Monday Meanderings 12 - 15 - 2025

Phew! What a week! And, now the weather has turned super cold. When we walked Sunny around 6:30 pm tonight the 'feels like' temperature was 0º. It was actually 19º but the wind was really blowing. Luckily she did her business really fast. We aren't used to this much cold weather and certainly not in December.  I'm looking forward to the forecasted 58º coming (hopefully) Wednesday. 

Now it's time to see how I did on my goals this busy concert week. 

12/8/25

✅✅✅Sing three concerts, ✅✅2 rehearsals and ✅enjoy one party — a great week of music and friends. 

✅✅Finish binding framed 9 patch quilts — both done! 

✅Make November’s Cali-Co block — done just one more to do.

✅Make another R,W,B block for Equilter — done.

No pictures from our concerts. We had great audiences for all the concerts. It was a real challenge for the Spotsylvanians concerts as our director was sick and couldn't come. Luckily our assistant conductor took over and did a really great job. No rehearsals for about a month.  Hum, what will I do instead of those rehearsals?  Probably work on cleaning up the studio and sewing. 

Here's the November Cali-Co block. Only one more block before I can start to put the blocks together. 

 Last week I shared a paper pieced block that I couldn't sew together because one piece was too small.  I thought it was a problem with the pattern but a friend suggested I check to see if all the papers were printed at the same percentage.  I looked at one of the middle sections and realized the printing on the back was substantially smaller than the other three. I reprinted it at 100% and 97% (the computer came up with that number.) I believe all of the other papers were printed at 97%. There wasn't much visible difference. Here's the final result. The only draw back is the block measures 12" rather than 12.5".  I told my friend and she was willing to work with it. I am going to send her 1.5" strips of the same white in case she wants to frame it up to the right size. 

Here are all the blocks I've made so far.  She asked us not to send them to her until January as she was going to see her kids over Christmas.  So, who knows whether I'll keep making blocks for her.  I've enjoyed the ones I've made so far. 

Here's what I'm planning to do this week.  I still have some Christmas shopping to do so I haven't listed a whole lot of goals. 

12/15/25

Baste Tall Trees and start quilting it

Quilt customer quilt

Finish December clue for Magnificent Mystery 

Make last block for Cali-co mystery. 

I may not actually finish the Magnificent Mystery clue this week but I'm going to give it a try.  The first part is to make 120 half square triangles.  Um, that may take a while. I've got the first 60 HSTs cut by my Accuquilt. Once I get them made I'll cut and sew the rest. After they are made, they will be used to make another unit. Here's what the cut pieces look like ready to sew. It's going to require a lot of time to get all of these done. Sixty HSTs in stacks of ten ready to put under the needle. 

I was successful with my 15 minutes of stitching every day. It helped to think ahead during the concert days. 

W/ending 12/14/25. 348 days of 2025

• 15 minute days/December 7/7
• 15 minute days/2025 = 346/348 days
• Success rate = 99.4%

Not a bad number -- I should be able to continue this through the end of the year. Yikes -- I just realized there are only 16 days until the beginning of the New Year. Wow! Time has been flying by.  It's time to start listing UFOs to finish next year and quilts I want to make.  Do you set year long goals? 

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