Super Bowl Sunday quilt along
 

I figured I better start this thread tonight as I have to go into church early tomorrow since I’m teaching Sunday school to grades 1-3. Otherwise I would probably forget in the morning.

I have a lot planned for Sunday afternoon and evening. I would like to get our income taxes completed and submitted. Then finish cleaning up the mess in my sewing room so I’m all set to quilt Monday. Then while the game is on, I have handwork projects just thrown willy nilly in the guest room closet and I would like to get them a little better organized. Fortunately I won’t need to cook tomorrow as we have enough leftovers.

our regularly scheduled VQW is next weekend, February 16-19.

Thank you, I will check in during the morning and hoping to finish off the machine appliqué on my project.

Thank-you for hosting this extra VQW. Happy Super Bowl Sunday everyone . I hope it’s a great one for everyone. yes my team is playing, yea. So we will definitely be watching the pre show, commercials and game. I need to tire out my puppy before the game starts. It will be a pizza night for us, so no cooking.

My goals today: quilt 1 baby top for a friend. And set up another top for later today or tomorrow to quilt. Cut, sew & iron binding for a king size quilt: Plus #1 goal = monitor and print out 2-3 mysteries for Super Bowl Sunday QAL s. I didn’t have the energy to do the pre steps this year. So I will work on them later in the year and give for charity. I plan to use my stash and scraps for these.

Greetings!

I haven't participated in the VQWs before, but thought I'd check in here to see how it goes. We are in the Pacific NW, so game starts at 3:30. We like football so will watch it, but don't have a favorite team in this one. I'll be starting a new pork recipe in the slow cooker this morning. During the game, I'll probably be doing some cross stitching. I have a chart that I'm nearing completion on. Don't know if I'll do any actual quilting today. I've been making IFAQH hearts and do have a machine embroidery heart I'd like to try out for that.

If I get enough craftermath control accomplished, I could get back to my UFO lake loft quilts. I need to piece backing and get it sandwiched.

Hope everyone has a great day!

I didn’t search out any mysteries this year for Super bowl, I still have my Merry Mayhem NYD and my Quiltober mysteries to quilt! what sites did you find the mysteries at? 🤪

Well, I started another pixel quilt. I'm using batiks, and they have zero ravel! I've completed 4 blocks of 100 squares that end up 3/4". I make rows of 10 squares, then pair them up with matching seams. I plan to pin pairs while watching the game!
I'm nesting the seams, but my new clappers are making the seams lie so flat that I cannot feel the "hump"!!! If you don't have one, I suggest getting one!

Won't be joining y'all today except in good wishes.

Hubby and I are going to go bowling for the first time in Illinois. It is my first time since Covid too, although he played in leagues the last two years.

Neither of us are very hyped for the game today. We will have it on. He has some betting squares and while I don't care so much any more I do like watching the ads...

So everyone, let's have a good day whatever it is we are doing!

Some morning hand quilting while prepping food.

On board! I have a giant pile of teacher stuff - but then The Festival of Binding (3 project including 1 queen!)!

Thanks for the VQW!

(And.if I get the binding done there are 2 for the longarm. Plenty to keep me busy)

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I'm working on assembling my "nearly insane" blocks. I'm going with a scrappy red for the corners.

The blocks without sashing are 6", and all of them have more than 24 pieces. The one with the most has 208. I've included a picture of the center of one of the blocks, showing how tiny it is. Easy to see why it's called "nearly insane"! The book comes with scale drawings, and the maker has to figure out cutting and assembly methods.

Finally finished the machine appliqué on my Forest Galorest today! It is 65” square, another weird size that won’t fit our beds, or our walls 🤪

DJ--welcome to our special VQW. Hope to see you again :)

happylab--I print out clues to various quilt alongs and mysteries. Sometimes I even actually do them! Which ones are you looking at?

aashley333--you're right in how flat seams are when you use the clapper. Unfortunately I don't always remember to use it but it's a wonderful tool.

Iceblossom--how was bowling?

I have been stitching two quilts for church, both done folded and back in the bags. We are having egg rolls and pot stickers tonight. So there was some prep for the egg rolls. It's amazing how much cabbage reduces after you wilt it. We are watching the game tonight, so I will probably do some hand work on the GFG or work on turninmg the second heal on a pair of socks that I making for myself.
So many wonderful pictures!!! All the quilts are just awesome!
Thank you Heather, it's always fun to sew with the group.

Well I got everything done that I wanted to! Hope to see you all back here next weekend :)

I worked on sewing up the pillow cases that I kitted up last VQW. I got over a dozen worked on in various stages. I'm not wanting to start on anything to big as I am heading to Quiltcon in 9 days. I will be looking for a few particular items while there, then will have plenty to work on once I get back home....😎 Thimblebug, love your quilt, especially the owl in the corner.

Heather ~ Thanks for the welcome.

I love seeing what everyone is working on.

I did finish a couple of quilted hearts and did a bit of craftermath control in the studio.

When you use the clappers are you pressing with steam first or a dry iron?

I do not use steam. Got tired of burning my fingers. I press, with dry iron, then clapper on top with 2 pound weight.
Yesterday, I did not get much done because of Walgreens. Un-be-lieve-able. 2 trips for meds on the same day. One hour round trip. I even called the second time, before driving into town, and got a recording saying they were ready-Not!
Anyway, we enjoyed all 5 quarters of the game! Wow!

50% done with Festival of Binding ... translation 2 of 4 so making good progress.

And have 2 projects ready for longarm so...yeah I'm ready for this snowstorm in the north East. Stay safe everyone

Thanks for asking, Heather -- bowling was good. Although my first game was nothing to brag about (gutter balls in the first frame) and I was counting 1 pin as a success, I got better pretty quickly. I held up pretty good for 3 games but started wearing out. In the 4th the goal was for me to throw one ball and let the hubby pick up my remaining pins -- but I got two legitimate strikes, and a third one where there was really one pin left but it was out of alignment so when the pin setter came down it pushed the pin down.

The good news is that I am not very stiff afterwards! A little in my left hip and my right arm but I am good enough today to pack my sewing machine and project to go to my sewing group. As I tell my husband, sewing is my hobby and bowling is his hobby, is just something I do with him. :)