2020 Finish-A-Long, Quarter 3

We are supposed to turn in our lists for the 2020 Finish-A-Long on Instagram, but I like to do it here too.    This is my goal list for Quarter 3.

1)  Project for Christmas in July Blog Hop.   I actually have two I am working on right now. 

2)  Miniquilt for granddaughter Kyleigh's BD.  She admired this one I made, so I plan to make her a similar one for her BD.  

3)  Cassandra's Circle BOM for July, August, and September.  This is the applique BOM by Barbara Brackman @ Civil War Quilts.   These are the past 3 months blocks.

4)  Ella Maria Deacon BOM for July August, and September.  This is the BOM through Sentimental Stitches.    These were last month's blocks.  

5)  Pieces from the Past BOM for the next 3 months.   This is being hosted by Melva @ Melva Loves Scraps.   The blocks were originally published in the Kansas City Star.  This was the last block, called The Dragonfly.  

6)  Buhl-Bushong-Finish Center blocks.    I need to to the remainder of these blocks, which is most of them.

7)  Applique the last two Father Christmas blocks. 

8)  3 Kathy Schmitz Embroideries.    The one I will be working on next is this one.  

9)  Embroider 2 Stitcher's Revolution tea towels.  I have two of this chocolate one to do.

10)   Lighthouse/sailboat quilt top finished to king sized.   This has been this sized for many years, and it has been intended to go on my bed at long last.  

11)  3 lighthouse BOM blocks completed.   This will eventually be for my brother and sister-in-law who love lighthouses like I do.  

I think that should keep me busy for awhile!  Thanks for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

Time to check in again for Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts.  I've gotten some slow stitching done this week, I stitched a tea towel for my sister-in-law.  This one I stitched on other fabric and attached it to the towel, mainly because the stripes went down the middle, and also because the design was already on the fabric.  The little kit was a surprise gift from my friend Susan @ DesertSky Quilting.  It came with two designs traced out, and my sister-in-law loves lighthouses as I do, so I am gifting her with one of them. 

Char's BD is coming up, and I am going to give her a Hobby Lobby Gift card for one thing, and I'm going to wrap the gift card in this. 

What I will be working on this week is the design from Kathy Schmitz's One Stitch at a Time Club for July.   I'll be doing several of these I think, as we have 4 K's in our family for first name initials.

What I have also been working on this week has been a lot of gardening.  I recently made a new garden out front, and I have been buying herbs and planting them.  My grandson Keaton helped me bring in the cinder blocks to create this new garden.  It was the easiest thing I could do by myself.  I had planted a butterfly busy, and I think 2 hydrangeas. 

I've been planting the herbs in the little holes in the cinder blocks.  This morning daughter Katie called and asked if I wanted to go to the garden store, and I happily agreed.   I got some more herbs, a  large rosemary plant, and Katie got me this one called Angel Wings.  I love it!

I also got this one, called Gaura.  The bees were loving it at the garden center.  

I wanted to plant my new plants, but by the time we got home, had lunch, it was 97 degrees at 12:30 and too hot for me to work outside today.  

I had a dumb injury this week.  I bruise really easily, and I get these red spots on my skin, that if I scrape them my skin peels up.

I went to sit down on my little garden stool that has wheels, and I sat on it the wrong way, it flipped me on the ground, and I scraped my arm along the cinder blocks.

Also this week, granddaughter Kyleigh and I have been working on some travel journals.  She hopes to get over another time or two before she heads back to school.  

This one was Kyleigh's.  I have plenty of scrapbooking materials and we are using my stash.  She is journaling her travels.  When she graduated from high school,  we took a mini trip to Monterey.

I am journaling my trip in 2017 to Brookings, Oregon.  I spent a week up there with my brother and sister-in-law Char.  We spent a wonderful week in a condo right on the beach, and spent the days collecting driftwood, shells, small rocks and visiting local lighthouses.  

This is one of my pages.  

This was one of my creations from collected driftwood, small rocks, and shells.

Just a reminder, the Christmas In July Then and Now Blog Hop is coming up.  I am working on my project, and can't wait to share.  

uly 27

Creatin' in the Sticks
Just Because Quilts

Words & Stitches

Quilt In A Not-Shell

Ms P Designs USA

 Scrapdash

Selina Quilts

Days Filled With Joy

  

July 28

Life in the Scrapatch

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Karrin’s Crazy World

Vroomans Quilts

Quilted Delights

Songbird Designs

Websterquilt

 Karen's Korner

  

July 29

MooseStashQuilting

Beaquilter

Day Brook Designs

Seams To Be Sew

Little Penguin Quilts

Bumbleberry Stitches

Samelia's Mum

Canyon Rim Quilting

  

July 30

Quiltscapes

Mary Mack Made Mine

DesertSky Quilting

For The Love Of Geese

Quilt Schmilt

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel

Quilting Gail

  

July 31

Just Let Me Quilt

Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life

Den Syende Himmel

Quilt Fabrication

Sew Many Yarns

Just Sew Quilter

Shirley C.

