Monday Meanderings - 9 - 25 - 2023

One week until retreat.  Things are getting done and progress is being made.  But I bet this week will fly by. 

I was busy all week and mostly with quilty things. Check out my goals from last week. 

9/18/23

✅Continue sewing secret items…  -- I'm about 2/3rds done.  

✅Cut 2nd new project for retreat -- see below, I'm ridiculous! 

✅Continue the clean up of the front of the cutting table -- I continue to trim, stash and throw scraps on the cutting table.

✅Finish getting Flower Song fabric cut so I can finish the top at retreat -- all ready to go.

✅Cut the background fabric and start the first third clue of Malted Mystery -- photo evidence below.

✅Work on Ombre Log Cabin as time permits -- I've been moving blocks around and I think I have a workable layout. Unfortunately, many of the blocks were sewn together earlier this year. Now I'm ripping and moving a few blocks. Should be done by Tuesday as I don't get any sewing done on Mondays. 

And, yes, I did get all of those things done. Here's my Malted Mystery clue minus the gazillion half square triangles. (Ok, I only made 48 HSTs and still have another 64 of a different size to make. But, they weren't used in the units we made this month. So I'll do them as time allows.) 

I talked my friend Sharon into making last year's Meadow Mist mystery quilt and we did them while Face Timing.  We enjoyed it last year so we've continued doing it this year. We try to sew together once a month or so anyway.   

I would share a photo of the 2nd new project for retreat except, um, er.... I can't find it. I know I cut it out. I know I put it in a zip lock bag. I know I put it somewhere. And that is all I know. I've been looking off and on for a couple of days and it hasn't shown up. OH GOOD GRIEF! It was a very simple quilt using some Charlie Brown and Snoopy squares.  I'll let you know if I find it. Sigh. 

9/25/23

Cut new project for retreat 

Finish sewing secret items…

Prep Ombre Log Cabin by finish sewing rows together, cut setting triangles

Quilt one of my small quilts or do an embroidery 

Continue the clean up of the front of the cutting table (I think this is going to be a permanent reminder....) 

Every Monday I go to a hand stitching group at the community clubhouse.  I've actually been finishing some old projects off and on.  And, starting some new projects.  Last month I focused on making a couple more hats for children.  Here's another one where I used some fun furry yarn. (Nope, not going to do that any more. I was lucky enough to use it all up with this hat, thank goodness.) 

This is probably a toddler size hat. I'm using a fairly small loom ring to make these hats. I'm really trying to make a dent in my yarn stash. (You can see another crazy, furry hat here.)

Three hats. I made the two in the front and a friend made the one in the back. These are easy to do and, yep, they use up yarn! 

I'm done in today.  So I'm moving right into the Linky parties I'll be joining. (I try to link up early Monday or Tuesday mornings to the links that aren't available Sunday evenings. Sometimes I forget.  Usually I remember eventually. If I remember...) 

 

Oh Scrap

Design Wall Monday

Monday Musings

Sew and Tell 

To Do Tuesday

I hope you have as much fun seeing what folks are working on as I do. Yep, it does get me into trouble because I want to make quilts like the ones I see.  I'm trying to be strong but I'm not having much luck.  Sigh, again. 

Happy Quilting All! Bonnie 

Monday Meandering 5 - 4 - 2020

Welcome May!  The gardens are gorgeous as we take our walks.  And, the lawns have greened up and have needed mowing twice a week this week. Staying home worked for me this week.  I was successful on two of my goals.  Especially quilting the huge quilt.  Here's a peek at what I got done.  

First I finished making pinwheel blocks and got them sewn together in to a top.  Unfortunately the top has been put in the closet to be quilted after I get a backing for it.  Eventually it will be donated as a Quilt of Valor. 

 My biggest finish was the quilting on the king size quilt for the local guild. I won't be able to show the whole quilt until later.  But here's one of the blocks. 

Actually, that's the only two things I got completed on my list, but I was so happy to finish the quilting.  It wasn't on the list, but I once again started working on a hand quilting project.  Talk about a UFO!  I started this quilt on a mystery quilt weekend in 1995 (or so.) I've been hand quilting it for years. (Or maybe not quilting so much as letting it sit around a lot!) I am stitching 8 strands of quilting around the outside border.  I'm about half done but I only get a little bit done each time I work on it.  

And, since it's the beginning of new month, here are my statistics for April.

2020	Fabric In Month	Fabric In Year	Fabric Out Month	Fabric Out Year	Total In or Out Year
April	2.625	28.000	9.000	23.625	4.375

Even though I've been making masks like crazy and finished one small quilt, I still haven't made up for all that fabric I bought in Feb and March.  The yardage in is fabric I was given by someone getting rid of her fabric.  Most of it I have in a separate box and didn't count it as coming into my stash.  But I was in need of white on whites so I decided I would just add them to the stash. Maybe by the end of May I'll have made a dent in fabric! 

Here's my goals for this week: 

1) Sewing all the churwndash blocks into a top. Several rows were sewn together last week.  I'm hoping to get these into a top. 
2) Loading and quilting my granny square blocks on Ruthie. 
3) Starting a new quilt.  (To heck with all these UFO's for a week!) 
4) Updating my spread sheets on UFOs and batting pieces.  It's still my maybe goal. All the other ones I really want to keep up with. 

I'm linking with Oh Scrap, Slow Sunday Stitching, Monday Making, and Design Wall Monday.  Spend some time seeing what people are working on during these extra days at home. 

Happy Quilting and Stay Safe!  Bonnie