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.

Finding a New Rhythm

We all expected an adjustment with Grad Girl moving home till she finds a job.  It's not so much having Grad Girl home, she's pretty self sufficient. But her cat, Queenie, has had a harder time adjusting.  I think she's finally getting over the stress of moving. But probably, it's that she's gotten us through the initial training of having a cat running the home.  

I finally got back to my quilt as you go project this weekend.  

Three blocks in row 5 of Kate's Choice are completely quilted and a fourth is almost done.  I'm hoping to get row 5 finished up today and make a start on row 6. Having this done by the end of next month is doable it I keep on it.  

Queenie hasn't been hanging out in the sewing room much. When they first got back, she went back to her old favorite hang out, the landing at the top of the stairs.  

She has recently discovered the end table next to the couch and the old recliner in the living room are also comfortable nap locations.  

Stay cool and stitch on, that's my plan at least.  Linking up with Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 30 0f 2025

 

Hard to believe that it was just a week ago that we finished Grad Girl's move home.  I'm still dealing with sore knees after all the steps, but other than that I'm mostly recovered.  Consequently this week was much better than last week on the stitching time front.  

• 15 minute days/week = 6/7 days
• 15 minute days/July = 16/26 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 187/207
• Success rate = 90.34%

We took Grad Girl's car in for service on Thursday and ended up spending the whole day in Tulsa (which wasn't the plan).  I came home that day with what was probably a dehydration headache as we were out running around to a few places since we had to stay in town most of the day.  So nothing got done when I got home. So it wasn't a 7 out of 7 day stitching week.  But I still made progress with a few things this week.   

I haven't done much with the stash organization lately.  I'm hoping to do more with it next month.  

How was your week. Did you hide from the heat in your sewing room or has it been just too hot to do much of anything?  

1. Julie in GA 2. maggie f 3. Linda at Texas Quilt Gal 4. Gretchen 5. Karen

6. DonnaleeQ 7. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 8. Quilting Gail 9. Bonnie in Va 10. Frédérique

11. Deb in Canada 12. Andrée at Quilting & Learning 13. Marsha's Spot

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Week 145 Photo Challenge: Any Reflection You Like

It's been over a month since our last photo challenge post.  I was the problem this time.  With family stuff going on for the 4th of July weekend, then Grad Girl's move, I really wasn't concentrating on my photography.  I only got my photo taken yesterday, both My Guy and Grad Girl have had photos for weeks and were pushing for us to move on.  The prompt for week 145 was: 

After weeks of procrastinating, I finally pulled out the camera and looked for a reflection I liked.  In the end, my photo was staged. 

Kate: Mirrored

Our roses are blooming again and any one who has followed me for a bit knows flowers are one of my favorite photo options.  So I grabbed a mirror from our dresser, picked a rose and spent a good hour trying to eliminate other reflections and get just the rose.  It mostly worked.  

My Guy took advantage of our conference trip to Kansas City back in June to get his photo.  

My Guy: Kansas City Western Auto Building

This is the reflection of the Western Auto building in downtown Kansas City.  The distorted view is really interesting.  My Guy had lots of fun reflections from this trip, we weren't that far from Union Station and he had some wonderful reflection photos from there as well.  

Grad Girl was paying attention and caught one of of those fleeting moments that one often misses.  

Grad Girl: Side View

The dragon fly is unexpected.  If you look closely, she's also captured the reflection of the sky on the side of her car.  A very cool photo, one that really meets the challenge. This was taken before she moved. 

My Guy and Grad Girl nailed this last challenge. I feel like I cheated since my photo was staged.  But all of us my have to stage photos for the next photo challenge. 

My Guy pulled this card from the deck. I suggested that we could put it back and pull another. We've never done that before, we've always worked with the card that was pulled.  He didn't want to change that rule. It should be interesting what we all come up with.  This challenge may take a couple of weeks, but hopefully we'll wrap it up before winter actually sets in this year!  

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.