Sunday, July 27, 2025

Stitching Stuff: Week 30 0f 2025


 

Hard to believe that it was just a week ago that we finished Grad Girl's move home.  I'm still dealing with sore knees after all the steps, but other than that I'm mostly recovered.  Consequently this week was much better than last week on the stitching time front.  


  • 15 minute days/week = 6/7 days
  • 15 minute days/July = 16/26 days
  • 15 minute days/2025 = 187/207
  • Success rate = 90.34%

We took Grad Girl's car in for service on Thursday and ended up spending the whole day in Tulsa (which wasn't the plan).  I came home that day with what was probably a dehydration headache as we were out running around to a few places since we had to stay in town most of the day.  So nothing got done when I got home. So it wasn't a 7 out of 7 day stitching week.  But I still made progress with a few things this week.   

I haven't done much with the stash organization lately.  I'm hoping to do more with it next month.  

How was your week. Did you hide from the heat in your sewing room or has it been just too hot to do much of anything?  




Saturday, July 26, 2025

Week 145 Photo Challenge: Any Reflection You Like

It's been over a month since our last photo challenge post.  I was the problem this time.  With family stuff going on for the 4th of July weekend, then Grad Girl's move, I really wasn't concentrating on my photography.  I only got my photo taken yesterday, both My Guy and Grad Girl have had photos for weeks and were pushing for us to move on.  The prompt for week 145 was: 



After weeks of procrastinating, I finally pulled out the camera and looked for a reflection I liked.  In the end, my photo was staged. 


Kate: Mirrored


Our roses are blooming again and any one who has followed me for a bit knows flowers are one of my favorite photo options.  So I grabbed a mirror from our dresser, picked a rose and spent a good hour trying to eliminate other reflections and get just the rose.  It mostly worked.  

My Guy took advantage of our conference trip to Kansas City back in June to get his photo.  

My Guy: Kansas City Western Auto Building


This is the reflection of the Western Auto building in downtown Kansas City.  The distorted view is really interesting.  My Guy had lots of fun reflections from this trip, we weren't that far from Union Station and he had some wonderful reflection photos from there as well.  

Grad Girl was paying attention and caught one of of those fleeting moments that one often misses.  

Grad Girl: Side View


The dragon fly is unexpected.  If you look closely, she's also captured the reflection of the sky on the side of her car.  A very cool photo, one that really meets the challenge. This was taken before she moved. 

My Guy and Grad Girl nailed this last challenge. I feel like I cheated since my photo was staged.  But all of us my have to stage photos for the next photo challenge. 




My Guy pulled this card from the deck. I suggested that we could put it back and pull another. We've never done that before, we've always worked with the card that was pulled.  He didn't want to change that rule. It should be interesting what we all come up with.  This challenge may take a couple of weeks, but hopefully we'll wrap it up before winter actually sets in this year!  

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

To Do List for 07/22/2025

It's been two weeks since my last to do list post.  Between being way to busy packing and moving Grad Girl, plus the lack of Internet, putting a list together last week just didn't happen. So here's the progress on my last to do list. 

To Do List for 07/08/2025

1. Guild BOM: Finish August blocks - progress

2. Old Town: Continue assembly at late night sew ✔

3.  Wild and Goosey: Make purple, sash red blocks ✔

4.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Work on one night ✔

5.  Summer Scrap Quilt: Continue as leaders and enders ✔


There was a good bit of progress before I left for Texas and I'll take that. I'm hoping to make a good bit of progress this week.  It's too hot to do much else but hang out in the sewing room.  


To Do List for 07/22/2025

1. Guild BOM: Finish August blocks, start September




All but two of the sawtooth stars for the border were finished before I left for Texas.  It shouldn't take long to finish those off and then get started on the September blocks.  The fabrics for the next month's blocks have been pulled, so cutting those pieces should be doable this week.  

2.  Kate's Choice: Continue quilting blocks

July is almost over and there's only been one finish so far this year.  This is the project closest to being finished, so I should really put some effort into getting it all the way there. 

3.  Embroidery or Cross Stitch: Work on either one day

I did get one evening of cross stitching when we were in Texas; before our days got longer and we used the evenings to move packed stuff into the storage unit. It was too hot to do that during the day.  

4.  Old Town (Bonnie Hunter): Continue assembly at late night sew




All the components parts are finished, now block assembly can start.  I'm looking forward to seeing this quilt top come together.

5.  Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter): Make purple blocks, sash red blocks

Just one red block left to sash.  I still need lots more purple blocks. I won't get all of those made this month. This is my RSC project for the year, but I probably won't be following along with the colors from here on out. Blue, green, purple and teal are the only colors left to finish, so I'll be concentrating on those the next few months. 

6. Simply Sensational Summer Scrap Quilt (Kevin the Quilter): Continue as leaders and enders

I'm still working on the yellow borders for the center of the quilt.  Hopefully I'll be doing enough stitching this week to get those done and I can move on to the rest of the assembly process.  

Grad Girl is back home till she finds a job, but she's pretty busy this week. She's got a couple of jobs to apply for and the finial edits on her thesis to finish. We are taking her car in for service sometime this week. She's going to take a mini trip to go see some of her college buddies this weekend, so we'll be cat sitting.  But other than that, I'm hoping for a mostly only stitching week. Linking up with the Quilt Schmilt for To Do Tuesday. 

Monday, July 21, 2025

Getting Back to the Sewing Room

We finally made it home early yesterday afternoon.  All of us were hot and tired.  Queenie, Grad Girl's cat, isn't a fan of hotel rooms. So none of us got a lot of sleep the previous 4 nights.  Needless to say after we unloaded and got lunch, everyone of us, including the cat, took naps yesterday afternoon. It was early evening before I made it up to the sewing room and took stock.  

The last sewing I did was to finish the August Inverted Star block for the Guild BOM. 




The color for August is brown. I only finished 3 of the 5 sawtooth stars needed for the sawtooth border. But at least I had enough to post on the Guild Facebook page what the color was for August.  I missed the guild meeting due to the move preparations. 

That's about all the action in my sewing room over the last couple of weeks. I figured out where I was with Old Town, Wild and Goosey, and my leaders and enders project. I've got all the pieces pinned for the next bit of sewing, but ran out of steam at that point and went to bed. 

We didn't have Internet at the apartment for most of the week and we were so tired each night we were staying in the hotel, that I'm way behind on emails and blog reading. So I'll be playing catch up on that front this week.  

Linking up with Design Wall Monday and Patchwork & Quilts.     

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Stitching Stuff Week 29 of 2025

 


It's been one of those weeks where the stitching plan just didn't work out with the rest of the to do list.  


  • 15 minute days/week = 1/7 days
  • 15 minute days/July = 10/19 days
  • 15 minute days/2025 = 181/200 days
  • Success rate = 90. 50%

Definitely not a good week on the stitching front.  This was move out week for Grad Girl and her roommate. Grad Girl is moving home while looking for a job.  We spent the Saturday before moving out the roommate. Yesterday we finished moving out all of Grad Girl's stuff. But it took us a week to pack and clean before heading for home yesterday. We were so tired from all the efforts that stitching just didn't happen, it was bed time as soon as we'd showered off the grime of the day.  I'm looking forward to spending a solid week in my sewing room. No moving stuff, I'm sore in places I didn't know I had.  

How was your stitching week?  

1. Frédérique
2. Gretchen
3. Julie in GA
4. Melissa G
5. Deb in Canada
6. Karen
7. DonnaleeQ
8. Andrée at Quilting & Learning
9. Bonnie in Va
10. Quilting Gail
11. Carol Andrews
12. Marsha's Spot

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