Staying Home Continues....

Hello all:

I read my last post - just the very first two lines, and what do I see?  The words "Thank goodness the virus is not so bad here....".  Wish I could take that comment back.....  We have the most cases in Canada at this point.

The trick is to stay positive.  It's rather hard some days then others, but there are a lot of other people out there that are in more dire states than I so we should be thankful for that.  When I'm stressed I get more hyper.  When I'm hyper I can't just sit around, and truthfully, trying to stay home when you're hyper is a tough thing.  My saving grace is crafting.  I've been quilting up a storm, trying to finish a number of my UFOs so I can clean my sewing room.  There are so many of them.

Here's another painting that I just finished.

 Loved how this sunset on Manitoba Lake looked, but loved it more with the wild grain in it.  

Completed.

Been working on a couple of UFOs.  Not the one that was scheduled for this month.  That one I didn't even start yet, but this quilt which had the material cut wrong (some pieces), had to find the pattern again, bought more material, and finally finished it.

Yes there is two colors of yellow, but not as noticeable in person. 

This will be someone's Christmas gift.  To finish a quilt UFO that was 7 years old is a great feeling of accomplishment.  And the fact that it turned out decent, even better.

I joined another BOM (yes I know I said I would not do that).  But this one is really cool.  You make all these HST's, the size you want (there is a list of sizes for the blocks as well as the size of the quilt).  You can make all the HSTs ahead of time and then just place them when you get the pattern.   So all I have to say about that is....   cool!  It should be a queen when I'm done. 

My next quilt was this when I found it...

 It's a charm pack, with 8 of them done, all the little blocks that you use to snowball the 5" square cut out, and all in that bag.  I found it under a pile of fabric as I was cleaning out some of my stash.  It was quick and easy to do and I only had one place mat in this house, so I thought why not two?  Here is what I looked like when completed.  It's about 20" across and 15" down.  They're big, but that only makes them great.  The colors are antique looking so it goes great on my dark wood table, by the antique buffet.  But this didn't use all of the charms, so I had enough left over material (there was some white 1/4 meter stash) to make a round table topper as well.  I was thinking of giving this to someone for Christmas but I love the look, and I really need another set of placements for my husband and I.

Here's the table topper.

I love the colors of the material.  It all came together so I was luck.

What's next?  One of the quilts on the American Quilter's Society's UFO listing.  Been working on it for 3 days, but won't show it just yet.  All that's left is to quilt it.  It's amazing!