To-Do-List Tuesday 11-5-2024

Hello, Tuesday friends. I had a good week, but it was busy with not a lot of time for hands-on work. My list was pretty short, so I made reasonably good progress.

1) Another Women of the Bible block and more connector blocks. Yes. 

I am almost ready to put these two sections together (after I make one more block), and then I can move on the the "B" section.

2) Cut some more shirts for the Journey quilt. Yes. Unfortunately, I still need more. 

3) Do some embroidery or crochet during my Houston stay. A little bit of embroidery.

 

I only worked on it one night, and the next night, I was looking at videos on my Ipad.

4) Make some more hearts for Gloria. No. I need to work on that this week.

I'm pretty sure what I want to work on this week.

1) Get section "A" of the Women of the Bible quilt put together. Make some of the section "B" blocks, if possible.

2) Work on Gloria's hearts.

3) Bind Dallas Cowboys quilt.

4) November BOM from A Quilting Life.

5) Spend 30 minutes a day cleaning my sewing room.

6) Find 10 fat quarters for a Villa Rosa quilt.

We'll see how much of this gets done. Especially number 5. 

Most of my days are free this week except for today. We have a luncheon at church, and I need to vote. I think it will be a productive week. I am linking this post to Quilt Schmilt. I hope everyone has a wonderful week. 

Busy Weekend

I’m back from Houston, and we had a great time there. I dropped the dogs off at 7am on Thursday morning, picked up Betty, and we hit the road. Our hotel was about a half a mile from the convention center. It was a nice walk with lots to look at. 

Church of the Annunciation 

Minute Maid Park

At the festival, we saw lots of quilts,

and lots of vendors.

I didn’t buy much—I don’t really need anything, but I did buy all twelve of the festival shop hop blocks. 

It’s like a typical shop hop where you get a passport with a list of the participating vendors and visit each one and buy their block. Once  the passport is complete, you turn it in to get entered in a drawing. I never did find out what the drawing prizes were, since I don’t think I will win. I mean, there were a lot of people there, and a lot of them were buying the blocks. I’m anxious to get started on the quilt, but I have a few things to finish first.

We came back Saturday evening, and I met some friends at the Dia de Muertos celebration. 

There were vendors, 

food trucks, 

A DJ, 

and plenty of costumes.

I didn’t stay very late; I was pretty tired and wanted to go to bed early.

Of course, Sunday was the time change. I went to church, and after I came home, I finally gave out. Nothing got done Sunday afternoon except a 2 mile walk with the dog. Even then, my legs were starting to hurt, and I came home and sat in the recliner for the rest of the day. I wanted to do some sewing, but I just couldn’t do it. Another early-to-bed night. I’m hoping to get back in the groove today. 

What I’m Working On

Oh my goodness, what a busy couple of days. I got a quilt quilted, 

and then, I got another one quilted.

I will need to put the binding on this one. I got the binding made yesterday; I just need to get it on the quilt, and then this one is ready to go. 

I dropped off quilts, receiving blankets, burp pads, and diaper bags our guild members made for Gabriel Project. 

They were so happy to get all these items. 

I spent most of yesterday trying to get ready for my trip to Houston. I will only be gone three days, but I have to board the dogs, so I got dog food, bagged it up in individual portions, did laundry, bought some snacks, put gas in the car, etc. It all seems like a lot of effort for a three day trip. When I was younger, I could just roll up a pair of jeans with some clean underwear and a toothbrush, and I was good to go. Now it takes a separate bag just for my skin care and medications. 

My daughter will feed the cats while I am gone. Cheeto and his friend.

I don’t know if the big gray one has a name or not. I call him Gordon. I was actually calling him Gordo (Spanish for fat boy),  but I didn’t want to be insulting, so I changed it to Gordon. 

I know I will be tired when I get back from Houston, but I hope to have all kinds of inspirations for new projects.

To-Do-List Tuesday 10-29-24

It's hard to believe October is almost over. It has passed pretty fast, but then again, the whole year has just zoomed by. I got a lot done this last week compared to the weeks when I have a lot of appointments or travel.

1) Bind Karen's Christmas quilt. Yes.

2) Make Gloria some hearts from her husband's shirts. Yes.

He was a painter, and there is no shortage of the Sherwin Williams shirts. I still need to make some more from some other shirts she brought me.

