A Monday and A Sunday

On Sunday the 10th I got a day off and was able to go over to my friend Cheryl's house with my Sister and friend Gloria.  Cheryl has a long quilting machine and we had discussed me quilting one of the charity quilts that I made last year at one of the retreats.  So she already had it loaded when I got there.  So I got to long arm quilt 2 charity quilts.  Yay!!!  I've always wanted one and someday I'll get one but boy can you get a quilt done quick on one of those.  For my first one I did loops and meandering.  

Then on my 2nd one I wanted to try a pantograph so we loaded a couple of pieces of whole cloth.  The top had leaves so I picked a pano with leaves.  Makes sense right.  LOL  

Here is it on the machine - 

Here it is done - don't zoom in too much I think for my first attempt it's not too bad.  

I did discover you need to chill on trying to follow the Pantograph so close, that causes you to jerk a little, you kinda just need to go with the flow of it.  

All and all I was happy with my work.  I have been working a little bit in the evenings on my embroidery - I got the people in the sleigh done.  whew that took forever.  I'll show pictures of that later, since it's my OMG.  

I had today off  Sunday 1/17.  I tweaked a muscle in my back so didn't want to do anything too strenuous, but I was able to make a couple more of the little zipper bags.  These are for a friend at work.  

I want to make a few more of these but they take a special zipper so I need to stock up.  

For the rest of the day , I took a nap, a walk and then made dinner.  

That's it for now,  need to finish up and wind down, going back to work tomorrow.  

Have a blessed evening and I'll check back in a few days.

Lynn 

New Month New Year New Goals

Hello 2021 - There are mixed emotions from person to person on how happy they or unhappy they are about getting rid of 2020.  There were things that weren't good, and things I didn't/don't like - but I did have a lot of good things happen over the year. 

But now it's a new year and even though my sewing time has been cut by working, I still have dreams of projects dancing in my head.  :)

Today I went over to my friend Cheryl's and sewed with my girlfriends again. I was able to get the little zipper purse done that I posted about in the last post.  

Then I worked a little on my Embroidery panel #1 of 3 for the Over the River Quilt. 

This will be my One Monthly Goal for January 2021.  

Here is my starting point today. 

My goal for this month is to get to this point - where the red dots are.  It's a small goal but I need to start somewhere.  :) I'd love to say I'd get the rest of the panel done - but it seems the days off go way too quick with all my other duties and interests in life. 

(Sorry about the poor quality pictures) 

Okay that's it for now.  I'm going to link up to One Monthly Goal over at Elm Street Quilts. 

Have a blessed day!

Lynn