Winter has really arrived in the Mid-Atlantic states. Last Monday my iPhone showed this for our weather. Supposedly 7 snowy days out of 9 days. Luckily we didn't have that much snow. We had snow on Thursday. Not too bad. Then a bit of rain on Friday with more snow overnight. And Saturday it was mostly sleet with snow during the day. Nothing is really melting yet. But it will be as there is only one day this week showing snow/rain. I guess it will depend on when it starts raining if it becomes snow.
No pictures yet of the T shirt quilt but the quilting was done by noon on Saturday. One day this past week I pulled out the bits of yellow and white units. I laid out what I had and came up with an idea for a 3 block table runner. (Yes, I like smaller runners as we keep our table small unless we have a crowd.) I did get a few other blocks made too. So, overall, I was really happy with what I finished this past week. I've got several more blocks cut out ready to be sewn too. That left me more than enough time to really clean up my cutting table on Sunday.
Now for this coming week:
2/15/2021
Bind T shirt quilt
Finish piecing yellow table runner
Quilt one of my quilts
Start another basket
Stitch up RSC yellow blocks and FCQ Equilter's blocks
My guess is I'll probably do more but this list is what I really want to get done. I need to decide on what project I should work on next. It might make sense to work on a UFO so I'll look through my list and see what strikes my fancy.
NEWS FLASH: I forgot an entire quilt when I reported my January stashbusting statistics. It was my Wild Snowball quilt that I posted on February 1. (You can also see what my cutting table looked like before the big clean up in the same post.) It added another 4.25 yards. Here are the new statistics. It made the month look even better than it was! I'm hoping I don't succumb to buying any fabric this month. I've succeeded for half a month.
2021 | Fabric In Month | Fabric In Year | Fabric Out Month | Fabric Out Year | Total In or Out Year |
Jan | 8.000 | 8.000 | 14.50 | 14.50 | 6.50 |
That's it for this week. I'm linking with my regular parties: Oh Scrap, Monday Making, Design Wall Monday, and To Do Tuesday*. * I'll link up on Tuesday hopefully but will see if I remember. Plus the linky party is being moved to another blog. I'll let you know where it is then. Thanks to the gals at Home Sewn by Us for hosting To Do Tuesday for quite a long time. And thanks, also, to Chris at Chris Knits for taking on the linky party.
Happy Quilting All! Bonnie
Each week I endeavor to not buy more fabric I fail! LOL. I am trying to clean up my surfaces after each sewing session, but there's a bit of pile up going on with some of the surfaces!
ReplyDeleteYour sewing room is a dream! You've had good stash usage this year already - congratulations. And congratulations for completing all your goals from last week too.
ReplyDeleteWow - you have a wonderful cutting table. But even more room to make a mess I suppose. I had to laugh when I followed the link to the messy version. I just cleaned up my cutting station too, and it will only stay neat until the next fun of cutting something new.
ReplyDeleteIt is nearly impossible to keep a tidy sewing room. The minute I start a new project, the piles appear. My sister has a similar set up as yours in her Sweat Shop.
ReplyDeletelovely sewing space bonnie...
ReplyDeleteMy cutting table is piled high AGAIN this week, though occasionally it does reappear. I'm cutting a lot of different fabrics for a scrappy quilt and that always makes a big mess.
ReplyDeleteNice cutting table!
ReplyDeleteIt has been the perfect sewing weather in NoVA too. That icicle picture is so winter wonderland, I can almost see Cinderella's glass slipper beyond. I am glad you took a picture of the cleaned up studio space. You know it never lasts long :-D
ReplyDeleteSounds like a very busy week you have planned . I can not wait to see your t-shirt quilt. I have my daughter's sports t-shirts saved for just a project. With the chances of snow in the forecast, it sounds like perfect weather for you to stay in and get a lot of quilting done. Stay warm and safe, Bonnie and Happy quilting.
ReplyDeleteThanks for linking up to To-Do! Is your table still cleared? LOL
ReplyDeleteIt seems the weather people like to create weather drama! I always say whatever the predicted snow amount is, take the lesser of the two numbers and divide by 2! What panto did you use on your t-shirt quilt?
ReplyDeleteYou got a lot done in a week. Nice job. We had very similar weather.
ReplyDeleteYou had a good week last week, hope this week has been as good. It's been a very snowy winter here this year. I'm ready for spring!
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