To Do Tuesday for the Week of 5/31/2022

It was nice to have a three day weekend, it just went really fast.  I was able to spend most of Monday afternoon in the sewing room. It was nice.  My last To Do List was posted two weeks ago, so I've had ample time to make some progress on it.  

To Do List for 5/17/2022

• Macaron Mystery: Continue assembling rows ✔
• Rhododendron Mystery: Make hourglass blocks as leaders and enders  ✔

I kept the goals simple to accommodate what was already a busy schedule even without the never ending project. I'm good with the simple, my goal is progress. So there's been progress, just not as fast as I had hoped.  

I will likely have to work late tonight evaluating the last set of data for the never ending project.  But hopefully that will be it and I'll be back to my normal schedule.  Even so, I'll be keeping the To Do List short and pretty easy.  

To Do List 5/31/22

Unity: press backing fabric, decide how to assemble back

 

The backing has been washed, but needs a really good pressing before cutting the pieces for the back.  I laid Unity out on the living room floor yesterday to check for flatness and made a couple of seam adjustments. It looks much better after that.  

Macaron Mystery: Start on first border

Macaron will get three borders, two black and one white. I did look at using red, but I don't have enough for even a really skinny border. I barely have enough of the white and black with the squares to use those as border fabrics.  

Rhododendron Mystery: Make hourglass blocks as leaders and enders. 

 Those hour glass blocks are slow going. I've also been stitching up block A's while assembling the Macaron Mystery.  Macaron will be finished first, but baring another massive project at work, Rhododendron should be finished before this year's Bonnie Hunter Mystery comes out.  

That's my list for this week.  I'm linking up for To Do Tuesday over at Texas Quilt Gal.  Good luck with your to do list this week. 

A Little Stitching Time Feels Good

It's been a slow down and rest kind of weekend. I definitely needed it. This is the first weekend in over a month that I've not had to drag out the work computer and look at data.  I was under the weather on Saturday, all the stress and late nights at the computer finally caught up with me, so I  slept most of Saturday afternoon. The sewing room was calling my name by Sunday afternoon. It was nice to get to spend a few hours playing on the sewing machine.  

First on my list was to figure out what had been going on in the sewing room before the never ending work project took over my life. Potions was the last thing in the works, but it's completed and gifted.  The borders are on Unity, but it isn't laying flat, so it needs some additional work before it gets prepped for quilting. I'm not really in the mood to tackle that at the moment. 

The next thing on my list is to assemble the Macaron Mystery quilt. That involved lots of stitching time, so it fit the bill for an afternoon in the sewing room.  The two halves are now all assembled. 

Macaron Mystery: Meadow Mist Designs 2021 Mystery Quilt Along

All that's left is to piece the center sashing strip.  That's on the agenda for today.  Once that's done, I'll need to decide if getting Unity fixed is next or do I stick with Macaron till it's ready to go out for quilting.  Unity will probably win out. I'll have my direction all sorted out before drafting this week's to do list.  

It feels good to be back in the sewing room and spending some time catching up on blog reading.  I've got a ways to go to catch up with everyone. Linking up with Monday Making, Design Wall Monday, and Patchwork and Quilts.  

Stitching Stuff Week 22 of 2022

We've been enjoying our 3 day holiday weekend by playing catch up around the house.  The work project that will not end is still going.  Fingers crossed it will wrap up on Tuesday this next week. The Scientist in Training and I took a road trip to Texas early in the week to apartment hunt.  That trip was successful, but didn't really feel like vacation as my evenings were spent on the never ending project.  Consequently my plan to do some hand stitching each day just didn't happen.  It's been years since I've had a project that was so disruptive to the rest of my life.  My stitching report continues to look pretty lame.  

• 15 minute days/week = 2/7 days
• 15 minute days/May = 10/28 days
• 15 minute days/2022 = 104/148 days
• Success rate = 70.27%

This isn't the worst year in terms of not having time to stitch, but it's definitely the worst I've had in the last 10 years.  I'm hoping things ease up after midweek once the final report has gone out.  

Though I didn't get to do much stitching on our trip to Texas, the SIT started working on a new project. 

I'm looking forward to seeing this one completed.  

That's it for me this week. Hopefully you managed to get in some good stitching time this week. 

1. Julie in GA 2. Ivani 3. maggie f 4. Gretchen 5. Karen

6. Frederique 7. Andre at Quilting and Learning 8. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 9. DonnaleeQ 10. DawnyK

11. Amanda 12. Stitching Loving Nana :) 13. Deb in Canada 14. Carol @ Quilt Schmilt

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Photo Challenge: Weeks 43 and 44

I had planned to post week 43 last Saturday, but not all of us had our photos by the end of the day. So this week we'll recap both week 43 and week 44 challenges.  

Week 43 seemed easy enough.

 

The Scientist in Training and I had a fun shopping day the weekend after graduation. It's one of our "things" after school is out for the summer.  Another part of that tradition is lunch at the Cheesecake Factory where dessert is just a given.  

Kate: Dessert is Art

Any dessert is art in my book, but the restaurant does do a nice job showcasing those decadent goodies.  

My Guy went artsy with his latest baking endeavor.  

My Guy: Manoushe

It does look good enough to eat.  

The SIT decided to go the liquid route. 

Scientist in Training: Organic Chemistry in a Glass 

Those are pineapple ice cubes in one of her novelty chemistry beer glasses.  

The challenge for week 44 was to come up with interesting photos. 

My solution was to go with a close up. 

Kate: What's in My Wallet

Not the most original shot, but I like it.  I tend to just stuff dollars in my wallet and don't take car to keep them all neat.

My Guy went the novelty approach.    

My Guy: Thanks a Million

On the other side is a thank you note for taking pictures during a work event.  We don't have a company photographer, so My Guy often gets asked to cover local events.  Some of his photos have ended up in company publications. It's always fun to open a report and realize that's your photo on the page.

The Scientist in Training went practical with her photo. 

  

We made a trip to College Station, TX this week so she could apartment hunt.  You can't drive in Oklahoma without hitting a toll road or two.  

That's the photos for the last two weeks.  It's hard for me to pick a favorite out of this bunch.  Do you have one?  

So what's this week's challenge? 

Both the SIT and I had to Google what this was.  Should be an interesting week!  

Stitching Stuff for Week 21 of 2022

I'm not really ready for it to be Sunday.  It's been another long week.  That work project that was supposed to just last 3 weeks back in April is still hanging on.  This week I at least made it to Wednesday before it came back. Unfortunately that meant more overtime and another Saturday spent on the work computer.  All of which meant my stitching time took another hit.

• 15 minute days/week = 3/7 days
• 15 minute days/ May = 8/21 days
• 15 minute days/2022 = 102/141 days
• Success rate = 72.34%

Unfortunately, I still have more to do on the work project this week. Thankfully there is a hard deadline of June 1st. But that will likely mean more overtime this week.  Hopefully not so much that I can't get back to the sewing room.  At least I did get mount laundry mostly tackled yesterday while I was working on the various files.  

Hopefully your week went much smoother and you've had lots of time work in a bit of stitching time each day.  

  

1. Julie in GA 2. maggie f 3. Gretchen 4. Ivani

5. Colletta's Kitchen Sink 6. Frederique 7. Sherrie 8. Andre at Quilting and Learning

9. Angie in SoCal 10. katie z. 11. DawnyK 12. Amanda

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