To Do Tuesday (07/28/20)

It's been challenging getting back into some type of schedule since our stay at home days.  I'm slowly getting back on track with my stitching time in the evenings and making progress on getting into some type of fitness program. The weekly To Do List linky party over at Home Sewn By Us is helping me stay focused on my stitchy goals. Maybe a Weekly Fitness To Do would help on the fitness front or a 15 Minutes to Sweat weekly linky?  Hmm, maybe not. For now, I'll just stick with reviewing last week's stitchy To Do List.  

Weekly To Do List for 07/20/2020

Frolic: Finish flying geese for border ✔

Unity: Step 3, make more Sawtooth Stars ✔

Christmas Mystery: Add borders - progress

Storm At Sea: Press, Trim, Prep for quilting - no progress

 

Not a bad week, but not a perfect week.  Prepping backings and quilts for quilting is my least favorite quilting activity so I ignored the SAS backing all week. I really need to make that my number one priority for next weekend or that project will never get done.  

Weekly To Do List for 07/28/2020

Storm at Sea:  Prep backing for quilting

Frolic:  Finish assembling flying geese for borders

All the HSTs have been sewn into flying geese. I've started sewing the red violet flying geese together into strips.

2019 Christmas Mystery Quilt: Add borders

  

The quilt was measured, strips cut, but I didn't get them sewn together.  It won't take long to move this project to finished flimsy.  

Unity: Step 3, make more Sawtooth Stars

Those sawtooth stars take lots of flying geese.  I'm more than halfway finished with this step.  I doubt I finish Step 3 this week, but maybe next week.  I'm really ready to move into a new step.  

I realized on Sunday that my cone of thread is getting a bit bare.  

I don't keep up with my thread changes, but it certainly seems like this one went faster than the last one. I ordered another cone the last time thread was on sale, so I've got a replacement. But having one empty means there's been a lot of stitching going on this year.  

Linking up with Tuesday To Do over at Home Sewn by Us.  

Pieces of Progress

It was a pretty typical weekend. Other than the grocery store and trips out to pick up take out for dinner, we didn't go any where.  You'd think I'd get more sewing done, but it's been harder for me to get myself moving towards the sewing room some afternoons.  We do more hanging out after lunch these days.

I did get in some sewing time, but there's not really much to show, most everything is just pieces at that moment.  Unity is the only project up on the design walls.

 Unity, 2020 Bonnie Hunter Sew-In-Place Quilt Along

Border strip 3 is half finished.  I'm hoping step 4 goes faster than step 3 or I'll never finish this project!  

Masks were also on the agenda for this weekend.  

Mask pattern from Laundry Basket Quilts 

Two for me, one for My Guy, one for the SIT and one for a friend at work.  My Guy likes the t-shirt ear loops and asked that I make him a few more to replace some of the early masks with elastic that aren't very comfortable.  The SIT will have to wear one anytime she's on campus this fall, so she was asking for a few more for those weeks she doesn't get to laundry. 

That's my progress for the week.  Hope your week was more productive.  Linking up with Monday Making and Design Wall Monday.   

Stitching Stuff: Week 30 of 2020

One more week left in July.  The month certainly seemed to fly by in spite of the restrictions on life the virus has caused.  Our work weeks don't look much different than pre-virus, though we eat lunch in my office rather than the cafeteria. We've gotten used to the daily temperature checks at the door, wearing face masks, and virtual meetings.  Our weekends are spent mainly at home. We rarely go any place other than the grocery store. Church is on line. Rather than eating out Saturday night, we order take out. The Scientist in Training has been home more this summer, it's lonely at school with all the social distancing in place.  

You would think it would be easier to get in more stitching time with the decrease in external activities.  But I still struggle some evenings with having the energy to go play with needle and thread. How about you?  Is it easier or harder to find the combination of energy/desire/time to fit in at least 15 minutes of stitching time most days?  

This week was a good one for me, the energy/desire/time equation worked in my favor.  

15 minute days/week = 7/7 days

15 minute days/July = 24/25 days

15 minute days/2020 = 183/207 days

Success rate = 88.41%

Getting back on a schedule helped this week. Work has been steady, so no late nights. Plus I finally figured out a substitute for my twice a week gym work outs that meshes with my sewing schedule. Still need to tweak that a bit, but something on that front is definitely better than nothing.  My slacks have definitely noticed a change with being at home more.  

How was your stitchy week?  Did you meet your quilty goals for the week?  

1. Meloney 2. Julie in GA 3. karen

4. Chrisknits 5. Mary-Kay 6. Shasta @ High Road

7. DawnyK 8. Angie in SoCal 9. Amanda

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To Do Tuesday for the Week of 7/21/2020

It's been warm, but thankfully the humidity isn't as bad as it was.  Still you really don't want to be outside much unless it's early or the sun has gone down.  You'd think getting in more stitching time would be easier, but the heat just seems to sap the energy right out of me.  Of course it would help if we'd get home a bit earlier. We both were playing catch up at work this last week after our staycation the week before.  In spite of the lack of energy and time, there was good progress on last week's To Do list. 

Weekly To Do List For 07/14/2020

Frolic: Finish first black border, stitch HSTs ✔

Unity: Step 3, make more Sawtooth Stars ✔

Storm at Sea: Wash backing, prep for quilting - progress

Christmas Mystery:  Pick borders ✔

Check marks on three out of the four isn't bad. I did get the backing for SAS washed, I just didn't get it pressed and trimmed.  It will go back on the to do list for this week.  

Weekly To Do List for 07/21/2020

Storm at Sea: Press, trim and de-thread backing

Frolic: Finish flying geese for border

Only 2 more of the red voilet HSTs to stitch together, but there are still a few more blue HSTs to finish making as well as a good pile of flying geese to stitch up.  

Christmas Mystery Quilt - Add borders

2019 Christmas Mystery 
designed by Carrie Randall (Quilter's Hideaway)

I really tried to work with what was in the stash, but didn't love any of the combinations.  A quick trip to the local quilt shop netted me the poinsettia fabric, which has multiple reds and greens which work well with the sashing and the blocks.  I'll use up some stash in the backing.  

Unity: Step 3, make more Sawtooth Stars

Unity, 2020 Bonnie Hunter Sew-In-Place Quilt Along

There are finally enough stars to stitch together the bottom border.  That should get done this week.  Just 20 more are needed to finish off the side borders. At some point I'll bump this project up to the top of my to do list and really focus on getting it finished. For now, it makes a nice leader and ender project while I'm finishing off the borders on projects that are farther along.  

That's my plan for the next week. You can see more to do's over at Home Sewn by Us To Do Tuesday.  

More Frolicking

It was a busier weekend than I expected, so not as much sewing time as I had anticipated.  We had a 50th birthday party to attend on Sunday.  It was a very small gathering with everyone wearing masks when we weren't eating.  I made the birthday girl a couple of masks (her son appropriated the Oklahoma State U mask I made her, so I made her a new one).  I didn't get them finished till right before we had to leave so no photos.  

The only other blog worthy stitching was finishing the first black border for Frolic. 

Frolic, 2019 Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt

The flying geese to the right to it are part of the next border.  Those pieces are actually made from two HSTs. There's a stack of blue HSTs that need to be sewn together as well. I didn't finish that step of the mystery, so won't be duplicating Bonnie's border.  

This is the plan for the rest of the borders. This week will likely be spent in getting all those HSTs sewn together.  

That's the project on my large design wall this week. You can check out other quilty show and tells over at Monday Making, Monday Design Wall and Main Crush Monday.