Monday Meanderings 7 - 27 - 2020

Are you getting more forgetful the longer this Covid issue goes on?  I  am.  I keep forgetting little things. Oops, did I forget to brush my teeth?  Why did I walk downstairs?  Mostly, the things I forget aren't really that important.  It's just I notice it more these days.  Oh well.  I did remember to work on almost all of my goals.  Let's take a look at last week's goals to see how I did. 

Goals 7-20

Quilt another personal quilt ✔️ Pictures to come. 

Make more blocks: dogs✔️, Winter paper pieced✔️, CP ✔️ Finished: 1 dog, 2 penguins, 2 more CP in the works. 

Finish Painting Wood Block ✔️ Picture to come. 

Set the airplane blocks from last year’s Rainbow Scrap.  Didn't even look at this - no room on the design wall.

I have sworn off paper piecing for a while after I finished two new penguin blocks.  I auditioned some sashing -- but no.  So, I'll wait for a new quilt store to open next month to check for fabric there.  This guy will be even cuter when he gets his eyes.  He's suppose to have a belly button. I know he's hatched from an egg but Mary designed him and the other one I made as belly button penguins just for laughs.  

Hum, I wonder if I actually finished a dog this week. Oops, nope that was last week.  I did traced some Wonder Under to do a couple of appliquéd dogs.  Maybe I'll actually make one or two this week. 

I didn't take pictures of the 2 CP blocks I started.  Last year the guild made blocks from the book The Anniversary Sampler by Donna Lynn Thomas. I started late but I think I've finished 13 and have 3 in progress now.  Two need to be hand appliquéd down and one I just tried to do a quarter of it as it had "Y" seams. That went ok so I'll do the rest over this week. I'm aiming for 25 blocks.  You can see other blocks here.  (And look under it for the bunny block I'll be talking about below...) I haven't decided if I like the big floral print I've used as the surrounding of the blocks in the link.  I may need to tone that down a LOT.  But I have about 5 yards of the fabric that needs to be used. It's 30 years old or so.  Time to GO! I'll probably incorporate  6" blocks not in the book because I'm not that interested in all the blocks. 

The little bunny block is part of the Silver Lining Quilt Along.  The last block comes out this week and it is time to decide what to put with the blocks.  So here are two choices for a square of fab between the blocks.  Do you like the bunnies? Or do you prefer the white polka dots on pink.  I sure hope you said the white polka dots on pink because I don't have enough of the bunnies to use them. Plus a lot of the blocks have either the bunny fabric or the flower fabric on the edges and you just lose the block. I've got three blocks to finish before I can put this together.  These blocks might be two doll quilts. Or a really small baby quilt. 

Bonnie Hunter's Easy Breezy block challenge. I just really like this one and wanted to share it.

And I nearly forgot to add my goals for this week. I don't often have customer quilts to quilt.  But all of a sudden I'm getting more interest.  I've got 2 in house although one needs a batting and I'm waiting for new thread. And, another one is coming in soon. Hum.  As long as I have time to do my own quilting and piecing! 

Goals 7-27 

Quilt Customer Quilt

Bind Pirate Quilt

Bind Braid Shuffle Quilt

Finish blocks for Silver Lining QAL

Set the airplane blocks from last year’s Rainbow Scrap

It's time to start surfing the web now.  Join me by going to these linky parties and seeing what folks are working on.  I don't know about you but I keep getting more and more ideas.  I'm trying to finish things but I may just bust out a new project one of these days!  Oh Scrap, Monday Making, Design Wall Monday, and Main Crush Monday.  I sure hope I remember to come back and link with these parties!  

I leave you with a sign of the times. We were out a few times later in the week and threw the masks in the washer.  But we hung them up to dry.  Hum, maybe we should have dried them as the heat gets pretty intense in the drier but not so much in the washer.  At least they are clean and well spun. 

Happy Quilting All! Bonnie 

Monday Meandering 7 - 6 - 2020

Some goals were finished, but I became a raccoon and started a new project. I've wanted to do a Lone Star quilt for years and finally decided to give it a try.  I bought Debby Kratovil's Big Block Lone Star pattern.  I wasn't planning to make it right away but as the Fourth of July crept up I decided I needed a wall hanging to hang during patriotic holidays.  So I succumbed to starting a new project.  I jumped in on Friday

I was whipping along and got most of it put together by Friday evening. By the time I quit on Friday I was able to see how the borders were going to look. 

My quilting mojo was low on Saturday.  I was into a book I was reading so I really didn't get much done. I was able to sew the top half to the bottom half. Fast forward to Sunday and I was able to get the borders on. All these fabrics came from my stash. The red and beige were leftovers from wide backs. 

Next up is deciding how I'm going to quilt this.  I'd love to do some fancy quilting on it. But it depends on whether I have computer designs that might work.  I'll be checking out my designs and what's available on line this week.  I also need to look at some lone stars to see how other people quilted theirs.  

Needless to say this little activity caused me to not get all my goals done.  But I did get most done.

W/O 6/29/2020

Bind Ninja Stars quilt✔️ done!

Ninja Stars Done! 

Work on Christmas paper pieced ufo✔️ 5 blocks finished, 4 to go. 

Quilt customer top✔️ finished and returned! 

Load next personal quilt  Picked one but haven't made backing or loaded. 

So here's what I'm planning to work on this week.

W/O 7/6

Load, quilt and bind Pirates Quilt

Make Silver Lining Block 8 & 9

Continue on Christmas paper pieced ufo

Plan quilting for Lone Star quilt 

I also started Bonnie Hunter's Easy Breezy Leader & Ender Challenge. I usually don't participate in these Leader & Ender challenges since I have so many blocks sets waiting to become quilt tops.  But I like this one so much that I've decided to do it. Here's my first one.  I chose 6" blocks but you can also make 4" blocks.  I need to make up some kits so I don't run out when I'm sewing other projects. (the color isn't exactly right on this one... but I did decide that the two dark fabrics need more contrast with the light fabric.) 

Pat and I walk almost every evening.  When we were out the other day we found these flamingos in front of one of our friend's house. 

It turns out a friend of ours had made a donation to Bickford Senior Living for their Alzheimer  Association fund raiser and could arrange for flocks of flamingos to grace a yard. You can read about it here. We are seeing lots of flocks in our neighborhood.  (Just a note -- we live in an active senior citizen community of single family homes that just happens to be right across from Bickford.)  I'm getting a kick out of all these flocks. 

I'm linking up with Oh Scrap, Monday Making, and Design Wall Monday.  Join me as we see what's happening in studios across the world.  

Happy Quilting All!  Bonnie