Monday Meandering 8 - 28 - 2023

The bad news (for me) is I'm starting later tonight than I usually do.  The good news (for readers) is in the next day or two I'll post another Mysteries and Quilt Alongs.  Hopefully it will be done by Wed. 

I'm jumping right in on the goals list. 

✅Work on misc blocks: √FCQ Equilter blocks, √retreat blocks, √red and yellow RSC blocks — More FCQ Equilter blocks and retreat blocks need to be made. Red and yellow Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks are done. Here are pictures of all of them. 

Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks in red and yellow.

October Retreat lotto blocks.

FCQ Equilter blocks due by the end of September.

In case you really like these 9 Patch Shoo Fly blocks you can see how they are made at Missouri Star: https://www.missouriquiltco.com/blogs/missouri-star-quilting-tutorials/nine-patch-shoofly-quilt-tutorial They are made with 2 2.5" strips of a light and a dark.(ie 4 strips)  I don't tend to buy jelly rolls all that much so I have been cutting my own strips from fat quarters or small bits of leftover fabrics. I've got several more cut out except I realized I forgot to cut some of the 2.5" squares. So I'll be showing some more of these in the next week or two. 

✅Take out Tee shirt quilt and plan it out — planned and background fabric purchased.

✅Buy background and finish cutting Malted Mystery — more of the grey fabric is on order but I haven’t begun cutting yet.

Clean up the front of the cutting table — I can see progress but I doubt anyone else can. I’ve been using various dies to cut the fabric hanging around the front of the cutting table.

Here's my list for this week. 

8/28/23

Continue the clean up of the front of the cutting table

Quilt customer quilt

Bind the big pinwheel quilt

Finish the FCQ Equilter blocks and work on more retreat blocks

There's just a little difference between last week's goals and this week's. Hopefully I will continue to make big progress on the cutting table. 

And here's a little problem I had last week. (Or was it the week before?) 

I call it the cake mistake. We like carrot cake so I made one.  The recipe came from my aunt and I've made it many, many times.  Except I noticed I'd put a sticky note on it giving the info that the frosting recipe made too much frosting and gave amounts for a half a recipe.  I followed it but this is all I could cover. SIGH. Eventually I made another half recipe and got it covered.  But for some reason the cream cheese dressing just tasted like regular buttercream frosting. Another sigh. It was too much cake for us so we finally put quite a few pieces in the freezer and will enjoy them later.  

I'm looking forward to this week as a few days will be only in the 70s. Whoop! Whoop! And, we'll have a night or two go down in the 50s! 😃  We tend not to turn the oven on if the temps are in the high 80s and above.  I did turn it on for the cake  but most of the summer we are microwaving, air frying or grilling our evening meal. I'm looking forward to making banana bread and some cookies. Do you bake during the summer? 

That's it for tonight. Please enjoy surfing these web sites to see what is going on across the internet. 

Oh Scrap

Design Wall Monday

Monday Musings

Sew and Tell

To Do Tuesday

I'll be back to link up to the other parties. (And, hopefully I'll do that in a timely manner!) 

Happy Quilting All! Bonnie 

Monday Meandering 8 - 20 - 2018

Here's Mr or Miss Bear all finished.  When I decide to make clothes I'll decide whether Bear is a boy or a girl.  I'm not sure when I'll get to making clothes but some day.  Bear was lounging around on the deck of the community center when I had the photo shoot last week.  I realize I have a label for bear -- but it was for a bear walking around some houses I was driving by in Pa. Big difference!

Next up are blocks I'm getting ready to mail out to Alycia for her Flags for Sue campaign.  Alycia makes quits for Quilts of Valor and Sue was one of her dedicated sewers who passed away this year.  In her honor Alycia is collecting blocks and making more Quilts of Valor.  It's not too late if you want to make some to send to Alycia. Check out info on Flags for Sue on Alycia's blog. She would like them mailed by September 1. Here are the 3 I'm sending off this week. 

To the left of the flags I've got my bargello quilt laid out.  I'm adding strips below the finished section as I want it a little bigger.  I'll be working on it a lot this week -- the month is almost up and this is my OMG.  

My last set of blocks is for the October retreat.  We are making 12" blocks out of Christmas fabric. ARGH!  I just reread the directions and these are WRONG!  I was suppose to use Christmas fabric with WHITE... not what I did. And, darn, I cut another pair of blocks out before I finished today. Ok, so, it won't be all that hard to change to white and Christmas.  In fact I'm betting the blocks will look better with a white.  And, I definitely have white on whites.  I think this red just screams in this picture. 

On to my weekly goals.  It was another terrific week where I finished everything I planned to work on! And, it was a fairly long list.  I actually was able to quilt a customer quilt and another charity quilt this past week.  I was staying focused! 

August 13, 2018

Finish binding strippy quilt√

Add legs and tail to bear√

Bind framed 7 ½” squares√

Work on 9 patches for flower pots quilt√

Start sewing more strips to bargello√

Finish piecing the string borders for Jamestown Landing√ or at least I think I have enough!

And here's my plan for this week.  I've got several days away from the house so I won't be getting as much sewing done.  I cut back on my goals somewhat. 

August 20, 2018

Bind charity quilt

Finish 9 patches for flower pots quilt

Continue working on bargello 

Make more Christmas lotto blocks for Oct. retreat

Celebrate Natalie's and Sophie's birthdays

I'm linking up with my regular blogs: Oh Scrap, Monday Making,  Main Crush Monday, and Moving It Forward.  If the link isn't live yet I'll come back and set it soon.  (Assuming I remember to!) 

Happy Quilting All! Bonnie 

Work in Progress Wednesday

I'm on the lookout for additional linky parties that will motivate me to actually write a blog post.  Work in Progress Wednesday sounds like it might be a good one to try.  Hum, and how about Sew Fresh Quilts' Let's Bee Social.  

Here's something I've been working on (and not on) for a while.  I want to make 10 blocks. They will go into a lottery drawing in October at retreat.  Every block I've made I've had to unstitch something. Often I have caught the mistake before I've sewn the final block together.  This time, I have had the block on the wall (different layout) for a day before I really looked at it. Oops!

One of these is not like the other! 

It's only a small mistake but boy does it mess with the block design. Eventually I'll fix this and make the 5 more I want.  

I've been quilting a donation quilt and a couple of customers quilts.  Binding is getting done and eyes are being sewn on.  There should be a finish coming up soon.  We'll see which quilt I finish first. 

I'm linking up with Freshly Pieced and Sew Fresh Quilts.  

Happy Quilting All!