Stitching Stuff: Week 49 of 2024

It's just been a weird week. Not sure why, maybe because of all the holiday prep. I just feel off sequence for some reason.  The one thing I have done is get in my stitching time. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Dec = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/2024 = 342/342 days
• Success rate = 100%

Though I'm getting in my sewing time, I've fallen behind on the Bonnie Hunter mystery.  Which is par for the course.  I need to finish String Lights this week so it can be sent to Texas for gifting.  So this next week is going to be a busy one too.  

How are you doing at keeping up with your stitching time while also dealing with holiday prep?  

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.   

To Do List for the Week of 12/03/2024

We were in Texas for most of the week, so I didn't have a lot of time to sew.  Consequently, last week's to do list was pretty simple.

  

To Do List 11/26/2024

1.  Old Town Mystery:  Finish clue 1 and start clue 2- progress

2.  Embroidered Medallion: Take a few stitches ✔

3.  Wild and Goosey: Continue making red blocks ✔

4.  Summer Scrap Quilt: Continue as leaders and enders ✔

With all our holiday travel I only had one day in the sewing room, so I'll take three check marks and progress on the 4th.  

I should have more time for hanging out in the sewing room, but not a lot more. I do have Christmas stuff that needs to get done too.  So we'll keep the list pretty simple for this week too.  My goal this month is to just make a bit of progress here and there on what I've already got going.  

To Do List for 12/03/2024

1. Old Town Mystery (Bonnie Hunter): Continue to work on clues 1 and 2, start 3

It was late when I got to my sewing room yesterday.  I finished off a few more flying geese for clue 1 and started cutting the fabrics for clue 2.  I'm hoping to be more caught up by the time clue 3 comes out this Friday.  

2. String Lights (Meadow Mist Designs): Make binding, finalize name and label.

The quilting is all done, I'm just waiting on it to come back from being quilted.  I've played with the name and label a bit.  The 6 sided shapes strung in a chain look like benzene rings, which is similar to the molecules Grad Girl's research group uses to make various polymers, hence the rename for the quilt.  I've not run any of this by Grad Girl as yet. Once I do that, things will probably go in a completely different direction. 

3. Guild BOM: Make final sashing blocks and start quilt assembly

The sashing is HSTs, so those are pretty simple to make.  I'll work on this in between all the BH mystery clues.     

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

I checked last night, I need 14 more red blocks to finish out that color. At my current sewing rate, I won't finish those this month. But I'll be that much closer when I pick up the color again next year.

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

There are a pile of yellow 2-patches that are ready to be sewn into 4-patches.  This has been such a great project to work on as a leaders and enders.  There are still a lot more to make, but I should probably take the time to see exactly how close I am on total blocks.  

I have to remind myself the goal is just to make progress during this busy holiday season. Thank goodness for on line shopping!  I'm hoping to make some headway there today.  Before I get to that, I'm linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday. 

Nothing on the Design Wall

Our Thanksgiving holiday ended yesterday morning about 9:30 AM when we hit the road to drive home.  It wasn't too bad till we had to exit 35W to 35 just north of Dallas. It was stop and go traffic a significant part the drive from Dallas to OKC.  What normally takes us about 8 hours to navigate took 11.  Other than the drive back, we had a wonderful holiday with Grad Girl.  We did small business Friday and shopped in Brenham for stocking stuffers.  Than on Saturday we went to The Texas Renaissance Festival.  

Something different for us.  Some of the attendee costumes were fantastic, though it did get hard to navigate around those with very large fairy wings in parts of the crowd.  It was a lot of fun, but boy did we walk. The grounds were huge!  

I did keep up my stitching time, over the holiday. I'd get going on my handwork just before bed and get in a few stitches, just enough to get in my 15 minutes. 

 

I filled in quite a bit of the lower wing. It doesn't look like much, but there were a lot of thread changes. 

The only other thing I worked on while we were in Texas was finishing up the design and starting to write up the documentation/instructions for the 2025 Guild BOM.  The member who has done the BOM for the last 12 years wanted a break this year. She's done some wonderful designs over the years.  But 12 years is a long time to have a block ready each month.  I'm trying something different from what she's done. Not sure it will go over well so we'll see how that goes.  

Linking up with Design Wall Monday and Slow Stitching Sunday

Stitching Stuff: Week 48 of 2024

 

How was your Thanksgiving?  We had a wonderful time with Grad Girl and her roommate.  Our Thanksgiving dinner is always a little different, My Guy can't eat ham and Grad Girl is not a fan of turkey. So an alternate choice of protein is required.  This year My Guy made brisket quesadillas in homemade flour tortillas, with either brie or cheddar cheese and barbeque sauce or peach salsa.  They were wonderful.  The rest of dinner was pretty conventional. We were all pretty stuffed even without the turkey.  

Even with all the holiday cooking and cleaning up (that was mostly my gig during the holiday), I still managed to get in my stitching time this week.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Nov = 30/30 days
• 15 minute days/2024 = 335/335 days
• Success rate = 100%  

I'm still finding it hard to believe that I've done something stitching related everyday for the first 11 months of the year.  Just one month left.  Can I keep it up for the whole year?  I most definitely have to make the effort to finish at 100%.  

With all the family stuff this week, there wasn't any fabric pressing or reorganizing. Hopefully I'll get some of that done this next week. 

Did you get much done on the stitching front this week?  

    

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

4. Karen 5. Jennifer in Indy 6. DonnaleeQ

7. Quilting Gail 8. Bonnie in Va 9. Carol @ Quilt Schmilt

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