Stitching Stuff: Week 11 of 2025

 

How are you faring this weekend?  If you lived in eastern half of the US, it definitely was a weekend to remember.  I'm very grateful that the worst we got was the high winds, peak wind gusts of up to 67 mph on Friday.  There were a few small wild fires around town, you could smell the smoke most of the afternoon. But all were extinguished or contained by sundown. The blowing dust obscured the sun by late afternoon. Thankfully we didn't get the near zero visibility that happened in parts of Texas or the city devouring flames that hit other communities in Oklahoma. My heart goes out to all those that lost homes to fire or the storms that hit other parts of the US.  

I spent my Friday at the local quilt shop at open sew.  It was nicer to be with others while we monitored the alerts from our county emergency management system.  Overall it was a good week on the stitching front. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/March = 15/15 days
• 15 minute days/2025 =  69/73 days
• Success rate = 93.24%

I made good progress on the Guild BOM blocks and the last border for the SAHRR, but not much else.  I'm going to need to get busy today to have check marks on the rest of my to do list for the week.   

How did your week work out?

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

5. Karen 6. DonnaleeQ 7. Quilting Gail 8. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting

9. Bonnie in Va 10. amanda 11. Stitching Loving Nana

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To Do List for the Week of 03/11/2025

There was a good bit of sewing to deadlines this last week.  I try hard to avoid that as my stitching time is supposed to be relaxing and meditative.  Of course it was my own fault, I had plenty of time to work on my projects, I just got sidelined with the new and shiny.  At any rate, it all paid off and last week's to do list has lots of check marks.  

To Do List for 3/04/2025

1. Marble Mystery: Finish quilt assembly ✔ 

2. 2025 Guild BOM: Start April blocks ✔

3. 2025 SAHRR: Finish 6th border and add final borders - progress

4. On Ringo Lake: Find project box, determine next steps ✔

5. Wild and Goosey: Assemble yellow blocks into 9 patches ✔

6. Summery Scrap Quilt: Continue as leaders and enders ✔

Five out of six with check marks and progress on the 6th is a very good week. Unfortunately, I still have a couple of quilty deadlines to meet this month.  But I should be good on both of those as long as I don't get too sidelined with other stuff around the house. 

To Do List for 3/11/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Finish April blocks

All the HSTs for the Inverted Star have been made. The pieces to make 5 border sawtooth stars have been cut and assembly of those blocks has started.  I'm on track to have all those blocks finished before the guild meeting next Tuesday.  

2.  SAHRR (Quilting Gail): Start on final borders

The final quilt parade for the 2025 Stay At Home Round Robin isn't till March 24th.  So I have time to finish off the last pieced border I decided to add as long as I make steady progress over the next couple of weeks. 

3.  Chocolate Marshmallows (Seabreeze Quilts): Make backing

One of my big goals for 2025 was to finish off the quilt tops hanging in the closet.  If I'm going to have anything to show on that front for first quarter, I need to get moving on that.  I've played in EQ to come up with various layouts. My preference is the middle one. But it depends a lot on how much of the brown I have.  

4.  On Ringo Lake (Bonnie Hunter): Cut pieces for last block

    

I found the project box and there are a few odds and ends in it along with the blocks.  After playing a bit in EQ, the plan is not to use Bonnie's layout but do a simple sashed layout instead.  One more block is needed for that layout.  The plan is to see what I have in the box and then cut the pieces needed to make the remaining components of the block. If I get the block made great, but I'm not counting on getting that far with what else is on the list.  

5. Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Continue making blue blocks

All the yellow blocks are sashed into the 7" blocks to make the quilt assembly a bit easier.  So I'm back to making blue blocks.  I use a lot of blue, consequently there a lots of pretty scraps to pull into these blocks.  Blue and purple have the largest number of blocks in the quilt, so there's still a lot of blocks to make in each color.  

6.  Simply Sensational Summer Scrap Quilt (Kevin the Quilter): Continue as leaders and enders.  

This has been such an easy leaders and enders project.  It has definitely made a dent in my 2.5" blue and yellow strips.  I have had to go back to fat quarters to cut more, but I have a lot of both yellow and blue partial fat quarters.  The number of 4 patches is creeping up. At some point I'll need to make a number of two patches, but I'm not quite there yet.  

That's my list for this week.  I may not have check marks for all them next week, but any progress is good.  Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

Border 6 for the SAHRR

Last week it seemed like we had more winter than spring. This week is looks like we'll have more spring than winter.  I'm ready for that, but not the severe weather part of spring. Cleaning out the tornado shelter is on my housekeeping list for this week. Hopefully we won't need it this season, but we usually use it at least once in the spring.  Just part of life when you live in Oklahoma.  

I spent most of Saturday in the recliner with a sinus headache, but it abated enough on Sunday for me to spent the better part of the day in the sewing room.  Our guild meeting is a week from Tuesday, so I spent most of Sunday cutting out the pieces for this month's BOM blocks.  But there was time to get border 6 for the SAHRR (Quilting Gail) finally assembled and attached. 

It came together pretty well.  But it looks unfinished and it's a little small to use as a cuddle or couch quilt.  This quilt is supposed to go to Grad Girl's current roommate.  So after a bit of playing around in EQ, the plan is to add one more pieced border to finish it off.  The plan is to have all of that done before the final parade later this month.  We'll see how that goes.  

Linking up with Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 10 of 2025

 

We are in that time of year where some days are spring, but more are still winter.  Though that should change this next week.  Early in the week we got the first of our March winds, they weren't fun if you were a semi on the highway.  The not fun part of my week was discovering that we had to replace the rear wheel bareings on my car.  Ouch, that hurt.  Plus it meant two trips to Tulsa, so my sewing afternoons were cut cut short.  Still it was a good week in the finding time to stitch department.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/March = 8/8 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 62/67 days
• Success rate = 92.54%

This next week should be pretty calm, so I'm hoping to get a lot done on my to do list. Just two weeks left in the first quarter! I should see how I'm doing on my goals.  

How are you doing at getting in some stitching time and actually making progress on your goals for 2025?

1. Frédérique 2. Gretchen 3. maggie f 4. Julie in GA

5. Melissa G 6. DonnaleeQ 7. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 8. Karen

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

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The Marble Mystery

I truly detest sewing to deadlines, but I really wanted to finish the Marble Mystery Quilt top in time to post it at the Meadow Mist Designs Marble Mystery quilt parade.  The linky party closes at midnight and I didn't finish the quilt top till 3:30 this afternoon.  That's cutting it a bit close for comfort. 

The mystery started back in July of last year.  One of my rules for mystery quilts is that the fabrics have to come from my stash (well at least most of the fabrics from the stash).  The yardage requirements were pretty small for this mystery so I was able to pull out a bunch of leftovers. 

The plan was to stay mostly monochromatic except for the butterfly print.  Fabric placement was dictated by how much I had of each.  But overall I'm pretty happy with how these all played together in the final quilt top. 

Thank you Cheryl for another fun mystery.  I'm hoping there's a new mystery this summer.  I have lots of stash that needs to find just the right quilt.