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.  

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.  

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.

To Do List for 07/22/2025

It's been two weeks since my last to do list post.  Between being way to busy packing and moving Grad Girl, plus the lack of Internet, putting a list together last week just didn't happen. So here's the progress on my last to do list. 

To Do List for 07/08/2025

1. Guild BOM: Finish August blocks - progress

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

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

4.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Work on one night ✔

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

There was a good bit of progress before I left for Texas and I'll take that. I'm hoping to make a good bit of progress this week.  It's too hot to do much else but hang out in the sewing room.  

To Do List for 07/22/2025

1. Guild BOM: Finish August blocks, start September

All but two of the sawtooth stars for the border were finished before I left for Texas.  It shouldn't take long to finish those off and then get started on the September blocks.  The fabrics for the next month's blocks have been pulled, so cutting those pieces should be doable this week.  

2.  Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks

July is almost over and there's only been one finish so far this year.  This is the project closest to being finished, so I should really put some effort into getting it all the way there. 

3.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Work on either one day

I did get one evening of cross stitching when we were in Texas; before our days got longer and we used the evenings to move packed stuff into the storage unit. It was too hot to do that during the day.  

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

All the components parts are finished, now block assembly can start.  I'm looking forward to seeing this quilt top come together.

5.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Make purple blocks, sash red blocks

Just one red block left to sash.  I still need lots more purple blocks. I won't get all of those made this month. This is my RSC project for the year, but I probably won't be following along with the colors from here on out. Blue, green, purple and teal are the only colors left to finish, so I'll be concentrating on those the next few months. 

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

I'm still working on the yellow borders for the center of the quilt.  Hopefully I'll be doing enough stitching this week to get those done and I can move on to the rest of the assembly process.  

Grad Girl is back home till she finds a job, but she's pretty busy this week. She's got a couple of jobs to apply for and the finial edits on her thesis to finish. We are taking her car in for service sometime this week. She's going to take a mini trip to go see some of her college buddies this weekend, so we'll be cat sitting.  But other than that, I'm hoping for a mostly only stitching week. Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday. 

To Do List for the Week of 07/08/2025

It was a busy weekend and though I got my stitching time in most days, I was still busy enough that it was hard to get to everything on last week's to do list.  

To Do List for 07/01/2025

1.  Guild BOM: Finish August blocks, start Sept - progress

2.  Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks - no progress

3.  Embroidery or cross stitch: Stitch one night ✔

4.  Wild and Goosey: Finish green, start purple, sash red ✔

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

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

Grad Girl is here this week and we have a few things planned, so I won't have as much sewing room time as I usually do. That will necessitate a pared back to do list for the week. 

To Do List for 07/08/2025

1.  Guild BOM: Finish August blocks

All the pieces are cut, they just need to be assembled. The guild meeting is next week so I need to get the August blocks finished up pretty quickly.  

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

I still have a few flying geese to finish up before I can start assembling the blocks. If that doesn't happen this week. It will definitely happen next week.  

3.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Make purple, sash red blocks

I've gotten a good start on the purple blocks and just have a few red blocks left to sash.  Still a long way to go on this project, but getting to the point I can sash some of the blocks has been motivating.  Probably another year left to finish this project. Unless I decided to make it a priority.  

4.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Fit in at least one evening of stitching time. 

I forget just how slow going the counted cross stitch is, but I'm making a bit of progress here and there.  

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

Two of the yellow borders have been added to the center. The top border is in progress.  

That's my list for this week.  With Grad Girl home, I'm just looking for progress on my current projects.  I'll be able to get serious again later this summer.  Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

What to Post When You Can't Show What You Are Working On?

Secret projects didn't used to be very common in my sewing room.  But with taking on the block of the month program for the guild, I don't feel like I can share much of that sewing till I've showed it at the guild meeting.  Getting a bit ahead has been my focus for the last month, so there's not much else going on in the sewing room.  If I take off all the bits and pieces of the BOM off my sewing table, here's what's left. 

Wild and Goosey along with Old Town are most of what I've been stitching on as I've been assembling the guild BOM blocks.  So not much exciting. Though I am hoping to finish off those red and beige flying geese so I can start assembling the Old Town blocks at late night sew.  

Meadow Mist Designs published the fabric requirements for this year's Magnificent Mystery last Thursday.  I did take some time to look in the stash closet to see if I could pull a palette together from what I already had (my goal with these mysteries is to use older stash, maybe with with an new addition or two). This was my first pass. 

I've wanted to make a teal and brown quilt. Not sure why, it's just a color palette I haven't tried before.  The two teals have been in the stash for years.  The beige toile at the top is the proposed background.  It's the only beige I have that has enough yardage.  Not all the fabrics touch each other (Cheryl is always really good about giving you info on which fabrics touch which).  I'm pretty firm on the teals and the dark brown.  The print, the tan and the beige toile, I'm not sure of.  There is lots of  time to decide if those work.  

