May 2026 PHD Report

May went fast. Hard to believe that at the end of this month we'll be half way through 2026.  Looking back, May was a pretty productive month, even though my PHD report didn't change.  

I'm still going to link up with Ms P Designs for the May PHD report to show that no finish isn't the same as no progress.  

The goal for 2nd and 3rd quarter this year is to tackle my UFO pile.  Good Fortune was the 2018 Bonnie Hunter mystery. The project box had a pile of both A and B blocks, with a few other odds and ends from the various steps.  The A and B blocks will go into one quilt, the blocks that were supposed to be the pieced borders will either get worked into the quilt back, or into a separate quilt top.  The total number of blocks has been decided and all the pieces to make those blocks have been cut.  Probably won't make any additional progress on this project till this year's BH mystery is a finished quilt top. 

Progress on Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter) has been slow since sashing the blue blocks has been my leaders and enders project for most of May. Slowly, but surely more 7" blocks are showing up on the design wall.  

Chilhowie, the 2022 Bonnie Hunter Mystery, was the next project on my "to be quilted" list.  Still need to add the second set of cross hatch lines to the left side of the quilt. I've figured out how to feed the quilt to the machine without dragging, so the stitching has been much more even on the more recent quilting lines.   

The 2024 Bonnie Hunter Mystery, Old Town, just needed the borders added. It's now a finished quilt top hanging in the closet with all the other to be quilted projects.  

Some quilts on the to be quilted list will be quilted professionally. the 2025 Guild BOM is one of those.  The backing was ready for stitching at the end of the month. So didn't quite get this step done in May. 

 

The Meadow Mist Designs 2025 Magnificent Mystery quilt also just needed a final border.  It's hanging right next to Old Town waiting to be quilted.  

The June block was added to the 2026 Guild BOM this month.  The July block is actually finished, but hasn't been shown to the guild yet.  The plan for June is to at least start on the August, September, October and November blocks and start on the instructions. 

Lupine and Laughter (2025 BH Mystery) was the project with the most progress this month.  All the alternate blocks are made.  The main block takes lots of stitching time, so it's been slow going, but there has at least been some progress with those.  

My progress chart isn't much different from April. Two projects have graduated to finished quilt tops, but that's about it for May.  Hopefully June will see at least one more finished quilt top and a finished quilt.  Cross your fingers for me.  

To Do List for the Week of 6/2/2026

I didn't get much done during the week, but once we got to the weekend, there was a lot of progress in the sewing room.  A fully checked off to do list was the result. 

To Do List for 5/26/2026

1. 2025 Guild BOM: Make backing ✔

2. Chilhowie: Continue quilting ✔

3. Lupine and Laughter: Continue working on main blocks ✔

4. Good Fortune: Pull project box, assess status ✔

5. Wild and Goosey: Continue sashing blue blocks ✔

It was definitely a more productive week than I expected it to be.  Hopefully, I can do as well this week.  

To Do List for 6/2/2026

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Prep back for quilting

The back needs to pressed and any loose threads removed. It would be a good idea to run the vacuum in the sewing room before I start that process.  

2. Chilhowie (Bonnie Hunter): Continue Quilting

Half the quilt has the second set of diagonal lines quilted.  Still half left to do.  Rather than adding another set of diagonal lines, I may just sew another set of lines from edge to edge.  We'll see how it looks once all the diagonal quilting is done.  I know what I'm quilting in the first narrow border. Still haven't figured out what goes in the last border.  

3. Lupine and Laughter (Bonnie Hunter): Continue working on main blocks

The main blocks are slow going, but I'm starting to pick up speed as I get more of the block components made.  

5. Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Continue sashing blue blocks

The sashing has been slow going as I'm sewing those blocks as my leaders and enders.  I may change my strategy there. 

So that's my list for this week.  Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

Slow Going

Hard to believe it is June already. I'm hoping this month has much fewer health issues, May was rough on that front.  I've been reading more than I've been sewing the last couple of weeks, but I'm still making slow, but consistent progress on several projects.  My priority project has been Lupine and Laughter (Bonnie Hunter).  

