To Do List for the Week of 9/16/2025

Looking back at my blog, my last to do list was posted over a month ago. Life's been busy with getting Grad Girl set up in her new situation.  I'm going to need a new blog nick name for her since she's not a graduate student any more.  I'm sure we'll come up with something suitable that she can tolerate.  

Getting back to that last to do list. 

To Do List for 8/5/2025

1.  Guild BOM: Finish cutting pieces, start assembly ✔ 

2.  Kate's Choice: Start assembling rows ✔

3.  Old Town: Continue block assembly at late night sew ✔

4.  Wild and Goosey: Finish purple, start teal ✔

At least there are check marks by all the items on that last list.  I've been sewing here and there, but nothing very consistent for the last few weeks. Hopefully that will change this week.  Here's my list for this week. 

To Do List for 9/16/2025

1. Guild BOM:  Finish September and October blocks

The last sawtooth star block from September is almost finished. I started cutting out the pieces for the October block. The guild meeting is at 6:30 PM tonight. So you can guess what I'll be spending my time on today.  

2.  Magnificent Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs): Start September clue.

I still need to wash the background fabric. Hopefully I can get to that today.  

3. Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Continue piecing blocks at late night sew. 

A pile of blocks in progress are pinned and sitting by the machine waiting for me to stitch.  

4. Kate's Choice: Continue Assembling rows

I have the next row all pinned, but I'll need to switch to the walking foot to continue row assembly. That probably won't happen till the weekend.  

5.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter):  Finish teal blocks, start green/blue blocks

I won't get as much done this month on these blocks as the month is already half over, but I should make some progress.  

That's my list for this week. I'm looking forward to some concentrated sewing time the next few days. I'll be stress sewing today trying to get the block ready for the meeting tonight.  Wish me luck!  Linking up with The Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

Where Am I and What Was I doing?

Physically, I'm finally back home after a week and half of moving and hanging out with Grad Girl.  I'm glad to be back home.  Though I'll miss Grad Girl and Queenie, but I'll see them again in late October. We weren't able to load the cars with all off Grad Girl's stuff that got moved home.  So I'll make another long weekend trip sometime next month to take her the stuff that didn't fit in the cars.

The only stitching that happened was on my long term embroidery project.    

The set of leaves in the corner and the words in the corners are what got stitched.  I'm more than half way done. Not sure how much more I'll finish this year.  It was nice to sit and stitch while watching Netflix and waiting for Grad Girl to get home from work.  This is the first time I've touched embroidery this year. I always forget how much I enjoy it.  

I checked my email once I got home. The Guild meeting is tomorrow night.  Which means I need to get the BOM block for October finished between now and then. I'm pretty sure that's not what I was working on before I left, but that's definitely what I'm working on when I get back to my sewing room!  

Linking up with Patchwork & Quilts for the first time in a few weeks.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 37 of 2025

It finally slowed down midweek.  Grad Girl is moved in and has started her new job.  My Guy left on Tuesday as he had to be back at work. I stayed in Texas the rest of the week to finish the unpacking and take care of a few errands while Grad Girl was at work.  I'm flying home today. On the one hand I'm sorry to be leaving Grad Girl, it's been fun to hang out post all the moving stress, but I am ready to be home and spend some significant time in my sewing room. 

There's been time to do some hand stitching while Grad Girl's been at work. 

• 15 minute days/week = 5/7 days
• 15 minute days/Aug = 6/12 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 218/225 days
• Success rate = 85.49%

I've done quite a bit of embroidery since Wednesday.  It's been nice to just sit and stitch in the afternoons while I wait for her to come home from work.  I'm hoping to spend a good bit of time in my sewing room this week. I've definitely missed it.  

How has your stitching week gone?  

 

Stitching Stuff: Week 36 of 2025

With all the stuff going on this week, I completely spaced that this was Sunday.  Consequently the post is going up really, really late this week.  This was moving week for Grad Girl. We didn't find out for sure she had an apartment till Tuesday this week. In fact she was already on her way to Texas to start her new job by the time they told her she for sure had an apartment. My Guy and I drove to Texas to move the stuff out of storage and drive it to Houston.  Thankfully, I was able to find movers on short notice that could unload the truck. There's no way we could have managed the three flights of stairs to her apartment carrying the couch.  To top it all off My Guy came down with some respiratory thing the day we left. Of course after 9 hours in the car with him sneezing and coughing, I came down with it yesterday.  So it's been a crazy busy, stressful and in many ways miserable week.  My stitching numbers pretty much tell the same story. 

