One of my favorite crafts is cross-stitching, although I haven't done very much of it in the last 10 years. At one point I had cross stitched the Monopoly gameboard and for the life of me cannot locate it and fear that it was thrown away during one of my cleanouts of the RV when we were limited for space.

Here recently I decided I wanted to start doing some projects so the first one I picked out was a chicken from the Chicken Club that Lori Holt designed that goes with her Chicken Salad Sew Along that was a quilting project. Another project on my to do list.

So far there are nine different chicken designs and at the time I ordered a couple patterns I didn't realize the numbering system or I would have probably chose number 1 and 2, instead I picked Hattie and Hank, who turned out to be number 3 and 5. I completed Miss Hattie yesterday and am proud of my accomplishment.

I tried something I didn't even know was possible and that was cross stitching without a hoop. I have always used a hoop. Overall I think she looks pretty good. I plan to mount her pretty much like the picture on the pattern and have ordered some fabrics and frames to be able to do at least the first 4. I have also ordered pattern number 1 and 2 and once I finish those I will continue with the series. I believe there will be a total of 12 chickens once the series is completed.

I am to the end of another awesome design by Lori Holt. The Bee Vintage Sew a long was a great experience and one that I really enjoyed doing. After my weeks of pretty much keeping up with the weekly progress, I fell behind on the sashing and borders, but can happily say I have succeeded in finishing this one….finally! 

I was really worried about lining up the sashing and borders and although you can see a few off by a centimeter or two, for the most part these line up really well. When sewing all the sashing and borders I used a seam guile to make sure I stayed at 1/4” seam on everything. This really helped to keep everything lined up and spaced correctly, so when I got to the borders, the measurements given for cutting the borders actually matched the length my sides and top were. This is a huge accomplishment in the quilt world.

I still need to put the top on the Moxie to be quilted, but that will have to wait until 1) I order the actual backing fabric and, 2) I get moved into the new house and get my sewing room set back up. Until then please enjoy the look of my latest finish project.

If you want to see all the blocks I made for this quilt one right after the other, click on the image to the right that says, Bee Vintage Sew Along and it will bring up all the posts related to this project.

I am finally to the last week of the sew a long and this week only has two blocks. From here I need to applique each block and then do the sashing and borders in order to complete my quilt. 

The Bee Vintage Sew Along is another one of Lori Holt's creations and sew-a-longs using her Sew Simple Shapes. The quilt includes 20 different blocks and then sashing and borders. Each week there are 3 blocks to complete. This sew along started on the 10th of July and I really hope I am able to keep up with the 3 blocks per week each week.

This week we are completing the Vintage Kitty and Vintage Daisy Chain!