I'm not a fan of sewing large quantities of HSTs at once, one of the reasons it's hard for me to keep up with Bonnie Hunter mysteries.  Plus, part of the block is paper pieced, which is a bit time consuming. So I've been making enough block components to make one block, while I'm sewing the parts together into blocks.  I spend a lot of time pinning, but it does move things along.  All the alternate blocks are done, but I've only managed to finish 2 of the main blocks. 

What looks black in the photo is actually a very deep purple.  There are 5 more main blocks under construction in that first photo.  It's slow going, but there has been more progress than shows on the design wall.  

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

Stitching Stuff: Week 22 of 2026

Summer showed up yesterday. It was sunny, hot and humid.  Hard to believe I was commenting on our cooler weather last week. So I wasn't far off on my prediction that summer would be here pretty quickly.  

The back is better, the knees are better, but I had to schedule an emergency dentist appointment last Tuesday.  They put me on antibiotics because they were pretty sure the tooth in question was infected.  I'm waiting on a referral for additional imaging, there may be a root canal in my future as well depending on how that comes out.   I'm really hoping this falling apart stuff only comes in threes, I'm ready to be mostly healthy again.  Thankfully the dental issues didn't stop me from getting into the sewing room. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/May =  29/30 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 148/150 days
• Success rate = 98.67%

I made it to the sewing room most days, but have to admit not a lot got done on Tuesday and Wednesday till after the antibiotic kicked in.  Still it wasn't a bad week.  

How did your week in the sewing room work out?

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

6. Karen 7. Linda at Texas Quilt Gal 8. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 9. Jennifer in Indy 10. Bonnie in Va

11. Deana 12. Viridian 13. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 14. Marsha's Spot

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To Do List for the Week of 5/26/2026

My reading time encroached into my sewing time this last week.  I'm sure part of the reason is that the stairs up to the sewing room haven't been fun to navigate with my knee giving me fits. So it takes a bit more motivation to head that direction.  Thankfully, I was in the sewing room enough to make good progress on last week's to do list. 

To Do List for 5/19/2026

1. 2025 Guild BOM: Make backing - progress

2. Chilhowie: Continue quilting ✔

3. Lupine and Laughter: Continue working on A blocks ✔

4. Wild and Goosey: Continue sashing blue blocks ✔

Definitely not a bad week even with the reduced sewing time.  What does this week look like. More of the same with one new addition as I'm finding it hard to just work on one quilt at a time.  

To Do List for 5/26/2026

1. 2025 Guild BOM: Make backing

The pieces for the backing are cut, I just need to sit down and stitch them together.  

2. Chilhowie (Bonnie Hunter): Continue Quilting

Quilting of Chilhowie is moving along.  I'm finally getting a better handle on how to handle a large quilt on my sewing machine.  I'm getting better at keeping the lines straight and the stitching even. I'm debating if I need to go back and add one more set of lines in each direction.  The space between the stitching lines is 4", that's the maximum recommended for the batting. Is that going to be enough?  

3. Lupine and Laughter (Bonnie Hunter): Continue working on main blocks.

Construction of the main block has been pretty slow.  I decided to paper piece the star points. You need 8 for each block, so that's been the slow part of the process.  At least I can see visible progress.  

4. Good Fortune (Bonnie Hunter): Pull project box, assess status

Good Fortune is the 2018 Bonnie Hunter mystery.  Looking at my records I haven't worked on it since February of 2019. Based on the mock ups found in my EQ files, I'm about half way done with the blocks.  Not sure what's in the project box, I suspect the next step will be to cut more fabric.  

 

5. Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Continue sashing blue blocks

I haven't made a lot of progress with sashing the blocks. It's been slow but steady progress, which is fine for now.  

That's my list for this week.  Hard to believe this is the last list for May.  This month certainly went fast.  June probably will too.  It always seems like the year moves faster the closer you get to the end of it.  Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

More Lupin and Laughter

Saturday was rainy, but the rest of the holiday weekend has been gorgeous. My Guy and I went for a walk last night after dinner.  My back seems to have recovered, but my right knee is still giving me fits, so it wasn't a long walk.  

