Sunday Summary #202

Hello and welcome to my Sunday Summary and To Do Tuesday List.

I hope you all have had a wonderful week, filled with sunshine and fabric fun.

My Last To-Do Goals:

I had a week where I managed to do some stitching most days. The later part of the week was filled with organizing the tournament and working it on Saturday.

At 8:00 a.m. on Saturday I finished sorting and labelling prizes and at 9:00 people started arriving. We had planned for a 10:00 start but not all attendees arrived on time and it took longer for every one to get registered. We had 72 entrants for a Texas Scramble start on our little 9 hole course, but we had three holes which offered a chance to win $10,000 for a hole in one!

We had a few moments where it started to cloud over, but the weather was hot for this time of year (it hit 31 celcius). It was a Murphy’s Law kind of day with our beverage cart breaking down, then the loaner beverage cart breaking down, 3 of our rental carts breaking down (do you see a theme here?). Then just as everyone was finishing we had a horrendous wind storm coming through which resulted in our power going out! Being the hardy souls we are we were able to get our prizes out. Every person attending ended up with a prize; be it for the games on the different holes, a tournament prize or a door prize!

First off, let’s see how I managed with my last week’s To Do Tuesday List:

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

2. 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. I’d really like to finish getting at least the blocks in this bag sandwiched and quilted. No progress 😢

3. 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 😢

4. Finish making the blocks from my crumb pieces once I find the right background. I’m thinking that lovely grey fabric I just bought might do the trick. Just need to check it out in daylight hours. No progress 😢

5. Get busy working on Gail from Quilting Gail’s Mystery QAL since it finished a while ago.. I’ve made some progress! 😁

6. Keep working on the replacement green quilt 🤣 since I do have to gift it to our Treasurer at the Guild who is retiring on June 4th. I’ve made some progress 😁

This little quilt needs to be 48” x 84” 🤔

7. Continue fixing popped seams and stay stitching the edges of the next bin of quilt tops for Liz’s project if we can exchange bins this week. Some progress. 😁

8. Do not let Samantha or any of her squirrel buddies side track me🐿🐿🐿🐿. ✅ Success! No being sidetracked by anything but life outside the sewing corner 😉

This Week’s goals:

This week has me attending 5 meetings, taking over as Treasurer at the Guild, covering the Pro Shop one day at the Golf Club, 2 medical appointments for my DH, but I have do have one whole day at the Guild to just play with fabric.

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

1. Keep working on my EPP, embroidery and embroidery sampler.

2. 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. I’d really like to finish getting at least the blocks in this bag sandwiched and quilted. 😁

3. 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.

4. Finish making the blocks from my crumb pieces.

5. Get busy working on Gail from Quilting Gail’s Mystery QAL since it finished a while ago.. 🤩

6. Finish the replacement green quilt by Wednesday evening to gift it to our Treasurer at the Guild who is retiring on June 4th. I just need to finish assembling the top, and then sandwich and quilt it on my little class machine (I’ve damaged both of my regular machines) or on my Featherweight. It’s doable if I make a flanged binding and do it on the machine rather than hand stitching the binding, but will be tight! 😳

7. Continue fixing popped seams and stay stitching the edges of the next bin of quilt tops for Liz’s project.

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 just love her new logo!

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 and commitments lessen. 🤔

• January 4/31
• February 2/28
• March 10/31
• April 12/30
• May 29/31
• this week 5/7
• Previous Total: 52/144
• Total: 57/151
• Percentage = 37.75 %

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 trips 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: 8 yards
• Fabric Purchased this week: 0 yards
• Fabric Previous Balance: 15 yards
• Fabric Purchased this year: 9 yards
• Balance in stash to use this year: 186 yards

* my goal is to lessen my stash by 200 yards this year. 😉

* 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;

My UFO and WIP List

Last but not least I have to update my UFO Speadsheet and then try keeping it up to date and so help with my accountability now that I have gone through everything in my storage room and sewing space. I’ve made some progress but still haven’t finished updating my list with my newly discovered/forgotten WIPs from my storage room bins and boxes. 😅

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 @ Quilt Schmilt

In closing I’d like to thank you for visiting, for joining the To Do Tuesday linky party, for sharing the party link, and above all for being part of my quilting world. 🤗 Carol