To Do List for the Week of 10/31/2023

 

Happy Halloween!  Our plans for the evening are to hand out candy to the kids who come by.  We used to have a lot of littles in the neighborhood, but like our daughter, many of them have grown up and left for college.  Not sure how many we'll get. It's going to be cold, plus it's a school night.  

Now back to the regularly scheduled To Do List.  There was no linky party post over at The Quilt Schmilt: For the Love of Fabric last week.  I know that Carol's been really busy with non-quilting commitments, hopefully she'll soon get back to her normal routine (Update: she did get a To Do Tuesday post up). Writing up a to do list has become a big help and motivator for me, so I'm going to continue posting my list.  

I scored 100% on last week's to do list. 

To Do List for 10/24/2023

1. Melodic Mystery: Prep top for quilting ✔

2. Malted Mystery: Continue to work on clue 4 ✔

3. Rhododendron Mystery: Continue quilt top assembly ✔

4. Wild and Goosey: Finish last 2 yellow blocks ✔

5. Chilhowie: Continue as leaders and enders project ✔

Five of five is definitely a good week.  This week won't be as productive. I'm going to take a long weekend and visit Grad Girl.  My Guy has to work, so we'll just have a girls weekend.  But that means I won't have much time for stitching. I'll have some time before leaving, but that still won't be my normal full week of stitching.  So we'll pare down this week's list a bit. 

To Do List for 10/31/2024

1. Macaron Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs): Finish label and binding. Sew to front and hand stitch to back.  

I'm in the process of sewing the binding strips together. Hopefully, I can get that done and get them attached to the quilt so I can take it with me and finish stitching down the binding while I'm visiting Grad Girl.  

2. Melodic Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs): Send out for quilting.

I found a box in my attic stash that would work.  I just need to add the packing material, seal it up and address it.  That should happen today. 

3. Chilhowie (Bonnie Hunter): Continue as leader and enders.

All the component parts for block 8 have been constructed. Since I still have a bit of binding to stitch together, there will be just a bit of progress on block assembly before I leave.  

A very short list for this week. But finishing this list means one more finish and one well on it's way to finished.  So a short, but definitely sweet stitching week if I can check off the whole list.    

Setting Triangles and a Clean Up

 We went from the 80's last weekend to the 40's this weekend. Plus it was rainy and windy.  It was perfect sewing room weather. I finally bit the bullet and cut out the setting tringles for Rhododendron, crossing my fingers that I had the correct measurements.  Based on how it's going together I got it right.  

I'm just about halfway done with the construction.  So far, so good.  Bonnie used flying geese in a pieced border. I'm going to do that too, but a little differently than what she did.  I should pull those out of the project box and see how many there are. A few more may be needed to execute my design.  

I would have made more progress on Rhododendron but most of Sunday was spent cleaning up and pressing the Melodic Mystery quilt top. 

There were quite a few loose threads on the back.  But it wasn't too hard to clean up. 

 

I found a batting, now I just need to find a box so Melodic Mystery can go to Trudy for quilting.  That's on the to do list for the upcoming week.  

Linking up with Monday Design Wall and Patchwork & Quilts.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 42 of 2023

Just three days left in October.  This month certainly went fast.  I know November and December will also go really fast.  Not much we can do about that. I'm sewing as much as possible, which is reflected in this week's metrics.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Oct = 20/28 days
• 15 minute days/2023 = 255/301 days
• Success rate = 84.72%

Other than the days we were on vacation, I've done pretty well at getting into the sewing room and making some progress on not only my projects, but on scrap and stash organization.  Mostly scraps this week.  When I started the week, my scrap bin was this full.

After a few scrap cutting sessions, I was almost to the bottom. 

Hopefully it will be an empty bin by next weekend.  

How are you doing on finding time to stitch and/or organize your sewing room?  

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5. DonnaleeQ 6. Quilting Gail 7. katie z. 8. Alycia Quilts-Quiltygirl

9. Frédérique 10. Deb in Canada 11. Janice - Jannimary

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To Do List for the Week of 10/24/2023

Just one more week and October will be over.  That just doesn't seem possible.  Just 2 months left in the year. I'm really not ready for that, so we'll just concentrate on taking it a week at a time, starting with last week's to do list. 

To Do List for 10/17/2023

1. Melodic Mystery: Prep back for quilting ✔

2. Malted Mystery: Continue working on clue 4 ✔

3. Rhododendron: Start assembling blocks into rows ✔

4. Wild & Goosey: Make 3 yellow blocks - progress

5.  Chilhowie: Continue as leaders and enders project ✔

Four check marks with progress on the fifth is a good week.  I'm hoping this week will be at least as good.  My to do list looks pretty much the same.  

To Do List for 10/24/2023

1. Melodic Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs): Prep top for quilting

The back has been cleaned up and pressed.  The top shouldn't take too long.  It's all mostly darker fabrics, so the threads shouldn't show through as badly if I miss a few. The top mostly needs a really good pressing.   

2. Malted Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs): Continue to work on clue 4. 

I'm still working on the star flower blocks, but should finish those off today.  Then I need to get going on the flying geese.  I'm hoping to be caught up by the time the clue comes out a week from Thursday.  

3. Rhododendron (Bonnie Hunter): Continue assembling blocks into rows. 

After playing around in EQ, I've decided to add the corner stones to the sashing strips.  That will make assembly a lot easier.  

4.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Finish last 2 yellow blocks

 

These are the last of the yellow blocks I need for the planned layout.  Since there are no neutrals in this quilt, I've been using October to catch up on other colors.  If I finish up the yellow, I'll probably move on to orange.  

5. Chilhowie (Bonnie Hunter): Continue as leaders and enders project. 

The hourglass blocks take the longest to construct as a leaders and enders project.  But it has been slow and steady progress on the bits and pieces for block 8.  

That's my list for this week.  Trudy let me know that Macaron Mystery is quilted and I considered adding that to this week's list, but there is no telling when it might show up, so I'll just save that for next week.  Though I should probably but some thought into the name and label this week.  

Linking up with The Quilt Schmilt: For the Love of Fabric for To Do Tuesday.  

Design Wall Refresh

It was a warm weekend here, but I didn't enjoy it much.  My allergies really didn't like the warm up. I'm hoping we get some of the forecast rains sooner rather than later to knock back the pollen. I didn't spend a lot of time in the sewing room this weekend, but enough to make a bit of progress on the UFO next in line for assembly.  

All the blocks for Bonnie Hunter's 2021 mystery quilt along (Rhododendron) were finally finished back in January of this year. They've been sitting in a project box until we got back from vacation.

Bonnie used a thin sashing and pieced setting triangles to finish her version. I'm going to skip the pieced setting blocks, but keep the thin sashing. 

This is what's up on the design wall after yesterday.  I've cut the corner triangles, but still need to cut the end of row setting triangles.  Fingers crossed that happens today. Bonnie used corner stones in her sashing, I've not decided yet if I want to include them or not.  Keeping them would make assembly a little easier. 

I'm hoping to get Rhododendron to finished quilt top before Bonnie's 2023 mystery comes out.  That's definitely doable.  It probably won't be up for finishing till next year. I'm slowly whittling down my unfinished BH mysteries.  Just four more to go after this one (not counting this year's mystery).   

Linking up with Monday Design Wall and Patchwork & Quilts.