To-Do-List Tuesday 7-18-23

I had posts written for Sunday and Monday, but they didn't get posted, and I don't know where I saved them--or if I saved them. Well, too late to worry about it now. It's Tuesday and time to see what happened with the weekly to-do list.

1) Get table runner sewn. Yes. It was a fun one to do and went pretty fast.

2) Make two Water Color blocks. Didn't happen. I sewed enough flying geese for several blocks, but they still need to be trimmed before I can start putting blocks together.

3) Figure out a border (or not) for Scrappy Celebration. No. I still haven't decided.

4) Find my insulbrite and make a couple of pot holders. I found it, but I still need to do some cutting and sewing.

5) Start on the Plan B quilt. Yes. This is where most of my spare time went. I got twelve of the A blocks pieced.

6) Quilt July UFO quilt. Done. I still need to trim it before I take pictures.

I guess that's not too bad as far as progress goes. I don't know how long it will take me to decide on the Scrappy Celebration borders. I keep thinking the right decision will come to me. We'll see. For this week, I have a few things to finish.

1) Trim and bind the July UFO quilt.

2) Make a couple of potholders. 

3) Two Water Color blocks.

4) Keep working on Plan B quilt.

5) Finish piecing the baby quilt someone gave me blocks for.

6) Finish piecing top with flower swap blocks.

That's probably more than enough. We are doing Vacation Bible School this week at church. We have it in the evenings, but I am cooking today, so I will have to be there early. I am going to go to Sam's later and get the stuff I need for the meal. Thursday is another trip to Lake Jackson for stepdad's doctor appointment, so that's two days with no sewing. Life happens as they say. 

Enjoy your week and happy sewing! I am linking to Quilt Schmilt.

What I'm Working On

There's no shortage of projects here...I can always find lots of things to work on. It's just finding the time and motivation. I got the binding on this one:

I don't know why I didn't put this one on the to-do list, but apparently it got forgotten. That's okay, it's done now. 

Yesterday morning, I had to fix food for a funeral at church, but I didn't stay any longer that I had to. It was one of those restless days when I have a hard time sticking to any one thing. I had a customer quilt to get finished, which I did once I got back to my shop. I'll have a picture hopefully tomorrow. I dug around in the sewing room, and found the blocks from the last swap I did.

I found five more that didn't have the centers appliqued yet, so I did that.

Once I got those done, I counted and had 16 blocks. The blocks are around 9", so I think I need a few more. I got my box of 5" squares and found enough that would work together to make four more blocks. I got them snowballed and will get them put into blocks tomorrow.

I'm really anxious to get these done and get the sashing on. I have green polka dot fabric I want to use for the sashing and probably the border too. I think it's going to be cute. My plan is to donate it to Mid-Coast Family Services once it's quilted and bound.

Moving Along

Happy Thursday everyone! I have been busy with paperwork--not my favorite thing to do. I managed to squeeze in some time for fun and got the Belle Ami table runner put together.

A friend had made me one from the same pattern and given it to me to quilt. I pulled it out so I can hopefully quilt both of these at the same time.

The one I made is a couple of strips longer. I think I may try to find a third one to put with these when I get them loaded on the quilt machine. Anyway, that's one thing checked off the to-do list. My neck and shoulders were hurting, so I didn't get a lot done, but I did load my July UFO quilt. 

One think I am having trouble with right now is backing up my phone photos to Google. I have apparently used all my available storage. There are some options, such as paying for more storage, or deleting some of the photos I don't want to keep. I am trying to figure out if I already have a photo on my blog can I keep it there and delete it from Google. I may have to do some experimenting and see how that works out, because I sure don't know the answer. If you know, please leave a comment and let me know how that works!

Wednesday

   

There’s not much to report today. I spent the morning yesterday at church. We got 140 comforters packed up and ready to deliver. We still have more to tag and fold. I took a picture of one I wouldn’t mind making.

We get donated tops sometimes. We put an appropriate backing with them and tie them. This one was so striking. 

I had a lot of things I needed to work on after lunch, but I ended up driving down to the bay.

The beach is my happy place—the place I can go to de-stress. I only spent about an hour, and then I was ready to go home. I worked a little on trimming triangles.

I still have quite a few to do, but I got tired of it pretty quickly. I have started using the Clearly Perfect triangle trimmer, and it seems to be the easiest way to get these done.

