To Do List for the Week of 07/08/2025

It was a busy weekend and though I got my stitching time in most days, I was still busy enough that it was hard to get to everything on last week's to do list.  

To Do List for 07/01/2025

1.  Guild BOM: Finish August blocks, start Sept - progress

2.  Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks - no progress

3.  Embroidery or cross stitch: Stitch one night ✔

4.  Wild and Goosey: Finish green, start purple, sash red ✔

5.  Old Town: Continue assembly at late night sew ✔

6.  Summer Scrap Quilt: Continue as leaders and enders ✔

Grad Girl is here this week and we have a few things planned, so I won't have as much sewing room time as I usually do. That will necessitate a pared back to do list for the week. 

To Do List for 07/08/2025

1.  Guild BOM: Finish August blocks

All the pieces are cut, they just need to be assembled. The guild meeting is next week so I need to get the August blocks finished up pretty quickly.  

2.  Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Continue assembly at late night sew

I still have a few flying geese to finish up before I can start assembling the blocks. If that doesn't happen this week. It will definitely happen next week.  

3.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Make purple, sash red blocks

I've gotten a good start on the purple blocks and just have a few red blocks left to sash.  Still a long way to go on this project, but getting to the point I can sash some of the blocks has been motivating.  Probably another year left to finish this project. Unless I decided to make it a priority.  

4.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Fit in at least one evening of stitching time. 

I forget just how slow going the counted cross stitch is, but I'm making a bit of progress here and there.  

5.  Simply Sensational Summer Scrap Quilt (Kevin the Quilter): Continue as leaders and enders. 

Two of the yellow borders have been added to the center. The top border is in progress.  

That's my list for this week.  With Grad Girl home, I'm just looking for progress on my current projects.  I'll be able to get serious again later this summer.  Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

What to Post When You Can't Show What You Are Working On?

Secret projects didn't used to be very common in my sewing room.  But with taking on the block of the month program for the guild, I don't feel like I can share much of that sewing till I've showed it at the guild meeting.  Getting a bit ahead has been my focus for the last month, so there's not much else going on in the sewing room.  If I take off all the bits and pieces of the BOM off my sewing table, here's what's left. 

Wild and Goosey along with Old Town are most of what I've been stitching on as I've been assembling the guild BOM blocks.  So not much exciting. Though I am hoping to finish off those red and beige flying geese so I can start assembling the Old Town blocks at late night sew.  

Meadow Mist Designs published the fabric requirements for this year's Magnificent Mystery last Thursday.  I did take some time to look in the stash closet to see if I could pull a palette together from what I already had (my goal with these mysteries is to use older stash, maybe with with an new addition or two). This was my first pass. 

I've wanted to make a teal and brown quilt. Not sure why, it's just a color palette I haven't tried before.  The two teals have been in the stash for years.  The beige toile at the top is the proposed background.  It's the only beige I have that has enough yardage.  Not all the fabrics touch each other (Cheryl is always really good about giving you info on which fabrics touch which).  I'm pretty firm on the teals and the dark brown.  The print, the tan and the beige toile, I'm not sure of.  There is lots of  time to decide if those work.  

Linking up with Monday Design Wall and Patchwork & Quilts. 

Stitching Stuff: Week 27 of 2025

 

We had a wonderful 4th of July holiday with my family.  Grad Girl made it home. She'll be here all this week, then she heads back home to pack and move.  I did pretty well at fitting in some stitching time most days.  

• 15 minute days/week = 6/7 days
• 15 minute days/June =  27/30 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 175/186 days
• Success rate = 94.09%

I didn't get any stitching time in on the 4th, we were just too busy cooking and hanging out with family for me to have time to pull out my stitching.  But I did work in some time in the sewing room other than that day. So not a bad week. 

How are doing finding time to stitch this summer? Are you out and about in the garden or like me trying to stay cool in the sewing room? 

1. Gretchen 2. Julie in GA 3. Melissa G 4. maggie f

5. Karen 6. DonnaleeQ 7. Jennifer in Indy 8. Bonnie in Va

9. Quilting Gail 10. Carol @Quilt Schmilt 11. Andrée 12. Marsha's Spot

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Happy July 4th!

 

2025 Quilting Ambitions: 2nd Quarter Check In

The end of June is not only mid year, it is the end of the 2nd quarter.  When I was working, mid year progress reviews were required. I don't have a supervisor anymore, but Quilting Jetgirl has a linky party up for the 2025 Quilting Q2 Check In, which is a good reminder to check how it's going with my 2025 quilty ambitions. 

It's so easy to set your goals at the beginning of the year and just forget about them.  I'm guilty of that, but maybe not so much this year.  I know what they are, but I'm not so sure I've done a good job at focusing on them.  So here's my progress on this year's ambitions. 

Ambition 1: Make Quilts.  My goal is to make as much progress as I can on the projects that are on my quilt plan.  Here's where things started in January. 

Here's where I'm at as of 6/30/2025.

One finish, one unplanned start and 4 projects that have hit major milestones on the road to getting finished.  I really need to concentrate on moving some of the finished quilt tops to finished quilts the last half of the year.  I'm hoping to quilt some of these myself and just send out a couple for professional quilting.  I have fabrics picked for the backings of several, but haven't done much else on those.  

Ambition 2: Learn to quilt. After several years of having this ambition, I finally did something about it. All the dread of learning to use a walking foot in hindsight was just silly.  It's not hard, keeping a straight line is still a challenge, but my quilt as you go project finally is a reality.  

Four rows of Kate's Choice are quilted.  Just two left.  Though I'm far from done with this project, it feels good to finally meet one of my long time goals of learning to quilt.  

Ambition 3: Fabric organization. Back in April I finally worked on scrap processing and pressing fabrics.  

 

But I've not done much since.  At least there has been some progress this year on that front. I hope to do more once our schedule slows down a bit.  

Summery for midyear:  There has been at least some progress on each of my ambitions for the year, but none of them are as far along as I had hoped.  For the last half of the year the plan is to focus more on getting a few projects finished and doing more on the stash organization goal.