To Do Tuesday #77

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2024 and so many possibilites! So exciting to start with a clean slate and see what we do this year.

I will be linking up with Carol @ QuiltSchmilt again this week for To Do Tuesday.

What Got Done This Week

I spent so much time planning this week that much didn’t happen on the crafty front plus I had hockey tournament to take the teenage grandson to. But I still managed to get a few things done.

I was able to do the following this week:

• Fabric pull for the 2024 Temperature cottage quilt. Still trying to decide if need to purchase more background.
• Finished assembling blocks & rows for the center of Dorothy’s quilt
• Finished another row of the 2019 100 blocks 100 days plus started on the last row of blocks to assemble.
• Finished assembling all the units for the Queen of Diamonds block 2-1 and began assembling the whole block.

Outcome of APQ Resolution 2023

I thought it would be fun to compare where I was on each project on January 1st to December 31st. Here we go.

1. 2016 Princess Twin Quilt – 1/1 Need backing – 12/31 Ready to quilt
2. QP2018SAL Sunflower Sampler – 1/1 Ready to quilt – 12/31 Ready to quilt
3. 2019 Mama Gypsy Quilt – 1/1 Need borders – 12/31 Ready to quilt
4. 2017 Rainbow Log Quilt – 1/1 Need borders – 12/31 Need borders
5. 2013 Fall Quilt – 1/1 Ready to quilt – 12/31 Ready to quilt
6. 2020 Rainbow HST quilt – 1/1 Needs borders – 12/31 Ready to quilt
7. 2018 Charming Sunflowers – 1/1 Ready to quilt – 12/31 Ready to quilt
8. 2021 Halloween Quilt – 1/1 Ready to quilt – 12/31 Ready to quilt
9. 2021 Sunshine quilt – 1/1 First 2 of 3 borders on – 12/31 Working on pieced border
10. 2015 Dorothy’s Double Slice KING quilt – 1/1 blocks done – 12/31 center assembled
11. 2022 TP Tiny Beast quilt – 1/1 blocks done – 12/31 needs borders
12. 2022 White Hawaiian quilt – 1/1 9 of 11 rows assembled – 12/31 ready to quilt

Reflection on 2023 UFO progress

Hmmmm. It appears that I made a ton of great progress on anything that didn’t need to be quilted but not so much for those things that were ready to quilt. Definitely have to make changes for 2024. 8 of the 12 quilts are ready to be quilted as of December 31, 2023.

UFO Resolution 2024

This Year All People Quilt is not posting random numbers for the APQ Resolution so I still setup my list of 12 items but made two lists this year: Quilts & Everything Else. Great descriptors right? Lol! I have an app called Tiny Decisions that I setup to do the Random selection for each month. I know I will forget, so I did the draw for the whole year so I don’t screw things up. I figure with my forgetfulness, it won’t be a problem.

I am going to work on some clever graphics to use for each month but since I just realized today the APQ wasn’t going to do the random drawing I will have show you next week. It will give me a chance to practice my creative skills.

Quilt List for 2024 and how they stand as of January 1st

1. 2015 Dorothy’s Double Slice Quilt – Center assembled (rows)
2. 2017 Rainbow Log Cabin – Needs Top & Bottom Border
3. 2021 Sunshine Quilt – Working on Pieced outer border
4. 2022 Tula Pink Tiny Beast quilt – needs borders
5. 2022 Bring Home the Christmas Tree – Tree Only blocks done
6. 2018 100 Days 100 Blocks – blocks done
7. 2019 100 Days 100 Blocks – 9 out of 10 rows assembled
8. 2024 FQS Temp Cottage Quilt – New Start
9. 2020 Meadowland Quilt – blocks done
10. 2023 100 Days 100 Blocks – 70 out 100 blocks completed
11. 2017 Halifax Temperature Quilt – On Sept 21, 2018
12. 2019 Tula Pink Zuma Charm Squared Quilt

