Goal Setting May OMG

I’m in a bit of a quandary. I need to set a goal, I want to set a goal..but which?  Do I go small and doable? Leave room for a squirrel or two if one catches my fancy. Do I go big in order to get another finish?

The small project is crumb blocks left over from 2018. These are the dark green, May 2020's color for RSC20. I need to make them into a scrap basket using Angela's tutorial. 

 The bigger project is 2019 Tiny Tuesday blocks. They kept me sane while worrying about my sister during her cancer treatments last year. Some of them on my design wall last May. I'm not even sure how many blocks I have. I know some are not finished with their setting strips or triangles. So that is the bigger project.

 I need to finish them both!


Soooooooo!

I am setting my One Monthly Goal for May 2020:   to get the Tiny Tuesday blocks finished and put together into a quilt top! I've looked at Diann's, and Angela's and Mari's.  So I have some lofty goals to try to meet! They are all so beautiful!

If I get the scrap basket done too, well so much the better.


I'll be linking this post to Patty's OMG for May.


Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Stay Healthy!

No blue sewing!

The closest I got to blue this week is “feelings”, some blue wool strips, and a couple of blue totes!

I’m not really sad,  just melancholy! So I decided to clean out the storage space underneath the stairs. That particular place is the “behind closed doors” part of the sewing room. It’s been awhile since I moved everything. And let’s face it! I’ll never really get into scrapbooking, or crocheting wool strips into a rug!

My mother left this project. It's 1/2" strips of wool. Gray, red, blue, and a plaid. They are gathered on a long needle then crocheted together with rug warp string. Interesting, pretty and soft. But I'll never finish it.

This is the envelope the needles were in. There are two.

Then there was a box of wool skirts that had been taken apart and washed. Conceivably mean to be stripped into more rug making supplies. All will go in the trash. 

I found a blue tote of photos!  I am sorting these into Photo Boxes from Joann's. One for each kid and grandkid. 

Kids don't keep photos anymore, do they?  Certainly not my grandchildren, in their late 20's and early 30's. I mean they have pictures of their own families, but they don't want pictures of their mom's 6th birthday party!  Or the Christmas morning snapshots when they were 10!

And then there is the blue tote of scrap booking supplies. Colored paper, a scrapbook, sheetprotectors and even more paper memorabilia. Look at that caricature of me in 2000. 

It was drawn by a visiting artist at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Zion, Illinois, the day before my mastectomy! I should probably keep that. But the rest....???   I'm such a saver, thus my fabric stash, the stash of bias tape I have not even used up. The tee shirts waiting to be made into a quilt........it goes on and on. 

See ,I told you I was blue....

So forward!!!!! 

Linking to Angela's So Scrappy Saturday post.  And by next Saturday we will have a new color to think about, a new goal to set, and I will have my sewing room back to usable. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

OMG April Finish Hometown Christmas and FONF

It's April 24th and it feels like April has been soooo loooong!

So my goal for April was to get all the embroidered blocks and the sashings together into a top. No borders because I need to purchase fabric. My local quilt shop is closed. JoAnn's is closed. Online stores are not shipping currently.  Buying border fabric online is iffy for me. I need to see it up close and personal. Touch it and look at it with the top.

Now I am not sure if it really needs 4 3/4" borders. The pattern said the finished quilt was 68X54.
I was thinking large wall hanging!  It is really too big for most wall space that I have. I don't really want it to be a lap quilt with all the embroidery and applique. So I may opt for a smaller border.  I will have to wait and see. I still have some Christmas fabric left, but I don't think there is enough of any of them for a border. 

Here it is. Done to this point. I will still stay stitch the edges to keep them from coming apart as it waits for border fabric.

And a bit closer

I'll link up to Patty's Finish post for OMG after the party goes live near the 25th.

And since it is Friday now that I am publishing this, I'll link to Finished or Not Friday also.

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Song Sung Blue Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond keeps running through my head lately. April's color is blue and I am feeling blue.


I’ve made a few hollow 9 patches

The bottom two are a bit dark, I'll put them in the box for when Angela picks DARK BLUE!






and I’ve made some face masks in blue.















And there are blue scraps everywhere!


              Two more square facemasks for the 2 great grands in Florida.


