Sunday Summary #188

Hello and welcome to my To Do List. In spite of being busy last week I did manage to stitch every single day, even the day I taught a class at my Guild! I forgot to add it to my To Do List, but boy did we have fun!

My Last To-Do Goals:

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

2. Try to finish binding the six now 2 quilts. Making progress😃

3. Continue plugging away at the memory quilts for my son, granddaughters and Clarke’s family from a collection of T-shirts from my son, DIL and granddaughters and our Clarke’s clothing.Managed to get a few more blocks sandwiched and then my son called to tell me he has more shirts! . 🫣

4. Keep playing with the orphan blocks and goodies from Denise, with some additions from my stash, to use up more bits and pieces until those project boxes are empty. No progress! 😢

5. Finish making the blocks from my crumb blocks now that Monique has handed me another huge bag of brightly coloured scraps. No progress other than cutting some pieces. 😢

6. Continue to work on the commission quilt. Still working on the borders, but I’m making progress😉

7. Finish the pattern test if I get the next set of instructions. Making progress! 😁

8. Finish the project for the final Hop of the year (my all time favourite hop) which is being hosted by Carol from Just Let Me Quilt. Some progress on the stitching front and I’ve chosen my recipe! Flimsy finished, post is live but this is still on my To Do List for quilting (on my dsm) and binding. 🤔

9. Get caught up with Gail from Quilting Gail’s Mystery QAL. Didn’t manage any more progress yet! 😢

10. Start piecing the borders to get this to a finished flimsy. I need to have it quilted and the binding and label on by Dec. 4. No progress on the piecing yet 😭

11. Do not let Samantha or any of her squirrel buddies side track me🐿🐿🐿🐿 ✅ I managed to avoid the many temptations Sam put in front of me and kept to my list! 😁

This Week’s goals:

I forgot to mention that I was able to get another 3 quilts finished and included in the donation boxes for the Food Bank Christmas Hamper Drive!

This is going to be another fun filled week; a lawyer’s appointment, meetings with the bank and insurance company, 2 Golf Club meetings, a Fundraiser to prepare for at the Golf Club and two Quilting Days at the Guild.

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

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

2. Try to finish binding the two quilts to get my footstool cleared off! 🤔

3. Continue plugging away at the memory quilts for my son, granddaughters and Clarke’s family from a collection of T-shirts from my son, DIL and granddaughters and our Clarke’s clothing before more shirts arrive! 😁

4. Keep playing with the orphan blocks and goodies from Denise, with some additions from my stash, to use up more bits and pieces until those project boxes are empty.

5. Finish making the blocks from my crumb blocks now that Monique has handed me another huge bag of brightly coloured scraps. 😉

6. Continue to work on the commission quilt.

7. Finish the pattern test.

8. Get this quilt quilted and bound this week.

9. Get caught up with Gail from Quilting Gail’s Mystery QAL. 🤩

10. Start piecing the borders to get this to a finished flimsy. I need to have it quilted and the binding and label on by Dec. 14. 🤔

11. 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 26/31
• June 22/30
• July 31/31
• August 24/31
• September 30/30
• October 31/31
• Nov. 29/30
• December 7/31
• this week 7/7
• Previous Total 283/335
• Total: 290/342
• Percentage = 84.48 %

At this rate, I might get back up to 85 % by the end of the year! 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. If I can plan a trip to the studio I expect my stash to be reduced terrifically when I start making backings for all of the quilt tops I’ve got to do. 😁

• Fabric Used: 9 yards
• Fabric Purchased this week: 0 yards
• Fabric Previous Balance: – 3 yards
• Fabric Purchased this year: 0 yards
• Balance in stash to use this year: -12yards

* my goal is to lessen my stash by 100 yards this year. All of my fabric used this week was gifted or from my scrap bins so none counts. So far I have managed to decrease my stash by 112 yards. 😉

* 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 some photos of my current WIPs;

Linking with:

• Scraphappy Saturday @ Super scrappy
• Sunday Stash @ Quilt Paint Create
• Oh Scrap @ Quilting is More Fun Than Housework
• Frederique @ Quilting Patchwork Applique
• 15 Minutes to Stitch @ Life in Pieces
• Monday This and That @ Days Filled With Joy
• Sew and Tell @ Melva Loves Scraps
• Monday Musings @ Songbird Designs
• Design Wall Monday @ Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
• To-Do Tuesday @

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