Sunday Summary #211

It was another fun filled week playing with fabric, hiding indoors from the heat and trying to not stress when the thunderstorms brought lightning strikes, wildfire starts and wonderful torrential rain! So far both the BC Wildfire crews and our local newly trained Volunteer Wildfire Emergency Response Team have kept things under control and put out the nearby wildfires out.

I’ve had to put in a few hours most evenings in the Golf Club to staff the Pro Shop. Being a volunteer Board Member has expanded to include volunteering in the shop. 😉

My DH is still managing a few holes of golf each day so all I can say is life is good. 😁

My Last To-Do Goals:

1. Finish the first of my sling bags so I can make some more along with some tote bags for the Christmas Hamper/Dinner event in December. I have a finished messenger/sling bag. This bag is fully lined, Quilted with iron on fleece for a stabilizer, has a build in laptop pocket (quilted with double layer of Hobbs 80/20 batting, 2 additional pockets or spaces for files folders and other supplies. The hand pieced hexies form an open pocket to through a phone or keys in. Best of all is the fact that all of the stitching was done on my Featherweight. I love that sweet little machine. 🤣✅

2. Keep hand stitching in the evening and get adventurous enough to try this sweet little project: Progress! I’ve started it and am quite enjoying a new stitching project. 😁

3. Try to get this project to the flimsy stage. Some progress. 😁

4. Finish making my quilt top from my crumb blocks and leftover panel blocks. Didn’t manage any progress on this one. 😢

5. Keep working to empty my project bins. No progress 😢

6. If I get one of my machines back I’d like to make some progress on the memory quilts from all of my family’s t-shirts or clothing. Still no machine, but maybe soon. 😢

7. Keep stabilizing the quilt tops for Liz’s project. A bit of progress with one flimsy now halfway done this week. 😁

8. Keep Samantha and her buddies from distracting me or coercing me to start anything new until I get my list whittled down.  🐿️🐿️🐿️ Sam and her buddies were kept at bay in spite of all the fun projects I kept seeing ✅

This Week’s goals:

So far it looks like this could be a good week on the stitching front. I have one meeting at the Guild, 2 meetings at the Golf Club and only one trip to town for DH’s meds and groceries. I can do the deposits for the Guild and Golf Club on the day I go to town since the branch should be open (they are on strike, but the staff is encouraging us to keep doing our banking). It’s hard to cross the picket line and the people manning the teller cages are management, tech support or HR and really don’t have a clue as to how to do anything. They have to keep messaging their head office to get instructions as to how to help us. It’s very painful and makes me appreciate the staff who have worked in our branch for decades.

Here in Canada we are also facing a very strong possibility of another postal strike. I can only hope that some resolution can be agreed to eventually since I have so many friends who are postal workers and I used to be one, too. In fact I led my local out on a rotating strike, then we were locked out and finally legislated back to work. It was a horrendous experience with replacement workers being bussed in, people trying to run us over and my father seeing a photo on the front page of his newspaper in another province of me on the picket line.

All I can say is life rightly calmer and more peaceful in my golden years. 😁

But now it’s time to stop reminiscing and get on with planning my goals for next week.

1. Keep making some sling bags, messenger bags and tote bags for the Christmas Hamper/Dinner event in December. I’ve even found some EPP orphans and test blocks I made with an embroidery machine to use up. 😉

2. Keep hand stitching in the evening doing my EPP and the needlepoint kit.

3. Try to get this project to the flimsy stage.

4. Finish making my quilt top from my crumb blocks and leftover panel blocks.

5. Keep working to empty my project bins.

6. If I get one of my machines back I’d like to make some progress on the memory quilts from all of my family’s t-shirts or clothing.

7. Keep stabilizing the quilt tops for Liz’s project.

8. Keep Samantha and her buddies from distracting me or coercing me to start anything new until I get my list whittled down. 🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️

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. 🤔

• January 4/31
• February 2/28
• March 10/31
• April 12/30
• May 29/31
• June 28/30
• July 31/31
• August 2/2
• this week 7/7
• Previous Total: 112/207
• Total: 119/214
• Percentage = 55.61 %

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: 2 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: 184 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!

Memories of Quilts Long Gone

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 updating this, but hope to one day soon.

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

PS. Thank you if you bought me a coffee. Website costs have gone up again (just like everything else) and being on a fixed income I do have to budget for my addictions hobbies and crafting.