flower row together.  You can see spaces  where it is not yet sewn.  When I get the sections done, then I will begin to put the sections together and eventually sew the two halves together.  I figure that I will not be handling the material as much.  There is a lot of holding when doing slow stitching.

My Grandmother's Flower Garden is a hybrid quilt.  I machine stitch the flower circles together and then hand stitch/slow stitch the yellow or blue center in them.  Then I machine stitch the hexi between the flowers to make long rows.  The rows are then hand stitched together. 

Yesterday I told myself that I needed to complete something, some kind of finish.  I made these two pincushions.  They are 4 1/2 inches square and filled with crushed walnut shells.  I don't know if I have ever made churn dash blocks this small.  It was fun and they were finished.  A great feeling to finish something.  I missed that.

Now back to my slow stitching.  I can hear the football game beginning in the other room. enjoy your day.  I will be back soon.