Busy Sewing Room and Weekly Goals

      About the only thing I did outside in the garden was water.  Sunday we finally had a shower.  Not enough but it helps.  I am expecting house guests and spent extra time cleaning.  I had fun in my sewing room last week. Even though I did not accomplish all the goals I had, I feel like I got a lot done. 

This is how I did on last week's quilting goals: 

1. Finish quilting the charity quilt. - Done. Another member of my 

        church quilt group enjoys sewing bindings on so I don't need to.

2. Add quilting to “Celtic Fantasy” - Not Done. 

    Instead, I cut squares for a pieced border on my March Block a 

     Day quilt top and got the 2 side borders sewn on.

      I also started working on a special quilt for the Modern Quilt Guild's QuiltCon 2024 fabric challenge. I received a fat eight bundle of fabric by Windham and bought another 2 yards of the white/aqua to use as my background. Only these fabrics can be used on the front of the quilt. It is total improvisation and only units are pieced so far. 

      A friend who loves gnomes celebrated her 80^th birthday Sunday. These are the cute designs I appliqued onto kitchen towels for her. You can find the free designs here. 

    

Stash Report for 2023

this past week- Used: 4 yds     Added: 0 yds

So far this year- Used: 70.21 yds Added: 40 yds

             Net decrease 30.21 yds

Goals for this week:

1. Finish borders on the March Block a Day top.
2. Create more units for the fabric challenge quilt
3. Work on another UFO.

Have a great week and enjoy some time for quilting.

Using Strips and Goals

        It was still hot here so no yard work was happening. That just meant I looked for things to do inside. This is how I did on last week's goals:

1. Finish quilting the charity quilt. Not Done. I didn't do any quilting.

2. Make progress on a UFO. Done. I made great progress on 2 

charity UFO tops. I pieced enough scrappy nine patches for the border of “Traffic Jam”. Hopefully, this week I will get them sew together and on to the top.

I also finished piecing 20 string units for a “Woven” quilt.

I appliqued a cute design on a kitchen towel which will be a present for a friend. I will wait until it is gifted before I show it.

All the projects I worked on used strips, strings or small pieces so I could not measure yardage used. I'm going to estimate about a yard.

Stash Report for 2023

this past week- Used: 1 yd Added: 0 yds

So far this year- Used: 66.21 yds Added: 40 yds

Net decrease 26.21 yds

Goals for this week:

1. Finish quilting the charity quilt. - This should not take much time.

2. Add quilting to “Celtic Fantasy” - I set this aside to work on time sensitive projects and now I really want to get back to this big project and make more progress on it.

Have a great week and enjoy some time for quilting.

Finishes and Goals

     It was a HOT week here in SC so I could not work very long outside. That meant I had plenty of time to sew and quilt and I did.
Here is how I did on my goals for the week.
1.  Add more quilting to “Peony Stars and Summer Winds” Done.

Not only did I add more quilting but it is finished.

Here are some final close ups of the quilting.

It took me a while to decide how I wanted to quilt it but I am pleased. 

2.  Prepare for paper-piecing presentation Done. 

 I have notes written with quilts to show plus samples and patterns printed for the class afterwards. It was great to sort through materials. I even found some pp materials I had forgotten about.

3.  Sew top for GD Lily Done. 

I plan to take her the top this week and hopefully get a photo of her wearing it if it fits.

4. Quilt a charity quilt Done. 

Finished one.

Then I started quilting another.

 

Stash Report for 2023
this past week- Used: 0.5 yds Added: 0 yds
So far this year- Used: 65.21 yds Added: 40 yds
         Net decrease 25.21 yds

Goals for this week:
1. Finish quilting the charity quilt
2. Make progress on a UFO.

Have a great week and enjoy some time for quilting.

Projects and Weekly Goals

     It is Monday again and time to check on project progress and goals.    Last week I only had one goal because it was time sensitive.

1. Quilt the split nine patch Done and given.

    This was a church quilt group project. Since it was a rush project, we planned to quilt it on a friend's long arm machine. Monday we found that would not work out so Tuesday we sandwiched it for me to quilt at home on my sit down long arm machine. I decided not to try any fancy quilting but simple swirls overall and finished the quilting Thursday to pass Friday for binding. The bride to be was very happy. I know I have shown this quilt in progress several times; however, here is the final photo with binding.

    Happy that the gift was finished in time and given, I pulled a small project to quilt for a Ukrainian child.  

I did continuous FM loops in the blocks and a loopy meander in one border with swirls in the outer border.

The binding is made and I'm hoping someone else will sew the binding on.

    I pieced a small paper-piecing block to show during a presentation next week and then finished hand sewing the binding on “Peony Stars and Summer Winds”. This week I hope to add a little more quilting and call it finished.

Stash Report for 2023 (no change)

this past week- Used: 0 yds Added: 0 yds
So far this year- Used: 64.71 yds Added: 40 yds
Net decrease 24.71 yds

Goals for this week:

1. Add more quilting to “Peony Stars and Summer Winds'
2. Prepare for paper-piecing presentation
3. Sew top for GD Lily
4. Quilt a charity quilt

Have a great week and enjoy some time for quilting.

A Finish

    The Split 9 Patch quilt is finished and passed on to another for the binding.

Some of the fabric came from the stash of a church quilt group member, a little from my stash and the rest from church quilt group stash. Six members of our group pieced blocks which I pieced into the top and did the machine quilting which is overall FM swirls. Another member is sewing the binding on. It was a fast quilt finish for a wedding shower this coming Sunday.

This was the third quilt our group has made using this pattern.  It is easy to prepare kits from 5" squares and 4 1/2" squares for a 12" finished block. 

I'm linking up with Alycia's Finished or Not Friday. 

Have a great week and enjoy some time for quilting.