November 2024 PHD Report

November was a quiet month, well except for Thanksgiving week. I got a lot done so there's a bit to report for the November PHD report at P Designs USA.  Though you won't see a lot of progress reflected on my PHD spreadsheet.  

No finishes in November, but one new start. But the Bonnie Hunter mystery has been on the list since the beginning.  Besides the clues won't end till the new year, so it's not one that has to be finished this year.  I'm hoping to have one more finish this month, so hopefully I'll end the year with 6 finishes.  That's not too shabby.  

Progress has been my goal all year and November was a good month for that.  Two sets of quilt blocks became finished quilt tops. 

 

Chocolate Marshmallows (Seabreeze Quilts) is the first.  I pulled the blocks out back in September, figured out a setting and got it assembled.  It's on the list to be quilted in 2025. 

Squared Away (So Scrappy) is the second set of blocks to finished quilt top that happened in November.  A much simpler setting, it didn't take very long at all to finish the quilt top. This project is also on the list to be quilted in 2025.  

All the yellow and orange blocks are finished for Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter). There has been good progress on the red blocks, but I don't think I'll complete the red ones before the end of the year.  That's OK, there has been good progress on this project. I'm still not sure if this will be a priority project next year or if I just continue to make the blocks a bit at a time.  

One set of 10 blue 4 patches and one set of yellow 4 patches were added to the Simply Sensational Summer Scrap Quilt (Kevin the Quilter) this month. That seems to be typical for most months. I'm about half way there in terms of block numbers.  Looks like this will be a really good leaders and enders project for next year too.

 As of the end of November, I was all caught up on the Guild BOM.  The sashing and assembly instructions came out on Sunday.  Hopefully I'll have another finished quilt top by the end of the month.  

All the cluse for the Marble Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs) were complete before we left for Thanksgiving.  The December clue comes out tomorrow.  Hopefully it's an easy clue for a busy month.  

I managed to get about a third of clue one done on the Old Town Mystery (Bonnie Hunter) before we left for Thanksgiving.  Cutting for clue 2 didn't start till we got home, so I'm a bit behind on this mystery.  It's rare that I keep up. The plan is to have clue 1 done before clue comes out this Friday.  We'll see how that goes. 

By the end of November, every project on my 2024 quilt plan has seen some progress this year. 

It's definitely been a very good year on progress. I have five finishes, which is more than double what I've been averaging the last few years. Even if things don't advance as much this month due to the holiday, it's still been a really good year.  I'm in good shape to start off next year with six quilts that just need backing and prep before they can be sent out for quilting.  I'm hoping for one more finish and one last project making it to finished quilt top this month.