If you haven’t tried these, i recommend them. I prefer them to bloc lok or the other tools.

To-Do-List Tuesday 7-11-23

Another week gone! I think we are about half way through the year, although I'm not sure how that could be possible.

In spite of the time passing so fast, I have made reasonably good progress on finishing the things on my list. Last week's list:

1) Figure out some borders for Scrappy Celebration and get them put on. I think I know what I want to do, but I had a moment of indecision, and now I am stalled (again!).

2) Get the Summer Scrap Challenge quilt put together. Yes. This one moves to the "to-be quilted" list.

3) Finish the Oklahoma quilt. Yes. Another finish.

It's a little small, so I am thinking about a border or two.

4) Two more Water Colors blocks. I'm still trimming triangles and flying geese, so no blocks were made this last week.

5) Cut out a table runner. Yes. Now to get it sewn together and quilted!

Some of my choices for this week are obvious, but there are a couple of other things I want to do as well.

1) Get table runner sewn.

2) Make two Water Color blocks.

3) Figure out a border (or not) for Scrappy Celebration.

4) Find my insulbrite and make a couple of pot holders.

5) Start on the Plan B quilt.

6) Quilt July UFO quilt.

I have so many things going through my mine right now that I want to work on, but I'm just going to leave it alone and go with these six. That's probably more than I can get done anyway. It's okay.....I'll be happy if I finish just one or two.

Today I am linking to Quilt Schmilt. I have to be at church this morning to start boxing up the comforters we have been making for the dialysis and cancer centers. I don't know when we will get to deliver them as we need to fold them and pin bookmarkers to them before they are boxed so that will take a little time. The bookmarks are inspirational quotes on laminated cardstock. We punch a hole in the top and run a ribbon through them. On the back is the church name and address. Anyway, I hope everyone has a great week and happy sewing!

Weekend Update

 Maybe I’d better start with Friday. I did the shop hop/poker run. I went to Ganado first, then came back to the Victoria store. I really wasn’t in the mood to buy anything—although I did buy a yard of solid yellow. I was wanting to cut this table runner

and I have the jelly roll I want to use, as well as some green background, but I really wanted the light yellow like the pattern picture.

I met Betty for lunch and we drove to Yorktown for the final stop. I didn’t end up with a good poker hand. ☹️ I had two kings, a queen, a four and a two, so I’m not expecting to win. Unless I win for worst hand.

On Saturday I got my Summer Scrap Challenge together. 

The picture doesn’t really do injustice…..I really like it. Of course, I can’t leave well enough alone, so I added a couple of borders to it.

I’m quite pleased with it and anxious to get it quilted. 

I also got my table runner cut out, so that’s another goal checked off. I hope to get some done on it this week.

Is new project has been calling my name for a while, but I keep hoping to get other projects finished before I start something new. Since I got my Summer Scrap Challenge done, I have decided to go ahead and get started on the new one. It’s one of the quilts in this book:

There are actually quite a few quilts in this book that I would like to make, but this one is my favorite.

I spent Sunday afternoon cutting some 2” strips, so this one will be started soon. 

A Few Finishes

I got busy yesterday and did some trimming of completed quilts. I have a tendency to put it off, and then do several at once. I know I have some customers who want to pick up their quilts this week, so I thought I'd better get it done. This one has one of the poufy polyester battings:

It's not something I usually use, but this particular customer has brought me that kind before, and it actually quilts up well. I have heard of some longarmers refusing to use it, but I'm not sure why that is. I generally use whatever they bring me.

This is an almost twin to one I pieced:

It's the Trip Around the Countryside from the last shop hop. Mine hasn't been quilted yet because I decided I want borders, and that is turning out to be a challenge. This lady didn't put borders, and it looks great without them, so I might need to rethink my original plan. 😕

This one is a panel. I quilted it with the Calm Waters design in a variegated green.

It will make a great quilt for someone who likes to fish.

I am pretty exited about this one:

The lady who did the fish panel also pieced this one and gave it to me to quilt and donate to charity. It is the right size for a QOV quilt, and I used the patriotic backing, but I keep thinking about how much a little boy would love this. It's made of super hero fabric.

So for now, I'm not sure where it will be donated. If I get any communications about QOV I will pass it one, but if not, it may go to Midcoast Family Services. I need to get busy and get a binding on it, and I have a few more donation tops I want to get quilted. I like to have some on hand that are done and ready to go.