Stitching with Lizzie at week 26 - what was she thinking??

Lizzie at Week 26

The past week, I have only stitched on Lizzie aka Elizabeth Mears.  I have spent a ridiculous amount of time stitching the center gable at the roof line.  The white outer edge of the gable is stitched one thread high and two threads wide with plenty of partial stitches to confuse me.  Needless to say, it took a couple of attempts to have a gable that was presentable and I'm fairly pleased with the result.

If you are stitching this piece, I suggest you follow Barbara's direction and put in all of the full and partial stitches surrounding the gable first and then go back and work symbol 9.  Even with that I found that I needed to mark my progress on my chart to keep my stitches in the correct positions.

Since the high temperature continues to hover in the 110 degree plus range, it should be another good week for stitching.

Stitching With Lizzie - Week 25

Elizabeth Mears Sampler - Week 25

This is Elizabeth Mears  at Week 25.  The baskets came out great and the big house should start taking shape soon. I'm sort of wishing I had selected a darker ground fabric so that the house will stand out a bit more.... but .... I really wanted to use the church linen.

Mr. Snowman - Ornament #5

Ornament #5 is still in progress. I was distracted with the pompom on the hat.  The stitch guide uses modified turkey work that is then cut, but I've never been a fan of that stitch.  I have a few ideas...

Gingerbread Man Ornament - Update

The poor little gingerbread man looked like the frosting was running out when he got his bow tie.  Much better......

Ornament Club Numbers 3 & 4

Gingerbread Man Ornament

Mr. Snowman Ornament

This week is the "Joyful Stitchers" meeting so I have been trying to catch up on my monthly ornaments.  The completed Gingerbread Man is ornament #4 and Mr. Snowman is coming along and might be finished before Thursday stitching.

Almost A Log Cabin -- Finished!!

After stitching miles and miles (412 inches) of binding.... it's done!  It would definitely be a super fast finish to do the entire binding by machine, but bindings are one of my "things".   I like the look of the finished quilt  so much better when the binding is completed by hand.

Soon I will make pillow cases and pillow shams.   I have matching yardage in woven fabric for pillow cases and there should be enough flannel to make at least two shams with a log cabin of some kind that will coordinate with the quilt.

Next up  --  catching up on the monthly ornament club and spending some time with Lizzie.

 

Almost A Log Cabin - Quilted

The "Almost A Log Cabin" is quilted!  In order to have the grid cross the center of each block the quilting is spaced at about 2.75".   I like the look of simple grids -- must be why I also like needlepoint and cross stitch.

I was asked about the time difference in quilting on a home machine vs on a longarm.  Since I don't currently do free motion on my Elna it isn't a straight comparison, if I had done the quilting on my old longarm I would have used a panotgraph and the result would be totally different.  With that in mind, my estimate is that it takes me about about 8 times longer to do the quilting on a home machine vs longarm.