Two For One Day

This morning, I was up earlier than usual. Patrick stayed home. It's his "day off" for golfing. He will be back at it tomorrow. 

I spent the morning downstairs, cutting backing and batting for 7 quilts. I have been washing the backing all day. Since I wash them in hot water, it takes about 2 hours to get them washed. So, I put 2 or 3 of the same color in at once. Had 3 loads today. I will be taking 10 of them up to Olympia next week. I need to do another one or two. I'm waiting on more bigger quilts instead of the small ones that we can't use. 

Came up to watch TV when Patrick decided to go outside and washed the windows. So, I couldn't watch my show for very long, because of the water hitting the windows. I had to pause off and on to be able to hear the show. 

I was working on my beading while trying to watch the TV. 

Have more to do but at least I'm getting there. I was able to get this far and realized I needed to get the dog ready for Bob's grandson's quilt. 

I do a lot better with "back basting" and I pulled out my light to get it ready. I'm going to use some felt and embroidery to finish him off. Which made him easy, I just do one full piece, add the felt and then do the outline stitch in black. It will be perfect. The hard part is getting it marked for embroidery. I may have to use the light box again to see if I could mark it. We will see. 

Once I get moving to applique this down, then I can get moving on the felt in the places it needs to be. I love the color. Not sure if I have thread for it but will look. 

Today was a 2 for 1 days because I was both Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!