Happy Halloween

 

Photo Play: September 2025

 After dealing with computer problems this week, I was glad to be able to sit down and go through my September photos. Not sure what the issue was with the computer but it finally recovered after a hard shut down and reboot. First thing I did after the reboot was to back up everything to an external drive and email myself some files (mainly guild BOM instructions) that would be disappointing if I didn't have access too.  

September was another busy month.  The first week of the month we moved Grad Girl (still need to come up with her new blog moniker).  That took a week and then I stayed with her the first week of her new job to help out.  Half the month was gone before I got home.  So there wasn't much on the photography front for September. But My Guy and I took advantage of being in downtown Houston after dropping off Grad Girl for her first day of work to visit the Houston Museum of Natural Science.  I didn't think to take my DSLR, but my I-Phone 12 got a good work out during our tour of the Cockrell Butterfly Center.  

Owl Butterfly

 

Blue Morpho Butterfly (brilliant blue when their wings are open)

Postman Butterfly

Tiger Butterfly

Variable Longwing Butterfly

Doris Longwing Butterfly

Tiger Longwing Butterfly

Clipper Butterfly

Butterflies are a lot like flowers, you can't just photograph one. I have lots more photos of butterflies, but these are well framed photos, probably as good as I could do with the DLSR.  Some of the shots have been cropped a bit, but overall, the I-Phone took some good shots. 

I did pull out the DLSR one morning to capture the morning sunshine coming into the office (Canon 70D DLSR with a Tamron 18-400 telephoto lens)

I'm not sure it's a great photo, but I wanted to try to capture the light and shadow of the rising sun outside the office window. It was the shadows of the leaves that first caught my attention.  I'm considering this shot an interesting experiment. I still need to tweak a few variables to get a great shot, but it wasn't a complete miss. 

Of all the butterfly photos, I like the blue Clipper butterfly shot the best. It's currently displayed on the computer display as the background.  Do you have a favorite?  

Stitching Stuff: Week 43 of 2025

It's been a busy week, but not an unproductive one.  Another trip to deal with car tires and a trip to see my mother, but I was still able to get in my stitching time each day. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Oct = 25/25 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 258/298 days
• Success rate = 86.58%

This is week three of stitching 7 days.  My record this year is 4 consecutive weeks with 7 days of stitching time.  That's from back in January.  I'm hoping for a repeat of those stats for October. 

Have you been able to find time to stitch this week? 

1. Gretchen 2. Frédérique 3. maggie f 4. Julie in GA

5. Melissa G 6. Deb in Canada 7. DonnaleeQ 8. Karen

9. Bonnie in VA 10. Quilting Gail 11. Andrée at Quilting & Learning

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To Do List for the Week of 10/21/2025

Usually my allergies give me fits early in October. But since it hasn't really cooled down till this week, whatever hits the breeze when that happens is playing havoc with my sinuses.  So I've been early to bed and slow to get moving in the morning. So I just didn't get my To Do Tuesday post written yesterday.  In spite of the crappy feeling allergies give me, I did pretty well on working through last week's list even with the early bedtimes and slow mornings. 

To Do List for 10/14/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Finish December, press sashing fabric ✔

2.  2026 Guild BOM: Start First block - progress

3.  Old Town: Continue making blocks ✔

4.  Wild and Goosey: Continue making green blocks ✔

Definitely not a bad week, three check marks with progress on the last to do item.  I'm hoping to have a really good week next week as the plan is pretty much nothing but stitching during the day. My version of a solo retreat. 

To Do List for 10/21/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Continue quilt top assembly

The color for November is orange.  I finished all of this month's blocks a week and a half ago.  December's blocks are all done.  I pressed the sashing/border fabric and started assembly of the rows.  The quilt top has to be ready to show in December, so I'll do what I can to move this project ahead without the December blocks that will get shown at the November meeting. Every little bit of progress helps. 

2. 2025 Guild BOM: Start first block

I washed all the fabrics a couple of weeks ago.  But didn't get them pressed until earlier this week. So the fabrics are ready to go. I just have to cut the pieces for the first block. That should happen this week. 

