To Do Tuesday #81

Welcome everyone to this week’s update of my quilty projects. It has been a busy week with me getting home Thursday night. Saw a few houses in Gardenerville, NV so I have more of a feel for what is out there as well as what I am looking for. Beautiful area. I am way ahead of schedule of when I would want to move out of California so this should be fun looking for that forever home.

I will be linking up with Carol at Quilt Smilt this week for another To Do Tuesday linkup. Be sure and check out her blog and links to all the cool projects people are working on.

What Got Done This Week

I didn’t get as much done as I expected to or wanted to. LOL! But aren’t we all eternal optimist? Better than the alternative for sure. I took my EPP with me. I just didn’t find time to work on it. I have a few more days left in January to work on it.

Let’s take a look at what I did work on.

I am super happy I am using the magic 8 method to make all the HST that I need for my various projects. Yet it is still a tedious and boring process. I managed to mix it a few more fun things to sew.

• Finished make 16 HST each for 60-61F and 62-63F for my 2024 Temperature Cottage quilt that I started this month and is my January UFO quilt project. The timing of this random draw was perfect!
• I cut more squares and prepped to sew even more temperature blocks. The end of January has been much warmer than normal with it being 74 yesterday! Totally unexpected. So I cut the next 7 temperatures and they are ready to sew as soon as I finish the ones I prepped earlier this month.
• Finished the 2024 January Monthly Color Challenge block. Love the contrast!
• I was able to finish another 8 for my Sweet Childhood Memories pieced border. I need 80! I have finished sewing 32 but only have 24 trimmed so far.
• Sewed some more units with my leaders & enders project: Daydreamer (see featured image)
• Last week I started the April wall hanging of On Wander Lane. I finished cutting all the pieces of the pieced blocks and was able to sew both 9 patch blocks and one basket ball to add to the tulip block I did last week and the house block background that I finished already. This project is moving along very nicely.

UFO Resolution 2024

Quilt List for 2024 and Current Status on January 30th

1. 2015 Dorothy’s Double Slice Quilt – Center assembled (rows)
2. 2017 Rainbow Log Cabin – Needs Top & Bottom Border
3. 2021 Sunshine Quilt – Working on Pieced outer border
4. 2022 Tula Pink Tiny Beast quilt – needs borders
5. 2022 Bring Home the Christmas Tree – Tree Only blocks done
6. 2018 100 Days 100 Blocks – blocks done
7. 2019 100 Days 100 Blocks – center assembled
8. 2024 FQS Temp Cottage Quilt (JAN) – Roofs & tree trunks completed; HST 0-63 done
9. 2020 Meadowland Quilt – blocks done
10. 2023 100 Days 100 Blocks – 70 out 100 blocks completed
11. 2017 Halifax Temperature Quilt – On Sept 21, 2018
12. 2019 Tula Pink Zuma Charm Squared Quilt

Quilty Projects List for 2024 and Current Status on January 30th

1. Table Runner – Teacup runners is ready to quilt; Teal Batik runner quilted, binding cut
2. 2023 Gnome is Where the Heart Is – Started appliquing December with yellow thread
3. Blooming Series – Dec, Jan, Apr left; started appliquing Dec with yellow thread
4. A Year in Words Series – Feb, Mar, Jun, & Dec left; started appliquing Dec with yellow thread
5. Backdoor Banners – found kits for Feb, Sep, & Oct; August finished
6. Ruby’s Garden (English Paper Piecing) – On Block 23
7. 1920 Farmers Wife (English Paper Piecing) – On Block 45
8. 2023 Queen of Diamonds (English Paper Piecing) (JAN) – Finished Block 2-1; Started Block 2-2
9. Lost & Found (English Paper Piecing) – Blocks done, Time to add Sashing
10. 2023 On Wander Lane – Series started with March which is done; April cut – House, 9 patch, Tulip & one basket block sewn
11. Placemats – New start
12. Potholders – New Start

List of Possibilites for the Week of January 30th

There is a lot of applique and HST on this list. LOL! But here are the next steps for my active WIPs. I like keeping a running list to pick from. I am still attempting to develop a schedule to work on my projects. I am not quite there yet. Sure is fun trying!

• Continue working on #100days100blocks2023.  My goal is finish through block 74
• Continue working on #365blockchallenge.  My goal is to cut 8/30 & 8/31
• December Gnome Is Where The Heart Is – applique with pink & white
• Sew more HST for Sweet Childhood Memories border
• Add borders to Patriotic Table Runner
• Cut large wheel block for Butterfly quilt
• Cut borders for Rainbow Log Cabin quilt
• Cut borders for Tiny Beast quilt
• Cut & Sew Scrappiness is Happiness next block (only 7 left)
• Schedule long arm maintenance
• Organize pink, purple, & gray threads
• Continue working on March Block of the Day as leaders/enders project
• Finish Queen of Diamonds block 2-2 (EPP)
• Layer and quilt rainbow angles into placemats
• Trim down and layer Big Sur Coastal landscape
• Make flower units from Hummingbird class
• Christmas Year in Words  – applique white areas
• Blooming Pointsettas – applique white areas
• Make angled pieces for pieced border for Sunshine quilt
• Bind Teal Batik Tablerunner
• Cut one Bring Home the Christmas Tree car/tree block.
• Make more temperature HST blocks for 2024 Temperature Cottage
• Assemble first row of temperature blocks for cottage
• Quilts to be Quilted solution post on PROJECT:DONE 2024
• Sew last block (basket) for On Wander Lane: Bunny Knoll
• Assemble House block for On Wander Lane: Bunny Knoll and fuse
• Fuse Bunny Knoll House block, then sew border to block.

Afterthoughts

I caught Nala with thread in her mouth. At the time I couldn’t figure out where she got it. But it turns out she was dragging this thread throughout the house – upstairs and downstairs. It took me a good 20 minutes to follow the thread around to gather it all up. I swear it was the entire spool. At last it lead me back to my sewing room and my long arm. (Sigh). She got under the cover on the machine to steal the thread. Little sneaky girl. You would think I would notice when she did that. The room is not normally open except when I am in it, but I didn’t.

I told myself that I am going to lock them out. It worked last night but that was only because they were napping. They are relentless when they are awake, especially Simba.

Going to try setting aside time this week to work on different types of projects. It worked the first time I tried it, but I haven’t done it since. LOL! I can tell you that I am getting real tired of making HST. I have a lot more to finish between my temperature blocks and my pieced border. I am trying to hang in there, but I am slipping……

Time for a little applique and quilting I think.

Good luck on all of your projects this week. Thanks for stopping by.

Peggy Stockwell in San Jose, CA