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.  

What's on the Design Wall?

It was a very wet Saturday.  We didn't get the rain that caused flooding in the southern part of the state. But we got enough to make doing anything but hanging out in the sewing room miserable.  So that's pretty much what I did the whole weekend.  Unfortunately, I can't show off all the progress as most of my time was spent making the June blocks for the Guild BOM.  I have to have those ready for the next meeting. I should be able to finish those this afternoon and then get back to the project that's up on the design wall. 

Kate's Choice is up on the design wall, well at least most of it is.  The plan for the last couple of years has been to use this project to learn to quilt with my walking foot.  I finally made some progress there. 

The top row and half of the second row are quilted.  It's hard to see in this photo, but blocks are quilted with 3 nested squares. It's clearer in this photo. 

I've discovered the quilting isn't hard, just time consuming.  The plan is to get back to this project later in the week once the guild BOM blocks are done.  It definitely won't be finished this month, but hopefully by the end of May it will be done or close too.  

This was my Chookshed challenge for April.  For once I actually made good progress on that challenge.  Also linking up with my typical Monday linky parties: Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 17 of 2025

It's been a pretty chill week. I did take one day to go visit my mother. We had a nice afternoon of gossip and just hanging out.  Even with the day trip, it was still a good week on the stitching front.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/April = 26/26 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 111/116 days
• Success rate = 95.69%

I've not done as well with my scrap processing and sewing closet reorganization the last couple of weeks. Hopefully, I'll get back into that effort soon.  

How did you do at getting in some good time in the sewing room? 

1. Frédérique 2. Gretchen 3. maggie f 4. Melissa G

5. Karen 6. DonnaleeQ 7. Deb in Canada 8. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting

9. Quilting Gail 10. Bonnie in Va 11. Andrée 12. Marsha's Spot

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Week 138 Photo Challenge: Graceful

This week's photo challenge has a lot of interpretations, so we all managed to take photos.  

Dictionary.com defines graceful as "elegance or beauty of form, movement or speech".  That's pretty wide open on the photography front.  My effort focuses on beauty of form. 

Kate: Graceful Curves

One of our orchids is blooming again.  They are such beautifully delicate flowers, very gracefully curved.  Definitely graceful in form. I've found places in the house where I can get good direct lighting and clear backgrounds.  I took lots of photos, this is one of my favorites.  

My Guy's approach is covers the graceful movement point of view. 

My Guy: Scissortail

 

The Scissortails are back in the fields.  This one wasn't far from our house.  They are such beautiful birds to watch, very graceful with their loops and dives.  The photo is actually in focus, the blur is from movement.  

Grad Girl has had quite a week on the school front.  She had a statistics final, turned in the first draft of her thesis and started work on the final project for her statistics class.  That's on top of working to finish grading lab reports for 72 students.  So she can be forgiven for going with something easy.  

Grad Girl: Graceful Distain

There are few things more graceful than a kitty, especially one that can so eloquently judge you with just her eyes.  Not sure if Grad Girl woke her up or if she earned that stare by just taking up room on Queenie's couch. 

Last week's challenge was pretty easy on the subject matter front. This week's challenge is probably going to require some set up. 

Should be interesting to see what we each come up with for this prompt.  

To Do List for the Week of 04/22/2025

Not feeling well definitely slowed down my week on several fronts.  I barely got in my 15 minutes on the days I felt really bad, so I didn't do so well on my to do list even though it was pretty short.  

To Do List for 04/15/2022

1. 2025 SAHRR:  Finish quilt top prep, mail to Trudy - progress

2. 2025 Guild BOM: Cut fabrics for June blocks - progress

3. Kate's Choice: Finish cutting batting, start quilting ✔

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

At least there was progress on every item. My goal most weeks is to just keep projects moving and I did that. So it wasn't the worst week, just not the best.  This week's list is going to look pretty much the same.  

To Do List for 04/22/2025

1. 2025 SAHRR (Quilting Gail): Mail to Trudy

I finished all the prep work, but the respiratory thing way laid my trip to the post office. It should go today since I'll be out running errands later today. 

2. 2025 Guild BOM: Finish cutting fabrics & start constructing June blocks

All the fabrics for the inverted star block have been cut, so all that's left is the six sawtooth stars I'll need for June. 

3. Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks

I've finished row 1 and am just over halfway on row 2.  I picked a pretty easy quilting motif of nesting squares. For many of the blocks I can use the seams as guides, for others I've had to mark.  They aren't perfect by any means, but I'm pretty happy with how it's going.  I probably won't get this completely finished this month, there are at total of 30 blocks to quilt  (8 of those are quilted).  I'm hopeful that it will be finished before the end of next month.  That works for me.  

4. Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Work on blocks at late night sew

This is my project bag with all the completed block components. Clues 1, 3 and 4 have been completed.  I continue to work on the large number of 4 patches for clue 2 and the square in square blocks for clue 5.  Late night sew is scheduled for tonight. I'm hoping to finish clue 5 and get a start on finishing clue 6.  

That's my list for this week. Good luck with your own to do lists this week.