Sunday Summary #162

I’d like to wish you all a Happy Mother’s Day filled with family, friends, laughter, fun and perhaps some crafting time 💐

My Last To-Do Goals:

At last I have time to finish writing a catch up post.

I was away last month staying with Dee to look after her dog and house so she could go to her granddaughter’s dance completions. At the same time I was able to visit with my son and see some of my granddaughter’s competitions on line. I also was able to spend time with my longarm and managed to quilt 4 quilts. Just need to finish my bindings!

Then I had a crazy week and a half getting ready for my Guild’s annual fundraiser. I can say that it was a crazy one with our power company planning an outage until noon. We brought in generators and managed to have hot coffee, tea, soup and stews as usual. I think the power outage helped us since everyone had no internet or tv and more importantly; no coffee or breakfast. We managed to raise over $10,000.00 which will almost cover half of the cost of our flooring which was damaged during Covid.

Then of course there was the usual insane round of meetings for the Golf Club. In the past month I have had 23 meetings for either committees or the Board. One day I had two meetings scheduled for the same time. 🤣

At that point I was ready to just hide, but my DH took a tumble and we’ve had to deal with necessary exams and treatment. Thank heavens nothing was broken and with physio treatments now going to be part of our regular schedule, I’m hoping he can get back to playing golf every day if it’s not raining. 🤞🏻

Then we were entertained this past week with some spectacular views of the Aurora Borealis. I used to see them regularly when I lived up north so it was nice to enjoy them again

With all that is going on in our lives I’ve had to make some choices to cut back on my goals. Here’s a modified list but I do have some progress to finally share!

1. Keep working on my EPP, embroidery and embroidery sampler as time allows. No progress 😢

2. Get caught up with the Rainbow Neighbourhood QAL hosted by Sandra Walker from MMM Quilts No Progress😢

3. Keep working on some weaving projects for prizes for an upcoming Golf Tournament. It’s the perfect way to use up all of the wool I have collected when I was knitting socks, shawls and sweaters for the grands and great grands. My hands just can’t handle the needles anymore. I have finished 3 projects; 2 scarves and one shawl! 😁

4. Try to finish my pattern test.No progress 😢

5. Start on a memory quilt (which is my latest squirrel project since Sam got me again!) with some of Clarke’s clothing for her family: clothing is taken apart and prepped. 😉

6. Work on two more memory quilts (another squirrel project) for my granddaughters from a collection of T-shirts from my son, DIL and granddaughters. Some progress. The t-shirts were all taken apart and stabilizer applied. I’ve been putting blocks together. It’s now been updated to at least 3 quilts from all their t-shirts! 😁

7. Do not let Samantha or any of her squirrel buddies side track me🐿🐿🐿🐿 Since I was at the studio I was able to let Samantha side track me. I finished quilting 4 quilts while I was there. Just need to do the bindings and I’ll have 4 more done for my PHD in 2024! 😳

This Week’s goals:

1. Keep working on my EPP, embroidery and embroidery sampler as time allows.

2. Get caught up with the Rainbow Neighbourhood QAL hosted by Sandra Walker from MMM Quilts, before I start working on her new QAL!

3. Try to finish binding the four quilts. 😉

4. Try to finish my pattern test.

5. Keep working on a memory quilt with some of Clarke’s clothing.

6. Keep working on the memory quilts for my son and granddaughters from a collection of T-shirts from my son, DIL and granddaughters.

7. Keep playing with the orphan blocks and goodies from Denise to use up more bits and pieces. (I’m so excited to say I received another box from Denise and I have so many plans. I’ll post more about that later this week).

8. Do not let Samantha or any of her squirrel buddies side track me🐿🐿🐿🐿

Stitchin’ Time

Kate from Life in Pieces hosts a weekly linky party to help us keep to our goals of stitching every day.

I’m trying for at least 30 minutes a day this year and 1 hour at the end of the week to tidy up and deal with my scraps. I’m not really off to a good start, but it should get better as things settle down in my real life time and commitments lessen. 🤔

• January 21/31
• February 27/29
• March 27/31
• April 20/30
• May 9/11
• this week 7/7
• Previous Total 43/365
• Total: 104/132
• Percentage = 78.78 %

I hope you all get to set and keep your goals for your Stitching Time and join Kate. 😁

To see how our blogging friends are doing check out Kate’s blog: Life in Pieces

Stash Report

I like to link with Donna @ QuiltPaintCreate to keep track of fabric in and out of my stash.

• Fabric Used: 12 yards
• Fabric Purchased this week: 0 yards
• Fabric Previous Balance: 85 yards
• Fabric Purchased this year: 0 yards
• Balance in stash to use this year: 73 yards

* my goal is to lessen my stash by 100 yards this year. I haven’t managed to actually figure out how much fabric I really have in my stash, but I have reduced my stash these past few years and really only purchase fabric if I need it for a particular project. If I do purchase fabric I add it to my Balance in stash to use this year in order to continue reducing my stash. 😉

* any fabric used from the scrap bins, was gifted or a prize; doesn’t count as stash!

PHD in 2024

This year you can join the fun and challenge at Ms P Designs USA 😉

Thank you for stopping by and reading my post. Your comments make my day and I do reply to each one. 😉 Carol

Linking with:

• So Scrappy @ Super Scrappy Blogspot
• Sunday Stash @ QuiltPaintCreate
• Oh Scrap @ Quilting is More Fun Than Housework
• Frederique @ Quilting Patchwork Applique
• 15 Minutes to Stitch @ Life in Pieces
• Sew and Tell @ Melva Loves Scraps
• Monday Musings @ Songbird Designs
• Design Wall Monday @ Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
• Monday This and That @ Days Filled With Joy
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