Linking up with Monday Design Wall and Patchwork & Quilts. 

June 2025 PHD Report

Hard to believe we are half way through 2025.  Now that it's July it's time to take another look at my progress with the June PHD report over at Ms. P Designs. 

  

I've not done so well on the finishing up front, but I have been making steady progress on several other projects.  

While cleaning up the sewing room, I found a very old counted cross stitch throw started back in college.  It's been added to my traveling handwork projects.  Not a lot of progress on this, but at least there's been some. I'd forgotten just how much time it takes to do counted cross stitch.   

Another oldie saw some progress in July.  A few more blocks for  Grandmother's/Kate's Choice project were quilted this month.  Just 2 rows left to quilt.  

Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter) also saw a lot of progress this month.  All the orange blocks were sashed as it was the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color for June.  Once those were finished, the remaining red blocks were finished and sashing of those started. 

In May, quilt assembly started for the Simply Sensational Summer Scrap Quilt (Kevin the Quilter).  This month the center was assembled and the first border of the yellow 4-patches was added. 

Clues 6 and 7 for Old Town (Bonnie Hunter) were completed in June.  A good start was made on clue 8.  I'm really hoping to be assembling the quilt blocks by the end of July. 

 

The color for the July Guild BOM block was red. I've already started looking for my sashing options.  August blocks are already under construction as we've got some stuff going on this month, so being ahead will be important.  

Glowing Hearts (MMM quilts) became a finished quilt top.  It's in line for quilting, which I should really focus on this last half of the year.  This was an unplanned project, but it used up some older stash and was a lot of fun to make.  

There has definitely been progress, but other than Glowing hearts none of the other projects have hit a major milestone, so my tracking graphic doesn't look much different than last month's. 

Only Glowing Hearts shows any progress on the bar graph.  Some months are going to be like that.  We'll see what gets done in July, it's going to be a busy month.  

To Do List for the Week of 07/01/2025

The year is half over.  I'm always amazed at how quickly we get to this point.  We were in Crown Center in Kansas City last week for a conference. The Hallmark store there was setting up for this year's ornament display.  Christmas will be here before most of us are ready I'm sure.  

Let's not dwell on time passing, not much we can do on that front. I didn't have time to write up a post last week. Which works out as I didn't have time to stitch much last week.  So I had two weeks to work on my previous to do list. 

To Do List for 06/17/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Finish July blocks, start August ✔

2.  Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks ✔

3.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Stitch one night this week ✔

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

5.  Old Town: Continue assembly during late night sew ✔

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

I'll definitely take six check marks even if it did take 2 weeks.  The list for this week will look pretty similar.  

To Do List for 07/01/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Finish August blocks, start Sept.

The color for July was red.  The blocks got done just in time for the guild meeting last month. I have all but one of the smaller sawtooth stars cut out for August. I've got one last set of 4 HSTs to make and then I can start assembly on the Inverted star for next month.  I've been auditing sashing and border fabrics for this quilt.  I'll need to have mine assembled for the December meeting, hence the need to work ahead a bit.  

2. Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks

I'm hoping to get in one solid afternoon of quilting and finish row 5 this week. 

3.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Stitch on a project at least one night this week. 

We have a family get together planned for this weekend to celebrate Grad Girl finishing up her master's degree.  So I'm sure there will be time to sit and stitch for a bit. 

4.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Finish green, start purple, sash red

All the red blocks are made and sashing them is in progress. I went back to green to work on those blocks a bit. Purple is the color for this month, so I'll pull out all those triangles and make a few of those. 

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

Clue 8 is more flying geese.  I need to some more of the neutral triangles, I didn't count correctly apparently and am short by quite a bit.  

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

The first yellow border for the center of the quilt is assembled and stitched on. Border #2 is still in progress. 

So pretty much the same list I've had for a few weeks.  With the family get together for the holiday weekend and having to help Grad Girl move later this month, I'm just hoping to keep these projects moving till we get to August then things will slow down a bit on the travel front.  

Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.   

Definitely Progress, But Nothing Exciting

There really was a plan to post last week, but I'd forgotten how hard it is when you have an early morning start and have to find coffee and breakfast before your first session.  Meetings all day and then social networking meetings in the evenings, left me pretty much spent at the end of the day. I don't do this type of stuff very often now that I'm not working.  It was fun though, I miss the technical part of being a research chemist and I definitely got to do some technical stuff during the meeting.  

The meeting did take me out of the sewing room for the better part of the week. But between a bit of weekend sewing and what I got done before I left, there is a bit of progress to post about.  

