TO-Do Tuesday # 43

I'm back and linking up with Chris at ChrisKnits for To-Do Tuesday.  Let's see how I did last week!

Then, check the Linky Party at Chris’s blog and see what others were up to! 

Last week June 1 - June 7

1. Decide on June OMG. ( Geese Migration or Precarious) and post!   I decided on Geese Migration. Here is my post!

2. Make at least one purple hollow 9 patch!   Yes!  

3. Sew some Positivity blocks for the QAL    Yes!

4. Construct the last 2 CiL blocks and get them sent off to Tammy!  May-June block drive.  did not get this done

5. Make a label for the Garlic Knots Quilt   I did, but did not take a photo. There was lots of personal info on that label. You'll have to take my word for it! The box is in the mail!

Next Week June 8- June 14

1. Make 10 more Positivity Blocks

2. Make 1 purple Hollow 9 block

3. CiL blocks 

4. Cut sashing for Geese Migration blocks and sash the blocks per the directions

5. Check with Long Arm Quilter to see if she will do minkee on the back of Follow Your Own Path and what her parameters are. Like how much bigger than the top, does she need. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

A Finish! Finished or Not Finished Friday #57

 

Well it’s finally finished! Quilted, trimmed and bound. The only thing left is a gift label and to package it up and get it sent to Vermont! 

Bordered, no backing! 

A pieced backing!

Quilted! That’s one busy backing section!

A better look at the quilting from the front!

Seems like the binding took forever! It’s not even that big! 

The glamour shot!

The best corner! Normally I don’t have trouble with the corners! I sewed this with a 3/8th seam allowance at the recommendation of a friend! I measured the corner, stopped  at 3/8 and did my usual . But it definitely was not good! 

I’m linking up with Alycia Quilts’ Finished or Not Finished Friday! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy 

To-Do Tuesday # 42

 

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I continue to make a list and check it off! Sometimes I’m successful and sometimes I am not! But SOME  progress is still progress! Thank Chris for providing a place to be accountable! I’m linking up with ChrisKnits! 

1. Check Follow Your Own Path QAL at mmm.quilts.    

 

Final parade is..June 15th! 

2 Binding on Garlic Knots!   In progress, on side 4, all 4 corners are done!

3. Finish binding May Table Scraps entry and write a post .

✅. See my post here!

4. Rearrange for solids.     This is what got me in trouble. I started to clean out some drawers in a small chest that was my mother’s. Down a rabbit holes of memories I fell! 

5. Make sure I am ready for Positivity QAL.  Not done! So Many Decisions!  I thought I knew how I was going to lay it out! Hmmmm!

Next week.

1. Decide on June OMG. ( Geese Migration or Precarious) and post!

2. Make at least one purple hollow 9 patch!

3. Sew some Positivity blocks for the QAL

4. Construct the last 2 CiL blocks and get them sent off to Tammy!  May-June block drive.

5. Make a label for the Garlic Knots Quilt

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

Finished Or Not Finished Friday #56

 

This week I have a not yet finished and a completely finished.  The not yet quilt will be done before the end of the Memorial Day weekend. I'm linking up this post at Alycia Quilts, Finished or Not Finished Friday. 

The finished little project is my May Red entry to Table Scraps Challenge at The Joyful Quiilter. I will write a post specifically for that challenge. You can see it here. 

The not yet finished is the binding on my Garlic Knots quilt. I started this as a Leader and Ender project a few years ago. Then I added a border to increase the size a bit. Now I have a place for it. It is going to our future grandson in law. He just completed his degree in business and has started a new job in Vermont. I felt a little quilt was in order. They can use it camping or attending music festivals or concerts or whatever. 

It will be in my lap every time I sit down, til it's done!

Before the quilting!

After, Linnie quilted it. I need to call her and ask her the name of the pantograph. It looks nice on the straight linear blocks. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

May 15 Saturday! Red, Red and More!

I’ve just about have too many irons in the fire!  So many beginnings that need to be brought to an end. I hope to get it together and get something accomplished that I can share. 

My plan ..make 1 red hollow 9 patch each week

May 1,8,15

Exclamation Point blocks for Full Stop! 

I’m going to run out of background fabric.....I need to find another light cream with white and intersperse so it doesn’t look like I changed fabric abruptly, when it comes to adding width at the ends of each row. 

I’ve uncovered an inspiration piece for Table Scraps Challenge. 

And some pieces when I dumped my red scrap basket.

My garlic knots quilt 

was delivered to my quilter friend on Thursday at our Thursday Stitchers group. 

She texted me yesterday, Friday, that it was done. Now I need to prep a binding. 

Follow Your Own Path QAL will be a top next week. The arrow blocks are done. 

So, no more sitting around! Judy must get busy! I’m linking up with Angela at ScrapHappy Saturday. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy 

To-Do Tuesday #39

I’m linking up at Chrisknits to share my list successes and my failures

Last weeks list looked like this. 

