August 22 To-Do Tuesday

 The list from 2 weeks ago  shows much accomplishment.

1. Put away my books and clear off the tables. DONE
2. Figure out how to correct the printer off-line error so we can print stuff. DONE but got a new hard drive so am dealing with unexpected changes.
3. Put away the clutter from the big ironing board. DONE then I promptly filled it up.
4. Take some before and after photos. DONE
5. Write up some blog posts. DONE 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Sew up one yellow Bright Jane block. NOPE. NEW PLAN
7. Fix the mitered corners on the center medallion of the Wedding Quilt.  PROGRESS
8. Prewash the new fabric for Windermere. DONE
9. Put up the Corn and Beans blocks on the big design wall and decide on a setting. There are so many options. Getting this to a flimsy will be my OMG goal for August. DONE
10. Cut out a couple of Lucy blocks. JUST ONE AND DONE
11. Launch the new How to Stay Married for 50 Years blog. DONE
12. Find the new mouse traps I bought last week and set them. DONE 

That list took me 2 weeks to accomplish.  

One of the fun things about family visiting is we can learn new things. So I went shopping on line and bought a few new toys. And the many heavy rains we have been having this summer have turned the geranium flowers brown. So deadheading is my puttering task. 

These are the most amazing gadgets ever created for us senior gardeners. Well, for any gardeners. I did not have to kneel on all those rocks in years past. 

This week's list looks something like this:

1. Write something every day 
2. Blog posts. I got way behind this summer with people and events here so just jumped back in. I also quietly launched the new blog How to Stay Married for 50 Years. I will be posting weekly. Now to figure out how to create a button for it. 
3. Get my flowerbeds looking beautiful again after many rainstorms.
4. No playing games.
5. Work on sewing up Corn and Beans.
6. Progress on Wedding Quilt.
7. Play with some 23 ufos. I pulled  out the 3030 box to see what is happening there so I can prep for the new Sweet 16 BOW. I will be using 30s reproduction fabrics. 
8. Drink more water. A lot more.

That should keep me out of mischief this week. I have little girls here this week and they all want to earn $$$. I have a plan for that. 

Blessings,

Chris

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Accidental New Project

So I may have accidentally started a new project. It was not on my radar nor did I intend to start it. Now don't tell pouty Lucy that she may have to take a back seat again.

I was minding my own business today, auditioning reproduction fabrics for a couple more Lucy blocks and, dog gone it, so many of the design elements are just a bit too big to fit nicely into the one inch elongated honeycomb paper shapes that I am using. Now, don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE-LOVE-LOVE English Paper Piecing. I am even going back to England in the spring for a family wedding. Now that is another story. 

So auditioning fabrics. I have them spread out all over the place here today. 

And then I chanced to read Barbara Schafer's blog post about the Savery Friendship Star Quilt that she is planning to make. 

And then SUDDENLY a thought pops into my head - girl, you have a whole package of those 60 degree  diamond paper shapes you bought more than 20 years ago anticipating making something out of them some day and today is the DAY. 

AND, if that is not coincident enough, I also have a big bag of one and a half inch hexagon papers.

 And if that is not enough, the see-through acrylic templates are in the BAG. And they all sort of fit together. Sigh. I had taken time recently to put all the EPP papers I have had in various location around this room into one nice neat, labeled box. That is why I recall having them and knew exactly where to lay hand on them. 

So, while I have all this fabric still on the tables for all the world to see, I could cut out a few, say 49 sets of stars. Well, maybe less. I had been lamenting not being able to showcase some of the incredibly beautiful repro prints I have been collecting for a few years. 

Maybe,  just maybe the 3 inch diamond shapes are a bit big, but a quilt will rise up out of the bins and fly onto the design wall.
I can FUSSY cut to my heart's content and see what happens. These blocks will get appliqued down onto a background square possibly. 

Some quilters actually make a practice block or two to see if they like it before actually starting a new quilt. I just dive right in IMPULSIVELY since that is what I do. and I bought one of the new Sentimental Stitches Sweet Sixteen BOM starting the first Friday of Sept. More on that later. 