The row 4 blocks for Kate's Choice were all quilted just before I left for the conference. So just two more rows left to quilt.  

Clue 7 for Old Town (Bonnie Hunter) was also finished. 

Clue 8 is in progress.  It's more flying geese. I'm almost half way done with those.  I'm hoping to be able to start assembling blocks in July.  

So there's been progress, just nothing as exciting as a finished quilt top or finished quilt.  Linking up with Monday Design Wall and Patchwork & Quilts.  

To Do List for the Week of 06/17/2025

Do you ever look at your calendar and realize that you don't really have that much time to get ready for something?  Grad Girl will be moving home next month.  She's been applying for jobs and has had one video interview so far.  With the current job market, she's probably going to be here for at least a month, likely 2 to 3 before she finds a full time chemist job.  I've been using her old closet as storage for some of my quilting supplies, I'm going to have to find someplace else because she's going to need the closet.  I have time, but will need to add that to my decluttering to do list.  

Maybe it goes on my quilting to do list too?  It certainly wasn't on last week's to do list.  

To Do List for 06/10/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: finish cutting, finish assembly - progress

2.  Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks - no progress

3.  Old Town: Work on blocks at late night sew ✔

4.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Stitch one night this week ✔

5.  Wild and Goosey: Finish red blocks - progress

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

It wasn't a bad week, three check marks, two with some progress and only one with no progress.  I'm finding it hard to get back to the quilting because I have deadlines with the Guild BOM blocks. My next deadline is in later July, so hopefully I'll have some time to quilt this week.  So it will stay on the to do list for this week. 

To Do List for 06/17/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Finish July blocks, start cutting for Sept. 

It will take an hour or so to finish up the blocks for July. That's doable before tonight's meeting.  I'm going to try to get ahead on August. July will be busy.  

2.  Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks

The plan is to change over to the walking foot tomorrow and spend a couple of days quilting.  I'll just have to be disciplined and do it.  

3.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Stitch one night this week. 

I made a little progress Sunday night.  It's slow going, but to be fair that's only an hour of stitching time.  But progress is progress even if it's slow.  

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

Just one last red block to finish paper piecing and I can start sashing the blocks with black.  Orange is this month's RSC color, but I finished all the work on those blocks.  So I'm continuing with a different color.  I'll be paper piecing a couple more green blocks this month too.  I'd really like to see this project be ready for assembly sometime next year. Hopefully, by doing a bit each month, I'll get there.  

5.  Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Continue assembly during late night sew.

All the gold/neutral flying geese are made and I've moved on to making these subunits.  Hopefully assembly of the blocks will start in early July.  I've been working on this at late night sew because it's the only non-guild project I have everything cut for.  

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

Yesterday's blog showed the progress from last week.  The only change is that some of the yellow border blocks are sewn together.  It's been fun to see this start to come together.  It feels like I've been making all those 4-patches forever!  

It's the same list as last week, though I'm hoping to do a bit better on the quilting and the cross stitching this week. We'll have to see how that works out.  Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday. 

Not Much on the Design Wall

It was another wet weekend here. The kind that's perfect for just hanging out in the sewing room.  Sewing time was spent working on the 2025 Guild BOM blocks for tomorrow's meeting.  I'm making good progress and if I can work in a good afternoon of sewing, I'll have them done.  Other than those blocks, there's not a lot going on in the sewing room.  I did finish stitching all the flying geese for clue 7 of Bonnie Hunter's Old Town mystery.  

I've been stitching a few flying geese with every BOM block I've been making. Normally the previous year's mystery becomes my leader and ender project, but in an effort to empty my blue scrap bins, I've been working on the Sensational Summer Scrap quilt (Kevin the Quilter) as my leaders and ender project for most of the year.  

The scrappy center is now all sewn together and the borders are now in the works.  This is the only project up on my design wall currently.  It's been fun to finally see this project start coming together after months of making the four patches.   

I'm not planning to start anything new for a couple of months. I really should get back to quilting Kate's Choice, but the guild BOM takes precedence.  I'll need to do a better job of keeping up as life will be busy in July. One lesson I've learned is it's wise to work ahead on the guild BOM. I've already started on plans for next year's.  It will be a sampler, which means a written block pattern each month.  Best if I get on jump on that this year.  

Linking up with the usual suspects for Monday: Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts.  

To Do List for the Week of 06/10/2025

Laundry and household chores are my prime focus this week after not doing much of either last week.  Shirking my housekeeping duties last week let me take advantage of the return of the sewing mojo.  That shows up clearly in the progress with last week's to do list.  

To Do List for 06/03/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Finish cutting fabrics for blocks - progress

2.  Glowing Hearts: Finish assembling quilt top ✔

3.  Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks - no progress

4.  Betty: Find backing, figure out assembly ✔

5.  Old Town: Work on block units at Late Night Sew ✔

6.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Stitch on night ✔

7.  Wild and Goosey: Finish green, sash orange blocks ✔

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

Definitely not a bad week considering how long my to do list was. Only one "no progress" item. I can live with that.  I'm slowly catching up on chores and laundry this week, but I'm hoping to still get in a good bit of stitching time.  But with the added chores, I'm going to shorten this week's list a bit.  

To Do List for 06/10/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Finish cutting, finish assembly

All that's left to cut is the colored pieces for the border sawtooth stars.  Assembly has started on the Inverted Star block for July. The guild meeting is next Tuesday, so this has to get done.  

2. Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks

Since this requires the walking foot, it's been harder to schedule this with all the other projects. Once I finish the BOM blocks, the plan is to switch back to quilting for a few days.  

3.  Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Work on blocks during late night sew. 

All the HSTs for step 6 were finished last week. Now I'm on to the flying geese for step 7.  I'm in awe of those who can finish a BH mystery during those last weeks of the year.  It takes a lot of stitching to finish a clue! 

4.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Stitch one night this week.  

There was a bit of progress Sunday night before bed on the rose throw cross stitch. Saturday and Sunday evenings seem to be my best bets to work in a bit of hand stitching time during the week.  We'll see if I can keep it up for a few months. 

5. Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Finish red blocks

The orange blocks are all sashed, but I forgot to get a photo of those.  I'm back to working on the red blocks.  Just four more are needed for the planned layout.  I should be able to get those done this month.  

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

I'm still working on getting the center of the quilt assembled.  The plan is to work on assembly and then make more 4 patches if needed.  We'll see how that works out. 

That's my list for this week. The guild BOM is a have to do, so it will get done this week. The rest will probably see some progress.  Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

May 2025 PHD Report

May went fast!  It didn't help that at about the halfway mark my sewing mojo disappeared.  So not as much progress as I would have liked for the month. But there is still a bit to report for the May PHD report over at Ms. P Designs.  

Finally a finish shows up on the PHD report, along with a new unplanned project. The finish is a project started this year, so there is still no progress on the UFO column.  

The 2025 SAHRR, aka Stars in a Derecho Sky, (Quilting Gail) was my finish for May.  Trudy, who has quilted so many quilts for me, is getting out of the quilting for others business and this is the last quilt she'll ever quilt for me.  It's already been gifted to Grad Girl's roommate as we were in Texas last week. She loved it. 

I'll need to amp up my walking foot quilting if I want to see a few more finishes before the end of the year.  Even with my absent sewing mojo and a week of vacation, there was still a bit of progress on several other projects in May. 

During my week on the road, I relearned how to do counted cross stitch and worked on a throw that was started back in the early 80's.  It will join my medallion butterfly embroidery as a travel project. It's not really a quilt, so I'm not going to add it to my spreadsheet as a quilt.  It will just be one of those sewing room projects I'd like to see get done in the next few years.  

Half the Kate's Choice blocks have been quilted.  I'm hoping to finish the other half this month.  It would be nice to have another finish by the end of this month.  This is my second oldest UFO, so it would be nice to get it off the list.  

The lack of Wild and Goosey blocks (Bonnie Hunter) for May is a direct result of my sewing mojo problem.  I didn't even finish 2 green blocks.  The plan is to do better with getting the orange blocks all sashed this month. 

 

Work continued on the center for the Simply Sensational Summer Scrap Quilt (Kevin the Quilter).  The left and bottom single rows of squares have been added and the first row is sewn together. It's been fun to watch all those scrappy blocks finally come together.  

All the step 2 block components for Old Town (Bonnie Hunter) were finished in May. Clues 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are all completed.  Another afternoon was spent cutting the rest of the pieces needed for the remaining steps.  Hopefully a couple more clues can be finished off this month since all that's left is sewing pieces together. The goal is to have this project assembled before this year's mystery quilt is started.  

The color for the June Guild BOM was green.  Since I'm leading the program this year, I have to be a month ahead.  Half way through and I'm happy with how the blocks are coming together. It's been fun to see what the guild members have decided to do with their projects.  Now I need to get going on the July block so it's ready for this month's guild meeting.  

Glowing Hearts (MMM Quilts) was my unplanned new project in May.  It's been a fun project to make.  All the fabrics came from the stash, which was my requirement before allowing an unplanned project on my list.  Moving along some of my older stash is always a good reason to start a new project. Plus this one is small enough that I can quilt it myself.   

Maybe it wasn't such a bad month after all?  There was progress on a lot of projects, but some didn't see as much work on them as I would like.   

  

The only progress that shows up on my project tracking sheet is finishing the 2025 SAHRR and starting Glowing Hearts.  No other projects reached major milestones in May.  Hopefully I can do better in June.