To Do Tuesday #51

Welcome back to this week’s edition of To Do Tuesday hosted by Carol @ Quilt Schmilt.

What Got Done This Week

With last Friday being a Quilty day with my quilty friends, it ended up being a fairly productive week. Let’s take a look.

1. I finished the next set of Daydreamer four patch blocks (previously referred to as March block of the month hosted by Pat Sloan)
2. I finished sewing Block 15 and assembling Section 1 of the Sweet Childhood Memories QAL hosted by Pat Sloan.
3. I finished sewing July 3rd block (yipee! It’s been a while)
4. I got both Scrappiness is Happiness Blocks cut : Checkerboard Star & Grandma’s Donut.
5. I finished sewing Checkerboard Star block for the Scrappiness is Happiness SAL. I think this is my favorite block to day. I did have to take it apart after almost finishing it when I realized that I forgot to trim down the 9 patch block in the center.
6. I finished binding 2 1/2 of the Pink Placemats.
7. Completed sewing the front of Ivy & Iris project bag
8. Finished sewing the front of the American Flag Cross Stitch pillow and cutting the backing.
9. Sewed up a block for an older project that had fallen to the wayside: Churn Dash
10. Cut & Sewed the June Monthly Color Challenge block.
11. Pulled fabrics for 100 blocks in 100 days challenge coming up. Order some solids to go with my fabric pull. Hoping it arrives soon.
12. I finished block 1 of the #100days100blocks. I am anxiously awaiting my solids order from alisonglass.com

I am super happy with this week’s progress. Let’s take a peek at a few of the projects:

APQ Resolution 2023 Status

• January – Mama Gypsy Quilt – ready to quilt
• February – Rainbow Half Square Triangle Lap Quilt – Borders ready to cut
• March – Tula Pink Tiny Beast Queen Quilt – Borders needed
• April – Rainbow Log Cabin Quilt – needs top & bottom borders
• May – Hawaiian Quilt – ready to quilt
• June – Princess Twin Quilt – ready to quilt

To Do List for Week of June 27th

Not a lot on my personal agenda this week. I have a bunch of appointments today and tomorrow. I plan to walk a 5k today or tomorrow, but the rest of the week is looking wide open right now. So going to make a push to finish up a few things for June before working on other things over the weekend. We are expecting a heat wave this weekend so I anticipate being home most of that time.

1. Free Motion Quilt on Wander Lane – Shamrock Ridge.
2. Bind On Wander Lane – Shamrock Ridge
3. Quilt Americana pillow top
4. Finish assembling Americana pillow top in time to display in July.
5. Cut & Sew Block 13 of Sweet Childhood Memories
6. Assemble Section 2 of Sweet Childhood Memories
7. Sew July 4th block
8. Finish another churn dash block
9. Start sewing next set of Daydreamer 4 patch blocks
10. Cut and sew 2 large wheel blocks from Section 1 of the Tula Pink Butterfly Quilt
11. Cut and sew 24 half square triangles from Section 1 of the Tula Pink butterfly quilt
12. Finish sewing Scrappiness is Happiness block – Grandma’s Donut
13. Start Queen of Diamonds block 1-1
14. Finish a Ruby’s Garden block
15. Cut both borders for the Rainbow HST quilt
16. Attach both borders for the Rainbow HST quilt
17. Rewatch YouTube video for long arm
18. Applique Welcome Friends Backdoor Banner with yellow thread and finish stitching in the ditch with said yellow thread.
19. Finish Rebinding February Pink Placemats
20. Rewatch YouTube video for project bags and write down actual instructions so I can finish patriotic project bag.
21. Clean up thread mess
22. Rethread Gammill
23. Load Mama Gypsy quilt on Long arm
24. Sew front of Butternut & Slate project bag.

Whoa! What a list! Should be plenty to work on. LOL. Good luck everyone on your quilty projects this week!

Afterthoughts

I pulled out all of my patriotic fabrics and mini charms this week. I am feeling really inspired to throw together at least a table runner and maybe some placemats for the month of July. I found the perfect table runner pattern in my new book I picked up in Reno last week.

Earlier this week I ordered some newsprint to make these scrappy red & white blocks. I just can’t wait to get started! Look at all that gorgeous red, white, and blue fabric I have.

I have also put some thought in how I want to change how I store my thread. While my current way is all neat (while you don’t need anything) but the minute you need to go through the threads, it is a pain in the bobbin. I realized last night when I was reordering project boxes for my quilty projects, that they were the perfect height for aurfil thread. So I did a quick test run. I absolutely love it!!! The new boxes came this morning, so I will be reorganizing my threads! I will try and remember to take a photo to show next week.

Peggy Stockwell