3) Make samples for guild workshop. Yes. 

4) Spend 30 minutes a day cleaning up the sewing room. LOL. No. Not even one day did this happen.

5) Cut some squares for my Journey quilt. Yes.

6) Make another Women of the Bible quilt block. Yes. 

I'm still enjoying these, and I am almost ready to sew the first section together. I just need to make four more blocks plus a bunch of connector blocks.

I'm not sure what to put on my next list; I will be in Houston Thursday through Saturday for the International Quilt festival, so needless to say, I won't have time to do much. I do have a few things in mind for tomorrow and maybe Sunday afternoon that I want to get done.

1) Another Women of the Bible block and more connector blocks.

2) Cut some more shirts for the Journey quilt.

3) Do some embroidery or crochet during my Houston stay.

4) Make some more hearts for Gloria.

This may be a little ambitious; I'll have to see how many days it takes me to recover from Houston. I expect I will be tired, so if not everything gets done, I'm okay with it.

I am linking this post to Quilt Schmilt. I hope everyone has a happy, productive week. 

Weekend Update

I don’t have much of an update since I didn’t do a lot over the weekend. I walked a lot and rested a lot, but not too many projects were worked on. I did get a quilt quilted, and I worked a little on binding another one.

I think this pattern is very effective, and it would be great for scraps, so I will keep it in mind for charity quilts. 

There was a soccer game Saturday. It started out with a lot of cloud cover, but the sun came out and heated things up pretty quickly.

I love the green shoes; they make it easy to identify him on the field. 

I came home and took a nap, and then I worked a little on the Women of the Bible blocks. I got Hagar done. 

I have the next one cut out, but I haven’t gotten it sewn yet. I also need to make some more connector blocks.

Fri-Yay

Another week has flown by. I’m ready for the weekend so I can rest. Although I probably won’t. I need to mow grass and clean my house. I taught the bargello workshop at the quilt guild meeting yesterday. And, yes, I got my sample done.

That’s not the one we did in the workshop. We did this one:

I didn’t get mine finished, and neither did anyone else, but we disbanded early, so there really wasn’t time to finish. I’m going to Yorktown today to pick up some fabric I ordered, and I will take both bargello quilts along to see if I can find some border fabric.

Serenity had a volleyball game Tuesday night, and I went, but I didn’t take any pictures. It wasn’t a very exciting game, and they lost by a lot of points. I went to Kathryn’s game last night, and it was senior night.

It was a good game with close scores, but they won. I’m sad to think it’s Kat’s last year to play, but they grow up fast. Thank goodness Serenity still has quite a few years to play. 

To-Do-List Tuesday 10-22-24

It's been another hectic week. I think I underestimated how much time I was going to need to spend on Lutherfest; not to mention, how tired I would be afterwards. It was pretty much all day Saturday and Sunday. The rest of the week was broken up by doctor appointments plus volleyball and soccer games, so not a lot got done on my list. 

1) Women of the Bible block plus some filler blocks. Yes. 

This one is Delilah. I also got some of the filler blocks done. 

Four patches plus some flying geese. Once the hst's are trimmed, they will become pinwheels. I can already see I will need to order some more black and white. I think I got two yards of each, and it is getting used up quickly.

2) Bind Karen’s Christmas quilt. No.

3) Make samples for guild workshop. No.

4) Spend 30 minutes a day cleaning up the sewing room. No. 

5) Put the fall decorations out. Yes. 

My list didn't get much attention...I will make a new one and hope for the best. 

1) Bind Karen's Christmas quilt.

2) Make Gloria some hearts from her husband's shirts.

3) Make samples for guild workshop.

4) Spend 30 minutes a day cleaning up the sewing room.

5) Cut some squares for my Journey quilt.

6) Make another Women of the Bible quilt block.

That's enough for now. I may edit the list later if I think of something else. I want to see what I have on the shelf already quilted that I can donate to hurricane relief. There may be a few I could let go since it is a good cause. 

We have quilt guild Thursday, and I am teaching the workshop on bargello quilts. It should be fun. There are volleyball games tonight and Thursday night and soccer games on Saturday. I am happy to be busy. 

I am linking this to Quilt Schmit. Have a wonderful, productive week and good luck on your to-do list!