Just Checking In

I thought I would check in and give a quick update before I leave for vacation. I have been a busy girl, trying to get things finished before I leave, and now I am a tired girl. I will need a vacation just to catch my breath. 

I got this one done, and it should be picked up this morning.

It is 101" x 101" square, so quite big. A church from a nearby town is buying it for their annual raffle. I also sold them one last year, and they said it did really well. I hope this one will also do well for them. The name of this pattern is Hanging Gardens, and I pieced it when I had a king-size bed but never did quilt it. I no longer have a king bed, so it sort of sat. Interestingly enough, I made it with a different border. 

The ladies who came to look at it weren't sold on the border with the cranes, and they asked me if I would change it to solid black. What? I really didn't want to, but I did it, and now that it's done, I'm okay with it. It gives it a very dramatic look, so maybe that's what they were looking for. 

I also have been stuffing pumpkins. I got this little one done and donated it to a local church that is having a fall craft show. 

I saw some other stuff they had made, and it's all really cute. I made this one for me: 

I have two more stuffed but not decorated. 

These two will go to the silent auction at my church. At least that's the plan. 

I am so happy to have a few things off my list. Of course, I still need to do laundry and pack, but then I can relax. 

To-Do-List Tuesday 9-17-2024

The days are moving so fast, one sort of runs into the next one. I am leaving Saturday for a short vacation, and the quilt show setup starts as soon as I get back, so I have been pushing myself to get as much done as I can. Unfortunately, it wasn't all on my list.

1) Replace borders on raffle quilt and get it quilted. I replaced the borders and it is on the frame now. 

It's a big one so it will take a little longer to get it quilted and bound.

2) Quilt three customer quilts. I did four.

3) Work on the borders for the June workshop quilt. All I did was remove the side borders. I am in the process of working on new ones, but I'm not quite done.

4) Bind sweatshirt jacket.  Another one I started and didn't finish yet.

I did get the binding sewn on, and I’m in the process of stitching it down.

5) Stuff some pumpkins. 🎃 No. 

I’m making a new list, but I won’t be posting next week since I will be on vacation, so I will update it week after next. 

1) Quilt and bind the raffle quilt.

2) Quilt three customer quilts.

3) Finish sweatshirt binding.

4) Work on borders for the June workshop quilt.

5) Stuff some pumpkins.

6) Have fun on my vacation.

I’ll be gone for about five days, but there is still time left this week, and of course, I’ll have the rest of week when I return, so progress is definitely possible.

Have a good week everyone. I am linking this post to Quilt Schmilt.

To-Do-List Tuesday 9-10-24

 Ha! I put a lot of stuff on last week's list. No way I got it all done, but I did made a good attempt. Here's my results.

1) Bind two quilts. No, although I got the binding made for two projects.

2) Quilt three quilts. Yes. As a matter of fact, I did four. 

3) Julie’s tee shirt quilt. No

4) Catch up on BOM’s. Yes. 

5) Play with the potato chip blocks and the 5” squares. Yes. No significant progress, but I did complete a few more blocks, working on them as leaders and enders.

6) Borders for June workshop quilt. I found the nine patch blocks I made for the borders, so I should be able to make progress on it. Yes. 

It's not quite what I wanted, and I am thinking I will take the side borders off and do something else. 

7) Stuff some of the pumpkins I sewed. No. 

8) Work on the pincushion kit I bought. Yes. 

9) Replace borders on raffle quilt. Not quite. I got the old borders taken off, and I got the new ones cut out, but they haven't actually made it onto the quilt yet. This is a have-to-do this week.

It looks like Number 9 on last week's list needs to be number 1 on this week's list.

1) Replace borders on raffle quilt and get it quilted.

2) Quilt three customer quilts.

3) Work on the borders for the June workshop quilt.

4) Bind sweatshirt jacket.

5) Stuff some pumpkins. 🎃 

Well, that’s enough for now. There are three or four in-town volleyball games this week, today is quilting at the church with a WELCA meeting/luncheon after, two quilt guild meetings on Thursday, and a doctor appointment tomorrow. And, that’s just the things I can remember off the top of my head. Oh, my CPA called, and I am missing some documentation in the paperwork I turned in last month, so I need to look for that. 

Have a good week everyone. I am linking this post to Quilt Schmilt.

Caught Up

I’m not caught up with everything, unfortunately, but I did catch up on the BOM’s from A Quilting Life.

This is the June block. Not a very good picture with the shadow, and I didn’t bother to edit it.

I like the July block with the Dutchman’s puzzle block in the middle. She didn’t call it that, but that’s what I know it as.

