To-Do Tuesday #137

Linking up with To-Do-Tuesday and our hostess, Carol at Quilt Schmilt-For the Love of Fabric. 

April 18 to April 24


1. Finish ABC Table Scraps Challenge ✅ 

      The project is done, but no photos til Friday.
2. Finish November stitchery ✅  

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Pardon my shadow. 

3. Stitch on Spring Stamps from Pinker n Punkin. ✅  

Progress made.

4. Get blue borders on Long May She Wave.  ✅.  

Just as we started to take a photo, the wind came up!

And then it got worse....back inside we went!

5. Make House #3 for Rainbow Neighbourhood QAL ✅

My photo looks a bit lopsided. It really isn't. But this house is rather "busy"!  Maybe I should tone down the next 5 or six????  I keep thinking I am finally going to use up that mauve-y pink in the roof...but there is still more!  😆

    

April 25 - May 1

1. Write post for ABC Table Scraps Challenge

2. Look for backing for  Long May She Wave

3. Quilt more on Precarious and write an OMG post!

4. Start on December stitchery for A Year in the Garden

5. Make one purple string block, at least. 

6. House #4 for Rainbow Neighbourhood QAL - 




Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

TO-DO Tuesday #131

I’m linking up with others at Quilt Schmilt ! Thanks Carol for hosting this party!

Last week March 7- March 13

1. Keep adding sashing pieces to the RWB star blocks! ✅

               One more row done and the next one is ready.

2. Give some thought to ABC Table Scraps Challenge. Green, B and/or U. ❌. Still have no idea!
3. Ready the backing for Growing Up Odd!✅ 

             It is ready for the quilter, as soon as I get some batting. 

4. Look at box of Happy Blocks, the other project assigned “green”, and think about a flimsy. ❌

                           I didn’t even open the box! 

Sort of a bust of a week! Not sure why! But some weeks are like that! 

Next week March 14 x March 20

1. Finish and post Project Quilting 14.6. CONQUER A FEAR

2. Think about ABC Table Scraps Challenge.

3. Happy Blocks ??

My list is shorter this week. I will concentrate on Project Quilting!,

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Finished or Not Finished Friday!

I’m linking up with Alycia and friends at Finished or Not Finished Friday! 

I haven’t had a finish in a really long time!  I am sewing, but nothing is complete. 

So I’ll show the “things” I do have finished! 

60 blue and white geese! 

60 white and red geese! 

72 red geese with white wings unattached! 

Squares cut for the beginnings of stars! 

All marked and bagged ready to go to a mini retreat next week!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Small goals met!

I’m joining Linda and friends today to fess up to a few small goals met!  Click over to Texas Quilt Gal and see how everyone did last week. Here’s mine. 

Last week’s playlist!

1. Put some more blocks together to add to these:


This is the beginning of Pop Star from Sandra Walker at mmm quilts.

Ready for the final white border. 

2. Do something with Orange.

I sewed some crumbs! 😀

3. If I test Neg and feel good, stitch with my Thursday Stitchers.




I tested positive, so I did not go! So sad!

4. And attend a QOV Presentation that Alycia from Alycia Quilts will be doing in my town. I hope I feel good enough. I'd like to meet her in person. I promise "no hugging"

We had a wonderful day for the presentation! It was sunny and hot at 10 am, hence the dark glasses. Alycia knows her stuff. The presentation to 3 deserving veterans was wonderful, and emotional! The quilts were beautiful. 

The quilt holder was Alycia’s DH! 

Next week:  Aug 16 - Aug 

1. VOTE! Our primary is today! 🇺🇸🦅

2. Get Pop Star to the quilter and write a OMG post!

3. Make at least 2 blocks for CiL and get them in the mail.

4.  Start working on TSC for August. Orange and Embroidery! 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

To-Do Tuesday 8-9-22. Looking forward!

I did not have a To-Do List for this week. I've just been taking it easy since my Positive Covid test last Monday, the 1st.  I am feeling better, will test again tomorrow- Day 10. 

I have been sewing some in small batches.  So my try-to-do list for next week is as follows.  I am linking up with Linda at Texas Quilt Gal.

August 9-15

1. Put some more blocks together to add to these:

This is the beginning of Pop Star from Sandra Walker at mmm quilts. 

2.   Do something with Orange. 

3.   If I test Neg and feel good,  stitch with my Thursday Stitchers.

4.  And attend a QOV Presentation that Alycia from Alycia Quilts will be doing in my town. I hope I feel good enough. I'd like to meet her in person. I promise "no hugging"

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy!

Finished or Not Finished Friday 9-11-2010

 

I don’t have a finish this week, lots of starts and progress, I guess. I did want to post today though! Because!

              We must never forget! 9.11.2001

I have  2 Red Geese Migration blocks done. I’m starting to think about the finish for this one. I need to decide on a background fabric, a solid! Probably cream or ivory 

And I need to get the binding made and applied for this one!

A close up of the quilting!

I just call this one, Dick and Jane.  I wish I had enough of the Dick and Jane print to bind it....but I don't.  All the other fabric is from stash, but I think I have enough of the blue/aqua.  It will have to do. 