I’ve cut some blue pieces for 2 Geese Migration blocks!


 And put them together.

I have some trimming to do on these blocks, but I'll wait til I get ready to put them all together. Sometimes my flying geese can fly out of formation and get a bit wonky! 

Yes, I'm feeling a bit blue lately. It's been cold and dreary, that doesn't help.  This week my husband's beloved cat had to be put down. Yes,it's been blue around here. 

I'm linking up with RSC20 at Angela's blog today. 

 Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy

Judy

(my google photos have disappeared from my laptop)  so no photo of my signature. Weird!

April OMG Link Up

I'm having trouble staying focused on any one thing. OMG is usually good at keeping me motivated so I will commit again this month. It's gonna be a long month, I'm afraid.

This has been on the design wall since the 27th when I posted it to Finished or Not Friday. No progress!!!    My goal is to get the sashing squares cut and arranged, sewed together and this whole top put together - minus an outside border.

I would like to use one of these fabrics for the border, but I don't have enough.

When I began this project I knew I would have to purchase fabric when I got the blocks all together. Now with the stay-at-home orders in place, several online outlets closing their warehouses and retail stores closed too, I know I will not be able to select a fabric. If the world situation changes, things could change.
This is how it looks now.

All of the embroidered and appliqued blocks have a partial sashing attached. Check the block with the camper on the right. There is a row of 2.5" block between the words that say "Merry Merry" and the cute little camper. The blocks at this stage are 12.5" unfinished. There is pieced sashing between each block and of course between the rows. Also the same top, bottom and on each side.

I also will commit to making at least 6 more face masks. I sent 5 to our daughter and family in Florida.  I'll take pictures as I complete them, but they will be donated as I finish them. I don't like making them, but the need is out these. I am out of elastic, almost have depleted my bias tape stash and will have to  make more fabric strips.

Two I made for myself. The top one fits over an N95 mask. 

Over the past 2 days, today is April 2nd. Our county has gone from 1 Covid -19 positive case to 5. I know it is because they tested all the contact of the first case and had to wait for all this time for the results to come back. That is unacceptable in my book. But I can't change it either. As of last night, and I have not looked at the news this morning, we as a state have had ZERO deaths. The state has 137 positive cases. So much better that other parts of our country.

OK, I'm done lamenting and I need to get to my sewing room and get busy.


I'm linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts, OMG for April. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy.

Not finished but...........

... it’s on the design wall! That’s a step in the right direction!

I’ve been working on these blocks for a year, slow stitch mostly at a weekly gathering of other stitchers. We meet in a smallish room in a Catholic school. No machines. Just hand embroidery, stitching down of binding, crocheting, knitting, hand piecing.

So now is the time to make the sashings and then I’ll have to decide on a border. I have squares cut and lots more available to cut. The pattern is Hometown Christmas by Sweetwater. It was lots of fun!  A combination of embroidery, applique and now the piecing of the sashings.

I used Christmas fabric from my stash. I "heart" Nancy Halvorsen fabric and her Christmas lines are favorites.

I'm linking up with Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts.

 

Click on over and see what everyone is up to!

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March OMG Goal Met Plus One

My goal for March was to make two Easter Bunny table runners from Kristina's original pattern shown at the top of this blog post.  That post also had the tutorial for the carrot block,  so I made the third one with the carrot. I like them all! 

I finished the two for my daughter's daughters first, then went on to do another for my son's daughter. We have 3 granddaughters in 3 corners of our country. Florida, Arizona and Vermont. They couldn't be anymore spread out if they had tried!!

The top one is bound in pink, the middle one in yellow and the bottom one in green. All fabrics from my stash, of course. Now I am going to make one for myself. Heaven knows I've got the time and most likely I can find some fabric too!!!!LOL

I'll be linking this post up at Patty's blog, on her One Monthly Goal March Finish Link Up . 

Thanks to Patty and her sponsors for doing this OMG every month. It really keeps me on track and focused.  A side note, last month I won a prize. A cutting mat set from ecopeco.  The mat(s) arrived and they are great. One is 36 X 24 and the smaller one is 24 X 18! 

Such a pretty color!  Double sided....this darker turquoise on one side and a paler aqua on the other. 

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