Goals for the Week of June 25, 2017

Goals for the week of June 25, 2017

1. Dining room curtain

- make - no progress

2. Pam's quilt 

- cut, sew sashing - no progress

3. Lace Cabins

- quilt fourth row - DONE

 

4. Salem Witches

- draw off first row - DONE

5. Christmas in July

- choose and organize projects - DONE

Goals for July 2, 2017

1. PJ's 

- Cut out 4 of 7 pairs

- Sew at least 1 pair

2. Santa Hats

- pull together supplies

3. Samaritan's Purse shoe boxes

- review and start filling boxes

4. Shoebox Swap

- reivew contents

- make gift

- make shopping list

This list should keep me plenty busy this week :)

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Christmas in July

Last week was busy and productive. Most of my goals were accomplished, I spent a fair amount of time working in the garden and on VBS. As I predicted after a week of 90s plus temperatures and rain, the weeds in the vegetable garden are doing their best to take over. To keep the job from becoming overwhelming I'm breaking it down to several "visits" per day. I have an old cat litter bucket that I use for weeding. I pace myself by filling it each time we go outside. I'm getting about a row a day done. I started on Saturday.

We've gotten several days of rain this week.

And sometimes you even get the rainbow with it :)

 

Row by Row Experience started this week. I got an email, otherwise I would have forgotten. So of course, I have to be part of the party. I met with BF on Wednesday and I found the adorable Witch pattern. If you subscribe to Bird Brain Designs, last year they carried the Roly Poly Santa which is along the same design as this witch. I just couldn't pass her up. With the adorable Salem Witch Guild from Crabapple Hill, I just had to have another fun witch.
BF was gifted with some patterns and has shared the bottom two with me. Lots of fun, new projects in my future.

These are the two I picked up this week for RXR.

The bottom one is actually three separate sections - one for each of the shops in this chain. They will stand alone if I can't get to the other two shops. 

I did stop at two other shops. One isn't participating this year, but I still managed to find a new project and left $30 behind. The other shop I picked up the pattern, but I'm going to try and use components and make my own because I didn't really like theirs. 

Thursday I had a lovely visit with Mom and Friday I worked, so not much got accomplished on either of those days.

For July, I'm going to continue to work on UFOs, but with a twist. There are usually a lot of promotions surrounding "Christmas in July". I'm jumping on the band wagon. I'm going to get my Christmas sewing done early. One of my goals this week is to choose and organize my projects with a holiday theme or gift. This should also help me with some reorganizing and purging in the sewing room. I'll put a list of goals for the month up next week.

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With lots of sunshine and fun :)

Goals for the week of June 18, 2017

Goals for the week of June 18, 2017

1. Redwork - DONE
- label - stitch and attach

2. Pam's Quilt
- frame remaining blocks (received 6/18/17) - DONE
- choose sashing and backing - 

3. Growing Up - BOM
- make block - DONE

4. Sheep
- begin sewing alternate blocks - DONE

5. Lace Cabins
- quilt rows 3, 4, 5 - in progress

 

6. Choose next stitchery project (UFO) - DONE
Not only chosen, but finished. 

 

Goals for the week of June 25, 2017

1. Dining room curtain

- make

2. Pam's quilt 

- cut, sew sashing

3. Lace Cabins

- quilt fourth row

4. Salem Witches

- draw off first row

5. Christmas in July

- choose and organize projects

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Hump day progress report

My week got off to a productive start.

I spent Monday morning choosing my next stitchery project since I got the last two blocks of the Sheep done over the weekend.

Here it is:

Yes, it's almost done. It was supposed to be a kitchen towel but I didn't like the fabric for that, so I cut it up and will frame it for my guest room. 

Another goal this week was to label the Redwork quilt. I got it done and put a simple little border around it from the scraps.

I tried working on the lace cabins, but found when I was sandwiching rows four and five that I was about 1/3 yard short of fabric. It's now at a standstill until I decide when to go and get more fabric. It was very frustrating. 

