To Do Tuesday #8 of 2020

After hitting a fever of over 105 F on Monday night, My Guy decided it was time for a trip to the emergency room.  Turns out I don't have a cold, I have the flu. That's even though I got the flu shot. All I've done today is sleep.  My head hurt so bad, doing anything on the computer was pretty much off limits. But I'm going to try to get this post done before I head back to bed. 

I actually didn't feel too bad on Monday, not well enough to spend time in the sewing room, but I did pull out my embroidery and worked on it for a bit early in the day. That was before the headache started up and the fever spiked.  Still that means I checked off everything from last week's list.  
  

Weekly To Do List (02/11/2020)
1. Medallion Butterfly - Start on the corner leaves ✔
2. Mosaic Mystery - Decide on borders ✔
3. Frolic - Make 5 half blocks ✔

I'm supposed to head out for another business trip on Sunday. We'll see if that happens.  I'm still feeling really crappy, but I may be able to get in a bit of embroidery as I start to feel better.  I'm going to have to back off on my other plans for the week I think.  

Weekly To Do List (02/25/2020)

1. Medallion Butterfly - get in a few stitches while I'm sitting in the recliner. 

  I did make a little progress yesterday.  I have a feeling the headache won't let me stitch for long, but hopefully I can work in 15 minutes.  

2.  Twinkle stars - pick out the fabrics for the binding.  Depending upon when I fell better, this may or not happen.  

I'm going to leave the list at two this week.  If anything else gets done, great.  If not, that's just how it goes.  

Linking up with To Do Tuesday.  

A Bit of Progress

It wasn't a completely relaxing weekend.  My Guy and I judged at the district science fair on Saturday morning. There were some really good projects, but boy it was a long morning.  I did get to come home and stitch all Saturday afternoon.  Unfortunately, I woke up Sunday with a scratchy throat which didn't get any better and by bedtime, I had a fever and runny nose too. It's no better this morning, so I'm staying home today. Hopefully a day of bed rest will help clear this out. 

In spite of the intrusion of my non-quilting life, there's been some good progress on Frolic. 

 Frolic, 2019 Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt

All the setting triangles are completed and I'm back to making the full sized blocks.  Saturday night My Guy was checking up on me in the sewing room and asked who was getting Frolic.  I was thinking it might be donated to the auction for the local cat shelter the Scientist in Training and her roommate volunteer time at when they are home.  My Guy said no, it was too nice a quilt to donate.  I asked him if he wanted it for his TV watching chair.  The reply was a definite affirmative. So Frolic has a home once it's done. 

The other thing that got done this weekend was measuring how much was left of the butterfly print used in Mosaic Mystery.  There's a bit over a yard left. After playing around in EQ8, here's the plan border plan. 

Mosaic Mystery Quilt
from Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs

I didn't scan in my fabrics this time, I just went with what was in EQ that had the same color and tone.  Two narrow borders of the dark purple framing the butterfly print should work well. There is just enough of that print to make this work.


That's it for visible progress in the sewing room.  Linking up with Monday Making and Design Wall Monday. 

Week 8 of 2020: Stitching Stuff

It was a long, cold week. Montana was oh so pretty, but oh so cold. I was glad to get home to slightly warmer weather and my sewing room.  Finding time to stitch each day didn't work out so well for me.  Were you able to find those 15 minutes to stitch each day?

My week was one where the best laid plans for last week didn't pan out.  My embroidery wouldn't fit in the suitcase once I'd packed my steel toed boots and my FRC.  Turns out it wouldn't have mattered anyway, we didn't get back to the hotel till after 8 PM each night and were out the door by 6:30 AM each morning.  So there wasn't any stitching going on during my out of town trip.  So not the best week in the sewing room, but not the worst week either. 

15 minute days/week = 4/7 days
15 minute days/February = 18/22 days
15 minute days 2020 = 47/53 days
Success rate = 88.68%

I'm still on track with my goal of stitching at least 85% of the time, so my trip didn't derail me too badly.  I'm home this week, with a day off on Friday. So I have plans to make up at least the time even though I can't make up the days.   

How did you do at finding 15 minutes or more to stitch during the last week?  

1. Julie in GA 2. Chrisknits 3. Marti 4. karen

5. DawnyK 6. Meloney 7. Loulee 8. Deana

9. Angie in SoCal 10. Amanda 11. Shasta @ High Road 12. Christina's Handicrafts

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Mid-February 2020 PHD Report - Just a A Little Late

I'm a bit late on the mid-month PHD (projects half done) update for February.

I completely missed getting this prepped on the 15th.  The business trip this last week put a bit of a hitch in both my blogging and stitching schedules this month. There's been progress but it's not showing up on the PHD report.

  
No finishes, but no starts either.  So at least I'm not losing ground.  There have been some updates to the UFO/WIP list. 

I picked Twinkle Stars up at the post office this afternoon.  

I've gotten as far as removing it from the box. I like the quilting from the back. I'll show off the front once I get the binding on.  

The other update to the UFO list is that Winter Quilt Along project is quilted.  Trudy just emailed this afternoon to tell me it was finished.  

I'm hoping to have Twinkle Stars bound before the end of the month.  The Winter Quilt Along project will get finished in March.  Fingers crossed I have something to mark on the list for the February wrap up.  

Linking up with Quilting Gail for the mid-February PHD update.  

To Do Tuesday #7 of 2020

It was a really good week on the "To Do List" front.  Last week's list shows three check marks.  

Weekly To Do List (02/11/2020)
1. Winter Quilt Along: Package and ship out for quilting ✔
2. Frolic:  Make six half blocks - progress
3. Wild and Goosey:  Make an orange block ✔
4. Mosaic Mystery:  Finish sewing blocks and rows together ✔

The quarter blocks for Frolic weren't on the to do list for this week, but it just seemed smart to roll those in with the half block construction as they use left over bits from the blocks.  So progress was good, those blocks are slow going from an assembly stand point.  

I'm on the road this week, so it seems wise to go with an abbreviated "To Do List."  

Weekly To Do List (02/18/2020)
1.  Work in a few stitches on the Medallion Butterfly project.

This is where I left off last time.  If there's any down time this trip, I'll start stitching on the grape leaves in the corner.  

2.  Decide on border treatment for the Mosaic Mystery Quilt.  Usually borders are designed by creating a mock up in EQ and then playing around with the different options.  I'm hoping to use the Butterfly print as the border.

I'm not sure there is enough of it left of this pretty after the piecing was finished. The other option is to use the purple with the gold paisley pattern.

But I'm afraid the purple will be too dark.  So I'll load the fabrics into EQ and see what I can work out. 

3.  Frolic:  Finish the setting triangles (5 half blocks).  That should be doable over the weekend.  

Hopefully I'll be able to check off at least one thing from the list this week.  Linking up with Home Sewn By Us for the To Do List Tuesday.