3.  Old Town (Bonnie Hunter) Finish block assembly

The project bin is starting to empty of block pieces and fill up with sashing pieces. Just 2 more blocks need assembly.  About 2/3 of the sashing pieces are assembled.  I may just get the top assembled before the first clue for the 2025 mystery comes out.  

4. Magnificent Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs): Cut fabrics and start Sept/Oct clues

I had to purchase the tone on tone off white because I just didn't have quite enough of my first stash choice. If I made any mistakes, I'd be hurting. So I bought a new background. After it was washed, I discovered that I was short a full yard.  Not sure what happened there, so I had to go back to the shop and buy a bit more to ensure I had enough for the quilt.  I'm hoping to get the pieces for the September and October clues cut this week.  

5. Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Continue assembling green blocks

The pile of green blocks continues to grow.  I keep two moving while I'm doing my other piecing.  It's slow going, but it's meant that I've made consistent progress all year.  Still a long way to go, but I'm happy with the progress to date. 

That's my list for this next week.  You can check out all the other to do lists over at the Quilt Schmilt.  

Making Progress

I spent most of the weekend working on the 2025 Guild BOM.  All the Inverted Star blocks are finished with just 2 sawtooth stars left to finish.  That's a wonderful feeling. No last minute dash to the finish line the afternoon before the meeting!  The guild meeting is this week, so the November block will be shown and then just one color left to share with the guild.  Since this quilt needs to be assembled for the December meeting, I started adding the sashing strips to the blocks that have already been revealed. 

I've left the blocks for November and December out of the photo. I'll be able to add November's block after the meeting on Tuesday.  I'll have to wait till after the November meeting to finish assembly of the center.  But I'll have 3 rows that I can full assemble, so I'll work on that.  Plus, the full version of this quilt includes a sawtooth star pieced border. 

Those borders have to be laid out and stitched together too. That will take a lot of  time. So I may start on those and then finish the center after the November meeting. I just need one sawtooth star to show at the meeting, so I can add in all the others. One of the December blocks will be a corner block, so I can just add that one at the end of a border row once that meeting is over and be ready to assemble the remaining row and add the borders. Definitely doable.  

Linking up with Patchwork & Quilts, Sew and Tell Monday and Oh Scrap.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 42 of 2025

Sorry the post is a bit late this morning, I forgot to set it up to post automatically. 

It's been a busy week.  Took the car in for it's biannual service and found out we need new tires for the back.  We replaced the front two tires back in June when we were in Texas for Grad Girl's defense due to the hole in the sidewall. Turns out all wheel drive cars need all the tires with the same rolling distance. So new matching tires are ordered for the back and the car will go in Monday for those. My visit with my mother went well. She's still not a 100% recovered from the respiratory infection she caught a couple of weeks ago, but she's doing better.  

I did manage to fit in some stitching time even with my road trips last week. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Oct = 18/18 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 251/291
• Success rate = 86.25%

So definitely not bad for a busy week. Scrap processing and fabric organization just aren't happening right now.  Hopefully I'll get in some of that before the end of the year.  

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

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

5. Karen 6. Bonnie in Va 7. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 8. Deb in Canada

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

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Week 148 Photo Challenge: The Light Coming Only from the Fridge

This week's photo challenge required night photography, but we could do it from the comfort of our home.  

Since all we had to do was walk to the kitchen when it was dark, that made it easy for all of us to get photos this week.  I was concerned that My Guy and I would have the same photograph more or less, so I changed my perspective a bit. 

Kate: Fridge Lighting

This is the counter across from the refrigerator. Yes we still have a land line, at least for now. This is the area behind the Keurig and the coffee pot, it's mostly invisible when you are in the kitchen.  Even by just the fridge lighting I can see it really needs a bit of a clean up.

My Guy dragged out his tripod last night for his photograph.  

My Guy: Hey, Is this Still Good?  

  

He photographed himself doing what we often do after we come home from vacation. Clean out the fridge before he does the weekly grocery shopping, which is usually his Saturday chore.  

Grad Girl went with a similar theme. 

Grad Girl: Hey What's in Here?

Queenie has to know what's behind any door in the area she's living in.  Though she doesn't usually exhibit much interest in the fridge. Grad Girl assured me that Queenie was well paid for her modeling services in this photo shoot.  

