To Do Tuesday #166

Hello my Quilty Friends! Welcome back. I had a good week in the sewing room. I made it up to the studio five of seven days which is a new record for me now that the studio is upstairs. I even had a Quilt Zoom day with my Quilty Friends.

I will be linking up for To Do Tuesday Link Up with Carol @ Quilt Schmilt. Take a look!

Project Updates

While this week I did not work on a ton of projects, I feel good about what I did work on.

Lori Holt’s Bringing Home the Christmas Tree from her Vintage Christmas book

Most of the week was spent figuring out what still needed to be cut and organizing it all for Quilt Zoom Day. It turned out that the last tree unit needed for my six car blocks was ready to sew and all the background, windshields, and tires were also cut. That left the car body and trim to pick out and cut. I ended up choosing to have a pink, yellow, green, blue, aqua, and teal cars. So many pieces to cut! I ended up making little piles in order they would be sewn so I could remember what trim I chose for which car body.

Quilt Zoom Day came and I spent the whole day (6 hours!) putting together my first (of six) car blocks. The trees are scrappy greens from my stash back in 2022 which turns out was a woeful mess. If I did it today it would look a lot different. Anyway. Lori had gray windshields and I did not want gray. Now that I have the block together, I know WHY she did that. Otherwise, I think the block turned out fantastic. I took all those pieces and parts and stashed them until February when I will do my next block.

I used mostly Alison Glass Christmas fabric from 2019 with a few adds. The rest of the fabric collection went into my project box to make the Snowflake quilt that I have always wanted to make (later).

Lori Holt’s Autumn Seeds Quilt (seed packets that she has been releasing with her collections)

It took a few trips to the sewing room to get this one cut block #3 as well. While there is no applique, it means there are a LOT of pieces to make this gorgeous pumpkin block. Halfway through cutting, I remembered to check the leftover fabrics from blocks one and two. I got these block kits from Fat Quarter Shop. I have found them to always be generous with fabric cuts needed. I have even been able to redo entire sections. No oops! Kits needed.

Abby Rose Churn Dash Quilt

Worked in finishing one churn dash and starting the next. My goal for January is to finish two blocks. It is currently my leaders and enders project. I am just making blocks. I do have a tenative layout. When I finally finish all the blocks, I will finalize the layout. I am using Abby Rose collection from who 20XX.

Weekly To Do List

I checked off a number of things from last week’s to do list

• Finished cutting car blocks
• Finished the last tree unit for the car blocks
• Assembled first car block of Bringing Home the Christmas Tree
• Finished a churn dash block 🙂
• Cut Autumn Seeds Block #3

Not bad! Leaves me with about half the list of last week.

• Quilt Not My Kitten wallhanging
• Trim all flying geese units for Stars Aligned pieced border
• Finish second churn dash block
• Sew Autumn Seeds Block #3
• Trace, cut, and fuse JOY for December wallhanging
• Continue searching for the sewing table insert thaat fits the 770
• Watch Edge To Edge lesson on Gammill New Owners Training
• Work on EPP block – Queen of Diamonds 3-4
• Continue working on Olympia mystery quilt
• Work on Let’s Talk Autumn pillow
• Start putting fabric on my new Mini Bolts from Create a Room (Dreambox people) or you can get them direct for cheaper at minibolts.com

Happy Mail

I received six packages this week. I didn’t think to take pictures yesterday but I was so excited about today’s package I couldn’t resist sharing photos.

I received my order from Create A Room that I will be using to help organize all my fabric. I got 50 original and 50 fat quarter bolts, InView totes in all three sizes, and more (of which I can’t remember what it is because they were having a sale with “bundles”). I have not opened any of these boxes yet except the mini bolts. Those were opened and I started using them immediately. The fat quarter size fits fabric up to 1 yard (which is most of my stash) and the original fits 1 to 15 yards of fabric. Most of the time when I have that much fabric it is my backing.

I also received a package from Gammill as a thank you for upgrading my Elevate to a Statler last summer. They sent me some very nice scissors (two sizes) and a canvas tote bag. Totally unexpected!

Then of course, the final box was from one of my favorite designers – Alison Glass. I was missing her last two collections, so I ordered them – Camp Kitschy LaLa and Sun Print Whisper. I preordered 2026 Sun Print which will ship soon. I haven’t decided WHAT I will make with this gorgeous fabric. #sigh

Musings

If you missed it, last week I posted my quilting WIPS here and the 2025 finishes can be found here.

I have split my time between organizing and sewing this week (approximately 30-70) which has made me feel amazingly productive. This 15 minutes in the sewing room is working for me. Some days I really am only up in the studio for 15 minutes. Other days it can be five or six hours. It is just nice to finally seeing my vision slowly becoming a reality.

My first retreat this year will be at Lake Tahoe with my friend Mary Elizabeth. This year I have two quilt kits to choose from. I need to make that decision and go for it. It seems to go so much faster if I can precut, but that is something that I don’t stress over.

That’s it my quilty friends! I hope this has been helpful with plenty of eye candy. Thank you for stopping by.

Peggy Stockwell in Vancouver, Washington