Quilty Projects List for 2024 and status on Jan 1st

1. Table Runner – Teacup & Teal Batik runners are ready to quilt
2. 2023 Gnome is Where the Heart Is – New Series starting with Dec which is fused
3. Blooming Series – Dec, Jan, Apr left with Dec currently fused
4. A Year in Words Series – Feb, Mar, Jun, & Dec left with Dec fused
5. Backdoor Banners – found kits for Feb, Sep, & Oct While Aug is partially bound
6. Ruby’s Garden (English Paper Piecing) – On Block 23
7. 1920 Farmers Wife (English Paper Piecing) – On Block 45
8. 2023 Queen of Diamonds (English Paper Piecing) – On Block 2-1
9. Lost & Found (English Paper Piecing) – Blocks done, Time to add Sashing
10. 2023 On Wander Lane – Series started with March which is done
11. Placemats – New start
12. Potholders – New Start

January is …….. #8

My quilty project is Queen of Diamonds. My goal will be to finish blocks 2-1 AND 2-2. I will work on this project at least five times during January. Just a reminder this is a SAL with Pinkdoor Fabrics and kits can be purchased for many sources if you are interested.

My quilt project is 2024 Cottage Temperature Quilt. My goal is to gather all my quilting supplies and to finish all the tree trunks and roofs for each month. I will work on this project at least five times during January. https://www.fatquartershop.com/downloadable/download/sample/sample_id/10371/

List of Possiblities for the Week of January 2nd

• Continue working on #100days100blocks2023.  My goal is finish through block 74
• Continue working on #365blockchallenge.  My goal is to cut 8/30 & 8/31
• Finish Binding the Welcome Friends applique wall hanging
• December Gnome Is Where The Heart Is – pick out threads
• Assemble Section 3 of the Sweet Childhood Memories QAL
• Add borders to Patriotic Table Runner
• Cut large wheel block for Butterfly quilt
• Cut out roofs and trunks for 2024 Temperature Cottage quilt
• Cut borders for Rainbow Log Cabin quilt
• Cut borders for Tiny Beast quilt
• Cut & Sew Scrappiness is Happiness next block (only 7 left)
• Schedule long arm maintenance
• Organize pink, purple, & gray threads
• Continue working on March Block of the Day as leaders/enders project
• Finish Queen of Diamonds block 2-1 (EPP)
• Layer and quilt rainbow angles into placemats
• Trim down and layer Big Sur Coastal landscape
• Make flower units from Hummingbird class
• Christmas Year in Words – pick out threads
• Blooming Pointsettas – pick out threads
• Make angled pieces for pieced border for Sunshine quilt
• Assemble last row of my AG Christmas #100days100blocks2019
• Cut one Bring Home the Christmas Tree car/tree block.
• Quilts to be Quilted solution
• Pick Fabrics for January Monthly Color Challenge

Afterthoughts

Wow! This was a much longer post that I was thinking it would be. I am pretty pleased with the progress I made last week. I made a ton of progress on this month quilty project – Queen of Diamonds.

I am a little sad to realize I still have not found a groove with the long arm machine. I came across another challenge which I used to do a few years back with Sunflower Stitcheries & Quilting. It is a quarterly challenge. She has renamed it Project: Done which I really feel might be appropriate for me this year. I still have to jump over to her blog, but I am assumming we pick three projects and the goal for each of these projects. 3 is the max which might be just what I need. She is a longarmer and I know in the past (before long arm) I would message her and she was great giving advice.

Last thing I wanted to share before heading out was my fabric pull for the Temperature quilt. I know from my cross stitch, that I need 22 colors for San Jose and I decided to use Alison Glass’ new collection Chrysanthemum. It arrived the day I left to go to Seattle. I opened the box yesterday. Currently, my thoughts are that I will add some other white on white from Alison for the actual cottage blocks from my stash and save the white from the collection for the borders. For the roof, I needed another color and I ended up pulling a solid from Andover that I am using in my 2023 100 days 100 blocks that seemed perfect. I looked at other prints, but I really wanted a solid. While the pattern calls for a light brown for the trees, I plan to use the dark dark gold/brown for the trees. I just love the lines and I will need fussy cut the fabric as it is directional. The order of fabrics I have decided on is that how they show it. I am going for dark raspberry to dark pink with the light purple & blue moved to the blue and purple section. Very pretty collection

Peggy Stockwell in San Jose, California