The weatherman is saying highs yesterday were in the low 90's, but the car thermometer said it was 100 F when I got off work yesterday. Summer has definitely arrived in Oklahoma.
I sunk to new lows this week on spending 15 minutes each day in my sewing room.
Only 3 days where time was spent on sewing activities. This was a week where life did get in the way. The biggest deal breaker was probably the two day "never ending" headache. I can usually work through one of these periods, but in the evening all I want to do is go to bed, which is pretty much where I spent Tuesday and Wednesday evening.
I have high hopes for this week. The binding is made for the Castle quilt. It just needs to be pressed and sewn on. The young lady who is the future owner of that quilt will finish up the radiation treatments next week and be coming home for a month to rest before she has to go back for chemotherapy treatments. Thankfully, the treatments have been working and the brain tumors are gone.
Well that's it for me this week. I'm hoping to do spend more time in the sewing room over the next 7 days. How did you do this week? Link up below and share your success.
Summer is definitely here. We had temps in the mid 90's all weekend. Thankfully we were inside most of the weekend. Kiddo had an out of town swim meet this last weekend. Couple the out of town trip with the mid week migraine and you get not much progress on the design wall.
The sashing strips for the Buck-A-Block quilt have been assembled and added to the design wall. Hopefully I'll get the setting blocks done this week and can finally sew all the rows together.
That's it for me this week. This evening I'm going to hop over to Judy's Patchwork Times to check out the other design walls. Looking forward to seeing everyone's progress.
Is it Sunday already? Somehow I've managed to loose an entire week. Does that ever happen to you? Do you get to the end of the week and realize you have no clue what you really did the previous 6 days, but whatever it was, it wasn't on your agenda or to do lists.
Regardless of my temporary (?) memory loss, I do know it's time for the weekly stash report. It's a good thing I had Memorial day off or this report would really look sad.
Used this week: 1.21 yards
Added this week: 0 yards
Used year to date: 25.01
Added year to date: 16 yards
Net used for 2011: 9.01 yards
Fabric Budget: 13 yards for April to June
Bought/Budget: 9/13 yards
The fabric out is for the sashing strips for the Buck-A-Block BOM. The sashing strips are sewn together, but I still need to cut and assemble the setting triangles. Hopefully I'll get to that once the binding is finished for the Castle Quilt. Nora will be home next week after about 8 weeks of radiation treatments. I'd like to have the quilt ready so she'll have it before she goes back to St. Judes for chemotherapy.
Click over to Judy's Patchwork Times to check out how everyone else is doing on stash busting.
Oh boy, it's Saturday. I'm ready for the weekend! Why is it that the shortest weeks seem to be the longest? Is it because we are still trying to cram 5 days worth of work into just 4?
Oh well, it is Saturday, so it's time for Foto Finish over at Cat Patches. This week the theme is water. I briefly considered being very unconventional, but this week has worn down my adventurous spirit, so you get the conventional shot instead.
This is main waterfall at the Botanical Gardens in Hot Springs, Arkansas. We visited Hot Springs back in March over Spring Break this year. It was early spring, but we were there when all the trees were blooming and budding. It was gorgeous. When we left for the garden we figured we'd only be there a couple of hours. After 4 hours we reluctantly left because all three of us were starving.
That's it for me this week. Drop in at Catch Patches for more on the world of water.
TGIF! Even though I had Monday off, this has been a long week. I'm looking forward to a few days off. Kiddo and I have been trying to sort out her new summer schedule. Swim practice moved from 3:55 PM to 8 AM. And she's volunteering as a helper at the local summer camp this year, so that means changing my work hours to accommodate the change in drop off and pick up times. It's going to take another week or so to get into the summer groove.
Moving on to more fun topics, it's Favorite Things Friday. I think I'm going to keep with Shay's theme of food this week. My Guy has many talents, but one that I appreciate greatly is his love of cooking. What I see as a chore, he sees as fun and relaxing. He loves cook books and has about a million of them (his collection may actually be bigger than my quilt book collection).
All things yeasty is probably his first love. King Arthur Flour is probably the only blog he follows on any type of a regular basis. He bakes fresh bread every Sunday. His second favorite activity is to bake scones. Having never had a true English scone, I have no idea how close his are to the "real" thing, but they are yummy. One of his friends is Irish and he's said that My Guy's are pretty close to what he'd get at home. The scones are a big favorite at work. Though I don't think the group at work realizes he uses them as taste testers. He's tried some interesting combinations such as mango, ginger cream, dried cherry and chocolate chip. My absolute favorites are his date-nut scones, though the ginger cream are a very close second.
He and Kiddo have made a deal that she has to choose the menu and help with one Sunday dinner a month. She picks out the recipe, writes up the grocery list and then helps put dinner together. Last Sunday, it was salmon with teriyaki sauce, sugar snap peas, rice, and fresh bread.
Hard to complain when I get to quilt while they are cooking dinner. But I get dish duty after dinner is finished, which works out just fine with me.
So my favorite thing this week is My Guy's home cooking. I think I'll keep him around for awhile longer, he's a pretty good guy. Besides, he also makes excellent pizzas!
Check out other favorites over at Quilting in My Pyjamas.