I think we did pretty well in getting some fun shots for last week's challenge.  My Guy pulled the card for this week's challenge. 

Wonderful timing (unlike the Beauty of Winter card he pulled back in July).  The leaves are just starting to change here.  Not sure what Grad Girl is going to do, I'm not sure Houston has a fall.  Should be interesting to see what we all come up with.  

Photo Play: August 2025

August was another busy month this year. It was so nice to have Grad Girl home for a bit, but she was busy with interviews that meant road trips to Texas. That left me cat sitting while she was on the road.  I spent a lot of time out on our back porch because Queenie loved being outside. As in July, most of August's photos came from our own back yard.  The difference is I did take the DSLR out with me one day.  So most of the photos in this post were taken with the Canon 70D paired with a Tamron 18-400 mm telephoto lens.  Some photos have been cropped.  

These three photos are from the back yard taken with the DSLR. 

Indian Blanket Seed Heads

Sunset

The backyard photos wouldn't be complete without one of the reason why I was in the backyard.

Queenie on the Hunt

The last photo was taken with my I-Phone 12 while Grad Girl and I were apartment hunting in Houston. 

South Beltway 8 after the Rain

That yellow afternoon light after a late summer downpour so common in south Texas was just too interesting to not try to capture it.  

I take a lot of photos of flowers, they are my favorite photographic subject.  It's harder for me to look for other photo opportunities. One of my problems this year is that I've been in my habitrail and haven't  ventured out much. That changed in September and October. Lots more photos because we went places. I need to keep that in mind for next year's photography goals. 

If I have to pick a favorite for this month, it would probably be the photo of Queenie. She's so hard to capture in a photograph and that one captures her focus on getting to explore and hunt outside. Something she doesn't get to do often as an apartment cat. A close second is the photo from Houston. It's not a great photo, but it captures the light of the moment, which is an area I struggle with photographically.  Do you have a favorite?  

To Do List for the Week of 10/14/2025

Since we were on vacation last week and out of town, I didn't get a lot of time in my sewing room.  I adjusted my to do list for last week accordingly.  It was pretty short. 

To List for 10/7/2025

1. 2025 Guild BOM: Finish December, press fabric - progress

2. Old Town: Piece blocks and sashing ✔

3. Wild and Goosey: Make green blocks ✔

There was good progress on the December BOM blocks, but they aren't finished.  My priorities will be pretty much the same this week.

To Do List for 10/14/2025

1. 2025 Guild BOM: Finish December, press sashing fabric

Fingers crossed this actually happens this week. It will be a busy week, The car needs to go in for service and I have a trip planned to see my mother this week. So it won't be a nothing but stitching week.  I should have all weekend to sew though.  

2. 2025 Guild BOM: Start first block

Even if all I do is get the fabric pressed, that would be progress.  I keep putting this off and I can't for much longer.  I should also be working on writing the instructions for the remaining blocks.  Maybe I'll make some progress on that while I'm waiting for the car to be serviced.  

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

Working to assemble the last 5 blocks and make the sashing pieces. A third of the sashing pieces have been assembled, so good progress there. Still have quite a few left to make. Working through all these assembly steps, I can't help but admire the quilters who keep up with each step during the mystery.  Definitely makes one feel like a complete slacker sometimes. I know it's not a race, but completely admire the focus and skills it takes to keep up.  

4.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Continue making green blocks  

The green blocks make a nice little stack. It's fun to look at all these scraps and think about the projects they went into.  Only 20 of the green blocks left to make, I'm just over half way there with this color. My plan is to work on the green till the end of the year or till I finish them.  

That's my list this week. It's pretty much the same list I've had for the last few weeks.  I have to prioritize the guild BOMs for now, so that's limiting the time to work on other projects still on my list.  My goal is progress and I'm doing well on that front.  Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.   

A Lot of Slow Stiching

Most of last week was spent on the road.  So there wasn't much sewing room time. What time there was, was spent on the last few blocks needed for the 2025 Guild BOM. I can't show those just yet. So that leaves the hand stitching I worked on all week.  

I finished up the letters along the bottom and have been working on the leaves just above those.  I still have one color to add to the leaves, then I need to do the back stitching for the vines.  Don't know when I'll next work on this, maybe Thanksgiving?  

