Thursday, November 17, 2011

Daisy Star is done!

It got cold last night. We had 20* this morning at 7 a.m. I told Kevin I think that is enough of winter. Now we can go back to 70*. LOL I wish. It is about 34* now, so I doubt that it will get above 40* today. The wind is brisk too, so I plan to stay in the house today. Country Mart has a good sale this week, so Kevin told me to go stock up on some stuff. Good thing I went today, because they were already getting low on some things and were completely out of the $1.98 butter. Bummer. I did end up with some butter at Green Hills for $2.29. That isn't too bad. I now have everything we need for our Thanksgiving dinner.

I went to the doctor yesterday for my 3 month check-up. Now I am waiting to hear the results of the blood work.She had to stick me twice to get the blood. She noted on my chart that I am hard to get blood out of. (grin) I also decided to get a flu shot. I had never had one before, but had a bad case of flu last winter. I don't want a repeat of that. So today my arm is sore and I am stuffy and congested. Not blaming the flu shot, but I was perfectly fine before I got it.

I have been working hard on Christmas gifts. Of course, I am not where I hoped to be by this time of the month, but I am chugging along. Last night I put together the cutest little tree block quilt from this issue of McCall's Quick Quilts. I really love it. I may machine quilt it today, since time is escaping me. Here is the tree quilt.
Isn't this cute? I may even go by Hobby Lobby this weekend and see if I can find some mini-ornaments to decorate it.  I tried not to have any alike pieces beside each other, but after ripping out a couple of times decided this was good enough.
I also finished sewing the binding on the Daisy Star. I am glad to have it done. I think I will give it to Hazel for Christmas. She doesn't read my blog, so I can safely share it on here.  I laid it out on our deck since Kevin wasn't home to hold it up for me.
I'll share a couple more shots of it.  The little spot in the lower right corner above is a leaf. (grin)
Here is the back of it. I used fabrics leftover from the front to give it a scrappy binding.

Well, I'd better get back to work on gifts. Kevin has all of next week off, so I'm not sure how much I will get done. I need to have hand projects ready because he likes me to sit and watch tv with him. (grin) Thank you for visiting and please come again. Have a wonderful day.

8 comments:

Lee said...

Your Christmas tree is very cute, and the Daisy Star, totally lovely!
I hope you have a wonderful day too!

Pat said...

I saw that Christmas tree project in Quick Quilts and you did a nice job with it. I also love the Daisy Star quilt!!!

Julie Fukuda said...

Wow, what a lot of progress. Love those finishes. I had to laugh about drawing blood. I've been told it would be easier to get it out of a stone. Funny because if I stab my finger with a needle, there is some there.

Karen said...

The tree quilt reminds me of a similar one I made years ago. The branches were not composed of pieced rows, though. I like the idea of the piecing instead of a single green for a row.

Janet said...

You have been busy. You get so much done. I love the tree and the Daisy Star is lovely. Have fun with Kevin next week. :)

Myra said...

Darling tree quilt Winona, and I love your Daisy Star!!! Its beautiful!! 8-)

Paula said...

I don't know how I missed this post, Winona~ I just now saw the date... I'm almost a week behind!
Love the quilt but especially the backing~ those colors are wonderful.
I ordered some fabric online today for the first time... not really sure how I'm going to like it but it's kinda exciting to have some surprises coming. *grin*. Charlotte (from the blog EMZ-Piney Post) told me about a fabric and quilting site she orders from called Connecting Threads- have you heard of it? It has some very nice things but I still wish I had a fabric store close by so I could see the fabric in person. Oh well, that's what I get for living out in the sticks... *hehe*
Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Barb said...

I hope you are doing ok, we missed you at Thimbleberries.

I love love love that quilt!!! Your tree is just adorable!

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