The sewing room hasn't been as attractive the last couple of weekends.  I've been reading more than I typically do.  That's OK, sometimes you need to mix it up a bit. There was enough sewing time to finish up the "A" blocks. 

What looks black is actually a very, very dark purple. My version will be about half the size of Bonnie's.  I prefer throw sized quilts to bed sized.  

With the A blocks done, my attention moved to what Bonnie called the main block.  

Not a lot of progress there, but enough got pieced to make one block.  The plan today is get more of these blocks put together. It's a lot of stitching to get the parts for just one block!  

It's rare for me to work on just one quilt at a time.  It's probably time to decide on another UFO to make some progress on. That's my goal for 2nd and 3rd quarters, focus on moving the UFOs to finished quilts.  Do I pull my oldest UFO or the one that's closest to being finished?  

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

Stitching Stuff: Week 21 of 2026

 

It's been a wet and chilly week.  We needed the rain and I'm not going to complain about a bit of cool weather. We'll hit summer pretty quickly, so I enjoyed it while it was here.  I had to see the orthopedist this week, my knees took a beating while my back was out of commission and my right leg has been very, very unhappy.  We'll be working on that in addition to my back issues in PT in a couple of weeks.  All that to say, I didn't have the best week in the sewing room.  The stairs were outright painful early in the week.   

• 15 minute days/week = 6/7 days
• 15 minute days/May = 22/23 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 141/143 days
• Success rate = 98.60%

It was never my plan to end the year with a 100% success rate. If I can keep it over 90%, I'll be really happy. I'm still on track there.   

How did your stitching time work out this week? 

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

6. Frédérique 7. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 8. Melissa G 9. Quilting Gail 10. Andrée at Quilting & Learning

11. Bonnie in Va 12. Linda at Texas Quilt Gal 13. Kathy S. 14. Marsha's Spot

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To Do List for the Week of 5/19/2026

The to do list post is a bit late this week. I had an early morning appointment yesterday, followed by our gym workout, then a trip to Wally World as we call it.  It was time for lunch by the time we got home. When I did get back to the computer in the afternoon, I needed to make sure the guild block of the month instructions were ready to go as yesterday was meeting day.  I just didn't get around to writing a blog post.  

I did pretty well with last week's to do list.  

To Do list for 5/12/2026

1. 2025 Guild BOM: Make backing - progress

2. Chilhowie: Continue quilting ✔  

3. Lupine and Laughter: Work on A blocks ✔

4. Wild and Goosey: Continue sashing blue blocks ✔

Check marks on three out of 4 items and progress on the 4th is a pretty good week.  We'll see how this week goes, I have more appointments then I normally do. 

To Do List for 5/19/2026

1. 2025 Guild BOM: make backing

The 2025 BOM is a big quilt, it needs almost 6 yards of backing fabric.  I found this older Connecting Threads fabric in my stash. I have 7 yards of it.  So that should work. I've started cutting the pieces for the backing, it should be assembled before next week.  

2. Chilhowie (Bonnie Hunter): Continue quilting

The plan is to use the walking foot to quilt straight lines along the diagonals of the quilt.  I've finished all the lines along one diagonal. I'll start on the lines from the other diagonal today.  

3. Lupine and Laughter (Bonnie Hunter): Continue working on block A 

I've added one block to the wall since Monday, so no photo.  Hopefully, I'll have time to sew this weekend and can get all these blocks done.  

4.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Continue sashing blue blocks

This has been slow moving as I'm sashing the blocks as my leaders and enders project. Only 2 blocks completely sashed. I may have to make this a full task and start using the purple blocks as my leaders project.  

That's my list for this week. Pretty much the same as last week.  The 2025 BOM and Chilhowie should drop off in a couple of weeks.  Then I'll have to figure out what projects come next.  

Linking up the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

Back to the Lupine and Laughter Mystery

My sewing room mojo was a bit sparse this last weekend.   I ended up reading most of Sunday afternoon. But I did finally make it up to the sewing room for a couple of hours before dinner. 

