Hello my Friends! Hope this Tuesday finds you well. We have slipped into fall one of my favorite times of the year. Indian summer is so much better than almost any time of the year for me. The sun is shining. It is usually high 70’s here in San Jose. Days are still long enough. Just love this time of year!
I got back from Denver Sunday. The weather was fair while we were there but Thursday our flight was delayed due to thunderstorms. Travel is still such a mess post-covid. I was lucky enough to still get my rental car even after my flight was delayed. Some people had to wait for two or three hours for a vehicle. I felt lucky we got to the hotel by 2am. We had to be at the rink by 7am and it was a 30 minute drive. We survived. LOL! Teenagers are so reslilent.
I will be linking up with Carol @ QuiltSchmilt again today.
What Got Done This Week
With travel I didn’t get much time in the sewing studio, but I still managed to get in there and work on some of my projects.
- Finished another 100 day block
- Worked on my Queen of Diamond Block 1-2
- Finished another set of my Daydreamer March Block of the Day
- Finished all three Summer Basket Triple Play Pillow Tops
APQ Resolution 2023 Status
No time to work on this week so status unchanged.
- January – Mama Gypsy – ready to quilt
- Februray – Rainbow Half Square Triangle – needs borders
- March – Tula Pink Tiny Beast – needs borders
- April – Rainbow Log Cabin – needs top & bottom borders
- May – Halloween quilt – ready to quilt
- June – Princess quilt – ready to quilt
- July – Charming Sunflowers Squared – ready to quilt
- August – Hawaiian quilt – ready to quilt
- September – Dorothy’s Double Sliced king quilt – assemble blocks
To Do List for Week of September 19th
This week I will have some time to work in the studio. After such a nice break, I am looking forward to checking off items on my list.
- Continue working on #100days100blocks2023. My goal is to finish through Block 65 this week.
- Continue working on #365blockchallenge. Goal is blocks 8/26 & 8/27
- Continue using March Block of the Day – Daydreamer as a leaders / enders project
- Cut August & September Monthly Color Challenge blocks
- Free motion quilt Shamrock Ridge
- Stitch yellow on Welcome Friends applique wall hanging
- Continue working on Queen of Diamonds block 1-2
- Big Stitch quilting on one of the Summer Basket Triple Play pillow tops
- Cut blocks 11 & 18 for Sweet Childhood Memories QAL
- Sew HST for the patriotic table runner
- Cut large wheel blocks for the Butterfly quilt
- Cut Scrappiness is Happiness blocks: Neighborhood & Patchwork Star
- Assemble Row 1 of Dorothy’s quilt
- Cut borders for the Rainbow HST quilt
- Schedule long arm service
- Organize threads
That gives me plenty of options to keep busy.
Afterthoughts
Once I stopped trying to keep up with the daily block for 100 days, my joy of quilting has returned as is my energy to work on things. I just love having variety.
Above is Nala being in her happy place – a fabric bin in my Ikea cubicles. She stayed there while I was working on trimming each step in my cross stitch project – Triple Play Pillows. I finished taking all my step by step photos last night so I will insert them into my instructions that I wrote out to be referenced by the next season I finish in the series. I am really looking forward to some Big Stitch quilting. I used to do it a lot when I was younger as I did not know how to do anything but.
Everyone have a great week! I wish you the best on all of your projects and thanks for stopping by!
Peggy Stockwell
It’s amazing what you get done even with traveling. Love seeing Nala in her happy place! And I love those Triple Play blocks, so pretty.
Thank you Linda. I got more done than I thought possible. Of course I have fallen back into my happy place – working on what feels right. For some reason I get so much more done!
Triple play pillow tops are adorable! Yeah! My quilt’s on the rotation!
Yep. But I have to actually pull it off the shelf 🙃