Sunday Summary #213

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Had an interesting week with some stitching time every day, several meetings and too many necessary trips to deal with issues at the Golf Club. Next week will be better since I have two days at the Guild o just stitch and enjoy being with the other quilters with no internet or cell service. 😁

My Last To-Do Goals:

1. Keep making some bags for the Christmas Hamper/Dinner event in December. My goal is to complete a dozen bags for the event. I know the children enjoy finding treasures they can pick and wrap to gift their parents or caregivers. I got busy and sorted out fabrics and put together some kits for these projects.😁

I’ve pulled fabrics that should work well with the EPP pieced sections I’ve made so far. 
Fabric, pieced panels are together with notions, interfacing and lining.

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

3. Try to get this project to the flimsy stage. Everything is together for my quilting day at the Guild where I have space to sort the final layout. 😁

4. Finish making my quilt top from my crumb blocks and leftover panel blocks. No progress 😢

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

6. I’d like to make some progress on the memory quilts from all of my family’s t-shirts or clothing. No real progress but I did get 2 more blocks quilted 😳

7. Keep stabilizing the quilt tops for Liz’s project. No progress 😢

8. Keep Samantha and her buddies from distracting me or coercing me to start anything new until I get my list whittled down.  Complete failure. I had the leftover pieces and scraps from the Jelly Roll Mystery and decided I needed to do something with them rather than adding more to my scrap bin. Best news; I didn’t add another project to my list! 😉

Two panels completed for another bag 😁

This Week’s goals:

So far it looks like this could be a good week on the stitching front. I have two meetings for the Golf Club, DH has his appointment with the second doctor for MAiD, but I have two whole days at the Guild to play with fabric!

Now it’s time to set my goals for the week.

1. Keep making some bags for the Christmas Hamper/Dinner event in December from everything I have kitted up.

I’ve pulled fabrics that should work well with the EPP pieced sections I’ve made so far.

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 since I have kitted it up to go to the Guild with me.

5. Keep working to empty my project bins.

6. Keep making 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.

One more on my sewing table 😊

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 16/16
  • this week 7/7
  • Previous Total: 126/221
  • Total: 133/228
  • Percentage = 58.33 %

I’m happy to see my percentage going up and 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: 184 yards

* my goal is to lessen my stash by 200 yards this year but realistically I’ll be happy with whatever I manage. 😉

* any fabric used from the scrap bins, was gifted or a prize; doesn’t count as stash!

Memories of Quilts Long Gone

A little quilt I made for my SIL’s business partner for the birth of her son. We wanted a quilt that would be large enough for her son to use on his bed when he outgrew his crib.

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;

So much fun in these photos!😄

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 pulled my lists of projects in my bins and have started to update my list.

I use the spreadsheet that Quilting Gail shared several years ago, but I do need to update it!

Linking with:

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

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Published by Carol Andrews

I have been fondling fabric and creating things with fabric and fiber for as long as I can remember. My children had homemade clothes, blankets, canning and quilts most of their lives. Now I create goodies to share! Hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoy making them! When I am not creating with fiber or fabric I keep busy with Dear Heart, kids, grandkids, great grandkids.

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