Monday Meanderings and Statistics 9 - 26 - 2022

Hum, the fourth Monday of September and I am just now sharing my stashbusting statistics for August. Pitiful, isn't it? I think the main issue is I didn't want to figure out fabric usage for my spring sampler quilt.  So I came up with the amount for a 6.5" square and added 25% for seams or appliqué.  It's probably correct for some of the blocks and too little or too much for a few.  But at least I'm moving forward!  It was a decent month when I realized I only brought in a half yard. Whoop! Whoop! Here are the numbers: 

2022	Fabric  In Month	Fabric In Year	Fabric Out  Month	Fabric Out Year	Total In or Out Year
Aug	0.5	71.75	6.5	89.25	17.5

Fan-tas-tic! I had that big addition of fabric this month and it's nice to have a 17.5 yard cushion.  Plus I did finish quilting a top today. So there will be some fabric used this month, even if it isn't going to be a lot. 

Not the best week for goals but I did succeed on some. Here's what I was aiming for this past week. 

9/19/22

✅Quilt and bind turquoise quilt — it is quilted but binding will be this week

✅Finish card challenge — and on display at Virginia Star’s booth at Virginia State Fair

Make 3 or more composition book covers √ Just 1 finished.

Make Sept BOM from A Quilting Life — oops again - maybe this week it’ll get done

Here's the turquoise quilt on Ruthie, the long arm... 

And for this week I'll be trying to do: 

9/26/22

Trim and bind turquoise quilt

Finish last 3 composition book covers

Make Sept BOM from A Quilting Life

Get projects ready for next week’s retreat

Go to Virginia State fair; man VaStar booth

Several of this week's goals are must do activities.  I've already started some work preparing projects for the retreat.  I'm trying to decide how many I want to take for 4 nights and about 4+ days. It's longer than usual and I'm guessing my stamina isn't what it used to be but I also don't want to run out of projects to work on. Decisions, decisions.

I'm ready to finish my current book. I don't know why all sorts of ebooks I've put on hold at the library are coming in at the same time.  Good grief. I've had to postpone several and they keep coming in even though many were listed to come at many weeks later than I actually was notified they were ready.  I haven't spent as much time reading in the last two weeks so hopefully I'll actually get all of them read before the due dates.  

Here's my favorite Monday Linky parties.  You know the drill -- spend the time visiting some and go forth into the Internet to read lots of blogs. You never know when you'll see a particularly fabulous quilt that inspires you to make one similar! I'll be back to link up the rest once they are available. 

Oh Scrap

Monday Making

Design Wall Monday

To Do Tuesday 

Thanks for all the get well wishes for Pat. He's feeling much better but still has drippy sinus.  I plan to test soon before I go to my chorus rehearsal.  Hopefully I'll continue to test negative for Covid. 

Here's a visitor to the backyard this morning.  This is a juvenile mourning dove from what I can tell. He sat at the top of the steps from the studio to the backyard for 5 or 10 minutes all puffed up.  I wonder if he is friends with the squirrel who visited a few weeks ago.

Happy Quilting all! Bonnie 

 

Monday Meanderings

Whee! What a weekend.  Or at least one day of the weekend. It proved I'm not a 30 OR 40 year old something  any more.  Our granddaughter's birthday was yesterday so the big celebration was at a waterpark.  It's actually a pretty amazing smaller water park about an hour and a quarter from our house. Slides, fountains, and a lazy river in which to enjoy a day of fun, sun and water.  My big thing was the lazy river which wasn't as lazy as it might have been.  Natalie the bd girl had a lot of fun doing all sorts of things.  Ellie and Sophie were doing the things they liked best.  Darling (or need I say daring) Theo was a real risk taker -- better described as going off in the lazy river by himself without telling us -- a couple of times.  EEK.  He's almost 5.  Wait til he's 16! Double EEK! 

I actually got a lot of quilting/sewing progress this week, just not yesterday.  (Did I mention the part it was about 1 hour 10 minutes away?  And it took us 2 1/2 hours to get home? Yea, the not fun part.) Anyway,  let's look at the goals list from last week: 

7/12/2021

✅Sew Positivity blocks together

✅Make a few Ombre log cabin blocks 

✅Quilt another quilt

Cut out customer’s quilt (nothing done...) 

✅Knit on baby blanket 

Here's the top I quilted still on Ruthie, the long arm.  I actually loaded 2+ yards of fabric and quilted two small quilts. (This is the second strippy-style quilt I made from one yard of fabric.) 

Here's what I hope to accomplish this week:

7/19/2021

Make July Table runner

Knit on baby blanket

Cut out customer blocks & begin sewing 

Attend quilt guild’s open sew — make patriotic happy blocks. 

I sure hope I can get all that done this week. 

One last comment on the travel time from the water park.  Within 3 miles of our house this happened...

What????  Crazy geese. Are Canadian geese still on the endangered species list?  Because every place I've lived in the last 20 years or so there have been an overabundance of them.

I'm linking to my regular linky parties: Oh Scrap, Monday Making, Design Wall Monday, and To Do Tuesday. Have fun checking out a bunch of blogs! 

 
Happy Quilting All!  Bonnie 

Design Wall Monday 12- 21 - 2015

The year is winding down -- ok, so that isn't exactly the way things are the week of Christmas -- all calm and easy.  I'm still plugging away at gifts and gift wrapping.  But most of the gifts are done.  Just a few remain to be finished -- hum maybe 4?  That's not so bad when there isn't a lot to do to finish them.  Oops, add three that need to be embroidered by tomorrow.  Not a problem.  I'll have those done today.  

Knowing that the grands don't get to read my blog I'm sharing the three pairs of mittens I've made.  There are hats to share too but I think I'll wait until after Christmas to share those. 

It was fun working with these yarns.  I purchased all the yarn along with the pattern at Knitting Addiction in Kitty Hawk, NC near the beach house.  

Do you have a table in your house that looks like this?  I've started the wrapping but I've got lots still to do.  Unlike my cutting table, this one is too low for me to work at it for any length of time.  So, a few at a time works well. 

I was pretty shocked to find this fellow in a bag of bows that was up in the attic with all the wrapping supplies.  Definitely dead but yikes!  He (or she?) was a big bumble bee in life.  Needless to say we don't go in there all that often.  Me thinks I need to store things in closed containers of some sort! 

Here's the actual design wall today. I am overrun with 9 patches!  I realized I had more than I thought I did.  So, far left is the one I've been working on the most.  I've added another column making it 5x5.  I added the one on the far right.  I may not be able to get all three done because the sizes of each 9 patch vary wildly.  But I'm going to give it a try. 

Here's a close up of the center 9 patch.  I'm going to use solids on the corners of the snowballs. 

It really is fun working on these.  I decided I needed to clear the cutting table (or at least one side of it) so I could do other things.  All the 9 patches are on the design wall.  Excess fabric except that which is needed for the snowballs has been put in a box.

Goals, first last week.     

December 14, 2015

Mail packages√

Embroider and make hats for grands√

Finish ornaments √ x stitch done now to make them ornaments

Wrap presents√ started

Work on Stacey’s antique quilts√

Prep and send Christmas cards√

Embroider secret items… √ started

This week's goals.

December 21, 2015

Finish ornaments

Enjoy lunch out with friends

Go to Star Wars Movie

Wrap presents

Finish embroidering secret stuff

Enjoy Christmas with the kids

Keep on working on antique 9 patches

Time to get going this morning.  Things to embroider, gifts to wrap!  

I'm linking up with Monday Making at Love, Laugh, Quilt; Main Crush Monday at Cooking Up Quilts; and Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times. Monday Making isn't up yet so I'll add the link later. (I think she must be on the west coast, while I'm on the east coast!) 

Happy Quilting Everyone! 

Decisions, Decisions

It's always nice to have folks who can give me some ideas about finishing a block or quilt. (Just for the record, I've put away the center of my Talking Turkey wall hanging that I last asked about.  I'll pull it out later and see what needs to be done.  People seemed to like the lighter red and I did too so that's probably what I will use, eventually.)

Today's question has to do with this block I'm making for the quarterly BOM at Faithful Circle Quilters in Maryland.  I am fairly good at getting the monthly blocks done and sent up if I like the block.  I'm not so good with the quarterly opportunity blocks.  I had hoped to get this one done while Sharon was here but no such luck.  I'll see her in a couple of weeks so would like to have this one done so she can take it up.  I used a half of dresden plate I had left from a quilt I haven't worked on in months. (Note to self, need to finish this one up!)  I made up some more blades to make it a circle. I've picked my background fabric and it's time to get the center circle picked.  Sharon said I need two so here's what I came up with after she left.  Which do you like better? Dark center or medium center?  And, yes, they will be circles not folded up rectangles! 

OR

You can't tell but the bottom gold blade has a spider hanging near its web. Too cute for a fall colors block.  The object of this particular challenge was to use a specialty ruler... mine was the dresden ruler.  If you check back to Tuesday's post you can see Sharon's -- the two blocks with the fall colors -- one was the Rapid Fire Hunters Star and the other one I have no idea what the ruler was. 

Here's what's been visiting at our patio. He's big -- 5" or so long.  He's been back a couple of times recently too.  

I'm linking up with Can I Get a Whoop, Whoop? and Fabric Frenzy Friday.

Happy Quilting All!