To Do List for the Week of 8/15/2023

I seem to have gotten my startitis under control. And I finally tackled the project that's been filling me with dread ever since it became a finished quilt top. So definitely a good week for the to do list. 

To Do List for 8/8/2023

1. Unity: Finish prep, send out for quilting - progress

2. Wild and Goosey: Make 2 yellow blocks ✔

3. Melodic Mystery: Continue assembly of quilt top ✔

4. Chilhowie: Continue as leader and enders ✔

5. Sewing room clean up: Reorganize project boxes ✔

I'm happy with the 4 check marks with progress on the 5th.  Hopefully I can do as well on this week's list. 

To Do list for 8/15/2023

1. Unity (Bonnie Hunter): Finish packaging, take to post office

Everything is boxed, I just need to write out the deposit check and then seal it all up, address it and get it to the post office. That should happen today.  Trudy is expecting it. I could have bypassed Unity and moved on to some other finishes, but if I did that, I wasn't sure I'd come back to it.  So it feels really good to get this one moving along again.  

2. Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Make 2 yellow blocks

I only need 16 yellow blocks for the quilt as designed.  With the completion of these two there are 11 blocks.  If I stick to the plan of two a week, all the yellow blocks could be finished by the end of the month.  

3. Melodic Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs): Finish assembly, start borders

Just one seam left to attach the top to the bottom.  But then come the borders.  The pattern as written includes a final border of the green. But I'm thinking I may add a wider border of the dark burgundy.  That decision will be made after the green border is added.  I wasn't sure my fabrics were going to work, that green seemed like almost too much contrast. But I think it worked out well. 

4. Scrappy Butterflies (self designed): Continue making alternate blocks

 

This project was the first victim of my startitis early in the year.  The last time this project saw any progress was back in December of last year.  This is one of my older Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects (started in 2013).  The goal is just to make progress on it. If it makes it to finished quilt by the end of the year, that would be a bonus. 

5. Chilhowie (Bonnie Hunter): Continue as leaders and enders

I discovered that I added one of the strips to the block incorrectly, so I had to unsew that before I could finish block 6.  A stack of pinned HSTs are now by the sewing machine. Those are the start of block seven.  

That's my list for this week.  If I can make as much progress on it as I did on last week's list, it will have been a good week. Linking up with To Do Tuesday over at The Quilt Schmilt: For the Love of Fabric.  Good luck with your to do list this week.