Sunday Summary #163

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of “My Crazy Life” 🤣. I hope all my American friends and family are having a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I had planned on posting this last week, but had to go out of town to take DH to the MS Clinic in Kelowna and had not taken the photos I needed to share. Once we got home it was crazy busy with meetings and appointment and so I had to wait to finish writing my post. 😉

First thing I am going to do is update you as to the progress I made on my list:

My Last To-Do Goals:

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. Try to finish binding the four quilts. A bit of progress but no completions yet 😢

4. Try to finish my pattern test. No progress and the project was published so I’ll not be sharing this one until next year when it is included with another project 😉

5. Keep working on a memory quilt with some of Clarke’s clothing. The blocks are all finished, sandwiched and quilted. Now I need to assemble the QAYG blocks, decide on borders and binding fabrics and finish it off.

6. Keep working on the memory quilts for my son and granddaughters from a collection of T-shirts from my son, DIL and granddaughters. Blocks are done. Now I just need to finish assembling the tops and plan a trip to the studio to finish them off 🤣

7. Keep playing with the orphan blocks and goodies from Denise to use up more bits and pieces I couldn’t resist Sam’s chatter when I opened this incredible box of fun and inspiration! 😉

8. Do not let Samantha or any of her squirrel buddies side track me🐿🐿🐿🐿. I have to confess that Samantha got me good with some help from my friends 😉

This month I had two whole quilting days at my Guild. I wasn’t teaching anything so we all just managed to work at our own speed on what ever we had brought along to play with.

I also had the fun of taking DH in for our regular eye examinations. I wasn’t too surprised when we found out DH’s Glaucoma is worse, but very surprised to find out he now has cataracts and does require surgery.

Then it was my turn and I will admit to being shocked when I put my right eye up to the machine to be tested. You know the one that has that cute little balloon to watch. All I could see was a weird blur or blob of colour. Then we checked the left eye and it was much more enjoyable to see the air balloon and basket clearly in the photo. After a few more tests and the lovely photos and bursts of air I got to have a chat with the ophthalmologist. If you remember I had cataract surgery on both eyes just before the hospitals closed in the (dare I say it?) Covid Pandemic Days. Well apparently it is a thing that after Cataract Surgery/Lense Implant, you can have scar tissue developed behind your eyeball which means the optic nerve doesn’t work properly. End result; laser surgery is required to remove the scar tissue. 😳

I did spend some time sorting and tidying my fabric stash. I had some donated fabric that really needed to be put away. The end result; my cupboard is so full that I need to get busy sewing and fondling fabric again! My stash is shown in the header photo! 😉

This Week’s goals:

Now it’s time for my To Do Tuesday List:

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. Finish the memory quilt with some of Clarke’s clothing.

6. Finish 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 wasn’t really off to a good start, but it is getting 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 20/25
• this week 7/7
• Previous Total 104/365
• Total: 115/146
• Percentage = 78.77 %

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: 4 yards
• Fabric Purchased this week: 0 yards
• Fabric Previous Balance: 73 yards
• Fabric Purchased this year: 0 yards
• Balance in stash to use this year: 69 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!

Design Wall Mondays

Judy, at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts, hosts a linky party for “Design Wall Mondays” every week.

I’m including a gallery of photos to share some of the fun little blocks, bits and pieces and fabric that Denise sent to me, that I’m working playing with to come up with some new quilts for an upcoming charity event;

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
• To-Do Tuesday @ Quilt Schmilt