I am hoping to have some good sewing room time this week. I have two new projects I'd like to start, but need to finish the 2025 Guild blocks first. Linking up with Patchwork & Quilts, Sew and Tell Monday, and Slow Sunday Stitching.   

Stitching Stuff: Week 41 of 2025

Mine and My Guy's week of adventures comes to an end today.  He goes back to work tomorrow.  We spent the week in Eureka Springs, AR. We walked a lot, climbed a lot of stairs, did a bit of early Christmas shopping, went hiking a couple of days and best of all ate really, really good food.  It was a nice week away from the every day we both have, me with chores, him with work.  I took my hand stitching with me, which made it easy to keep up with my stitching time for the week. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Oct = 11/11 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 244/284 days
• Success rate = 85.92%

So it was a good week on my hand work project. Now I have two days in the sewing room to check off what's on my to do list for the week.  

Did you get in lots of stitching time this week?  

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

5. Frédérique 6. DonnaleeQ 7. Karen 8. Bonnie in Va

9. Quilting Gail 10. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 11. Marsha's Spot

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Week 147 Photo Challenge: Neon-Lit Photographs at Night

These photos only took us two weeks to come up with compared to the two months we took for the Beauty of Winter challenge card.  This week's card wasn't quite as difficult. 

It is a bit of a challenge when you live in a small town, neon lights are far and few between.  It also requires that you be out at night. Even Grad Girl tends to get home and stay home after work, so it took a couple of weeks for all of us to get photos.  

It was easier to get photos for My Guy and I as we were out and about somewhere else other than home and out at night for a change.

Kate: A Pink Pony Club? 

We spent a few days in Eureka Springs Arkansas.  There is no parking in that town, so you rent a place within walking distance of downtown.  This was a club we passed on our walk home each night. It obviously wasn't jumping on a Sunday night. 

My Guy's photo comes from one of evening walks in search of a sweet treat after dinner. 

My Guy: Colossal

  

This bakery was on the very edge of town, right by the big parking lots just outside of downtown.  They had the biggest cupcakes with sky high icing. We settled for ice cream, which we finished off on the front porch of our rental. It was a nice end to our stay.  

Grad Girl is still settling in to her new life as a working girl in Texas. She finally had the time and energy to wander out after work one night this week. 

Grad Girl: Lights up the Night

This is a restaurant sign not too far from her apartment. She says you can definitely see it when you are out and about.

That's our efforts for the last photo challenge. The newest photo card will also require some night photography, but none of us will have to leave the house. 

I'm sure My Guy and I will come up with different perspectives even though we'll likey use the same fridge.  Should be interesting

Photo Play: July 2025

There aren't a lot of photos for July, but there are a few that stood out.  Most of those come from my I-phone as it's the one camera that's with me pretty much anywhere I go.  You can decide if "the best camera is the one you have with you" is true.  

The first photo was my second choice for the "Reflections" family photo challenge.  It's the only photo this month taken with my Canon 70D DSLR. I used a Sigma 105mm macro lens.  

It was close between this one and the one I used for the challenge. I have noticed that I take a lot more photos when I'm working on getting photos for the challenge. 

The remaining photos were taken with my I-Phone 12, all of them were taken either in the house or in our back yard.  I spent a lot of time in July out on our back porch with Queenie while she was eating grass and chasing bugs.  

Queenie Cat

Wheel Bug, one species of Assassin beetles

Bee on a Basket Flower

My top two for this month are the rose reflection and the picture of Queenie.  Black cats are hard to photograph, it's hard to get a lot of definition, all that black tends to just blend together.  Maybe not one of my better months, but it is nice to know I can still take interesting pictures when I'm just hanging out with the cat.  

To Do List for the Week of 10/7/2025

It wasn't the worst week on the stitching front, but I did lose the better part of one day to a allergies/cold and another day to hanging out with My Guy. He is taking a few days off work this week so we'll be out doing fun stuff during the days.  Which means the sewing room won't see quite as much of me this week.  Before getting to what that means for this week's to do list, I should fess up what happened with last week's to do list.  