Other than the 2025 Guild BOM, the Bonnie Hunter Lupine and Laughter Mystery  is the only quilt started last year or for that matter this year, that's not a finished quilt top.  I've been working on what Bonnie calls the alternate blocks.  

Six blocks finished over the last couple of weeks. What looks like black is actually a very dark purple.  I'm making my version half sized.  So I only need 6 more of these blocks.  So half way there. I have cut most of the pieces for the main block, but haven't started assembling those yet. I'll get these done, then start on those.  

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

Stitching Stuff: Week 20 of 2026

 

It's been a pretty calm week on both the weather and the home front. My back is mostly healed, bending doesn't hurt like it did. The doctor didn't see anything that needed immediate follow up in my X-rays. Though he did recommend PT. We'll see what happens there, he wasn't sure insurance would approve it at this point.  

It was a good week on the stitching front. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/May = 16/16 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 135/136 days
• Success rate = 99.26%

Another good week in the sewing room. I even spent a day decluttering my fabric piles and going through my project boxes.  I also retired the pincushion I've been using since 2022/2023.  

 

The center of the pincushion was starting to wear just a little thin. It's hard to see how thin the center is from the photo, but you can definitely see the discoloration.  I had a spare in one of my "extras" drawer.  

This pincushion was part of a set that my sister gave me for Christmas several years ago.  The fabric is a heavier decorating fabric rather than cotton. Hopefully it will last longer than three and a half years.  

Have you had the bandwidth for a bit of stitching this week?  

1. Kathy S. 2. Frédérique 3. maggie f

4. Julie in GA 5. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 6. Quilting Gail

7. Bonnie in Va 8. Marsha's Spot

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To Do List for the Week of 5/12/2026

My back has been slowly getting better. Bending is still problematic, but otherwise I'm mostly pain free.  My therapy has included cycling, walking and sewing.  Movement is the best thing for the back and with all the walking between rooms I did working on Chilowie, I moved a lot!  It's a blessing that the sewing room was one of the places I could go and not hurt. That was really good for last week's to do list. 

To Do List for 5/5/2026

1.  Old Town: Work on borders ✔

2.  Chilhowie: Sandwich quilt and start marking ✔

3.  Lupine and Laughter: Work on A blocks ✔

4.  Wild and Goosey: Finish blue blocks, start sashing ✔

It was a good week, 4 for 4 on the to do list. Fingers crossed I can do as well with this week's list. 

To Do List for 5/12/2026

1. 2025 Guild BOM: Make backing

My Girl has asked me to finish this quilt for one of her college buddies.  This one is a bit big for me to quilt on my sewing machine. Plus, having some professionally quilted will help me make a dent in the number of to be quilted projects.  I found a reasonable backing fabric in the stash.  So I need to get some measurements and get started on sewing the back up.  It also needs a different name. My Girl is usually pretty good at coming up with good names for the quilts that go to her friends.  

2. Chilhowie (Bonnie Hunter): Continue quilting 

I'm using painters tape to mark my lines. The first two lines were not perfect. I may or may not go back to fix them. I'll see how noticeable the wobbles are once all the quilting is done.  At least I got started. It's slow going at the moment. I'm hoping it gets faster with more practice.  

3. Lupine and Laughter (Bonnie Hunter): Work on A blocks

I was reading the pattern last night to get started on what I thought was block B.  My block IDs are switched from Bonnie's.  That's OK, as long as I know which is which.  I've started on the "framing blocks" for the first block.  That purple may be way to dark for the rest of the quilt, but it's what I've cut, so we'll see how it develops as the blocks come together. 

4. Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Continue sashing blue blocks

Only 1 block sashed so far, 63 left.  This makes a great leader and ender project.  

Another short list.  But it is in line with my strategy was for the year.  I wanted to keep the list to 4 to 5 to dos during second and third quarter.  The focus will be on getting quilts to finished over the next few months.  

Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

Tackling the Bonnie Hunter Unfinished Mystery Quilts

If you've followed me for any length of time you probably know I have a week spot for Cheryl Brickey's Meadow Mist Designs mystery quilts and Bonnie Hunter's annual mystery quilt alongs. I've been sewing with Bonnie's mysteries since 2013. That year was her Celtic Solstice mystery. It's still in pieces with a few blocks made. It's on my 2026 project list. Not sure I'm going to get that far. 

I've started 15 of Bonnie's mysteries and finished 7 of them.  Her 2024 mystery was Old Town.  It's one step closer to being finished. 

The borders were added over the weekend and it's now a finished quilt top. When I bought that teal fabric, I wasn't sure how to use it. It worked really well as the accent color in this quilt.  Rather than pink, I switched to gold, which was one of the accent colors in the teal print. Not my normal color palette, but I do really like how this one turned out. 

Old Town now joins the 14 other quilt tops waiting to be quilted in the spare closet.  

I do have a plan to tackle getting at least some of these tops to finished quilts this year. I'm working on quilting Chilhowie (the 2022 Bonnie Hunter mystery) with my walking foot. I've started but it's going to take a few weeks to finish.  Some of the quilts I am going to get professionally quilted.  Hopefully between the two efforts I can whittle down the to be quilted list a bit.  

Linking up with the usual Monday linky parties: Patchwork & Quilts and Sew & Tell Monday.   

Stitching Stuff: Week 19 of 2026

Happy Mother's Day.  My kiddo didn't know what to get me, so I told her she could take me out to lunch during my next visit.  We had planned to spend the holiday with my mother, but she's not feeling great, so we are targeting Memorial weekend to get the family together.  My plans are to spend the day in the sewing room, one of my favorite gifts of all time.

It's been an up and down week.  My back is slowly getting better. Bending is still a problem, but it's gotten less painful.  We decided that maybe our 14 year old mattress was one of my problems, so we replaced that. That didn't go quite as planned. However, adding a pillow between my knees (I'm a side sleeper) has made a world of difference.  

Thankfully the back problems haven't kept me from the sewing room.  My stats look pretty good considering how miserable I was last weekend.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/May = 9/9 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 128/129 days
• Success rate = 99.22%

I've already made good progress on my to do list for the week. Just need to finish the borders on Old Town. That's the plan for this weekend.  

How are you stitching plans working out?  

 

1. Gretchen 2. Kathy S. 3. Julie in GA 4. maggie f

5. LeeAnna 6. Quilting Gail 7. Karen 8. Bonnie in Va

9. Frédérique 10. Linda at Texas Quilt Gal 11. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 12. Marsha's Spot

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Week 154 Photo Challenge: Crowds

The new photo challenge cards have been a bit more involved then the previous two packs.  It's been taking all of us a bit longer to come up with photos. My Guy and I spend most of our time in a small town, which can limit our photo opportunities. My Girl lives in the big city, but she now has a full time job, with a commute. So she doesn't have as much time as when she was a college student. Consequently, we seemed to have shifted to a monthly schedule on our photographs. We're just going to roll with that.  

That last photo challenge was:

Living in a small town, crowds are a relative thing.  The only crowds around here are things like the high school sports, graduation, and the art festival.  We don't have a kid in school anymore, so we aren't tied into those activities anymore.  The art festival isn't till June. So I went with the only place we routinely see more than 10 people.  

Kate: The Church Crowd

 
We usually attend the vigil Mass on Saturday night, that church crowd is mostly the more senior members of the parish. Our church is a bit plain for a Catholic Church, but that's because the founders of this parish were more focused on works then on the building.  When we started here more than 30 years ago, it had the reputation for being the rebel parish in the diocese. They've since combined our parish with the more conversative parish downtown, not so much because the parish is troublesome, more so because of the dwindling numbers of priests.  

My Guy went a completely different route, literally. He spends most of his time out on long walks or long bike rides these days, so he sees a completely different type of crowd.  

My Guy: The Wind Sweeping Down the Plains Crowd

He's more likely to find cows or horses out on the back roads he rides on. I'm not sure where exactly he took this photo, but it really shows just how flat it is here and how much sky you can see.  Our spring weather this year has been stormy, which does make for some dramatic skies. Those clouds do wonderful things to the light this time of year.  

