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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.

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.

In addition, I hope to...

Make a couple Celestial Stars

Finish up my Spring Mystery top. Week 6 will be released this week and will be the last one.

Bind and attach a hanging sleeve to Color My World once it returns from my fabulous quilter.

Make my $ building blocks when the pattern is released.

Sew my July exchange blocks 

Put hanging sleeves on the backs of 6 quilts that are pinned and ready to sew.

Assemble my Stashbee quilt.  I am waiting for 2 more blocks to arrive in the mail.

Non quilt goals:

Get my math class up to speed before school starts by doing it in July instead of August.

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:

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Wendy's Peacock Party

Wednesday Wait Loss

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

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.

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