To Do Tuesday #117

Can you believe it is the last week of October and Halloween is on Thursday? The holiday season will be upon us after that! Crazy 🤪

I am be joining Carol who is hosting the To Do Tuesday Linkup. Come join us!

Under the Needle Last Week

Most of my time was spent off the sewing machine prepping projects. This week I focused more on my applique so let’s take a look.

1. My missing piece for the November Gnome Is Where the Heart Is on Saturday. I was able to fuse and complete all the machine applique.
2. While I was working on November Gnome, I also worked on the January Gnome. While this was not my main focus, I was able to get over half of the applique done on the January Gnome as well.
3. While working on the October Cottage, I determined that my HST stash was low for two colors. I still need to trim them, but they are sewn and ironed.
4. I finished the October Cottage through October 24th. Next week I will finish up this block and it will have a tree too which is always fun.
5. I couldn’t resist squeezing in another tiny 4 inch block (Mulberry) for the Dragonfruit quilt I started this month.
6. I have no idea why fabric markers dry out so quickly, but I had to order more markers so I could finish the labels for Bunny Knoll and the next in the series Blossom Trail. I finished Bunny Knoll and have Blossom Trail sketched out with frixon pen. Instead of sewing into the binding, I will be fusing it to the back this time.

Status on October To Do List & Goals

While I worked on my list, I did not finish anything but fuse the January Gnome this week. Here is a recap of the remaing October Goals/To Do List. This week I will try and check as many things off the list that I can.

1. EPP: Finish Queen of Diamond Block 3-1 -units all made
2. EPP: Pull out Lost & Found. Figure out layout of the 24 blocks and begin sashing the first row of blocks.
3. EPP: Farmers Wife 1920: Start Block 48
4. Applique: January Gnome is Where the Heart is ✔️start & hopefully finish /started
5. Applique: Start September Backdoor Banners
6. Small Project: Finish Patriotic tablerunner – binding ready
7. UFO: ✔️Pull out 2020 Meadowland blocks and figure out a layout, then start assembling.
8. UFO: 2019 Tula Pink Zuma Charm Quilt finish – just need to assemble the pieced border and attach
9. 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.
10. Long Arm: 2021 Sunshine Quilt – quilt it
11. Long Arm: Halloween Quilt – quilt it
12. Long Arm: 2013 Fall quilt – load it
13. Cross Stitch FFO: Finish Let’s Talk Autumn Pillow – 81 patch washed & ready to trim
14. Cross Stitch FFO: Start Autumn Basket pillows x 3

Afterthoughts

While having the lists helps me a lot, I am still easily distracted 🐿️ which is fine in the moment. Boy do I beat myself up later 😶‍🌫️. Then I have a little talk with myself 🧐 reminding myself I do this because I love 💕 it. If it was really about finishing ✔️, then I should only have a few projects to work on ☝️.

As you can imagine that talk went in one ear and out the other 🙉. Darn ADHD quilter. LOL! There are moments when I wish I could be a monogamy quilter. But then I come to my senses because where would the fun be in that!

I hope you enjoyed my internal dialogue. Have a great week and I wish you lots of progress on your own projects.

Peggy Stockwell in San Jose, California