• 15 minute days/week = 2/7 days
• 15 minute days/Aug = 20/31 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 213/249 days
• Success rate = 85.54%

So August has been my worst month so far this year. Now that we've got all the moving stuff done, I'm hoping to settle into some more regular stitching time for the rest of the year.  I'm hoping to catch up with email and blog reading this week.  A slower pace of life will be really welcome.  

How did you do this week with fitting in some stitching time? 

  

1. Donnaleeq 2. Bonnie in Va 3. Deb in Canada

4. Frédérique 5. Julie in GA 6. Gretchen

7. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 8. Marsha's Spot

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New Projects Coming

Though I've not spent a lot of time in the sewing room the last couple of weeks, there has been some planning going on here and there.  The Meadow Mist Designs Magnificent Mystery kicked off back in July with the fabric requirements. I don't usually start cutting the fabrics till the first set of block instructions come out, which happen Thursday this week. I've been pulling fabrics and putting them back, but I think this weekend I reached my final selection. 

I've wanted to make a brown and teal quilt for awhile. This project seemed like a good opportunity to try out that color combination.  Many of these fabrics have been in my stash for years. 

The other new project that's still in the planning stages is the Guild BOM for 2026.  I agreed to take that on again for next year.  I have the quilt designed in EQ. Next year's BOM will be a sampler quilt.  Since that will mean a new block each month, I wanted to get going on that this year and make the blocks while I was writing the instructions. My plan is to start with the first couple of blocks  this month.  Here's my fabric pull for that project.

 

All this fabric needs to be washed and pressed.  I'm hoping to get to that in the next couple of weeks.  

Most of my projects are still at the stage they were at the last time I blogged, so not much to share there.  But Grad Girl finished her first quilt top while she's been living at home. 

She did all the embroidery by hand last winter.  The embroidery and quilt pattern is Ingrid's Wildflowers from Missouri Star. I helped her change the quilt pattern to include corner stones.  This is only her second ever sewing machine project (her first one was a pincushion).  She did such a great job with it. Her plan is to finish it as a wall hanging for her bedroom.  She wants to try a three yard quilt next.  Probably won't start on that till I go visit her in October (at least that's the plan now).  

That's it for me this week. We will be moving Grad Girl this week, so I'll probably be scarce in blogland for a bit.  Linking up with Monday Design Wall and Patchwork & Quilts.   

Stitching Stuff: Week 35 of 2025

 

My apologies for being so late posting today.  It's not been the best week on a number of fronts.  It started with My Guy getting admitted to the hospital on Monday.  Thankfully, they found the source of the infection, treated him and he was out of the hospital by late Tuesday afternoon.  I've been trying to help Grad Girl with the apartment leasing process. She's been dealing with two major miscommunication errors the apartment management made that prevented her from finishing the leasing process, so she still doesn't have an apartment and she starts work in a week.  I will admit between My Guy's illness and Grad Girl's struggles, I've not been in the bast frame of mind and pretty much just shut down this week.  My stats for this week show that pretty clearly. 

• 15 minute days/week =  3/7 days
• 15 minute days/Aug = 19/30 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 211/242 days
• Success rate = 87.19%

This summer hasn't been my best on the stitching front. But we have a lot going on.  I'm hoping the second half of September is much calmer and goes much more smoothly.  

Grad Girl's kitty has been hanging out with us while her person has been job/apartment hunting.  Grad Girl brought all of her quilts home so her kitty would have some semblance of home. 

It's always nice to know your family appreciates your quilts.  Even better when the cat likes the quilt you made especially in her honor.  

Hope your stitching week has been much better than mine!  

1. Donnaleeq 2. Karen 3. Frédérique 4. Melissa G

5. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 6. Quilting Gail 7. Julie in GA 8. Gretchen

9. Bonnie in Va 10. Deb in Canada 11. Marsha's Spot

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Progress on Kate's Choice

It was nice to get back to the sewing room on Sunday.  After a week away from home, the first decision was to decide what to work on.  I finished off the August inverted star block for the guild BOM so I was free to work on something else.  Since I'd really like to get another finish in soon, the project box with the quilted Kate's Choice blocks was pulled off the shelf.  First step was to cut the sashing strips for the front and back of the quilt and attach those. 

