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15 Minutes Report:

To Do Tuesday Report

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.

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.

15 min & Quilty Ladies progressing and a new mystery

Daisy is done!  Hooray!  I love these Crazy Quilty Ladies, but I really want to get this quilt done.  

Esther is progressing as well, but not quite finished. She will get neatly pressed when I am done scrunching her up while I embroider her measuring tape hair tie.

I also started a mystery quilt.  My friend, Janice  @Jannimary.blogspot.com, posted about it and I guess I got sucked in.  I enjoy mysteries, but what I love more is doing them with a friend.

The free spring, Mother's Day mystery is hosted by Laundry Basket Quilts.  Janice says she likes her mysteries better than some others.

My fabric selected began by searching my stash for 2 1/2 yards of background fabric.  I found this homeless/projectless Batik piece that has 3 yards.  Perfect.

Step 2:  find some greens because the first week of the mystery calls the blocks "stems" and I know there will be applique' flowers.  This bit was a little harder as my green stash is pretty low.  I chose a black instead.  The first month's blocks actually split the leaves into two fabrics, so I pulled a brown to accompany my black.  

Step 3:  find stash fabrics to go with my background and greenery/blackery.

I think they will all go very nice together.  Being able to make something beautiful out of leftover scraps and homeless fabric purchases really makes me smile.  Also, I prefer not to go out and purchase fabric for a mystery in case I don't end up loving the pattern.

This mystery is not very time consuming yet. 

Cut pieces...

Last week an attempt was made to make another exchange block:  Trip Around the World.  The only problem was the quilter requested solid black and mine was no where to be found.

As I was rummaging through the stash looking for fabrics to make my mystery out of, wa la...  It showed up.

Exchange Block - check!

Driving over the mountain to visit grands had a nice view. We should have snow up there for awhile considering all the wonderful snow we received last year.

The lakes are still thawing out.

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15 Minutes to Stitch update:

My percent is coming up - yay!

Also, as you can see below, I have worked on a lot of different projects this month already.

I am also linking up with:

Patchwork and Quilts Linky Party

350 Blocks challenge & 2023 goal progress

 

I am participating in the 350 blocks challenge by Prairie Moon again this year.

It is late in the year for my my first post, but here it goes.  So far this year, January through May, I have made 215 blocks. 

32 Tulips

19 Flowers

1 chicken

2 green/yellow square blocks (stashbee)

2 Hidden Wells

24 Buggy Barn Flowers

1 Make N Take

1 Celestial Star

1 Hexie block

2 Dresses for Africa

24 Braids

2 Diddles Bag

16 Life's Little Threads Exchange Blocks

13 Stashbee blocks

2 Red Tulips

18 pastel Pinwheels

18 Creative Notions Pinwheels

34 Folded Insert Blocks

1 border Folded Bloom

1 border Winning Tulips

1 border Buggy Barn Flowers

ON ANOTHER NOTE...

I am also doing 15 Minutes to Stitch this year but haven't posted until now.  Here are my stats.

My percentage is low because I spent many hours planning my trip to Australia rather than sewing.  It was worth it!  I hope to bring it up to 85% by the end of the year.

YTD finish progress:

I also like to take a snapshot of what I worked on each month.  Here is my May report: