Tuesday, August 5, 2025
To Do List for 8/5/2025
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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.
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 07/08/2025
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 07/01/2025
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
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.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 06/10/2025
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 06/03/2025
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 5/27/2025
This is my second week of low sewing mojo. Consequently, my to do list from last week is looking pretty anemic.
To Do List for 05/20/2025
1. 2025 SAHRR: Finish binding ✔
2. Glowing Hearts: Finish piecing blocks, start assembly ✔
3. 2025 Guild BOM: Cut fabrics for July blocks - progress
4. Old Town: Work on blocks at late night sew - no progress
Now that I've typed out the list, it's not so bad. Two check marks and progress on the #3 of 4 items really isn't a bad week. Even so, I'm going to try a different tack this week.
To Do List for 05/27/2025
1. Hand stitching: work on counted cross stitch and/or embroidery projects.
During my recent sewing room reorg, I found an old unfinished counted cross stitch project. The Dale Burnett project book that goes with this was copyrighted in 1982. I did a lot of counted cross stitch during my high school and college years. That would put the start date for this project sometime between 1982 and 1985. It's been a long while since this project has gotten any attention. So in an effort to salvage some stitching mojo, I'm going to try my hand at counted cross stitch again.
I have no idea what the stitch count is for the background throw, but it's pretty small stitches. My eyes just aren't as good as they used to be. I may work on this for a bit and then switch over to my butterfly embroidery project. We'll see if I make any progress on either project this week.
I'm going to keep it simple this week and see what happens. If I make it into the sewing room great, if I end up with 7 days of hand stitching, that works too. Linking up with To Do Tuesday over at the Quilt Schmilt.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 05/20/2025
I added one more heart to the design wall. Just two more left to stitch and then assembly can start.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 05/13/2025
I've not been paying attention to my calendar and several other activities have snuck up on me. I have a statistics project that will need my attention over the next few weeks. So I'll have to think what goes on my sewing to do list, especially for next week. Before getting to that, I should look at how I did on last week's list. Since we spent time with family for Mother's Day last weekend, I missed out on my normal "nothing but sewing day". So I didn't get quite as far as I'd hope to on my to do list.
To Do List for 05/06/2025
1. Kate's Choice: Continue to quilt blocks ✔
2. 2025 BOM: Pick fabrics for July ✔
3. Chilhowie: Find backing fabric ✔
4. Glowing Hearts: Finish piecing blocks - progress
Not a bad week at all, each project moved ahead. This week I actually have multiple meetings, which is the exception rather than the rule since I retired. It will mean changing up my normal routine, but hopefully won't affect my stitching time too much. Here's the list for this week.
To Do List for 05/13/2025
1. Kate's Choice: Continue to quilt blocks
Half the blocks are quilted, leaving the better part of three rows of blocks left to quilt. The plan is to get back to quilting over the weekend.
2. Glowing Hearts (MMM Quilts): Finish piecing the blocks
I only finished one additional block, with a second partially constructed over at the sewing machine. Assembly instructions will come out on Thursday. There is still time to get all the blocks finished before then.
3. 2025 Guild BOM: Cut fabrics for July blocks
It may seem early to be working on July, but I'm trying to stay ahead. The July blocks will get shown during the June meeting and that will be here before I know it.
4. Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Work on blocks at late night sew
I didn't make it to last week's late night sew, so there's been no progress on this project since April. I've finished clue 5 and made a good start on clue 6, almost finished with clue 2. I did take the time to cut all the pieces needed to make the rest of the block components, so all that's needed is to get them all sewn together.
Not a long list, but if I can move all of these along, it will be a good week. Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 05/06/2025
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 04/29/2025
I did spend hours in the sewing room last week, but some things take longer than you think they will. I did make good progress on my list for last week, but didn't get to all of it.
To Do List for 04/22/2025
1. 2025 SAHRR: Mail to Trudy ✔
2. 2025 Guild BOM: Finish cutting fabric, start June blocks ✔
3. Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks - no progress
4. Old Town: Work on blocks at late night sew ✔
Three out of four isn't a bad week. I made good progress on my top two priorities, so I'm not feeling too bad about how last week went. This week will look pretty similar.
To Do list for 04/29/2025
1. 2025 Guild BOM: Finish June blocks
The pieces for all the blocks are cut, they just need to be sewn into the blocks.
2. Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks
The back of the quilt will alternate the light and dark large prints from the collection. Hopefully I'll get back to the quilting by the weekend.
3. Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Continue assembly at late night sew
Just a few more square in a square blocks to finish and clue 5 will be finished. I would have finished these last week, but somehow two of the gold corner pieces got left at home. The plan is to keep making the 4 patches for clue 2 and make good progress on clue 6.
4. Glowing Hearts (MMM Quilts): Cut fabrics
I've followed Sandra Walker of MMM Quilts for a number of years, but have never participated in one of her sew alongs. This year's project looked like fun and would be an easy project to quilt with straight lines using the walking foot. So I made a deal with myself; if all the fabrics could be found in the stash, I could play along.
It didn't take long for me to find a half yard bundle of India Summer from Benartex in my precuts stash. There is no copyright on the selvage, but from what I can find online, it looks like this line dates back to 2014. The bundle was wrapped in twine with a card saying "Enjoy". So I'm guessing I won this someplace? Absolutely no memory of acquiring it. I do remember buying the teal/yellow background fabric, it's from the Falling Leaves collection by Wilmington Prints. It's been in the stash awhile, but it works well with the half yard cuts. This wasn't a planned project, but it will make a fun donation quilt and move some older stash out of the fabric closet (that's my justification for not sticking to my quilt plan).
That's my plan for this next week. Good luck with your stitching plans.