The sashing on the front will be same pink fabric as in the first block and the back sashing will that green dot from the bottom block.  Attaching the sashing strips to the first block wasn't a problem, but there were issues when I tried to attach the second block to the sashing.  I was having problems with skipped stitches, then I realized that the walking foot wasn't flat. Once I figured out how to fix that, things went smoothly and the first row is finished, including the between rows sashing. 

Once I figured out the skipped stitches this went together pretty quickly.  Dealing with the sashing on the back was a bit more of a challenge.  

It looks OK from a distance, but close up you can see it's not perfect.  I've got the sashing strips pinned to the second row, but had to stop for dinner last night and didn't get back it it.  The plan is to work on it this afternoon once all my morning chores are done.  I won't finish it this month I don't think, but any progress is good. 

Linking up with Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts. 

Stitching Stuff: Week 34 of 2025

 

I'm a bit late posting this week, I completely spaced that it was Sunday.  Grad Girl and I spent the week in Houston doing some apartment hunting.  I'd forgotten just how bad Houston traffic is. The heat and humidity was another not missed living condition. It was a long, tiring week. We were out most of the day and spent our evenings recovering.  It wasn't the best week for stitching time. 

• 15 minute days/week = 3/7 days
• 15 minute days/Aug = 16/23 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 208/235 days
• Success rate = 88.51%

So definitely not much on the stitching front last week. Even with the bad traffic and the sticky weather, we had some fun.  At least the food was really good and we stayed at a great rental.  She'll move sometime next month, she has to pass the background check before she gets the final offer letter. Then she'll have a firm start date and can finish up the leasing process.  

I'm hoping to spend a lot more time in my sewing room this week.  I'm not quite in withdrawal, but getting close.  I'm also way behind on replying to emails and reading blog posts.  I'll get caught up on that too this week.  How did your stitching go this week?

1. Melissa G 2. Gretchen 3. Frédérique 4. maggie f

5. DonnaleeQ 6. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 7. Bonnie in Va 8. Quilting Gail

9. Carol @Quilt Schmilt 10. Linda at Texas Quilt Gal 11. Deb in Canada 12. Marsha's Spot

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Stitching Stuff: Week 33 of 2025

Not sure what happened to this week.  Allergies have been bad and I'm still dealing with the changes in my schedule with Grad Girl home during her job search.  But it looks like the schedule will go back to normal in September.  Grad Girl has a job offer, though she hasn't seen the official paperwork yet. I know that's the goal of all parents, to get their kids self sufficient.  Being honest about it,  I'll miss the disruptions once she's off doing what she's supposed to be doing.   

As I noted earlier, it wasn't the best week on the stitching front.  

• 15 minute days/week = 5/7 days
• 15 minute days/August = 13/16 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 205/228 days
• Success rate = 89.91%

Not the best week, but certainly not the worst.  Apartment hunting is next on the schedule, then helping Grad Girl move. We'll be busy over the next three weeks.  It's looking like there will a lot of hand work going on. 

Did you find time to play with needle and thread this week? 

1. maggie f 2. Gretchen 3. Melissa G 4. Donnalee@

5. Deb in Canada 6. Frédérique 7. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 8. Quilting Gail

9. Bonnie in Va 10. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 11. Marsha's Spot

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What's Up on the Design Wall and What's Not

The summer allergies are still hanging on, but it wasn't so bad this weekend.  A lot of sneezing, but I've not needed quite so many tissues.  I suppose that's progress? 

In the sewing room my main focus has been on getting the blocks for the Guild BOM done before the meeting next week.  I can't show those till after the meeting, so they aren't up on the design wall this week.  

Since I need my regular sewing foot for the BOM blocks, there has been no progress on Kate's Choice, so it's not up on the design wall either.  

What is up on the design wall?

 

I've been working on Old Town, the 2024 Bonnie Hunter mystery.  It's fun to see the secondary pattern the blocks make when they are up on the design wall.  Bonnie used pieced sashings for this project and I'm going to make those as well, just haven't gotten that far yet. The pieced sashing use more of the teal fabric and I definitely want to include more of that in this quilt.  Still lots of blocks to make before I get to making the sashing pieces. 