In the meantime, I wrote up my to-do list before going to bed late last night instead of mid morning when I woke up. Had luncheon date with almost 16 year old Ava and we went to the Dutch Mill Store which is our secret shopping place and spend a pile of $$$ on new kitchen gadgets, jewelry, puzzles, and other stuff.  The Corn and Beans blocks are all in a pile awaiting their turn to be sewn into groups of 4 before deciding on the final layout. And the Wedding Quilt lost it's place in the queue. Again.

I ended up putting all the fabric back into the bins and onto the shelf and pulled out my journal to write. The Write With God daily group started back up this week and my commitment is to show up. They changed the time to 12 noon my time and it is for 33 minutes. That's a nice length of time to write. Got a new hard drive in my desktop computer. Cannot locate 10 years of photos. And there are bobcats on my lawn making noise and  moving dirt just outside my window distracting me to no end. More on that next time.

Blessings,

Chris

August 1 To-Do Tuesday

 I did not complete my list for July. But I did  make progress. Some. 

To-Do Tuesday list for July 

1. Write up this blog post today and post it. done
2. Write up blog post on the 50+2 Anniversary Celebration. nope
3. Finally write a post about our trip to Australia back in April. Is it July already? It is August already. 
4. Prepare to launch the new blog How to Stay Married for 50 Years. Goes live next Monday on our official anniversary. So excited!!
5. OMG goal for July will be to complete this To-Do list. It worked last time I did that. Did not work this time. 
6. Find both parts of the hexie ruler for the QAYG to send back to England with my sister who has been visiting here this week for the party. I had it with me when I visited her last summer, but forgot to leave it. I have 2 days. I did not find the other piece. What I did was  misplace the first one. Sheesh. I will be visiting her in April for her grandson's wedding. I have 9 months. So, she flew out a few days later and I found both parts of the ruler. One part was in Lucy's big project box. The other is in the small rulers box where it belonged. I have until April to not lose them again. 
7. Clear away the recent mess I made in the Blue Room and get it set up to do some serious quilting. This includes setting up 4 machines with 4 projects. Cleared the mess and set up 3 machines. Even used 2 of them.  
8. RSC colour for July is red. Get the red Bright Jane blocks out, organized and actually sew some of them. Not sure how many yet to do in red, but complete at least 1. Not even one.
   
   
   
9. Complete 1 applique block and 1 pieced block for Ella. It has been on the big design wall for the past few weeks. DONE ! ! !
10. Complete the Wedding Quilt. It went on pause yet again when I had the second eye surgery. That eye is not healing as quickly as the first one. Not a stitch. 
    
    
    
11. Complete one Lucy block then glue baste a few more squares. Hand stitching on this has been very difficult for the past few months. Done the one I started in April at Scrub Stitchin.
12. Revisit 23 ufos for 2023 and make a plan. done and pulled out the Corn and Beans blocks to started to put up on the big design wall. 

Now to be more realistic in my planning. This week's list includes:

1. Put away my books and clear off the tables.
2. Figure out how to correct the printer off-line error so we can print stuff. 
3. Put away the clutter from the big ironing board,
4. Take some before and after photos.
5. Write up some blog posts.
6. Sew up one yellow Bright Jane block. 
7. Fix the mitered corners on the center medallion of the Wedding Quilt. 
8. Prewash the new fabric for Windermere. 
   
   
   
9. Put up the Corn and Beans blocks on the big design wall and decide on a setting. There are so many options. Getting this to a flimsy will be my OMG goal for August.
10. Cut out a couple of Lucy blocks. 
11. Launch the new How to Stay Married for 50 Years blog. 
12. Find the new mouse traps I bought last week and set them. 

That should keep me busy this week. It is really quiet here these days. We have had record rains this past week and the weeds are incredible. I have discovered that pulling them out of the mulch around the patio is a lot easier than pulling them out of the other flower beds. I get someone else to do that. 

Blessings,

Chris

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