Weekend Stitching: Just Bits and Pieces

I'd really like a do over for last week, in just about every possible way. Upsetting things going on at work last week involving some long time and well liked co-workers.  The Scientist in Training received some very unexpected and significantly bad news over the weekend concerning her job. Plus the respiratory crud I caught on my business trip was still making me pretty miserable.  Thankfully I felt much better yesterday and was able to sleep without a dose of Benadryl before bed last night.  Hopefully that means the crud is fading fast. That should make it easier to cope with the ramifications of last week as we navigate this week.  

Consequently there wasn't a lot of stitching going on last week.  I was hoping to finish off the Christmas Mystery quilt, but didn't quite finish stitching down the binding.  That should happen this week. 

The only other visible progress was on the Storm at Sea project. 

A few more of the blue diamond blocks were added to the design wall.  The pattern is starting to show up much better with those additions.  I'm hoping to make a start on the purple blocks this week, as well as make some more progress on the dark blue diamonds.  

The one bright spot this week was the beautiful weather.  We took a stroll in one of the local botanical gardens with the cameras.  It's definitely spring. 

I loved the blue flowers. The moths were also out and about enjoying the floral bounty. 

I've got more floral pretties, but it's time for work so that's it for me this week.  Linking up with the typical Monday show and tells.  

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Week 16 of 2019: Stitching and Destashing

Happy Easter Sunday.  We typically spend the holiday with My Guys family, but the Scientist in Training has too much school work (she's down to just two weeks left before finals) for her to get away, so we are spending the day with her.  I'll work in a bit of stitching time this afternoon, though it may just be 15 minutes. 

Unfortunately, the respiratory crud that I caught on my business trip is still hanging on, so a couple of days this week, I was in bed pretty early and missed out on my stitching time. 

15 minute days/week = 5/7 days

15 minute days/April = 12/20 days

15 minute days/2019 = 98/110 days

Success rate = 89.09%

So I'm a bit short of my goal to stitch at least 90% of the time.  Hopefully I've turned the corner on this sinus infection and will do better on finding time to stitch this week.  I knew April was going to be challenging with so much on the calendar, being sick didn't help. 

How did your stitchy week go?  

1. Julie in GA 2. Marti 3. Chrisknits

4. Mary-kay 5. Amanda 6. Angie in SoCal

7. DawnyK 8. Christina's Handicrafts

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Daisy Chain Mystery - Clue 4 in Progress

It's been a bit rough the last couple of weeks, a business trip and this respiratory illness have really impacted my sewing time. Alison (Little Bunny Quilts) released clue 4 of the Daisy Chain Mystery on Monday, so I'm catch up mode at the moment.  

This clue calls for more 4 patches, though linear rather than square. 

My stitching time has been limited, but I've gotten one strip set made and have a few of the border chunks completed.  Someone called my tan fabrics serene rather than boring, I like that description.  With such serene border colors, that black paisley should take center stage, which was the plan.   

I'm still working on getting all of the clue 3 blocks finished, just ten more to make there.  Clue 4 ends the parts and pieces part of the mystery quilt.  We've got a few weeks to catch up before clue 5, where we start assembling the quilt, comes out on May 6th.  So if you haven't made a start you definitely have some time to select some fabrics and catch up on making the parts and pieces.  

Weekend Stitching: Good to Be Home

After a hectic business trip to the West Coast last week, I've spent most of the weekend trying to recover from the sinus crude that showed up while I was on the road. I'm still feeling pretty crappy, but at least the fever is gone.  It's nice to be home.  The sewing room doesn't have magical healing properties, but it was as great distraction from my symptoms.  

I spent some recovery time just sitting and hand stitching the binding for Christmas Mystery quilt, while binge watching the Great British Baking Show on Netflix. 

I'm just about to turn the third corner. So this project should reach the finish line before the end of the week.  

Progress was also made on the Storm at Sea quilt. 

Storm at Sea
Paper Piecing Class by Carrie Randell (Quilter's Hideaway)

All the dark blue Economy blocks are finished, I'm still working on the paper pieced dark blue diamonds.  There's a stack of unfinished  diamonds over at the sewing machine.  Hopefully, I'll be ready to start on the purple blocks sometime this week.  I'm really liking how this project is coming together.  

That's it for this week.  Linking up with the regular Monday show and tell linkies. 

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Week 15 of 2019: Stitching and De-Stashing

My apologies that this week's post is a bit late.  It wasn't my intent to sleep in this morning, but my body had other ideas.  It's been a pretty miserable week on a number of fronts that severely impacted my stitching time. Hopefully your efforts to fit in 15 minutes of stitching time worked out better than mine did.  

Last Sunday started out at 4:15 AM with the drive to the airport for a business trip to the West Coast. Tuesday afternoon, either my allergies were on the rampage or a respiratory virus kicked in and I was pretty miserable from there on out.  Then to top it off, my flight home on Thursday was delayed till the next morning, so I spent the night in a hotel without any luggage (thankfully the Benadryl was in the computer bag). I ended up changing flights Friday morning because they kept delaying my original flight.  I spent the rest of Friday in bed trying to recover from whatever had taken over my sinuses.  Consequently there wasn't a lot of stitching time this week.

15 minute days/week = 1/7 days
15 minute days/April = 7/13 days
15 minute days/2019 = 93/102 days
Success rate = 90.29%

At least I'm still on track with my goal of stitching 90% of the days in 2019.  I've got one more business trip this year in July, but thankfully it's only 2 days.  Hopefully, I won't get sick on that one.  

I did manage to make it into the sewing room for a while yesterday afternoon and made enough progress to have something to post for this week's stash report. 

Fabric out this week = 0.32
Fabric out in 2019 = 18.24 yards
More out than in for 2019

I'm doing better on my stash busting goal this year. But it's getter harder and harder to resist some of those newer fabric lines.  Linking up with Quiltpaintcreate for the weekly stash report. 

So how did your stitchy week go?  

1. Chrisknits 2. Julie in GA 3. maggie f

4. Marti 5. Amanda 6. DawnyK

7. Christina's Handicrafts

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