I've assembled 7 of the 25 blocks so far. My goal is to have this into a finished quilt top before the next mystery kicks off in November.  If I keep working on it at late night sew, I'll at least get close.  

That's it for my design wall this week.  Linking up with Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 32 of 2025

 

The typical August heat and humidity came back this week. It wasn't nice at all outside. Plus something outside is putting off nasty allergens. All three of us have been sneezing, congested and just not feeling great this week.  Between the heat and the not feeling well, I ended up missing a day of stitching time this week.  

• 15 minute days/week = 6/7 days
• 15 minute days/Aug = 8/9 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 200/221 days
• Success rate = 90.50%

Not a bad week, just not one of my best weeks.  Hopefully, I'll feel mostly back to normal this week and will manage to fit in some good sewing time each day.  

No stash management this week.  I've been pretty unmotivated in the mornings, too busy blowing my nose this week.  

Did you get to play with needle and thread this week?  

1. Gretchen 2. maggie f 3. Melissa G 4. Karen

5. DonnaleeQ 6. Quilting Gail 7. Deb in Canada 8. Bonnie in Va

9. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 10. Frédérique 11. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 12. Preeti

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July 2025 PHD Report

July was a busy month. I was away from home for over a week helping Grad Girl move.  So there's not a lot of progress to report for the July PHD report over at Ms. P Designs.  

There are no updates to my PHD log.  No finishes, but no new starts either.  I can at least celebrate that!  There has been progress on some other projects this month.  

There's been a bit of progress on the Rose Throw counted cross stitch project.  I just didn't feel like doing much handwork this month.  Does it look like a rose? Not so much yet.   

One more row of blocks for Kate's Choice were quilted this month.  I've made more progress in the days since the end of July. My plan is to focus on this project till it's completed.  

All the red blocks for Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter) are all sashed. That finishes up the last of the warm colored scarp blocks. There are still lots of cool color blocks to make before I can start sashing any of those colors.  

Progress on the Simply Sensational Summer Scrap Quilt (Kevin the Quilter) has been pretty minimal this month, but there has been a bit. 

All the components for Old Town (Bonnie Hunter) have been made. So block assembly has started.  Each block requires 25 pieces, so they take a bit to construct, which is why I've only 2 were completed at the end of July.  This will be my late night sew project for August.  

I was a bit slow on finishing off all the August sawtooth star blocks for the 2025 Guild BOM , but they are all done.  I've made this pattern before, but since it's all scrappy, it doesn't look exactly like my previous version.  

There's been progress, but no movement on project tracking graphic.  

It looks the same as it did in June.  Some months are just going to be that way. I'm hoping to see some projects hit milestones this month.  That's assuming we're not moving Grad Girl to a new location for a job. If I loose another 10 days to apartment hunting and a move, it will be worth it.   

To Do List for 8/5/2025

We've been enjoying a bit of cooler weather the last few days. It was a nice start to August.  I'm still working on getting used to my new schedule.  Grad Girl takes care of herself, but the keeping the cat happy still takes a bit of work.  Though neither affected my time in the sewing room this last week, but for some reason I struggled with my to do list.  

To Do List for 7/29/2025

1. Guild BOM: Cut pieces for September blocks - progress

2. Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks ✔

3. Old Town: Continue block assembly at late night sew ✔

4. Wild and Goosey: Work on purple, start teal - progress

5. Summer Scrap Quilt: Continue as leaders and enders - no progress

Not a bad week, only one item with no progress.  Most of the reason for the lack of forward effort on most of the to do list is because I focused on getting the Kate's Choice blocks quilted.  I really need to start moving some quilts to finished. My plan is to mostly focus on moving that project to finished this week.  So a bit of a shorter to do list for this week. 

To Do List for 8/5/2025

1. Guild BOM: Finish cutting pieces and start assembly of September blocks

Only three of the sawtooth stars for the border are left to be cut.  I need to stay on top of these blocks because the guild meeting comes up pretty quickly.  So I'll take a day this week and see if I can get all the blocks done.  

