Time To Sew

 This morning, I was waiting on Jo to arrive. She was due at 10 and Debbie around 11. Before Jo arrived, I got my batting out and ready to cut. It takes time to get it out of those mailing bags. It took a little to get it out but now we are on our way of cutting more batting. Jo brought her quilt top she finished, and I LOVE it! It's the ship panel and she did an awesome job on it! We cut the batting. Then we tried to figure out a backing for it. We ended up with the grey that was donated to us and didn't know what to do with it. She checked it out and she will sew it together for the back. We talked about me needing to get a grey backing for some of those panel quilts. Jo is hand quilting this quilt for a veteran. 

Debbie came about an hour after Jo. She needed backing for her quilt. I was getting the star blocks "squared up" before I started to work on the quilt. I hate squaring up other peoples blocks. I wish they would do it, but they don't, so I have to. I ended up cutting a few of the points of because the size I wanted and the size I had to cut down was different and hard to fix. When Debbie arrived we worked on the backing for her quilt and I cut her a batting as well. Debbie took one of the quilt tops with backing and batting to give to her cousin, Jeannie. She said she could do it in about a week. If we get all these scrap quilts done, we will have plenty for the next presentation. 

After Debbie left, I got busy with starting to work on the quilt I had on the wall. Or at least the design for a quilt. I had Patrick help me with what to do. 

I had the greenish color already decided. Then Patrick suggested I use the blue (didn't have the lights on), as a second border before putting the stars around it. I got to work on it, but after this far, my foot was telling me enough! So, I stopped. I will add the blue and then get to work on the stars around the next border. They will go in the corners, then in the center of the sides. I think it will be pretty. Then Patrick told me tonight, he should be the QOV designer for the quilts. Since everyone asks his advice. lol 

After Patrick got home, I got started on fried chicken. He likes my fried chicken, but I'm not that crazy about my own cooking when it comes to chicken. 

I am getting better at it though. Even Katt thought at looked good for fried chicken. We didn't have much other than the chicken. I would have loved to have the potatoes and gravy with this, but we decided not to. We didn't need to eat "heavy."

So, I spend the evening playing on my games. At least I finally went downstairs and worked on the quilt top, which turned out to be Happy Quilting/Happy Stitching!