Monday Meanderings 11 - 18 - 2024

Did you realize we are halfway through November?  Any minute now it will 2025. Kate who blogs at Life in Pieces is already talking about 2025 goals.  I mentioned I had one goal I wanted to do but haven't even considered starting it.  I may save the last 2 weeks of the year to try to do it. I think I'll start thinking about fabric/colors now.  Maybe I'll actually give it a try once I have fabrics picked. 

I did fairly well on my goals list this week. I actually thought it was a really full list and I wouldn't finish it all.  But you will see I did almost all of the goals. 

11/11/24

✅Bind Malted Mystery quilt -- finished! 

✅Attend 2nd machine mastery class -- done! 

✅Buy binding and bind Lone Star -- done and photos have been taken. 

✅Put border on Frolicking Frogs -- done! And now in line to be quilted.

✅Put  first section of Fall Appliqué together -- done, ready for the border. 

Quilt a quilt on Ruthie -- sigh! Didn't get to it. But I've got the top picked out and I have the backing for it. 

Here's Frolicking Frogs. By the way that is the pattern name.  I think I'll be calling it Soccer Frolick from now on.  I put the border on and now need to buy (or find) backing for it.  Notice the bottom left corner? I meant to have the player right side up but decided I'd leave him upside down when I sewed the row on the wrong side. Maybe before I quilt it I'll switch the row around.   

I was happy to get the fabric I needed to make the main section of my fall appliqué. It's ready for me to find a border now. I'm taking this with me to the machine lesson to find a border. And, I'll need a backing too, someday. 

Here's what I'm working on next week.

11/18/2024

Quilt a top on Ruthie

Attend 3rd (last) machine mastery class

Finish another ornament

Pick a block set and make into a top

Finish Fall Applique top 

Pick another UFO from this year’s list and work on it

I've kept up my 15 minutes of stitching all week.  I'm hoping I can continue stitching every day for the rest of the year.  

W/ending 11/17  — 322 days in to 2024. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7
• 15 minute days/Nov = 17/17
• 15 minute days/2024 = 313/322 days
• Success rate = 97.%

I've been trying to decide on a block to request from the FCQ Equilters. My 2 months starts December 1.  I decided to try a potato chip block. Hum, this one doesn't do much for me.  The concept was to have the darks in the center and outside, lights in the middle. But, I'm not very happy with this block. I may make a whole quilt with this idea but I'm not asking the Equilters to make them for me. 

I see making some more trial blocks in my future.  I've got a couple more to try. Hopefully I'll make a decision soon!  

Thursday afternoon I attended another craft group at the clubhouse. We had several different ornaments we could make.  I tried a fabric star and a couple of snowmen from corks. (see the circle? Those are mine.)  Here's a picture of the originals -- on the tree, and all the ones we made that afternoon.  I still need to figure out the ribbons on the snowmen and the hangers for all three.  On the other hand, I don't need to make ornaments for myself.  But I like the cork snowmen enough to add them to whatever tree we put up this year. 

I'll try to remember to add photos of the finished ornaments.  

Here are the parties I'm linking up with this week.  Stitching Stuff, Oh Scrap, Design Wall Monday, Monday Musing and To Do Tuesday.  I probably won't be linking up the Monday parties until late afternoon.  I'm off to the last machine class early Monday morning and then on to my stitching group. Then I'll do the link ups. 

Happy Quilting All!  Bonnie