40 Bags in 40 Days Challenge

 It is that time of the year again. Many people give up something for Lent and I was coerced invited into participating in giving up some of my stuff. I have done this challenge before. So, today, I made a crockpot of stew and a big (is there any other size) of soup and needed some freezer containers. 

The main container drawer was so full to overflowing with lunch containers and a gzillion lids with no matching containers. 

FYI, I wash all the dishes but others dry and put them away. 

I like to use see through containers so I can see what is in them. Seems logical to me. 

But there are always a lot of empty yogurt containers which make great freezer containers.

So, I sorted them out quickly by dumping them into empty boxes. There are more than a few Amazon boxes sitting around waiting to be recycled. 

This is the container side of the cupboard after I removed all the ones in the previous 2 pictures. 

The freezer was getting low on prepared meals so now there are more for another day. That, and out son generously gives meals away to people in need. We need to get him involved in the making like chopping all those vegetables. 

I purged the big drawer a few months ago (maybe a year ago) and put them into a very big container. How many water bottles does one family need? 

So, I missed posting for To-Do Tuesday yesterday. I got most of my list done last week. This week will be:

1. Fill a bag a day (sort of) to donate, recycle or throw out. 
2. Continue having fun with my 23 ufos. 
3. Get my Dust Off a Book (DOAB) project done.
4. Okay. Get my DOAB project out of the box.
5. Start working on completing it. 

That's enough for one week. 

     6. I'd better add catch up on responding to comments. 

We are in the midst of a mid winter snow storm. It is howling and blowing out there. I don't think there is too much snow, but it sure is noisy. 

Blessings,

Chris

Doing

Last week my To-Do Tuesday quilting list included: 

1.  Sew something. yes 
2.  for at least 15 Minutes a Day. almost 
3.  Don't touch Lucy this week. caved and picked her up not once but twice for mindless stitching. 

My Other To-Do Tuesday list includes:

1. Hot tub. yup 3 X
2. Laundry. all caught up. My Sweetie washed the bedsheets and hung them outside to dry on a warm (+8C) sunny breezy day. 
3. Clear those 2 eight foot tables - again. And did it yet again. 
4. Move the glass top table. I cannot reach the small design wall that sits on it and I want to play. Elly was home sick from school one day so she helped me move the tables. Now I can reach.
5. Put a lot of stuff away. Then I pulled out even more.
6. Write at least 3 times this week. I got a new book to guide my writing. Yes and feel pretty good about where I am.
7.  Massage Wed. My regular girl took a leave of absence to go out west to spend time with her aging (mid 90's) parents and she is not coming back. I am so sad. I miss her. I had yet another new girl. She was ok. Just not my regular one. 
8. Prep for Women's Small Group Sat. Done and it was amazing. 

So about those two 8 foot tables I work on. I wrote out a list of all the things I have been working on this past week. 

No wonder I have so much spread out all over them. But I do need all that space to work on my Dust Off an Old Book project for March 6. 

My To-Do Tuesday list for this week is a bit tidier:

1. Tidy off the tables. 
   
   
   
2. Spread out the DOAB project and make a plan to complete this ufo from 2007. 
3. Take pictures along the way to show some progress.
4. Make some progress to show in the pictures.
5. Begin to write up a blog post about the progress. 
6. Don't give away what the thing will look like. 
7. Be sneaky. 
8. Stop putting Lucy in timeout. She did not do anything worth that kind of treatment. 
9. Stop spending so much time playing with Lucy. Other projects are calling my name. 
10. Enjoy the new found freedom in my writing. More on that another day. 
11. It is Family Day weekend and the girls and their dad are going to Ottawa. That leaves us home alone. Nice. Hot tub time. Maybe the boys will come over for a sleepover. Maybe not.

blessings,

Chris

Playing With Bright Jane

 

 I pulled out all the Bright Jane project boxes. There were 4. On the very top is one with bits of pre-cut background fabrics in it. There is also one with DJ2 applique stuff but I will have to look for that.

I started this Sept 2014 just after I completed my first Dear Jane Quilt. I was going to do it in a year. Eventually, I started working in the colour of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I printed off foundation patterns and chose fabrics and put them all in nicely organized zip-lock bags and then file folders. And there they have sat for a very long time. I bought new solid coloured bedsheets recently and they need a colourful quilt to lay on top. 

 

Then did a count of the completed blocks by putting them up on the small design wall one colour at a time.

I still need 4 blues. Working on that.

Feb is pink month. I have 8 more blocks that have been prepped for Foundation Piecing for several years. 

Red has 10 complete and 2 in process. That amazing circle of geese was foundation pieced using a stay in fusible but is very stiff to work with that way. I have an idea how to finish it. Come back on red month.

For some reason, I thought I had all 20 green blocks done. I see one missing. I will  not fret about that until next green month.

 And purple. For some reason purple kept getting missed. There will be 25 of these beauties eventually. I long since had stopped making the Dear Jane blocks as I had already made the entire thing in reproduction fabrics. Finished that more than 8 years ago and it is still not quilted. One of these days. But it is on the 23 ufos list. 

I have been making a variety of patterns that can be made using just one colour. 

Is it pronounced 

or (an) ge

or 

or (on) ge? 

Guess it depends if  you live in Ontario or Quebec. 

Either way, I still have 6 blocks to make. No. 7 blocks. That top left one belongs in the yellow collection. 

Still need to make 7 more yellow blocks. 

I am using a variety of bright fabrics I bought just for this quilt. I am not so fond of the bright colours. That is one reason this project has languished so long in project boxes.

And there is aqua. What can I say? These are all done. I like them. This is my project for the RSC this year. I only have 59 blocks to go. I think. If my math is correct. 

My To-Do Tuesday quilting list includes: 

1.  Sew something.
2.  for at least 15 Minutes a Day.
3.  Don't touch Lucy this week. 

My Other To-Do Tuesday list includes:

1. Hot tub.
2. Laundry.
3. Clear those 2 eight foot tables - again.
4. Move the glass top table. I cannot reach the small design wall that sits on it and I want to play.
5. Put a lot of stuff away.
6. Write at least 3 times this week. I got a new book to guide my writing. 
7.  Massage Wed.
8. Prep for Women's Small Group Sat.

My February OMG goal is to complete something. 

linking with Design Wall Monday

Blessings,

Chris