My Girl took advantage of her big city location to find her photo. 

My Girl: This Picture Cost Me $100

She was able to find last minute, discounted tickets for a Raye concert last weekend.  The advantage of living in Houston is there are lots of concerts. If not in Houston, Dallas is only 4 hours away. Still concert tickets have gotten expensive. She is selective about which ones she attends.  

Of the three, it's a toss up between My Guy's and My Girl's photos for my favorite. Both are very different, but both are interesting photos.  

My Guy and I probably have an advantage with the new photo challenge. 

The summer wildflowers are just getting going here.  So we should have a good opportunity to get some new photos. Since My Girl lives in town, it may be harder for her to get a shot.  

To Do List for the Week of 5/5/2026

Hard to believe it is already May. I completely missed that yesterday was "May the 4th Be With You" day.  Today is Cinco de Mayo, so happy holiday if you are of Mexican heritage. Mother's Day is this weekend (I have no idea what to get my mother).  

The end of April, beginning of May were pretty productive as my to do list shows for last week shows. 

To Do List for 4/28/2026

1. Guild BOM: Finish July block ✔

2. Magnificent Mystery: Finish borders ✔

3. Chilhowie: Prep top and back for quilting ✔

4. Lupine and Laughter: Work on A blocks

5. Wild and Goosey: Continue making blue blocks ✔

Definitely a lot of progress on the to do list last week. Now that Magnificent Mystery is a finished top and the Guild BOM is caught up for a few months, I can add something back to the list and it will still be shorter then last week's list. 

To Do List for 5/5/2026

1. Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Work on borders

I finished assembling the quilt top back in December of last year. It got put away to concentrate on all the new projects that started in December and January.  All it needs is the borders.  I spent some time in Electric Quilt yesterday and finally decided on fabrics and layout.  I'm excited to get this one to finished quilt top.  

2. Chilhowie (Bonnie Hunter): Sandwich quilt and start marking

The top, batting and backing are all prepped.  With my back, I can't crawl around on the ground, so I'm going to have to take the sandwich to the quilt shop and assemble it there.  There is a big table in the back that should make that a lot easier.  If all I do is get the sandwich made this week, I'm good with that.  

3.  Lupine and Laughter (Bonnie Hunter): Work on A blocks

 

In the project bag were 5 finished block A's and this partially assembled one. My plan was to make 3/4 of the blocks, I think.  I need to pull out my notes and confirm that. The plan is to work on this one till it's finished quilt top.  

4. Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Finish blue blocks, start sashing

 

Just one blue block left to finish. Then I'll need to lay out all the blocks in groups of four and decide which block goes where.  Sashing goes fast so I'm hoping to have these all made into 7.5" blocks by the end of the month.  

This week, my to do list is all Bonnie Hunter quilts, three mysteries (2024, 2022, and 2025) plus one Rainbow Scrap Challenge project (2019).  I've started 14 mysteries, finished 7 of those, and 3 are quilt tops.  So 4 are still in the block making stage (well 3, Old Town just needs borders). 

That's my to do list for this week. Linking up with The Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.    

Sticking with the Strategy

It's been a quiet week on the weather front. That's been nice, no late night sessions watching the local weather to decide if we need to move ourselves to the tornado shelter.  My back is still a bit out of whack, I can walk and sit, but bending is completely out for now. Thankfully  I can still sew. 

I've been mostly sticking with my strategy for the year, but I'm not where I'd hoped to be at the end of first quarter.  So it was catch up time in April.  

The Magnificent Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs) is finally a finished quilt top.  The final two border strips were added yesterday.  The pattern didn't call for a border, but I usually like to see a frame around the quilt, it looks uncomplete to me when there is not one.  I'm thrilled with how this one worked out.  It's hard to get the colors right for a mystery quilt, I have no regrets about what fabrics I picked and where they went.  It may be my most favorite Meadow Mist Mystery ever. 

It's been slow going, but there has been lots of progress so far this year.  Linking up with Patchwork & Quilts and Sew & Tell Monday.