 Our local quilt show is the first weekend in October! I probably won’t attend, but will take this these two quilts to show. 

Winter Mystery QOV  from Alycia Quilts.  

And Dick and Jane, above.  

I'm linking up with Finished or Not Finished Friday! at Alycia Quilts.  Go check out everyone's finishes. Alycia's is really wonderful!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

Finished or Not Finished Friday - mostly NADA

 Not one single finish this week. I puttered in my sewing room, trying to make room for a few more scrap baskets. That led me to finding some fabric and pattern from old projects. Most of it was sorted into the appropriate scrap basket. 

I also pulled 4 books of quilt patterns that just do not appeal to me anymore. I will donate them to the Boutique at our local quilt show in October! 

Some of the unearthed fabric was selected for bowl cozies requested by DS. I also found a coordinating piece that I really liked. Then time was spent looking for pre-cut squares of all cotton batting. I knew it was somewhere! I did find it finally, all the while berating myself for not being better organized!  Enough of my lamenting! 

I stitched a little on the binding of my OMG project, while watching the DNC. Even though I didn’t see all of it, I did enjoy Kamala Harris's speech.  I ironed a few things and I did laundry. Just a “piddly” kind of week! 

With all the sanding and sawing going on in the garage, the inside of the house is definitely dusty!.  I finally decided to put my quilt in a laundry basket and that way it stays off the floor. It's big enough to pull the part I am stitching onto my lap and the rest stays in the basket. It also keeps the bulk of my quilt off my lap, a help in the heat of summer. We do have A/C, but this helps. 

I'm linking up with Alycia's party, Finished or Not Finished Friday. If you hop on over there, I am sure there are some examples of quilters who had a very successful productive week. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

Finished or Not Finished Friday Repeat

 This will be a bit redundant for some of you. I now have 3 CiL (Covered in Love) blocks finished. This last one is a Sawtooth Star block with a scrappy 4 patch center and blue star points. The neutral-ish fabric in the four patch is the last of a piece I bought years ago. It’s a favorite of mine. One more Ohio Star block to do and then all 8 will be mailed to Kat.

I also finally settled on a plan to get the Chunky Churn Dash/ Nines and Rails blocks together. I used the blue Shibori II fabric that was used in my QOV Winter Mystery. I wanted to use it for the binding of the QOV, so I put off thinking about it for sashings the churn dash blocks. But the binding is machine stitched to the QOV quilt, so the extra was available. Then I needed cornerstones. I could have gone scrappy, but I felt like it needed some consistency. I noticed the orange plaid in the top of my orange scrap basket! Ooh! That will work! It's called Little Bear and Cottontail from RJR Fabrics  2007!

It’s coming together,but it will be a bit narrow, I think. Not quite 36”.   Time to think about border fabric! 

I don't know why I started at the bottom, but the rows are going together. 

The binding is machine sewn to the front on Winter Mystery QOV. 

This is my slow stitching, sitting in the cool basement project for the next week or two. It will need to be finished by the end of August. Definitely doable. I heard back from my quilter, the panto is Outburst!  

So that's all of my NOT finished projects today!. 

Linking up with Alicia at Finished or Not Finished Friday.  Go check out all the others linking up. Lots of fabulous finishes. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

August OMG

My August goal is to make four more star blocks for Covered in Love's July-Aug blocks drive. 

The first four:

The next four may be the same or they may be different, but they will be Red, White and Blue.

And to get the binding on the QOV. Winter Mystery from Alicia Quilts. 

I'm linking up here: 

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal August Link-up

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

Finished or Not Finished Friday QOV Mystery and masks(again)

I did not spend much time in my sewing room this week. I’m not sure why. Every time I walked in there I was overwhelmed with all the stuff to do. 

I did iron some capris and some pillow cases. I know most people don’t iron pillow cases these days. But Mr Busy always remarks, “ fresh pillowcases!” when I change the sheets! So I do it for him. And me, it’s an old lady thing, I guess, 

I did get my Winter Mystery back from the quilter. She only had it 3 days! I really like the quilting although I am not sure of the name of the design . The blue thread is a perfect match to the blue fabric I used.  I’ll message her and ask. 

It looks bad at the bottom. Let's just chalk it up to the Wyoming wind.  

It really is mostly square. It is roughly trimmed. 

I trimmed the excess batting and backing. I cut and sewed the blue binding. 

I'm a kind of sloppy binding roller. It' ll be fine. This weekend I need to either sequester myself in my room until the binding is on or move my machine to the dining room table. I struggle with the bulk and weight of a quilt when I sew on the binding. That could be an old lady thing, too!

Late yesterday,  I did sew up two kids masks. 

The Blah Blah Blah fabric is the back. 

These are both the same size on the panel, but I sewed a slightly bigger piece of blah blah fabric on the HELLO front giving it a look of binding around the edge.And then I added a 2.5" by 4.5 " pieces on the end for the casing. Much like Bonnie Hunter does in her tutorial. The green one is for Miss Sassypants who just turned 3 and the other is for her brother, who just turned 10.  

So that is my Finished or Not Finished for this week. I'm linking up with Alicia at QuiltyGirl. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy