Dreamworthy Quilts: DJ's quilts

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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Another linky post...

Last week:

Enjoy time with two of my grand sons for their birthday trip. I have 5 of them, but the others already had their outing with grandma. We camped without electricity which meant I was limited to hand work. ✔

I took my hexies for the mystery. ✔

The hexies are done!

After I returned home from the camp out, I got all but three of them glue basted and ready for applique'

One quarter of the quilt has all of the applique' turned under and glue basted to the background. I love it! This may possibly be the best mystery I ever joined!

This week's To Do List:

1. Hand applique' the rest of my flower stems I received from a block swap.

2. Applique' the quarter panel that is ready.

3. Piece one Celestial Star

4. Figure out how to finish Crazy Quilty ladies and where to put the scissor blocks. These scissors are so small (4 1/2) and took forever to make! I also found several mistakes in the pattern which was a little not cool. I am very happy they are done!

5. Prep another quarter panel of my Laundry Basket Mystery Quilt.

6. Piece two exchange blocks

7. Finish cutting out the rest of my pineapple Tula Pink background. It finally arrived in the mail.

I had car troubles this week. I think it is time to get a new one. It was a year ago this week when my tire fell off going down the interstate. This time it was just the alternator, but still. Anyway, it kind of held me back from driving to visit a friend who lives too far away.

Wednesday, July 5, 2023

15 Minutes and To Do Tuesday

I finally got my percentage up to 80 percent. Going a couple of months without sewing really set me back.

15 Minutes Report:

To Do Tuesday Report

Last week:

1. Make a Celestial Star

2. Make scissor blocks for Crazy Quilty Ladies ✅

3. Finish the $ Building Blocks BOM for this month ✅

I am making 4 of these quilts. You can tell by the different color ways. As for this block, it is cute but oh was it not fun to make. I would have made it different from the designer.

Below you can see block 1 and 2 months side by side on all 4 quilts.

4. Bind my Tulip Winnings Quilt. It is just returned from the quilter and WOW, she did an amazing job on a very simple quilt. ✅

5. Make Week 5 of the Spring Mystery BOM - half way done

6. Cut out Tula Pink's Pineapple Quilt ✅

7. Eat healthy ✅

8. Exercise daily - not every day

Look at the gorgeous quilting my lady did on the tulip quilt! I won these blocks at a retreat and wasn't completely in love with them. I am now! Quilting can make such a difference!

This week I hope to just enjoy time with my grand sons. We will be camping without electricity. It will be hand work for me. I plan to take my hexies for the mystery and maybe some applique for the last week's instructions if I can get it ready.

We took a Sunday drive to visit my son and his wife. They live in a beautiful place! Our son took us for a little tour of the ranch and we saw some red rock sights.

The two photos below are taken right from his front porch. I think I could take in this view every day and be a happy woman.

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Happy 4th of July!

I hope your 4th of July is wonderful. If you don't live in the states, perhaps it is a typical Tuesday for you. For us it is a day to remember the signing of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. I am thankful for those who fought for our freedoms. This day is always super hot, to the extent that books, poems, and songs phrase "hotter than the 4th of July". This is quite a contrast to our 2023 spring and June. I guess summer is finally here. We will start off our holiday by driving over the mountain to watch a parade my daughter's family will be in. We will have lunch then buzz back home where I hope we will get the air conditioner finally hooked up.

The past few days I have been plugging along - checking off my goal list!

Some hexies were made for the Spring Mystery quilt. I can honestly say that I am NOT yet hooked on EPP.

My Tula Pink Pineapple quilt is finally cut out - yay! I purchased the fabric a year ago and am so excited to make it. I will say, however, I was short some solids for my backgrounds and am awaiting its UPS arrival before I can really say it is completely cut out. I will say that everything is cut minus half of the background.

I enjoyed putting the cut pieces into the zipper pockets of the little projet bag I made last year.

I love my first pineapple block so much!!!

I made July's Stashbee block too. It was super easy!

I went to Les Mis with a friend. It was fabulous! We also enjoyed a nice lunch and pedicure.

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Monday, July 3, 2023

June Wrap-Up - it was a great month!

In June I surprised myself by getting an urge to put hanging sleeves on a few of my quilts. I got a new quilt hanger that needs them. The old one just pinched the quilt between two boards and was very difficult to do up high on the wall all by myself. Because I didn't have very many quilts with sleeves, I didn't change my quilts as much as I would have liked last year. During school, putting the sleeves on just seemed too time consuming.

These three are done - yay! They include my Buggy Barn Bird House quilt (bottom), New York Beauty (middle), and my Barnyard (top).

These others are pinned and ready for me to sew. I need to get them done because I am low on pins until they are removed. There are 6 of them.

Goals really drive me, and I am happy to report that I really did well last month. I completed 4 quilts last month and have another done already for July. Out of the 10 Newfos I started in 2023, 9 are completely finished! One WIP out of 4 are done.

I also like to take an "end of the month" look at every project I worked on. The yellow in the list shows every one I worked on. It is also fun to see my finishes being checked off.

I, like most of you, have several new projects I am excited to sink my teeth into. I just don't want to get over 20 UFOs stacked up like I had a few years back. Reining myself in takes some discipline for sure. I have color coded them into groups to keep myself organized. UFOs are ones I am not even working on at all. My 2023 goal is to just make even the tiniest amount of progress on them.

We had a princess outing - myself and my two grand daughters. It started off with a princess and pirates themed train ride. They loved it!

The girls were delighted to meet Elsa, Merida, Moana, and Rapunzel.

We went out to eat, to the pool, and then home to grandma's house.

The next day we made princess crafts which included Bell's dress from a paper plate, mermaid dolls from pipe cleaner and floss, and princess snow globes.

On the way home we even went on a little princess hike. It was the best! These two little princesses loved playing in the creek and getting dirty.

We supported my daughter's first triathlong! I think I want to do one - maybe next year.

One Monthly Goal for July

I am hopeful for another finish this year with my "Quilty Ladies" still lingering around but getting close. I should be able to get the top done this month which will be my one monthly goal.

I created these ladies a year ago for a class I taught at a retreat. They were a ton of work, but I really like them. I am envisioning a wall quilt for my sewing room. Each lady was named alphabetically as I made them:

Amanda is on the top left in a red top and blue glasses.

Bernice is on the top right in pink top and glasses.

Celeste is the wild blonde on the bottom right.

Daisy is in the center with purple glasses.

Esther is on the bottom left.

I am currently piecing little scissor blocks to go in the blocks with the stars. All of the blocks will be sized to a square once I decide the size I want.