That was the temperature of my car after sitting for 2 hours while I attended the Gathering of the Guilds on Sunday. Yikes. The evening news called for 100˚ several days this week. And it isn't going under 70˚ at night. Yikes. Summer hit with a vengeance here. Thank goodness the studio is in the basement! It's almost always cool down there. On to goals!
6/16/25
Quilt another quilt
✅Make binding and ✅bind my quilt
Add borders to Whirl
✅Cut Cornerpost top
✅Attend Gathering of the Guilds
The most obvious thing about the goals is I didn't do all of my list. I was listless last week. 😉 I did load the backing of the next quilt. And I bound last week's quilt. What I am very happy about was all the great comments/suggestions for the Whirl top. I was thinking it would be a baby quilt but now I'm not sure that's where it will go. I took Nann's advice to look for a multicolor floral. When I hadn't thought of that before. DUH! Guess what I found in my multicolored fabrics? Yep, a very nice iris print that I think will work well with the Whirls top. Take a look:
Since I wasn't very motivated last week I just hung it on the wall. I think it is actually a directional print and it's upside down in the pic. I'm pretty sure I have enough to cut 3 to 4" borders and have the design going the same way. I cropped the excess that was hanging below the top out of the picture. I don't think I'm going to put a small border before the print border. So, now all I have to do is cut the right size pieces and sew them on. Yea. (Hopefully I'm motivated to do that this week!)
I was able to cut out Cornerpost and put it in my stack of kits ready to go on the next retreat.
Sunday was the Gathering of the Guilds in central Virginia. There were 5 guilds represented. We gathered at a new barn in Culpepper. Use this link to see a gallery of photos inside the barn as I forgot to take pictures during the event. It's often used for wedding and other events. The owners of Magnolia Way Farms generously let us use their space for free. Members of the guilds came with bingo blocks, buttons for markers, and food to share. We had a great time answering some questions such as how many sewing machines do you have. The answer choices were 1 to 2, 3 to 5, and 6 or more. We were pretty surprised that the most people stood for 6 or more machines! Yikes. Then it was on to bingo. I had made one block (forgot to take a picture of it, sorry) and decided not to make two. My seat mate had gone crazy making blocks so I played with two and my bag of buttons. There were a slew of prizes for bingo and also for drawings as we each got to put two tickets in the basket for prize drawings. Quite a few people won some great prizes. (As much as I like to win prizes I really don't need more fabric -- I wasn't disappointed that I didn't win anything!)
Afterwards I took a walk to the goat pens. Evidently approximately 25 goats live on the farm. As I walked toward the pens it didn't look like there were any goats in them. But, as I got closer several got up and wandered to the front so I could give them a little scratch on their heads and say hello. I'm sure they wished they could have been in a lovely air conditioned building like the quilters were! I took pictures of several different goats. But I'm only sharing one of them. I'm pretty sure this one was a young one. (And no, I wouldn't want it walking on me if I were doing yoga!) But it was really cute.
So here is my plan for this week.
6/23/25
Quilt another quilt
Add borders to Whirl
Make June's block for Cali-Co mystery
Attend Road to Virginia
Begin quilting guild's charity quilt
Considering how hot it is going to be I'll enjoy being in the cooler basement/studio. But will I be highly motivated? I really need to get both quilts listed on Ruthie and get them finished off. I'll keep you posted.
Here's my 15 Minutes to Stitch statistics.
W/ending 6/22/25. 173 days of 2025
- 15 minute days/June = 22/30
- 15 minute days/2024 = 173/173 days
- Success rate = 100%
It's time to finish this post up. Please take time to visit some of these Linky Parties and visit a few blogs to see what quilters are doing around the world.
Design Wall Monday
Monday Musings
So fess up! How many sewing machines do you own? I have 5 which you can see on my 6/13/25 post celebrating Sew Machine Day. (I only show 4 of them.) What I might not have mentioned is over the last year or so I got rid of one of my machines. I had what I called a Singer Heavy Weight. My mother had purchased it used in the mid 1950s. I can remember her making me dresses for school on it. The problem was it weighed so much more than a Featherweight it was never going to work as a travel machine. I donated it to a group from my guild that are teaching others how to sew. Win-win from my point of view.
Happy Quilting All! Bonnie
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