Slow stitching this week...

November is moving right along, and there is another week of my daily stitching to show.

You might notice that my book club met this week, 

and so did my quilt group!

But what I stitched to represent the quilt group was not a quilt, it was a delicious cake that our hostess made for the refreshments.  Pumpkin chocolate chip cake - yummy!  And so pretty with its perfect bundt cake pan shape, too.

And one evening, there was a beautiful sunset, so here is my interpretation of that.

Each evening, after I finish my daily stitching calendar section, I've been putting a few stitches into this piece - "Oh Christmas Tree" designed by Melisa at PinkernPunkin.

It's very close to being done - just needs some...

Christmas trees!  

One of them is started - eventually there will be two.

Plenty to work on here!

Sharing at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.

Gameboard Blocks

It's been another week with not much sewing time, but I did manage to sew up the last two blocks I needed for the Gameboard quilt.  The last time I shared this project, I had pretty much figured out a layout I liked, but was missing two blocks.  After reading everyone's suggestions for what colors were needed, and hunting around in my stash, I ended up with these two.

Brick red and "pinky-orange!"

And here are my 30 blocks.

Then I got as far as clipping them together in groups of four or two for sewing, and putting them in a basket next to the sewing machine.

Hopefully there will be time to get going on 

sewing the quilt top together this weekend!

Sharing at SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday.

And at Quilting is More Fun than Housework for Oh Scrap! 

Melva Loves Scraps for Sew and Tell.

I Like Thursday #509

Happy Veterans Day to my veteran!  We were out on the golf course, enjoying this gorgeous November weather we're having.

This last week, we also went to a good movie.  "Jimmy" is about Jimmy Stewart and the years he spent as a pilot for the Army Air Corps during WWII.   We learned a lot about him, and came home wanting to know more.  He experienced PTSD after flying 20 bombing raids over Germany - and people didn't understand what that was back them.  

My book club met this week, and I always enjoy that.  This month we read The Boy from the Sea, an interesting story about life in an Irish fishing village in the 1980s and one family in particular.  The story has sort of a melancholy feel to it.

I tried a new vegetable dish this week, as a request from Mike (who is not generally a very good vegetable eater, lol)!   He saw it on a Facebook reel, so I watched that and then googled a recipe.  It turns out there are many out there!  Here's a link to one: Smashed Broccoli with Parmesan

I liked it!  Not sure the other family members did, 

but that's okay!

😜

Hope you're having a great week!

Joining in with Not Afraid of Color for I Like Thursday.

Midweek Update

This week:

Continuing on with a little of this and a little of that - I finished up the last two gameboard blocks I need for one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects.

Along the way I have also been experimenting with the little 3.5 inch plus blocks that Nancy at Grace and Peace quilting shared a while back.  Just a few made so far.  I especially like the ones made with strips from my solid scraps drawer.  Most of these are actually made with some Grunge scraps from that drawer as those are the first I pulled out to work with.

These will become my leader/ender blocks now that I've 

made all the gameboard blocks I need for that quilt top.

And then I started thinking about a scrappy placemat for November.  In October, I made three placemats with some leftover jelly roll strips I was trying to use up.  But, of course, I didn't use them all up, so I decided I wanted to try to get one more placemat out of them!

The last of the jelly roll strips and 

some chunks of other fall prints.

Remembering the turquoise placemat I made in July, I started cutting the strips into 2.5 x 4.5 inch bricks, and combining them with a leafy neutral.

And a plan is emerging!

Sharing at The Inquiring Quilter for Wednesday Wait Loss.

Also at Alycia Quilts for Finished or Not Friday.

It's time for some turkeys!

I stitched this Turkey Mini Sampler last November, and then put it away to fully finish this year.

Yesterday I changed out the decor on my little chest for November, and set the turkey sampler out with Gobble Gobble and Give Thanks.  These are all PinkernPunkin designs.

Thank you, Melisa!

In my daily stitching, here's how I ended October.

And then I started on November!  This month's shapes are completely different than last month's, so they will be a fun challenge. 

The purple flowers I stitched there are to celebrate that I still have purple alyssum blooming in my garden!  See my photo of them in my Thursday post.

Sharing at Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.

This and that...

This has been one of those weeks where you wonder where the time went!  Here is the sum total of my sewing in the last week...

I did finish the little snack mat, inspired by the dive into my orphan block drawer.

Along the way there was a tiny 16 patch made for another gameboard block, too.

And I bet you can see that I did make one more house for A Year in the Neighborhood.

My Christmas scraps didn't contain any Santas, 

but there was lots of this fun candy cane print.

When I laid out all 12 of the houses I've made (without any trees), I came up with this.  And now it looks like I might need a 13th house, lol!  Maybe Santa will make an appearance after all.

There's always something to think about with this project!

Sharing at SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday.

And at Quilting is More Fun than Housework for Oh Scrap!

Melva Loves Scraps for Sew and Tell Monday.

I Like Thursday #508

It has been a busy week here, lots of adulting to be done - my annual wellness exam, blood draw, making appointments for a mammogram and bone density scan.  And some business to be done on my mom's finances.  But I have had a little fun!   😉

On Halloween, carving this little pumpkin from my garden last summer!

At Mom's place, they had everyone dressed up and trick or treaters came through.  The gals there did an amazing job figuring out costumes for everyone, and decorating for the event.

When I went back to visit again a couple days ago, everything was switched over to fall and Thanksgiving.  I think this little squirrel and his fire pit are so cute!

Here we are in November, and the alyssum in my flower garden are still blooming like crazy!

I just love these!

Hope you're having a great week!

Joining in with Not Afraid of Color for I Like Thursday.