Welcome to October -- we have put up most of our Halloween decorations including 4 or 5 quilts. Yep, I really have that many Halloween specific quilts. The smallest is about 8 x 10"; the largest is about 36 x 52". One of these days I should take pictures of all our Halloween decorations -- inside and outside. Pat has made some fun wood designs for the outside.
I did pretty well on my goals this week. Lots of check marks. Yea! Plus I got my Covid and Flu vaccines. Here's what I did on the quilting front.
9/30/24
✅Finish the border on Halloween top — finished but now thinking of quilting!
√Make 2nd ornament — It is started, should finish w/o 10/7.
✅Quilt one of my tops — maybe the Halloween one — nope, picked the animals snowball quilt and it is done.
✅Layout more blue blocks and make top — 2 laid out, ready to sew at retreat.
✅Finish hand sewing binding on baby quilt — done, ready to donate somewhere.
✅A late addition — border the panel quilt — finished. I forgot to add this one to my goals so it was an add on.
First up the finished Halloween top. I didn't have enough of my first choice black fabric but I was very happy to find another black on black that I could use for the border and the binding. I plan to quilt this on my domestic machine because I don't want an over all design. (My long arm was updated last year but I can no longer do ruler work. For me, that isn't an issue.)
And, I was quite happy to get the borders on the panel quilt. Supposedly, I have another cabin panel in my stash. So far, I haven't found it though. I'll take out my fabric stacks and really go through them carefully one of these days.
Sharon shared some of her stash as I didn't have the right size leftover pieces for the cream fabric around the half star. I auditioned several fabrics for the center star part. Her multicolored piece really made the design stand out. She was happy to have some of her stash used especially since I really only looked at leftover fabrics. (I miss cut one of the squares and I had to sew two pieces together to get the last square of the cream fabric. Sigh.)
I laid out two sets of dark and light blue blocks I received from the FCQ Equilters. I've got them pinned together along with a picture of each layout so that I can sew them together at retreat. Hum, I may move the dark blocks so the two darkest are on the same row. If I don't remember I don't think the baby would mind!
Here are my goals for this week. I probably have more than enough kits made up for retreat a week from now. But, it's always nice to have more than needed. Hopefully it will be a light week in my studio.
10/7/24
Bind the Animal Snowball blocks
Quilt customer’s quilt
Make kit with leftover baby buggy fabric
Finish acorn block
Layout a set of Stashbusting blocks to sew at retreat
Pack up retreat supplies.
I've been working on our lotto blocks for retreat over the last week or two. I made quite a few of the leaf blocks but then I reread the directions -- I was suppose to use blue for the sky as the background fabric. Oops! Here are the 3 that are finished. That acorn block is fiddly! I've got a second one started but I don't think I'll make any more. Entries into the drawing require both blocks.
I keep making progress on getting tops quilted. I think I've done 4 since the last week of August. Unfortunately, I've probably finished 4 tops since that time too. Although I don't know how many plastic coat hangers I have, I do know I don't have anymore empty ones. I need to up my quilting game.
Linky parties I'm signing up for this week: Stitching Stuff, Oh Scrap, Design Wall Monday, and Monday Musings.
Nearly forgot to post my Stitching Stuff results. It was a good week for stitching.
W/ending 10/06 — 280 days in to 2024.
- 15 minute days/week = 1/1 days
- 15 minute days/Sept = 6/6
- 15 minute days/2024 = 270/280 days
- Success rate = 96.4%