This is August. 

And, September. I am officially caught up. I had made a deal with myself that I wouldn’t start the Women of the Bible blocks until I got caught up on these, and now I am.

I also caught up on laundry, but not yard work or house cleaning. Yeah, it never ends. It’s looking like another busy week, so I will need to stay focused. I did get another customer quilt done, and it is a pretty one.

I really like it. She called it Mosaic, but I think it looks just like the stained glass windows at the church. 

Scrappy Saturday

The weather was a little cooler yesterday. I think we had a small front as it was also windy with some scattered showers. 

It is nice, but it won’t last. 

I got a lot done this week, but I wasn’t in the mood to do much yesterday, so I drove over to Yorktown. I recently found out about the Women of the Bible Quilt blocks; apparently the patterns were released about eight years ago, but I just recently saw one, and I really liked it. 

It turns out the Yorktown quilt shop owner has made four of them, so I called her about getting the pattern. The patterns are only available for download now for about $20, but she downloaded them for me and had them bound into this nice book. 

It’s so nice, and each block has supplemental info about each woman with a devotion prompt. I think I will enjoy working on it, although it won’t be a short-term project.

I also bought a layer cake and some pretty postcard fabric while I was at the shop.

I had picked up this fabric in Richmond, and I wanted to use it for a border with a scrappy project. 

I got the layer cake to supplement my other scraps, and I think I will use the scrap crazy templates. I really like that border fabric. So many colors of scraps will work with it. 

Speaking of Richmond, I finished the little pincushion kit I got there. 

I also finished Kathryn’s overalls, and I was glad to get my part done.

They need a little more, but she is going to do that herself.  

Today I would like to cut out the scrap crazy blocks, or at least start on it. I should be able to, but I need to finish quilting a customer quilt first. I also have some binding I need to do, so we’ll see.

Thursday

 

Thursday already! This week is flying by. The weather alternates between hot and sunny to gloomy and threatening to rain. There were a few showers this week, but they didn't last long. Rainy weather always gives me a headache, and this time the headaches were accompanied by vertigo. I made it to exercise class yesterday morning, but any sort of fast bending and straightening made me feel like I was going to fall over. I ended up just sort of doing my own thing. 

The weather and the vertigo is preventing me from doing yard work, but there is still plenty to do. I am continuing to work on the overalls. 

I would like to think I will be finished soon. She needs them tomorrow for the pep rally and the football game, but I still need to add the ruffles to the bottom of the hems. I think I can get it done today, and if she wants any changes, she will have to do them herself. I hope to get a picture of them once they are completely finished.

I have lots of customer quilts to finish and got a few done this week. The quilt show is coming up in three weeks, and that always causes a rush for me. I did a couple on Monday

and another on Tuesday.

I finished one on Wednesday and started another, but I don't have pictures yet. 

I was feeling motivated to work on my quilt from the June workshop and did a little in the evenings. This one:

I was happy to find the nine patches I had made for the borders; I found 10 and for some reason I thought I needed 14, so I made four extra. I got 10 of them sewn on the top and bottom.

I am thinking of a way to use the extra four nine-patches, but I think I will need to make two more. That will be the next order of business on this top. 

To-Do-List Tuesday 9-3-24

 

I’m back for another to-do-list Tuesday after missing a few weeks. It’s still hit and miss, but even a little progress is worth celebrating. Here’s the last list:

1) Bind two quilts. I did one.

2) Quilt three quilts. Yes. 

3) Julie’s tee shirt quilt. No.

4) Catch up on BOM’s. Unfortunately, no. 

5) Play with the potato chip blocks and the 5” squares I cut last week. Yes. I’ve been having fun playing with the potato chips with the light backgrounds and the black backgrounds. 

The 5” squares were combined with some of my strips to make quarter log cabin-ish blocks. 

I’m thinking my new list will be pretty much a repeat of the last with a few additions.

1) Bind two quilts.

2) Quilt three quilts.

3) Julie’s tee shirt quilt.

4) Catch up on BOM’s.

5) Play with the potato chip blocks and the 5” squares.

6) Borders for June workshop quilt. I found the nine patch blocks I made for the borders, so I should be able to make progress on it.

7) Stuff some of the pumpkins I sewed.

8) Work on the pincushion kit I bought.

9) Replace borders on raffle quilt.

Wow, that’s a lot! It’s more of an inspiration than a goal, so I will see what gets done. I shouldn’t have too many other things on the schedule this week, so I can pick and choose what I want to work on. 

Have a good week everyone. I am linking this post to Quilt Schmilt.