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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