June Goals

Now with the wedding behind us and the workbook completed and printed, I am setting my sights on some serious quilting progress for the month of June. I had joined the PHD program back at the beginning of the year. I have not actually completed any of my ufos or much of anything else I have been working on in the quilting area. I had an elaborate plan back in February to work on 5 small ufos and had everything organized and ready to go. But, as often happens, life gets in the way of my goals. 

Some of the fun things were 7 overnight guests for a family Easter celebration so I bought a queen-sized futon. It now resides in my old quilt room. This will now be the guest room. The folding tables all got moved out of the way and then were in use for the garden party wedding of our son on our front lawn. It was quite cold and windy so we had to close the curtains on it. Did I mention the massive storm that came up suddenly the day before the wedding? 

I taught the girls and their dad how to play Settler's of Catan and we ended up having 2 massive games going on in different rooms at Easter. We have now moved on to Seafarers. it is more challenging, but my girls love a challenge. 

I had to move my computer out of the quilt room as the desk was once again set up as a window box to start vegetables. I had made cuttings of several split-leaf philodendrons back in the fall and I finally potted them up into 3 very large pots.

They are presently sitting on the desk totally in my way. I get to see the new leaves emerge daily. 

 My move to the Blue Room is almost complete. Just need the double bed removed and the 8-foot tables brought up. After that, I will have no excuses to not get into some serious quilting. Oh yes. Time to put air conditioners into windows. This week I hope. It is supposed to go up to 30 today. In my world, that is hot. 

We are into the haying season here at the farm where we sold the cows last fall and why are we doing hay anyway? Because that is what farmers do at this time of year. We cut, baled and wrapped 30 acres then planted more corn. Today we are baling small square bales. All of our hay is spoken so cannot complain. Although, I do like to complain. 

So what does this all have to do with my June Goals?

Since it is Tuesday, I will make a To-Do Tuesday quilting goals list. 

1. Set up both long tables in the Blue Room. 
2. Fill them with all sorts of quilty things so it looks like I am seriously working on several quilts. 
3. Actually work on several quilts.
4. Take pictures of any progress. 
5. Make progress on something so I can take pictures. 
6. Chooky has a Churn Dash SAL and I must decide on what fabrics I will be using and make at least 8 blocks. I will soon have 2 long tables to spread things out on. 

That's enough goals for one month. My official OMG goal will be to complete the Biblical Blocks Wedding Quilt for my son and his wife. 

blessings,

Chris

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End of May

I did not complete the wedding quilt. I had taken the blocks to work on at the quilt retreat in Shipshewana last month, but only got 3 blocks made. When I got started on them, I realized that I had not brought enough background fabric so went shopping for something new. I got 2 yards of beigey grunge which is a bit quieter than the brocade I had used in the borders and the center medallion. And, speaking of the center medallion, there are no less than 12  mitered corners in there and I messed up most of the ones I sewed together. You have to have good light and glasses and a sharp seam ripper and a steady hand to fix them. I had most of those things but not all. Needless to say, I still have to fix them before continuing. I had more unstitching to do when I accidentally used the wrong border strip for the tree trunk. For now, the sections are all just sitting on the design wall. Completing this will once again be my OMG this time for June.

And why did I not get it done, other than playing a million Candy Crush games between editing and formatting the workbook I am writing for the summer small group I will be leading starting next week? I actually got a lot of work done on that the week before the wedding. Also, I had to give up not one not two but all four of my folding tables for the wedding. 

The wedding you say? Yes, the wedding of our son and new daughter on our front lawn. It was amazing. My only responsibility was the outside flowers most of which I had planted back in November. I bought several gorgeous window boxes and planters. Do I have photos of them? Somewhere, but not in my camera. Maybe on my iPad if I can figure out how to export them.

I had given 9-year-old Devan my camera with instructions to take a thousand pictures. She set the camera down when she had to join the bridal procession and did not pick it up again. And, I had given 10-year-old Ellsye the iPad with instructions to tape the ceremony. She set it down when she joined the procession, So, I picked it up myself and videotaped the whole ceremony. Except that since I had never used the thing before, I forgot to press the red record button. 

But just for the procession. I did get the entire ceremony taped. I had a front-row center seat so got it good and clear. But, when I tried to play it back I could not figure out the sound. So many things to learn. I handed off my iPad to one of the guests when we had to do the family pictures. He got some good ones. But they are on the iPad. Yes, I bought an iPad. I have no other Apple products and things are different than the Microsoft devices I have used for the past 25 years. So many things to learn.  

blessings,

Chris

May 2022 OMG Goal

 I did not meet my April OMG goal so I will move that over to the May OMG. And what will that be? The Biblical Blocks Sampler I am completing for my son's wedding later this month.

And the wedding is where? Here at the Farm, where else. In our front yard. And the side yard and the back yard. It is going to be glorious! All I have to do is provide the outside flowers, and we planted them back in November and the apple blossoms will be out and the lilacs and the horse chestnuts will be blooming. It will be spectacular! And I am sure the bees will be buzzing in full concert as well. 

I got my dress last month. It took me a whole 10 minutes. Where do you find fancy dresses for overweight, crippled-up senior women these days? Well, I'm glad you asked. I went to a tiny dress shop in my town and walked out of there with a $400 purple dress for 70% off and a killer turquoise/purple/gold scarf. In just 10 minutes! Then I found some amazing Vionic fancy sandals in my size 11 wide in Shipshewana Indiana when I was at the quilt retreat last week. And I was not even looking for shoes! I bought myself 3 different pairs and a pair of running shoes for my Sweetie who is on a diet and does all the cooking here now. Life is good. I found a fancy turquoise shirt for him at a truck stop and I wasn't even looking for that either. 

I will be back at the end of the month with more pictures. 

Blessings,

Chris