Sunday Summary #206

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

I had another busy week with appointments for DH, meetings and a fair amount of time dedicated to paperwork and accounting for the Guild, but I managed my stitching time every day except one.

My Last To-Do Goals:

1. Keep working on my hand stitching since slow stitching is so relaxing. I only need to make 5 half hexies to get to the stage of sewing those sweet flowers together. 😁

2. Continue working with the blocks for 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 a bit on these blocks 😁

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 on these this week 😉

4. Finish making the quilt top from my crumb pieces and a leftover bit from a panel. I’m a bit closer to finishing this flimsy; just need to trim the panel blocks and check that my quilt math was right for my butterfly blocks. 😁

5. Make some time to make progress on Gail from Quilting Gail’s Mystery QAL since it finished a while ago.. No progress here 😢

6. Continue fixing popped seams and stay stitching the edges of the next bin of quilt tops for Liz’s project. I pulled the tops out of the bin and checked to see which need more popped seams fixed and which only need stay stitching around the outside 😁

7. Do not let Samantha or any of her squirrel buddies side track me🐿🐿🐿🐿. Success! I stayed on track but did add a few things to my “Must Make List” thanks to the on line community I enjoy so much ✅

This Week’s goals:

Just look at how short my list is getting to be since I’m behaving and not starting anything new. 😉

1. Keep working on my hand stitching since slow stitching is so relaxing. 

2. Continue working with the blocks for 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. 

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 quilt top from my crumb pieces and a leftover bit from a panel. 

5. Make some time to make progress on Gail from Quilting Gail’s Mystery QAL since it finished a while ago.. 

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

7. 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
• June 26/28
• this week 6/7
• Previous Total: 78/172
• Total: 84/179
• Percentage = 46.93 %

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: 0 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 not made any progress on this since computer time is limited to reading blogs, checking emails and doing never ending paperwork for the two Societies I help with. 😅

Linking with:

• Scraphappy Saturday @ Super Scrappy
• Sunday Stash @ Quilt Paint Create
• Oh Scrap @ Quilting is More Fun Than Housework
• Frederique @ QuiltingPatchworkApplique
• 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

This week I’ll even manage to link up with our To-Do Tuesday and the other parties I enjoy.

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