2.  Kate's Choice: Start assembling rows

All the blocks are trimmed. Now to cut the sashing strips for the front and back.  I practiced getting an accurate quarter inch seam with my walking foot. Fingers crossed these blocks go together pretty easily.  

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

This has become my Tuesday evening project. I could take Kate's Choice, but since I'm sewing with others and we talk a lot, probably best I not take something I've never done before.  

4.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Finish purple, start teal blocks.

I usually work on 2 of Wild and Goosey blocks as I sew on other projects, they are really my leaders these days.  I almost finished one of the in progress purple blocks. I should be starting a teal block tonight.  

I'm going to cut the list off there. My plan is to concentrate on Kate's Choice till it's finished.  

Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

Quilt as You Go Progress

It was a slow, stay around the house kind of weekend.  We went to church and that's about it.  Most of my weekend was spent in my sewing room.  My focus was to make some good progress on my "quilt as you go" project, Kate's Choice.  

Row 6 is all quilted.  The next step is to trim off the extra batting. 

Trimming started with row one and I got as far as row 3 before dinner. 

Here's all the trimmings from the first 3 rows.  I need to trim the last 3 and then cut the sashing strips for both the front and back. I know what I'm using for the front, I need to decide what will work for the back.  Kate's Choice probably won't be done by the end of the month, but I'm hoping to make good progress on it in August.  

Linking up with Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 31 of 2025

Hard to believe it's August.  July sped by. With all the time spent moving Grad Girl last month, this is my first full week of stitching time since mid June.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/July = 21/31 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 194/214 days
• Success rate = 90.65%

Even with all the missed days, I've still stitched over 90% for 2025. Which is my 4th best year out of the13 years I've been tracking stitching time. Even so it looks anemic when compared to the 100% I had last year. But I'm happy with the stitching time. Now I just need to work on getting a few things moved to finished.  

I didn't do any stash management this week.  I'm still on kitty duty for outside time in the mornings, my schedule just hasn't adjusted yet to fitting that in with the other typical morning stuff.  

How are  you doing at finding time to stitch?  

1. Gretchen 2. maggie f 3. Julie in GA 4. DonnaleeQ 5. Karen

6. Frédérique 7. Quilting Gail 8. Bonnie in Va 9. Jennifer in Indy 10. Andre at Quilting & Learning

11. Linda at Texas Quilt Gal 12. Marsha's Spot 13. Carol @ Quilt Schmilt

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To Do List for 7/29/2025

I'm a day late posting this week's to do list. We are still working with uncertain scheduling since Grad Girl and Queenie moved home.  Grad Girl left yesterday morning for Houston. She has two job interviews this week.  Which means I'm on kitty babysitting duty, that includes at least 30 minutes to an hour of outside time in the morning.  She's used to having access to a third floor balcony to observe life from.  We have a fenced backyard, but Queenie is far from an outside cat and we're not sure she'd stay in the yard if she didn't have company.  So it's put a bit of a wrinkle in my morning routine of coffee and computer time.   

It's hard to say no to that face.  So she gets her outside time and I didn't make it to the computer yesterday.  Which isn't too much of a loss.  I did OK on my to do list for last week, but it wasn't one of my best weeks. 

To Do List for 07/22/2025

1. Guild BOM: Finish August blocks, start September ✔

2. Kate's Choice: Continue Quilting blocks ✔

3. Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Work on either one day - no progress

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

5. Wild and Goosey:  Make purple blocks, sash red blocks ✔

6. Summer Scrap Quilt: Continue as leaders and enders - no progress

Four out of six isn't a bad week, especially since I finally made some progress on the quilting for Kate's Choice.  This week's list looks pretty much the same. 

To Do List for 07/29/2025

1. Guild BOM: Cut pieces for September block

All the brown sawtooth stars for August are finally done. I have started cutting the pieces for the September blocks.  That guild meeting will be here before I know it. 

2. Kate's Choice: Continue Quilting blocks

Row 5 is now quilted.  Just one more row and then I have to figure out assembly.  

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

 

 

I've gotten a couple of blocks assembled. They take longer than you think to put together. It would help if I could keep the pressing instructions straight. I've had to repress seams more than once!  

4.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter):  Work on purple blocks, start teal blocks. 

The last set of red blocks is sashed into a 7.5" unfinished block.  Blue, green, purple and teal blocks still need to be finished.  But at least I'm starting to see how these are going together. I'm excited to see how all the cool colors come together.  

