Hello and welcome to my Sunday Summary and my To Do Tuesday post.
My Last To-Do Goals:
I’ve had another couple of fun filled weeks. Some days with meetings and then the results of a squirrel attack (more on that later) but there were two quilting days scheduled at my Guild. The first day, Thursday, was a bit of a bust since I had to be in Trail, almost two hours drive each way, to attend a couple of training sessions. It was also my birthday so there were phone calls and messages to answer. Once I got home I was surprised by the staff in the Golf Club Restaurant. 😁
Now it’s time to see how I did with my last goals:
1. Try to get my SAHRR sandwiched and quilted. No progress 😢
✅ 2. Adding making a walker caddy to my list this week since my daughter will be having knee replacement surgery in a couple of weeks. I’m claiming a check mark for this one even though it’s not finished! I had cut my fabrics and then realized I had to redo my cutting because I needed to change the size of the caddy. It had to be large enough to carry her iPad as well as her phone, etc.
2. Pull out another UFO and see if I can make any more progress on one of them. No progress 😢
✅ 3. Keep Samantha and her squirrel buddies from distracting me and sidetracking me from my list. 🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️. Success! I stuck to my list other than dealing with life with DH which I can’t control and of course more election training. I was only going to work Regular Voting Day, but agreed to work 3 of 6 days of Advanced Voting since staff is difficult to find and my 50 years of experience seems to count 🤭
How are you doing with your lists. Will you manage to join the linky party this week?
This Week’s goals:
It will be an unusual week as I will be travelling to see my daughter and my DH will be in respite care while I am gone.
1. Try not to feel guilty for setting DH up with Respite Care.
2. Travel to see my daughter after her surgery.
3. Spend any time I can enjoying a bit of time with machines and fabric.
4. Do not get distracted by Sam and her squirrel buddies. 🐿️🐿️🐿️
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. 🤔
- January 31/31
- February 25/28
- March 25/31
- April 2/30
- May 10/31
- June 23/30
- July 27/31
- August 4/31
- September 12/30
- October 12/31
- November 1/7
- previous total: 161/283
- Total: 172/311
- Percentage = 55.31 %
How are you doing with your goal to stitch for at least 15 minutes each day? Have you joined Kate’s challenge? I’m happy to get any time in with my machines 😁
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. Last year I didn’t manage to use as much stash fabric as I planned since I don’t get to go to the studio and play on the long arm, but I’ve been working on finishing quilts on my dsm. 🤩
- Fabric Used: 23 yards
- Fabric Purchased this week: 2 yards
- Fabric Previous Balance: 62 yards
- Fabric Purchased this year: 7 yards
- Balance in stash to use this year: 39 yards
* my goal is to lessen my stash by 100 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 From the Past
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
I’ve made some changes to my tracker, but I’ll be linking with Ms. P. Designs and the PHD in 2026 Challenge
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
- Sew and Tell @ Melva Loves Scraps
- Monday Musings @ Songbird Designs
- Design Wall Monday @ Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
- PHD in 2026 @ Ms P Designs USA
- To-Do Tuesday @ Quilt Schmilt
- Wednesday Wait Loss @ The Inquiring Quilter
- Needle and Thread Thursday @ My Quilt Infatuation
- Finished or Not Friday @ Alycia Quilts
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. I do appreciate your support. It really does make a difference in my world. 🤗