To Do List for 9/30/2025

1. 2025 Guild BOM: Finish Nov and December blocks - progress

2. Old Town: Continue piecing blocks ✔

3. Wild and Goosey: Continue piecing green blocks ✔

4. 2026 Guild BOM: Press and cut fabrics for first block - no progress

Not a bad week.  I just didn't get to the the 2026 guild BOM project. Getting the 2025 BOM moved along is the priority for now. This week's list is pretty much the same as last weeks.  

To Do List for 10/7/2025

1. 2025 Guild BOM: Finish December blocks, press sashing fabric

The Inverted Star block is almost finished. But there are 6 sawtooth stars that are still works in progress. The previous version that I made using these blocks used a white on white for the sashing and background. This time I wanted something more colorful.  Hopefully it will look as good as the first version.  

2. Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Continue piecing blocks and sashing pieces

My phone still isn't capturing the teal color correctly, it's really much brighter than it shows in this photo.  I'm excited to see how the sashing changes the pattern of the blocks.  Still a long way to go before this is a finished quilt top, but I'm getting there. It's still up in the air if it will be a finished quilt top by the time this year's mystery comes up.  

3. Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Continue making green blocks

I need 48 of the 3.5" pieced blocks of the green. I'm more than half way there now. I'll probably stick with green until I finish those off.  That will just leave the teal, blue and purple blocks left to make. What's left of those colors is almost half the planned quilt. So a ways to go on this project yet. But working on two blocks as I sew other projects has paid off in a lot of progress this year.  Slow and steady will get me there eventually.  

I'm going to stop this week's to do list with just three items. My Guy and I are going to make the most of his days off and have some adventures. Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday. 

Playing Catch Up

The problem with working on the 2025 Guild BOM blocks is that I can't show them till the guild sees them.  Most of what I've been working on in the sewing room is getting those blocks finished so quilt assembly can be started. There's been good progress on that front, but it doesn't leave me much to post about on Monday.  I do keep 2 Wild and Goosey blocks going while I'm stitching other things.  I've also added back working on bits and pieces of Old Town. 

Twenty of the 25 blocks are finished.  Excuse the color on this photo, I used my I-Phone which normally works pretty well, but it really messed up the teal in the blocks.  It's much brighter than what shows here.  

The pieces for the sashing strips have been cut and I've started stitching those. 

The color of the teal fabric is much closer to reality in this photo. I've made good progress on these, but I still have the better part of 3/4 of them yet to make.  But I'll take whatever progress I can get.  The goal is to get this to finished quilt top before this year's mystery gets started.  That may or may not happen, hopefully I'll at least get close. 

Linking up with Patchwork & Quilts plus Sew and Tell Monday. 

Stitching Stuff: Week 40 of 2025

 

It was a good week on the stitching front.  Though I only got in my 15 minutes on Thursday. Not sure if it's another cold or just allergies. I felt crappy pretty much all day.  Thankfully, I felt much better on Friday and got lots done in the sewing room. My stitching time report looks good.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Sept = 21/30 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 237/277 days
• Success rate = 85.56%

Definitely not the 100% I had last year, but maybe I needed a year of focusing on something else. To sew 85% of the time is still significant.  I'm hoping my stats improve before the end of the year. 

No stash organization this week, other than to bemoan my lack of effort on that front.  Hopefully the motivation to work on that part of my sewing room will come back at some point before the end of the year.

The house seems so quite with Grad Girl and Queenie back in Texas. Since I was missing them both this week, one night I asked for new Queenie picture and GG sent this one. 

I can't decide if she just woke up or is just contemplating life. At any rate, she looks pretty cute.  

Did you spend any time with needle and thread this week? 

1. maggie f 2. Julie in GA 3. Frédérique 4. Melissa G 5. DonnaleeQ

6. Jennifer in Indy 7. Karen 8. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 9. Bonnie in Va 10. Andrée at Quilting & Learning

11. Deb in Canada 12. Quilting Gail 13. Carol @ Quilt Schmilt

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2025 Quilting Ambitions: 3rd Quarter Check In

It's been hard to wrap my mind around the fact that it's October already.  Wasn't it just June?  The time went fast, probably because I was busy helping Grad Girl with the transition from student to working woman.  She defended her thesis, graduated, moved home, found a job, finished her first quilt top and then moved back Texas. Most of that has happened since June.  I didn't spend as much time in the sewing room over those months.  Consequently, there was this sinking feeling when Yvonne of Quilting JetGirl posted the Q3 CheckIn. 

