Lots of progress last week. Check it out.

   

To Do Tuesday update

Last week's progress:

1. Finish my last church block - ✅

2. Make two house blocks - ✅

3. Assemble Color My World - ✅

It is finished and off to the quilter - yay!  I have made this quilt completely from scraps except for the background.  As for the background, it was just in my stash.  Here is proof that we can make lovely things from leftovers.  

I started this quilt in March of 2021.  Wow, it is finally getting close to done!

The next photos show a close up of each corner.  They are all a little bit different.

4. Make Week 3 Spring Mystery BOM blocks - ✅

5. Make Week 4 Spring Mystery BOM blocks - ✅

This one was a struggle, not making it, but choosing the right fabrics for it.  I started off with this choice and hated it.

Next, I tried this combination.  It is ok but didn't really go with the other blocks as well as I would like.

Since they are already cut and partially sewn, I may end up finding a better background to suit them and put them on the back of a quilt or something.

They look nice on white.

Here are the four blocks all finished and neatly pressed.  I realize this quilt would have looked so nice on a white on white background like the dots above, but remember, this is a mystery and I am using up my stash.  This batik needed a home and was the right yardage. 

6. Cut out Tula Pink Pineapple quilt kit - NO

7. Piece one Celestial Star - NO

8. Start planning how I want to arrange my Quilty Ladies and what other blocks I want to piece to go with it. - ✅

The ideas are coming together.  It will be laid out similar to this only the blocks will be sewn into perfect squares.  I am also making little scissors to go with the stars somewhere.

Here is some extra fabric I have to play with as well:  pins and measuring tape.

9. Hand applique' the remaining Stashbee flower stems - ✅

10. Piece my Dollar Building Block BOMs.   - STILL IN PROGRESS

I have 1/4 sewn together.  There are four different ones all stacked together.

11.  Exercise daily - ✅

12.  Quit eating so many sweets -NOT PERFECT, BUT I DID BETTER

This week I hope to:

1. Make a Celestial Star

2. Make scissor blocks for Crazy Quilty Ladies

3. Finish the $ Building Blocks BOM for this month

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

6. Cut out Tula Pink's Pineapple Quilt

7. Hand applique' stems  

8. Eat healthy

9. Exercise daily

15 minutes to stitch update:  

I am also linking up with:

Oh Scrap

Design Wall Monday

Wendy's Peacock Party

Wednesday Wait Loss

More slow summer days of stitching...

Being so relaxed is just wonderful!  One more Celestial Star was made.  I think it is my favorite so far.

Here they are all together.  I plan to make a total of 9, so five more to go.  They really do take a long time.  I love the secondary pattern in the open space created from using two different background fabrics.

Two barns done - check

One church done and another close to done- check

Color My World might actually get finished in the next few weeks.

Everything looks and smells so good after the rain.  Here are some photos of my back yard and our horses leisurely eating their dinner.

The first crop of the neighbor's hay is cut, bailed, and mostly hauled with another crop in the back getting sprinkled.  I love the mountains in the background and the solace of living here.

 I have been reading quite a bit.  Some are book club picks while others are recommendations from friends and family.  These are my 2023 book finishes.

Favorites on this list:  

• The Moonlight Child by Karen McQuestion
• Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes (great book but the F-bom used way too much for my taste)
• The Selection Series by Kiera Cass (a cross between the bachelor and hunger games)

These are the ones I am currently reading.

"The Life of Elizabeth I" is educational; I am reading it very slowly.

Learning to Love Isaiah:  I am using this as a study companion to help me understand Isaiah better.  It is a very very slow read by nature of the topic.

God Will Prevail - I haven't picked this one up in months.

Goodnight Beautiful - such a cool book!!!  Slow at first, but now I cannot put it down.  This read is very unpredictable.  I nearly didn't listen past the first chapter due to some sexual content.  Nothing that bad occurred since.

I would love for my fellow readers out here to join me on Goodreads.com where we can share books we read.

15 minutes and To Do Tuesday

 

15 minutes to stitch update:  my percent is slowly going up now that I have time to sew daily.

To Do Tuesday update

Last week's progress:

1. Finish Esther ✅ DONE

2. Hand applique' some stashbee flower stems ✅ DONE

3. Piece another Celestial Star ✅ DONE

4. Piece two churches for Color my World - ONE IS DONE, the other is nearly done

The unfinished one is laid on top of the finished one to get an idea what it will come out to be.  These are long narrow blocks because they go in the very corners of Color My World houses.

5. Piece two barns for Color My World ✅ DONE

6. Sew up some star blocks that are already cut out for my Crazy Quilty Ladies quilt. ✅ DONE

7. Cut out my Tula Pink Pineapple quilt kit I purchased a year ago.

8.  Bind the two quilts at the quilter if they return to me this week (she is pretty fast). ✅ DONE - note:  only one came back so it is done

9. Make Week 3 Mystery blocks when the pattern is released

Tomorrow's post will show some of those goal finishes, so stay tuned.

This week I hope to:

1. Finish my last church block

2. Make two house blocks

3. Assemble Color My World

4. Make Week 3 Spring Mystery BOM blocks

5. Make Week 4 Spring Mystery BOM blocks

6. Cut out Tula Pink Pineapple quilt kit

7. Piece one Celestial Star

8. Start planning how I want to arrange my Quilty Ladies and what other blocks I want to piece to go with it.

9. Piece my Dollar Building Block BOMs.  I received the fabric yesterday along with the ruler I purchased to make month 2.  The ruler is much larger than I expected it to be.  I am excited to see how they all turn out.

A friend of mine will be leaving in September to do a church mission and has asked that I finish her blocks for her in trade for her making me the machine embroidery blocks for the "Me Without You" quilt.  In this case, I will be piecing 5 Dollar Building blocks each month.

These are the quilt blocks she will embroider for me.  I guess I need to decide on the fabrics soon.

10.  Exercise daily 

11.  Quit eating so many sweets

2022 350 blocks challenge

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

December blocks made: 64

Total YTD for 2022:  596

5 Barns 

3 silo

6 houses 

2 church

4 trucks

3 snow white (she counts as three blocks because she was a ton of work).

13 Bloom blocks

13 Setting blocks

1 Amanda

1 Bernice

3 project bags

1 Bind Windmill

1 Bind Flower Power 

8 Cat blocks