August goal update

     I set myself a simple August goal for a couple of reasons.  One reason was that I thought I would need to spend a lot of time this month working on my part of the Modern Quilt Guild's charity quilt. Another reason was that Dwight and I where going to be away for the better part of a week.  Usually when I take time off in the summer, he is working and I sit around at home and sew.  Still another reason for the simple goal was that I had some concerns about how my 8 sisterhood blocks, all paper pieced by different quilters, was going to come together.  I was overthinking it.

    On the weekend before the vacation start I managed to complete 1/3 of my part of the charity quilt in an easy afternoon of sewing so I decided to just sew the sisterhood blocks together come what may and see if I could live with the result.  The result wasn't perfect but I decided I could live with it and that the imperfections added to it's folksy charm.  To further add to it's folksy charm I decided I would try my hand a big stitch quilting.  This would be the perfect project to take on vacation with me.

     As I have not done a lot of hand quilting I stuck to a colour that blended in so you will have to strain to see it.  It's Aurifil cotton embroidery floss that I won in a link up with Quilting JetGirl a couple of years ago.  I used three strands and the colour is 6722 which is a creamy white.
     Even though he was on vacation we still spent an hour to an hour and a half on two different occasions on a job site.  Normally this would drive me snaky but as it was at a nice location in Grey County just south of Georgian Bay, I happily sat in the car and worked on my hand quilting.  I also worked on it in the evening.
     It was a good little vacation.  We stayed at the Lavender Hills B&B where the host is a trained Chef and Baker, yum yum.  He also has a herd of goats and alpacas which added to the entertainment value in the evening when we relaxed on the patio.  We went on a 2 hour canoe trip on a very lazy river and a couple of hikes.  It was great to be out in nature, and to spend some time together.  I'm going to try to finish my quilting for this project as my new to myself goal this month.  I'm linking with Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts and with UFO Busting at Tish's Adventures in Wonderland.