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

This one is hard to take to late night sew at the moment, so I've not made a lot of progress with it over the last week because I worked mainly on quilting Kate's Choice.  

That's my list for this week.  We'll see how much stitching time I manage to get in. A lot depends on what Grad Girl's schedule looks like this next week.  Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.

Finding a New Rhythm

We all expected an adjustment with Grad Girl moving home till she finds a job.  It's not so much having Grad Girl home, she's pretty self sufficient. But her cat, Queenie, has had a harder time adjusting.  I think she's finally getting over the stress of moving. But probably, it's that she's gotten us through the initial training of having a cat running the home.  

I finally got back to my quilt as you go project this weekend.  

Three blocks in row 5 of Kate's Choice are completely quilted and a fourth is almost done.  I'm hoping to get row 5 finished up today and make a start on row 6. Having this done by the end of next month is doable it I keep on it.  

Queenie hasn't been hanging out in the sewing room much. When they first got back, she went back to her old favorite hang out, the landing at the top of the stairs.  

She has recently discovered the end table next to the couch and the old recliner in the living room are also comfortable nap locations.  

Stay cool and stitch on, that's my plan at least.  Linking up with Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 30 0f 2025

 

Hard to believe that it was just a week ago that we finished Grad Girl's move home.  I'm still dealing with sore knees after all the steps, but other than that I'm mostly recovered.  Consequently this week was much better than last week on the stitching time front.  

• 15 minute days/week = 6/7 days
• 15 minute days/July = 16/26 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 187/207
• Success rate = 90.34%

We took Grad Girl's car in for service on Thursday and ended up spending the whole day in Tulsa (which wasn't the plan).  I came home that day with what was probably a dehydration headache as we were out running around to a few places since we had to stay in town most of the day.  So nothing got done when I got home. So it wasn't a 7 out of 7 day stitching week.  But I still made progress with a few things this week.   

I haven't done much with the stash organization lately.  I'm hoping to do more with it next month.  

How was your week. Did you hide from the heat in your sewing room or has it been just too hot to do much of anything?  

1. Julie in GA 2. maggie f 3. Linda at Texas Quilt Gal 4. Gretchen 5. Karen

6. DonnaleeQ 7. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 8. Quilting Gail 9. Bonnie in Va 10. Frédérique

11. Deb in Canada 12. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 13. Marsha's Spot

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Week 145 Photo Challenge: Any Reflection You Like

It's been over a month since our last photo challenge post.  I was the problem this time.  With family stuff going on for the 4th of July weekend, then Grad Girl's move, I really wasn't concentrating on my photography.  I only got my photo taken yesterday, both My Guy and Grad Girl have had photos for weeks and were pushing for us to move on.  The prompt for week 145 was: 

After weeks of procrastinating, I finally pulled out the camera and looked for a reflection I liked.  In the end, my photo was staged. 

Kate: Mirrored

Our roses are blooming again and any one who has followed me for a bit knows flowers are one of my favorite photo options.  So I grabbed a mirror from our dresser, picked a rose and spent a good hour trying to eliminate other reflections and get just the rose.  It mostly worked.  

My Guy took advantage of our conference trip to Kansas City back in June to get his photo.  

My Guy: Kansas City Western Auto Building

This is the reflection of the Western Auto building in downtown Kansas City.  The distorted view is really interesting.  My Guy had lots of fun reflections from this trip, we weren't that far from Union Station and he had some wonderful reflection photos from there as well.  

Grad Girl was paying attention and caught one of of those fleeting moments that one often misses.  

Grad Girl: Side View

The dragon fly is unexpected.  If you look closely, she's also captured the reflection of the sky on the side of her car.  A very cool photo, one that really meets the challenge. This was taken before she moved. 

My Guy and Grad Girl nailed this last challenge. I feel like I cheated since my photo was staged.  But all of us my have to stage photos for the next photo challenge. 

My Guy pulled this card from the deck. I suggested that we could put it back and pull another. We've never done that before, we've always worked with the card that was pulled.  He didn't want to change that rule. It should be interesting what we all come up with.  This challenge may take a couple of weeks, but hopefully we'll wrap it up before winter actually sets in this year!