Sewing Challenge

30 minute sewing challenge - day 2 (for me at least).

I'm finding it challenging just to stay home 30 minutes to get chores done - like feeding my family, let alone sew.

I have worked more this week than I have in a month, my Bible study and children's program are quickly coming to an end so that will free up two more days for me. Ultimately, my goals is to create a habit of sitting down at the sewing machine at least 30 minutes every day.

I didn't get new pictures, but these did get trimmed and during day two, I did manage to get some of them sewn together.

My goal for Thursday - after I run the million and one errands - is to finish putting both rows together and maybe even start quilting :)

I hope you have joined us for this challenge. The link is above, if you need it.

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30 Minute Sewing Challenge

Adventures in Oz is hosting a 30 Minute Sewing Challenge throughout the month of May.

Rules are pretty simple - sew minutes a day, six days a week. I'm excited because I know how much I can get done if I can just sew for 30 minutes every day.

I've had some freedom added to my schedule so this should be very doable for me. Hope you join us. I've added a link to make it easy :)

 

Last week I decided I needed to take my dot row apart for the Redwork quilt. Things weren't lining up the way I really wanted them to, so Friday night I unsewed the two rows.

My first 30 minutes for the challenge was sewing on the side sashes. Now I have to trim and decide what I want to do next because it's not quite working out like it did on paper.

I interrupted this sewing session - it's my time :)

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Friday Finishes . . . etc. . . .

It is finally that time of year when things are moving quickly forward, ready or not.

New Year's - come and gone

Spring Break - come and gone

Easter - come and gone

January, February, March - come and gone

April - almost gone !!!!

It's also that time of year, when lots of outside things need to be accomplished.

 

Last Saturday, Newton and Honey Do helped me finish mulching my flower gardens. It always looks so clean and inviting when it's first done.

The bench is still covered because I just haven't had time to do the weather proofing on it and we've had quite a bit of rain. 

I have a finish to share . . . 

This design is from Alida for the Growing Up QAL.

There were two designs and I posted the first and worked really hard to get this one done.

I am so excited that with the silhouette quilting I'm doing I will have a completely finished quilt.

I am still determined to get more UFOs done. I am really discouraged that I have so few, but I haven't lost site of my goal for the year. I think I have to reaccess what I want to work on at basically the same time. I need, yes need, to have some type of hand work that I can do while Rocky insists on occupying my lap and I need to have something on the sewing machine, a quilt. There are several that are in the finishing stages and would make getting UFOs done very easy.

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Goals for the week ending April 18, 2017 and April 25, 2017

It has been a hectic few weeks. Bible Study is in it's final weeks, the weather has been up and down. When the weather's been decent, I've been outside.

These aren't the best photos, but the gardens are all mulched and ready for the growing season. Everything looks nice and clean at the moment. I was blessed with help from Honey Do and Newton last weekend to get them all done. On to the vegetable garden, if the rains would just hold off long enough to let things dry out.

Goals for the week ending April 18, 2017

1. Redwork

- quilt 9-patch rows

I don't get much opportunity to work on this quilt, but every time I do I fall more and more in love with it. There will be two rows like this that will go in between the little redwork stitcheries. Just enough to break up it up. 

I decided I wanted to make the redwork quilt my main goal so I can have it finished by the beginning of May.I'm still on track to finish it - definitely not the first :)

2. Picket Fence

 - continue stitching

Growing Up QAL

Absolutely loved this month's projects. There's one more block, but I'm still working on it. I've got this one sandwiched and machine-quilted (which the photo doesn't reflect).

Goals for the week ending May 5, 2017

1. Redwork quilt

2. Growing Up QAL block

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Goals for the week ending April 11, 2017

So I've been a bit of a slacker the last couple of weeks. I'm blaming it on spring break and the weather . . . that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it :)

We got a visit from April Fool, albeit a week late . . . 

 

We got about four inches, but it's hard to tell with all the water sitting around from all the rain a few days earlier.

This is what I found a couple of days later - after the snow had all melted. It's in the general vicinity of the second photo above. I've never seen it do this before and thought it was really cool :)

Goals for the week ending April 11, 2017

1. Redwork - DONE
- quilt row 2

- quilt row 3 - DONE

- make 9-patches - DONE
- sew 9-patches into rows - DONE 

One of the other reasons why I didn't get more done on other projects - I was having too much fun working on the quilt :)

2. Picket Fence - some progress, but not much worth mentioning
- continue stitching

3. Easter - no progress
- begin stitching block 2

Goals for the week ending April 18, 2017

1. Redwork

- quilt 9-patch rows

2. Picket Fence

- continue stitching

I've decided to keep working on the Redwork quilt. I would really like to have it completely assembled by the first week of May.

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Goals for the week ending April 4, 2017

This week's goals:

1. Redwork - DONE

- quilt row one

2. Growing Up QAL

- construct block - DONE

- email link - DONE

3. Picket Fence row - DONE

- complete stitching on first half

Goals for the week ending April 11, 2017

1. Redwork
- quilt row 2

2. Picket Fence
- continue stitching

3. Easter
- begin stitching block 2

I'm working this week, catching up with BF and have a couple of other appointments. I think it best to keep the list short :)

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And the rains just keep coming . . .

 

Friday's forecast:  90% chance of rain

We've had rain off and on all week and for once the weatherman was accurate.

With all this rain, the back yard is virtually useless for the next few weeks. After that I'll be in the garden. I saw my first advertisement for mulch this week. I've been waiting and the purchase will be the next step to spring yard work.

It's been a mostly relaxing week  with not much getting done on the home front. It's spring break, thought I should enjoy it too.

Friday morning was spent catching up emails, a trip to the grocery store for dinner supplies and the library for a couple of movies and a book.

The afternoon was spent quilting the first row of Redwork.

I just did simple quilting inside the block and around the stitching. I'm using a very light-weight machine that really doesn't even fee the blocks well. It does OK on single thickness but if you add any bulk at all, it fights you - so that's what's up with the uneven stitching. It will have to do until I decide on what kind of machine I want, need and have to spend.

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