Stitching Stuff: Week 41 of 2022

 

It always seems like the last three months of the year just speed by.  There is still one full week plus in October, but Halloween is closing in fast.  I'm still struggling with seasonal allergies, it seems the hard freeze wasn't hard enough.  Consequently I didn't have the best week in the sewing room.

• 15 minute days/week = 4/7 days
• 15 minute days/Oct = 14/22 days
• 15 minute days/2022 = 154/295 days
• Success rate = 52.20%

I still touched sewing room stuff more than not last week. I'm going to call that a successful week.  Hopefully, I'll get better on the consistency front in the next few weeks. If I don't, I'm on track to have my worst year since I started tracking my stitching time.  Maybe avoiding a new low will motivate me to do better at finding time to stitch.  

How did your stitchy week work out? 

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

6. Frederique 7. DonnaleeQ 8. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 9. Shasta @ High Road 10. Andre at Quilting and Learning

11. Quilting Gail 12. Amanda 13. Carol @ Quilt Schmilt

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To Do Tuesday for the Week of 10/18/2022

Stitching time was a bit limited last week, but luckily the To Do List was pretty easy. 

To Do List for 10/11/2022

1. Unity: Finish assembling backing ✔

2. Macaron Mystery: Continue adding borders ✔

3. Melodic Mystery: Cut fabrics, start on clues 1 and 2 ✔

Three out of three is a good week. My goal for the rest of the year is to just make progress on a few active projects.  No pressure, no firm deadlines.  As long as things are progressing, I'm going to be happy.  

The list this week is longer, but still focused on making progress on the projects, no pressure to get to a certain stage on any of them. 

To Do List for 10/18/2022

1. Unity: Press and prep backing for quilting. 

I need to vacuum the sewing room good so I don't pick up any stray threads during the clean up process.  That won't happen till this weekend.  

2. Mosaic Mystery: Continue adding borders

Turns out the first border was completed, I just haven't photographed the project since it was added.  Unfortunately, I forget to photograph the top before I pinned on the next border strip. 

3. Melodic Mystery: Continue working on clue 1 and 2

I really like this color combination. This is going to be a fun project to work on.  

4. Grocery sack: Continue assembly.

Turns out 2 grocery sacks isn't enough for the amount of groceries My Guy brings home each week. So he put in a request for a third sack.  I used up most of the science fabric, so I pulled out this wildflower print that's been in the stash forever along with this green.  This shouldn't take long to finish.  

5. Rhododendron Mystery: Assemble units and blocks as leaders and enders.

Tackling this as a leader and ender project will help move it along. I won't finish it before this year's Bonnie Hunter Mystery kicks off, but it will at least be farther along.  

So that's the plan for this week. We have no plans for the weekend, so I should be able to make some progress on every item.  If not that's OK. 

Linking up with Texas Quilt Gal for To Do Tuesday.  

Still Sorting Out the Stitching Suff

It was a very nice weekend at home.  My sanity benefitted greatly from not leave the house the entire weekend. Being a hermit for a bit felt so nice. We've been on the move most of the summer and early fall with family stuff and special events. The holidays are coming up, so things are going to stay busy, but hopefully we won't be going as much on the weekends till we hit Thanksgiving.  

I'm slowly sorting out what's what in the sewing room. The sewing room was minus my presence for more than 9 weeks, so figuring out where I was on what project has been going on in the background.  There were a few spare parts piled on one side of my sewing machine.  

Those are subunits for the 2021 Bonnie Hunter Rhododendron Mystery quilt. There were a stack of blocks sitting on the cutting table, so those went up on the design wall. 

There are enough half square units for 2 more cross blocks and enough hourglass blocks for another block B. Next step was to check if I had a plan to finish this project or not.  Opening Electric Quilt (which I wasn't able to do on my old computer), I found my final layout.  It needs just two more of the blocks with the yellow cross in the center, but five more of the blocks with the hourglass units.  Other subunits need to be cut to assemble the blocks.  It would be nice to have this one mostly assembled before Bonnie starts this year's mystery.

Next step is to decide what I'm going to keep on the active list for the rest of the year. It won't be long and it will be time to decide on the strategy for next year.   

Linking up with Monday Design Wall and Quilt and Patchwork.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 40 of 2022

I'm a little late posting this week.  Seasonal allergies have really taken a toll on my get up and go this week.  I went to bed early last night and slept late this morning.  Unfortunately I'll struggle on this front till we get our first freeze.  Just feeling crappy affected my stitching time this week. 

• 15 minute days/week = 4/7 days
• 15 minute days/Oct = 10/15 days
• 15 minute days/2022 = 150/288
• Success rate = 52.08%

So not the best week on the stitching front. We got our flu shots this week and decided to get the new Covid booster at the same time. By the next evening I had a nasty headache and chills. So that didn't help my stitching efforts either as I went straight to bed when we got home from work.  The flu is predicted to be bad this year and there are new Covid variants that can evade most of the antiviral treatments. The vaccines don't ensure you can't get get either, but I know from experience with the flu shot, it does help lessen the severity if you do catch it.  

On the fun news front, Grad Girl decided she needed a roommate after all. 

Meet Queenie (because she walked out of the pet crate into the apartment like she ruled all she could see).  

She's mastered her role as an embroidery support cat.  Grad Girl is still teaching her not to jump onto the dining room table and to not chew on the electrical cords.  GG has a set of cord protectors coming on Monday.

Did you have a good week or a so so week on the stitching front?  Please link up and share below. 

1. Ivani 2. Julie in GA 3. Gretchen 4. katie z.

5. Frederique 6. DonnaleeQ 7. maggie f 8. Andre

9. Amanda 10. Quilting Gail

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To Do Tuesday for the Week of 10/11/2022

Last week was busy, between Mom's birthday party and Grad Girl's visit.  Grad Girl has to head back to Texas this morning, but we had a chance to just hang out together yesterday.  All the family activities cut into my stitching time, but I still made progress on the To Do List. 

To Do List for 10/3/2022

1. Finish the last 2 grocery sacks ✔

2. Start on Melodic Mystery - progress

3. Continue assembling backing for Unity ✔

Two out of three with progress on the third is still a good week. The goal is progress and that's happening.  So what is the plan for this week? 

To Do List for 10/11/2022

1. Finish assembling backing for Unity

The center strip is stitched together.  It needs to be trimmed to the proper length and sewn to the two large fabric pieces.  That should be doable this week. 

2. Continue adding borders to the Macaron Mystery 

One border strip had been added back in June.  I'm assuming the second border strip is sewn together and cut to size, but I'm not sure where it is.  So there is a scavenger hunt in my future.  

3. Cut fabrics and start assembling clues for Melodic Mystery

The light pink fabric has been washed and pressed.  Clue 4 has been printed out.  The plan is to cut the fabrics needed for Clue 3.  That should be doable. I'm looking forward to starting something new.  I'm hoping that will keep me going to the sewing room so I can make progress on a few older projects as well.    

Linking up with To Do Tuesday.  Good luck with your to do this this week.