I don't think there has been much progress on my 2025 quilting ambitions during the last quarter, but maybe doing that assessment will set me up to do better in this last quarter of the year.   

Ambition 1: Make Quilts. My goal here was to make progress on the projects that were on my quilt plan. 

My graph hasn't changed from the end of 2nd quarter. There's been progress on several projects, just not enough to hit the major milestones on my quilting plan. I'm really falling behind on finishing quilts. That's something I should definitely focus on the next few months.   

Ambition 2: Learn to quilt.  I can't say I've mastered walking foot quilting, but I've done enough to realize it's not as hard as I thought it would be.  

The quilting on all the Kate's Choice blocks was finished this quarter. I've started assembling the rows. There's a learning curve on that.  Have I met this goal. Not completely, but it has been one of my goals for several years, so it feels good to at least have made a start on accomplishing it.  

Ambition 3: Fabric Organization.  Not much progress on this ambition during third quarter.  With Grad Girl moving home, I did have to move all of the fabrics out of her closet and that gave me a chance to at least sort them into color groups before they went into the big bins that now take up a lot of space in my sewing room.  I need to order some shelving to better organize that closet so I can move the fabrics back. Maybe that will get done sometime before the end of they year?   

With three quarters of the year gone, I've made progress on all of my ambitions for 2025.  That may be as good as it gets for this year.  And I'm OK with that.  

September 2025 PHD Report

It's been a busy summer. August and September were especially busy.  August was so busy I didn't have time to put together a PHD report.  Thankfully things have slowed down enough for me to put together a September PHD report and link up with Ms. P Designs.  

No changes to the PHD report.  It's not all bad, at least there aren't any new starts. That will change in October. I will be starting two new projects. Those were planned for at the beginning of the year, so no surprise there. 

Even though the PHD report shows no changes, there was some decent progress on some of my works in progress. 

There's been some good progress on Kate's Choice the last couple of months.  

Back in July, all but one row of blocks was quilted. Since then I completed quilting all the blocks and moved on to assembling the first row back in August.  There wasn't any progress on this in September. I had to switch my priority to the 2025 Guild BOM blocks.  I hope to get back to this project before the end of the year.    

There was some good progress on my long running travel embroidery project.  

I hadn't worked on this project since last December.  It's over half finished now, with just one corner of blocks left to stitch.  I won't finish it this year.  Maybe next year?  

Progress on Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter) has been sporadic the last couple of months.  

 

 

I haven't put all the blocks up on the wall since December of last year.  A lot more is done than I expected. The upper half, minus one 3.5" blue block, is completed. A finish for next year? Maybe. I've still got lots of the cool colored blocks to make.   

The Old Town (Bonnie Hunter) blocks see a lot of progress during my late night/open sew time at the quilt shop. 

I was hoping to have this to the finished quilt top stage before the next mystery came out. Just 7 blocks left to make. I've started cutting the pieces for the pieced sashing strips.  I'm still doubtful it will be a finished quilt top, but it will be close.   

After my panic in September when I realized the guild meeting was the next day and I hadn't started the block for October.  I decided it would be wise to finish off all the 2025 Guild BOM blocks.  

The blocks for January through September are up on the design wall, minus some of the sawtooth stars as they wouldn't fit. This is not my final layout, I'll decide that once all the blocks are done. I have November's block finished and have started piecing December's.  I'm hoping to start assembly on this quilt in October. I also need to make a start on the blocks for 2026.  I'm definitely going to work ahead for next year's BOM.  

It's not really a quilt project, but I've been making donation blocks for the guild. 

So far I've turned in 20 blocks, but I only have pictures of one set. The donation blocks are the Bonnie Hunter leaders and enders project she suggested in July.  It's been a nice way to use up some scrap yardage that's just been sitting in the stash.  

Just as there's been no changes in my PHD tracker, the same holds for my project tracking graphic. 

I'm really hoping to move some projects closer to finished before the end of year. Getting backings made would be a good place to start.  Kate's Choice is the closest to being completed. Once I get to a comfortable place with the Guild BOM projects, I'll focus on getting that done. Maybe it will happen this year?