Chookshed Challenge Sept 2024

This is as far as I got on the Macaron Mystery earlier this month when quilting friends joined me in a week of marathon quilting. Fortunatly, I only made these 4 blocks before realizing that I had sewn together too many of the snowball units. I have some unstitching to do. I wondered why I had certain bits left over. I had not downloaded the final month of assembling instructions so was just winging it. I do that a lot. I worked on bits of several projects. Just did not take pictures. This one is still on the big design wall I had moved into the SonRoom back in May for a retreat. I like it here. It will stay for now. Actually, I have a plan to use it end of October for a Writing Workshop I am organizing. 

I find critters - an entourage - following Devan around as she works on her projects. She likes to be in the same room with me. She had been away to camp twice during the summer and we have not seen so much of her as we have Ellyse who is playing rugby and needs to be here for practices. They only live here half time and it has been sparse with Ava, at 16, now working part time and just got her beginners so is driving.  

Have I mentioned here lately how much I love being in the new SonRoom? This is my writing space. I try to write first thing in the morning. I get to watch the morning sun play as it rises over the barn and trees to the east. This is facing west. In the evenings I get to watch it go down through the spruce trees. This is our first summer using this room. We have not had to use any air conditioning in here. I open windows when I come down and close them when it starts to warm up outside. Mornings have been as fresh as 10C and afternoons as warm as 32 lately. Two ceiling fans move enough air to make it comfortable. I like to write in silence without distraction. I now have Devan trained to do her thing in silence after the initial hug and I love you Gramma. 

I was looking for a particular bin of fabric I bought from Craftsy a hundred years ago and removed all the storage bins out of the tiny closet in the Blue Room. I have not been writing or sewing in here this summer and now you know why. I had to wait for help to put them back in because I ask for help a lot these days to do things. The pain in my hands has not improved. I am waiting for a referral for another opinion. In the meantime, I started seeing a new chiropractor and we are starting to make progress for the back pain. I have been unable to roll over. So much for getting down on the floor on my back to do stretching excersises. Just getting down then back up took me 20 minutes and not a few tears. 

So Devan helped me put back the boxes. This is what I was looking for. Of course, It was right near the bottom. This is fabric I collected to make Judy Neimeyer's Bali Wedding Star. I have the pattern. That was a fun challenge to locate. But I no longer want to make it. I also looked through every box to see what I have. I have a lot of fabric. I have a lot of half made projects neatly orgainzed with everything they need to make them. I also have several new projects I want to start. So I wrote up a list of steps needed to get ready to start them to see if I could fit them in somewhere between turning 90 and 100. Did I mention that I am flying out to Kansas City in October to visit Gail who offered to take me to Missouri Star Quilts? Of course we have to go since it is so close. 

The Chookshed Challenge number for Sept is #7. That is Serendipity on my list. I do not want to put in time pulling out and sorting through all the stuff and getting my head into it. I have done that so many times and keep putting it away. One of these days it will get done. I did buy the pattern to make the border. Sorry, Deana. I had the whole thing out when you were here in May, but put it all away again. I will instead, continue to work on the Macaron Mystery and see how much progress I can make once I fix my oops. After all, it is on the design wall front and center. I love the colours that are in it. 

For the record, I did a few minutes yesterday assembling Lucy units but had to stop. I had even considered using a curved needle. Nope. Not going to happen anytime soon. And, I did some sewing blocks together for the Summer Mystery. Just not finished it. It was too easy and I had too much time. 

In the meantime, I am planning to thoroughly enjoy the now cooler beginning of fall weather and spending some time outside. Actually, I was going to say, I am plotting out activities for the fall. But I do need to spend time outside. 

Until next time, 

Blessings

Chris\

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August Chookshed Challenge and To-Do List

The number for August for the Chookshed Challenge was # 3 the EPP and permission to start a new project. But I don't want to do that just yet so will focus on the Summer 2021 QAL Mystery. I started no less than 3 new quilts that summer. I abandoned the Poppy's Garden for now since I did not like how it was looking from the getgo. The Macaron Mystery I have been working on in fits and starts this summer.  

The plan for now is to get the Summer QAL to a flimsy. All the blocks have been neatly piled together all this time. I will add a white border, since I already have the strips cut.

 And I may add a beigey border after that. It will finish a lap size but it will be finished. I hope. 

I have some quilting friends coming over throughout the week for a few days to do a Q@F Marathon. At least that is what I am calling it. 

I wrote up a To-Do at the beginning of the month and each week I keep changing the date since I have not checked off many of the boxes. This is what it looks like today:

1. Weeds - clean the peonie bed. 
2. Blog Post - doing it now. Wrote up a whole other post and it disappeared so I will have to try to remember what I wrote and do it again. It has to do with moving pictures.
3. Geraniums - deadhead - there are about 20 that I over wintered and have in flower pots around the house. I like doing it this way since I can move them around. 
4. Summer QAL - get to a flimsy.
5. Macaron Mystery - got the flying geese units squared up so now to sew them into couplets. 
6. Ella - cut setting triangels - figure out just what size to cut them.
7. Write Your Story Prep - going to start a new small group this fall with an all day workshop so need to get all the prep work done.
8. Get the SonRoom ready for my quilting friends to come and play. 

That's enough for this week. Now to get moving. 

Blessings,

Chris

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