May 4th - May 10th

1.  Make some hollow 9's in RED!  One  and parts, isn't some, but it is one!

One done!

Parts for a second Hollow 9 patch. 

2. Cut pieces for Geese Migration blocks.   Dark red/bugundy/maroon and rusty orange. Nothing done except buy fabric for the solids.  I did cut and sew some Exclamation Point blocks for Full Stop, Angela's sampler for RSC21!

3. Enjoy the Sew Day with the Loosethreads group! Oh, this was fun!  I mostly visited, but did get some sewing done on the arrow blocks. I forgot to take pictures. Actually my old Samsung 6 had quit keeping pictures in its gallery and I didn’t have my iPad. I now have a different phone. Maybe getting pictures will be easier.

4. Keep working on parts for Growing Up Odd from Wedding Dress Blues

Four 9 patches completed. Some 3's done.  I have a long way to go. But its a start. I am using these 2" blocks for Leaders and Enders as I sew other projects. 

 Bonus.  5. Get Garlic Knots to a quilter!  She doesn't have it yet, but I'm taking it to her on Thursday!

Next week May 11 - 17

1. Geese Migration Blocks

2. Finish red exclamation point blocks for Full Stop! 

3. Cut sashings for Growing Up Odd. To make sure there is enough! 

It's a short list and I'm sure I'll do other things. There are strawberry beds to clean out. There is a whole box of vintage linens that my brother thought I should have. I need to clean them and decide what to do with them. There may be a checkbook to balance, laundry to do, meals to cook. You know! so....

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

To-Do Tuesday #38

   To-Do Tuesday!  “May the fourth be with you!”       (I’m sorry, I couldn’t help it!)

Last week

To-Do for April 27th  - May 3rd

1. Check out the new color for May at So Scrappy!  ✅.   It's RED!   I have red!

2. Decide on OMG for May and write a post. ✅.      My post is here

3. Maybe retrieve my sewing machine and pick up the truck we bought in RC.     Not done yet, but we are going tomorrow!  My brother is done using the truck, my sister’s house is listed! 

4. Sew some Follow Your Own Path blocks, if I get my machine back.  ✅   I decided to just use the Janome. I'll take this project to the Sew Day on the 6th!

5. Add some strips to the embroidery, so they will fit in a hoop and start the stitching. ✅

The strips are just scrap. They will be removed after the stitching is complete. 

Next Week's List

May 4th - May 10th

1.  Make some hollow 9's in RED!

2. Cut pieces for Geese Migration blocks.   Dark red/bugundy/maroon and rusty orange. 

3. Enjoy the Sew Day with the Loosethreads group!

4. Keep working on parts for Growing Up Odd from Wedding Dress Blues

 Bonus.  5. Get Garlic Knots to a quilter!

I'll link up with ChrisKnits and To-Do Tuesday! It's good to have this place to make a list and then check it off!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

To Do Tuesday #37

 

Last week’s  list:  April 20th  to April 26th

1. Finish table runner and post. ✅.      My post is here and below is a final photo.

2. Trace some of the designs for Crabapple project! ✅  

This is the center verse. Hard to get a photo of, because the tracing is brown pigma pen. It says:

I will create a beautiful world of fabric & floss.

Peaceful and joyous.

Calm hours filled with the sound of my needle and thread as I stitch

The small designs are mostly 2” x 2”, but some are slightly bigger and rectangular. If you want to see the whole project it at Crabapple Hill. Here is the link to the finished project. When I checked this morning, it was still available. 

3. Sew some seams on Follow Your Own Path.   Not done! 

I got interrupted by a squirrel. 

My quilter got Heartland done. Here it is ready to trim. 

And I started hand stitching the binding on. The pattern calls for an "economy binding" in order to get the top and binding out of 3 yards of fabric. I did it, but I am not fond of it. Then last night as I was approaching corner #4, the miter did not work. So I spent nearly an hour "unsewing" the binding so I could re turn the corner.  I will hopefully complete that today. I will donate this quilt to CiL, so I need to finish it, run it through the wash and get it in the mail to Kat!

4. Piece a backing for Garlic Knots. ✅

My Garlic Knots, a leader and ender project from a few years ago.

It has a lot of dark reds and burgundies and rusts in it.  I had some donated yardage that when pieced looks great I think. 

It's some coordinating fabrics. A print, a stripe and a gingham. Boy, the gingham doesn't photograph well indoors! I think I have decided to send it to my youngest granddaughter's fiance to celebrate his college graduation. He doesn't want all the pomp and circumstance....but a gift might be appreciated. 

To-Do for April 27th  - May 3rd

1. Check out the new color for May at So Scrappy!

2. Decide on OMG for May and write a post. 

3. Maybe retrieve my sewing machine and pick up the truck we bought in RC.

4. Sew some Follow Your Own Path blocks, if I get my machine back. 

5. Add some strips to the embroidery, so they will fit in a hoop and start the stitching. 

I'll be linking up with ChrisKnits and friends today. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy