To Do Tuesday #114

Welcome Back! We are have one of the hottest weeks of the whole year. It has been over 95 (and most of the time 100) for the past 7 days. Crazy weather. My first week of my October Temperature cottage will be all one color since it is rare to be over 92F here in San Jose. My house is going to be pretty though!

I will be linking up for To Do Tuesday with Carol @ Quilt Schmilt. Come take a look at what everyone is doing.

Under the Needle Last Week

2024 SJ Temperature Cottage – A free pattern from Fat Quarter Shop

I was a little behind coming into October, but quickly caught up. I finished up the September cottage. I love how colorful it was. We had a lot of hot days and cool days during October compared to July & August. Imagine my surprise when I started pulling the HST for the October cottage yesterday. For the first time I will have 7 days in a row with the same color. My hottest temperature is 92F+. We had temperatures this past week as high as 104 and no lower than 94. it will be interesting to see how the rest of October turns out. I am just loving this fabric collection from Alison Glass – Chrysanthemum. It has been so pretty. I go from Dark Magenta to Purple (92 and higher to 51 and below). So darn pretty!

Everything else

Yesterday I was thinking I had not done much this week. When I went in to do one more foundation paper pieced block, I was looking around my sewing machine and realized that I had worked on steps for a number of projects without realizing it.

Here is what I got done:

1. I trimmed up 32 half square triangles after making another 8 this week for my temperature quilt.
2. Finished the September Temperature Cottage, the third row of the quilt, and then assembled with January – June.
3. Pulled out the beginnings of the October Cottage and cut another magic 8 HST triangle to be sewn for all those HOT 🥵 hst I am using up.
4. I sewed two more strip sets for my son Steven’s Sharks Rail Fence quilt from National Jelly Roll Day.
5. Cut those strip sets into eight 10 inch blocks
6. Made all four of the foundation paper pieced Economy blocks for the 2024 Venti AG Sunprint quilt. It was weird having the background color as the outside and not seperating my aqua and green. But to get the effect I want in the quilt, that is how this block is sewn. This pattern was another FREE Fat Quarter Shop pattern.
7. I finished the last of the leaders and enders blocks that I was sewing based on a free pattern from Pat Sloan (I love quilts). It was her 2023 March Block of the Day challenge where I used Tula Pink’s Daydreamer layer cake and Tula Pink’s True Color Solids Jelly Roll.
8. October’s Monthly Color Challenge Block, color Black/Grey, fabric pull and cut. I am using my Alison Glass fabric stash for this. I have no idea which collection the fabrics are.
9. Finished prepping the binding for both Bunny Knoll and my Patriotic Table Runner. All ready to sew on.
10. After changing all my rotary blades this weekend, I trimmed up Bunny Knoll in prep for binding. It was like cutting butter with a sharp knife – Easy.

October Goals List

1. SAL: 2024 SJ Temperature Cottage Quilt: ✔️Finish September Cottage and ✔️assemble the July – September row and ✔️add to January – June. Then I will start the October Cottage.
2. SAL: 2024 October Monthly Color Challenge Block – fabric pulled
3. SAL: 2024 Venti AG Sunprint FPP quilt – Make 4 Courthouse blocks and ✔️4 Economy blocks so I can assemble Rows 1, 2, 6, & 7
4. EPP: Finish Queen of Diamond Block 3-1
5. EPP: Pull out Lost & Found. Figure out layout of the 24 blocks and begin sashing the first row of blocks.
6. EPP: Farmers Wife 1920: Start Block 48
7. Applique: Finish Bunny Knoll on Wander Lane – trimmed up/ binding ready
8. Applique: January Gnome is Where the Heart is start & hopefully finish
9. Applique: Start September Backdoor Banners
10. Small Project: Finish Patriotic tablerunner – binding ready
11. UFO: Pull out 2020 Meadowland blocks and figure out a layout, then start assembling.
12. UFO: 2019 Tula Pink Zuma Charm Quilt finish – just need to assemble the pieced border and attach
13. UFO: 2017 Rainbow Log Cabin – Decide whether I am really going to add top and bottom borders or follow the pattern and have no borders. Make the final decision and then move the quilt to be Quilted pile.
14. Long Arm: 2021 Sunshine Quilt – quilt it
15. Long Arm: Halloween Quilt – quilt it
16. Long Arm: 2013 Fall quilt – load it
17. Cross Stitch FFO: Finish Let’s Talk Autumn Pillow – 81 patch ready to wash & trim
18. Cross Stitch FFO: Start Autumn Basket pillows x 3

I have worked on a number of these items but haven’t finished any yet. This is my original list from last week.

Focus this coming week

Still trying to figure out what exactly works for me, but I am going to take a page out of my cross stitch planning and tell what I think I will actually work on this week:

• 2024 Venti AG Sunprint FPP quilt: Make the 4 courthouse FPP blocks
• Change all the needles in my sewing machines
• Bind Bunny Knoll
• Finish the October Monthly Color Challenge Block
• October 1-6 completed for the October Temperature Cottage
• Magic 8 HST for temperature blocks
• Work on Queen of Diamond Block 3-1
• Wash and trim up Cross Stitch pillow Let’s Talk Autumn
• Wind bobbins for the Sunshine quilt
• Find my Meadowland blocks
• Sew 2 more strip sets for the Sharks Rail Fence quilt
• Sew Churn Dash block
• Make at least 2 blocks for my Stamp Quilt.

Afterthoughts

I have been busy this week like everyone else. I did spend some time working on my October goals but nothing has been finalized yet. This Friday I will get to have a Quilt Zoom day with my friends. I look forward to these so much. I have been working on prepping things to sew Friday. I see cutting in my future 🔮

Everyone have an awesome and productive week my quilty friends.

Peggy Stockwell in San Jose, California