The 2025 SAHRR: Round #2

The prompt for round #2, half square triangles, can be found at Anja Quilts.  

Half square triangles are versatile little blocks.  I played around in EQ, ran a couple of options past Grad Girl and finally settled on this version. 

Not the most original border, but it works OK. I'm ready for prompt #3 coming out on Monday.    

The 2025 SAHRR was also my Chookshed Challenge project for January. My goal was to get the center and first prompt finished.  I've actually finished the second prompt so definitely met my goal for the month.  

To Do List for the Week of 01/28/2025

Just a couple more days in January. This month seem to have passed much quicker this year.  Usually I feel like January lasts forever.  I can't say that we were any busier this year than last. My to do lists have been pretty long this month, though last week's was one of my shorter ones.  

To Do List for 01/21/2025

1.  2025 SAHRR: Finish first border ✔

2.  Marble Mystery: Continue block assembly ✔

3.  Old Town: Continue working on clues ✔

4.  Wild and Goosey: Continue to make purple blocks ✔

5.  Summer Scrap Quilt:  Continue as leaders and enders ✔

It's not hard to check off an item if all the is required is progress.  Other than the 2025 SAHRR, my goal is to keep these other projects moving along.  This week's list looks pretty much the same.  

To Do List for 01/28/2025

1.  2025 SAHRR (Quilting Gail): Finish second border

The first 4 HSTs are made, I need about 24 more. This green and blue print has been such fun to sew with.  The goal is to have the second border done by Friday.  

2. 2025 Guild BOM: Start March blocks

It seems a bit early to be working on March, but since I have to announce the color at the February Guild meeting, the blocks have to be finished the month before. 

3.  Marble Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs): Finish making the blocks.

   

Just two more "B" blocks to finish.  If I can get the SAHRR borders done, I'll have more time to start getting this quilt assembled.  

4. Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Continue working on clues

I've made good progress on clue 4.  More than half way done with it now.  Still several sets of these HSTs left to make.  

5.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Continue to make purple blocks, make blue for February. 

The scrap bins had to be raided to improve the variation in my scrappy triangles for these blocks.  Still need to finish lots of purple blocks for the planned layout, but I'll switch to blue on Saturday.  

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

Just two more 4 patches needed to finish out this set of 10.  Only 20 more yellow 4 patches needed for this project. Still need a lot of the blue 4 patches, so no where near done on this project.  

That's my list for this week.  Hopefully Marble Mystery becomes a finished quilt top in the next couple of weeks and it will fall off the list for a bit.  The SAHRR will ramp up as we get to the later borders.  So even with a shorter list, I'll have lots to do. 

Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday.  

Playing Catch Up

Winter is wearing out it's welcome as far as I'm concerned. It was miserably cold all weekend.  I'm ready for a warm up and more color than the shades of brown that currently on display outside my window. The temperatures should start to moderate a bit in February and I'm ready. 

Thankfully my border for the first round of the SAHRR was simple and easy, which left me time to play catch up on some of last year's projects this weekend. 

All the "A" blocks for the Marble Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs) are made.  There was good progress on the "B" blocks.  Number 3 is partially assembled over at the sewing machine.  So far I'm happy with how it's coming together.  It's not going to make it to a finished quilt top before the end of the month, but hopefully I can get that far before the end of next month. 

I've also been working on the clues for Old Town.  Clues 1 and 2 are finished.  Clue 3 is more than half way.  It may be mid year before this project gets put together, but that's OK.  

Linking up with Monday Design Wall and Patchwork & Quilts.  

Stitching Stuff: Week 4 of 2025

 

It's hasn't been a bad week on the stitching front, but it hasn't been a great week either.  I was a bit under the weather this week, so I really had to motivate some days to get to the sewing room. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/2025 =  24/25 days
• Success rate = 96%

A couple of days I got in my fifteen minutes in and called it good. Some weeks are just that way.  I'm still making reasonable progress on my projects.  I'm hoping this week will be better on at least the stitching front.  How did you do at getting in your sewing room time this week?  

1. Gretchen 2. Julie in GA 3. maggie f 4. Melissa G

5. Frédérique 6. Karen 7. DonnaleeQ 8. Meloney

9. Melisa- Pinker n' Punkin Quilting 10. Bonnie in Va 11. amanda 12. Jocelyn @CNN

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Week 134 Photo Challenge: Graveyard

No post last week because Grad Girl needed a bit of time to get her photo.  The first week of school was busy on several fronts and getting a photo wasn't her first priority.  The challenge seemed a lot more restrictive than most of the others. 

If you Google "graveyard definition" only the Oxford Learner's Dictionary includes a definition other than a place where dead people are buried.  The Learner's dictionary states "a place where things or people that are not wanted are sent or left".  I went with the more common definition for my photo. 

Kate: Resting in the Shade

The White Rose Cemetery was established in 1898, nine years before Oklahoma become a state.  It's not far from downtown. The couple buried under the large cross were born in 1829 and 1838 respectively.  He died just two years after Oklahoma became a state.  I had wanted to try to get a photo at night. But I was a wimp, our night time temps dipped into the teens for most of the week.  

This cemetery is on the drive home work for My Guy, so not surprising his photo comes from there as well. 

My Guy: Sunset

He took his shot from one of the more open places in the cemetery. You can't see it from this vantage point, but the sun is actually moving behind the Osage Hills which rise up from the valley our town lies in.  

Grad Girl didn't really have time to go find a cemetery with school starting up and all the stuff she had to get filed so she could graduate this May.  

Grad Girl: Saturday Evening Graveyard

The Texas A&M Library on a Saturday evening is pretty much a graveyard.  Grad Girl has rented some office space so she can focus on getting all her writing done before March. It's much easier to write when you don't have the distractions of all the lab stuff going on, because it is so much more fun to go play in the lab then sit and write.  

This week's challenge should produce some interesting photos. 

 The options here, unlike last week's challenge, are just about unlimited.