Finished or not Fridays 2/9/2024

  "Finished or not Fridays" is new to me.

Not many completions this week, but I did long arm some charity quilts.

  

I started quilting another charity quilt.

I still have two baby quilts ready to quilt

 

I also have a peach and green quilt I need to cut more for more variety.

Then, the green and purple ones are a challenge. 

I have 10 of 12 blocks made.

The 11th one is ready to sew together, so there is only one more to go.

The week

 It's been a week of something.

I had jaw surgery on Wednesday, and it went well.

But I slept the day away on Wednesday and not much better on Thursday.

But today, I was up early and feeling OK.

I am sewing on my Challenge quilt and a test quilt.

Both are coming along.

Last night, I deconstructed a box of clothing.

I have two huge boxes of clothing to make into bears and quilts for a dear family.

This is one of the bins of fabric.

I have another one ready to go downstairs to deconstruct more.

I need to figure out how to work with sweaters.

I'll wait to cut them apart until it is time to use them.

Stash Report 2/4/2024

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	Used this Week:	4.21 yards
	Total Used Year to Date: Donated fabric	26.58 yards 5.00 yards
	Net Stash used in January Net Stash used in February	26.37 yards 0.21 yards
	Added this Week:	10.00 yards
	Added Year to Date:	10.00 yards
	New Goal:	200.00 yards
	Yards to the goal:	173.42 yards

Another slow week for finishes.

I did get lots of fun things to the top stage, but I need to longarm some quilts, so the finishing is stalled.

I tried a new technique for the background on these PCs.

I laid them all close together with the glue side up and then added strips of fabric to the larger piece.

When it was all covered, I adhered the fabric and cut the PCs apart.

After that, I used my fancy stitches and covered all the seams.

I used some leftover hearts from a project last year and embellished the background.

I'm happy with the way they turned out.

A couple of other fun facts are:

Prairie Moon is doing a 350-block challenge:

	Total Number of equivalent blocks:	104
	Perimeter in inches:	10992
	Number of UFOs completed UFO Yardage Used	11 28.93
	Percentage of yardage used in UFOs:	92%
	Number of Bobbins Used this Week:	3
	Number of Bobbins Used this Year:	16
	Number of Spools Used this Week: Number of Spools Used this Year:	0 11

Fab 4 week ending 2/4/2024

    This week: 

   Fab 4 for the week ending 2/4/2024

1. Alphabet Quilt

It's ready to quilt.

2. Work on Challenge blocks

 DONE 3. Annabelle Outfits

Annabelle is a porch goose.

I'd like to get more clothing made for her, but not right now.

4. Dr Seuss Quilt

It is ready to quilt.

5. Test Quilt

2/3 of the way through, so it should be done soon.

 Fab 4 for the week ending 2/11/2024

1. Quilt Dr. Seuss

2. Quilt Alphabet Quilt

3. Quilt Western Quilt

4. Finish Challenge Blocks

2024 to-do-list January update

My to-do-list for 2024 

This list will be changing throughout the year, but these are things I need to focus on completing.

1. Donna's memory quilt or two, depending on how it goes together. I think I will be doing hers in a heart shape. 

I took one of the boxes out and am deconstructing the clothing.

3. I'd like to make some memory teddy bears from Rob, Lillian, and Donna's leftovers.

4. Wedding quilt

5. Ashley's High School Graduation Quilt

6. Meredith's Memory Quilt

7. MAMN January - March Challenge

I have eight of the 12 done.

8. Memory T-shirt Pillows for Lillian

I deconstructed all of them.

I don't know that I'll get to them this coming week, but they should be done in February.

9. At least one of the Stashbuster UFO numbers each month (12/24 in the year)

Finished 3/4 (75%)

January # 5 Alphabet Panel 

It still needs to be quilted.

February numbers are already completed

10. Complete 80% (9-10) of the All People Quilt Challenge projects.

Finished 1/1 (100%)

February Biloxi Progressive Quilt

I need to determine how I'm going to put this one together and then finish it.

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COMPLETED in ALL categories

2024 Goal DONE 2. Guild brown and teal quilt

APQ DONE January Sunflower table topper

SB DONE January #47 Christmas Embroidery #2

These embroidery stitchouts worked for postcards for next Christmas.

SB DONE February #23 Birthday Postcards

I made all the postcards for the year, so these are all done.

Lucky me, I don't have another project to complete.

SB DONE February #7 Annabelle Outfits.

This is for a cement porch goose.

Finished or Not Fridays 2/2/2024

I was out at doctor appointments all day, so I was not in my studio or on the computer on Friday.

 "Finished or not Fridays" is new to me. 

 Why not try it and see if it helps me finish my things.

So, this has been a busy week, and I've only worked on a class I teach twice a month. 

I taught the class today, so maybe I can get some new things on the design walls.

I have two baby quilts, which are laid out on the design wall.

It has been sewn together, but on Friday, it was not done.

I also have a peach and green quilt I need to cut more for more variety.

Then, the green and purple ones are a challenge. 

I have 8 of 12 blocks made.

These are not difficult blocks; I just need to sit down and sew them.

This baby quilt is a Dr. Seuss quilt.

I even have the back together.

It's Saturday!

I believe I have full-bloomed quilter's ADD today.

I started by cutting more greens for a quilt.

I then moved to laying out the challenge #7 block.

I pulled fabric for the class next Friday to make small drawstring bags.

I loaded and started quilting the charity quilt for Quilts for Kids in Need.

I wanted to get the alphabet quilt borders on.

I did that and made the backing for it from stash.

I've played with Valentine's Postcards to figure out who to send them to.

I took down a quilt and will be laying it out in my front room, where the entire quilt can be seen at once.

I keep getting distracted.