What a difference a week has made. By the end of last Monday night I couldn't talk at all. Well I tried but I couldn't get much sound to project. I could whisper a bit but no voice. By Tuesday I felt horrible and went to what we call a Doc in a Box, ie a clinic where you can be seen pretty quickly. Turns out I had/have a sinus infection. Antibiotics cleared up the aching sinus cavity but the nose was drippy, the voice was still gone, and I was wiped out. Except for running a few errands on Wed I stayed home the whole week. I slept, I knit a little, I read a lot and I sewed some. I am happy to report I'm feeling much better but I'm not ready to jump up and have some fun. (May be I'd jump up and play in the studio though!)
I'm happy that I got anything done in the studio this week. Saturday and Sunday I got most of what I wanted to do, done. Here's what my goals from last week look like.
11/11/25
Finish Tall Tree sections ✅6 & 7 and ✅2nd skirt section — 7 is started but didn’t get finished.
✅Sew clue 5 of Magnificent Mystery together — started but not finished.
Begin quilting on In Home Round Robin — nope, didn’t happen.
✅Continue sewing Benny rows together — a few rows have all the blocks sewn together.
✅Make more Economy blocks — several more blocks were finished.
I'm surprised I got this much done actually!
These are fabrics from my stash that I tried to use with the Magnificent Mystery greens. The fabric with the circles is what I was using for fabric D. Except, I ran out. Or at least I wouldn't have had enough to do all of Clue 5. I wash hoping I wouldn't have to go shopping. Except, none of these were enough either. Sigh -- So that was why I ran errands Wednesday.
And here's what I found that looks pretty good with fabric D. Ugh. It looks better in person -- the bottom fabric colors is off. Clue 5 had us making a bunch of 3.5" quarter square triangles. I decided to only use the new fabric on this clue. Earlier we did a clue with a bigger quarter square triangle that uses the original green. Hopefully it will all look good together.
Not bad looking quarter square triangles. a beige rectangle will be sewn on to the side of the beige triangle. I didn't get to it today.
No photos of the other projects. I've shown Benny and Economy blocks enough for the time being!
Here's my plan for this week. I have a king size top to quilt for a customer so that is my priority for the week. I doubt I'll get to all of these but the list will remind me what I want to accomplish.
11/17/25
Load quilt on Ruthie and start quilting it
Finish sewing Benny blocks into rows and getting rows sewn together
Finish Tall Tree sections 7, 8 and 3rd skirt section
Finish trimming small quarter square triangles units for Magnificent Mystery Quilt
Make the last of the Economy Blocks
I did pretty well with my 15 Minutes of Stitching. I missed one day as I just wasn't all that interested in it. I was happy to see my success percentage barely changed!
W/ending 11/16/25. 320 days of 2025
- 15 minute days/November 15/16
- 15 minute days/2024 = 318/320 days
- Success rate = 99.37%
Do you ever FaceTime with a friend while sewing? Sharon and I have been doing it since the Pandemic. We often do a mystery together -- someone to chat with while we're following the current clue. This year we're doing two mysteries together -- Magnificent Mystery from Meadow Mist Designs and Cali-co Mystery from Coriander Quilts. Cali-co will be finished next month. We've got 10 blocks done and we will be getting together online in the next week or two to do block 11 with Cali-co. Cheryl's Magnificent Mystery goes through the middle of next year. You can always start but make sure you down load all the patterns asap if you want to do them at your own time.
We were both trimming up the small quarter square blocks when I snapped this picture. Neither of us finished the whole clue this time so we'll be sewing on our own to get the rest done.
I'm linking up with these Linky parties. Have fun seeing what folks are working on around the world.
Happy Stitching All! Bonnie