Consequently, Tuesday I didn't sew at all. I have other projects to sew, but it's not really what I wanted to work on. I did manage a fair bit of time in the yard catching up on things that were let go because of the heat and waiting on someone else to do their part. I got tired of waiting and did things myself. The weather was perfect. Low 80s, sunshine and breezy. So perfect in fact, that the rains held off until after 9 p.m. and were done before bedtime. The gardens are flourishing, even if the weeds are trying to take over :)

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Goals

Goals for the week of June 12, 2017

1. Redwork Quilt

- make and attach label
label is designed, but I still have to make it

2. Lace Cabins

- layout - DONE



I also sashed all five rows and quilted the first two rows of the blocks!!

3. Growing Up QAL

- assemble BOM
fabric is pulled

4. Sheep 

Block 8 and 9 of 9 - DONE

5. Pam's Quilt (church quilt)

- finish framing blocks - DONE


Goals for the week of June 18, 2017

1. Redwork 
- label - stitch and attach

2. Pam's Quilt
- frame remaining blocks (received 6/18/17)
- choose sashing and backing

3. Growing Up - BOM
- make block

4. Sheep
- begin sewing alternate blocks

5. Lace Cabins
- quilt rows 3, 4, 5

6. Choose next stitchery project (UFO)

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Productivity . . . on a roll

 

It has been a good week!! Sorry I wasn't able to keep up to date with you but if you will allow me, we'll play catch up :)

I have been sewing a minimum of 30 mins every day, usually more. I've been keeping up household responsibilities in between along with stitching and reading. I've begun to purchase supplies for Vacation Bible School.

My 30 minutes of sewing this week had me adding sashing to the blocks and cabins so they are now five complete rows. The third row of blocks is being quilted and then I'll move on to the cabin blocks.

 

I took a trip to the fabric store to purchase border and backing fabrics.

Yes, it's upside down - not sure how that happened. The quilt has a mind of it's own :)

The brown on "top" has decided it's going to be the back of the quilt and the other two haven't told me yet which one, or both, will be the border(s).

I found some other pieces that insisted on coming home with me . . .

 

the blue/yellow prints are for a dresden plate quilt that hasn't begun yet and the other goes with a bicycle tapestry and playing with soon.

With it being so hot and humid, we don't spend much time outside. I pull a handful of weeds and call my gardening done, I just do it several times a day.

Play time has resorted to the same basic schedule. Since water doesn't stay cold, we play and when we get thirsty (10-15 minutes), we go back inside.

  

 

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How was your weekend?

How was your weekend?

(Image from Yahoo)

Honey Do took a day off work after his business trip. We had plans to run some errands together, but otherwise it was meant to be a quiet day.

Newton was at school, while Honey Do replaced the plumbin in the toilet I did dishes, hung a load of laundry outside to dry and worked on more blocks for the lace cabins.

By dinner time, I had three rows assembled. I put together extra blocks from the leftover pieces. I might have to come up with a new quilt using up these blocks.

Some of my fabric pieces are small, so I'm using them for framing Pam's quilt (church quilt). I sorted through and matched up with the blocks.

Saturday was another early morning. I stayed quiet until everyone else was up and mobile. Homemade multigrain waffles for breakfast. Chores done, I worked on more of the leftover blocks. I kept finding bits and pieces to use up. 30 plus minutes at the sewing machine :)

The sun's shining and we're all relatively quiet. The temperature has risen considerably over the last day or two and we're feeling the upper 80s. The forecast for the next week is in the 90s all week.

Sunday I spent time working on Pam's quilt while Newton played video games and Honey Do went fishing. Spent the entire afternoon at the sewing machine :)

Goals for the week of June 12, 2017

1. Redwork Quilt

- make and attach label

2. Lace Cabins

- layout

3. Growing Up QAL

- assemble BOM

4. Sheep 

Block 8 of 9

5. Pam's Quilt (church quilt)

- finish framing blocks 

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Wishing you a day filled with creativity and productivity.