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.   Be sure and head on over and check out what everyone is up to. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Slow Sunday Stitching

Happy Post 4th of July everyone here in the U.S.  We have had what sounds like illegal fireworks going off all week here in my neighborhood, but this morning was a doozy.  It went off at 2:15 this morning  and really sounded like a bomb!  Hard to get back to sleep after that. 

John and I stayed home yesterday from the gathering with our family.  His asthma is too bad normally  to have him risk being exposed like that.  Granddaughter Kyleigh did pop by to pick up some of my secret ingredient for potato salad.  I say it is secret, because even I don't know what exactly is in it.  For years I have gone out to Denio's Farmer's Market and there is a booth out there that sells spices and herbs, you buy what you need.  I have bought this product called "Salad Mix".  I suspect it is something you mix with mayo or something, but I have always put it in my potato salad.   I did take the opportunity of getting a quick pic with Kyleigh. 

In my slow stitching this past week I finished up my Cassandra's Circle block for June, put it up for a picture with the other blocks and I didn't like the blue I had chosen.  I am trying to keep my blocks mostly blue, and downplay the other colors.   This was the first version.   I also changed out the blossom, and the green around the bud.  The other blues seem to pop more I thought.

This was my second version.  I am much happier with it now.   These are from Barbara Brackman's applique BOM for 2020 at Civil War Quilts.

Right now, I need to prep some more applique, so for my Slow Sunday stitching I will be working on another of the tea towels with the cute sayings from Stitcher's Revolution.  My sister is a wine drinker and this is perfect for her!

I will be linking up with Kathy's Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching.  Pop on over and check out what everyone has been doing.  My favorite time of the week!  Many thanks to Kathy for continuing to provide this weekly gathering!

Have a great week, and thanks for stopping by!

2020 Finish-A-Long, Q2 Results

Back in April, I listed my Quarter 2 goals for the 2020 Finish-A-Long here.   This is a list of what I accomplished for my own record.  For the official results, I will be also listing my finishes on Instagram as the organizers are having us do this year.

1)  Make 5 quilts for Hands2Help Charity. This is organized by Sarah  @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  

Completed.  I actually exceeded this goal this year.  I actually exceeded this goal this time.  I made 7 quilts, and granddaughter Kyleigh made 1, for a total of 8. 



2)  Cassandra's Circle BOM for April, May and June.   This is the 2020 applique BOM by Barbara Brackman @Civil War Quilts.  This goal was accomplished.  

3)  Ella Maria Duncan BOM for April, May and June.  This is the BOM offered by Gay @ Sentimental Stitches.  This goal was accomplished.  

4)  Pieces from the Past BOM-keep caught up every 3 weeks.   This is being offered by Melva @ Melva Loves Scraps.  Completed.

5)  Buhl-Bushong Quilt BOM for April, May and June.   This is being offered by the Virginia Quilt Museum.  Not done.  While I completed April and May, June consisted of putting together the quilt, and I have not completed the middle blocks and have quite a bit to finish. 

6)  Make 1 Father Christmas Block.   Done.

7)  Quilt Fall Into a QAL   Not Done.  My Juki machine that I quilt in has been in the shop for a little over a month now.  

8)  3 Kathy Schmitz One Stitch at a Time Embroideries.   Done.  

9)  Make Boho Bag.  This is a CQ bag I promised a 2020 graduate, a good friend of my granddaughter Kyleigh's.  Done.  

So my overall results are 6/8 goals accomplished this quarter! 

Thanks for stopping by!

One Monthly Goal July

It's time to link up goals again for One Monthly Goal at Elm Street Quilts.  I continue to appreciate this monthly motivation, and many thanks to Patty for all she does!

I didn't make my monthly goal last month, which was to make this quilt top into a king-sized for my bed.  I think my goal was too ambitious, and I felt overwhelmed. 




So my goal this month is to put a round of Storm at Sea blocks on this current top. 

I'll be linking up to Elm Street Quilts for One Monthly Goal.  

350 Blocks Report -June

The goal for June was 30 blocks, and I just made it.  I report my number of blocks in to Shelly @Prairie Moon Quilts and she keeps track.  She randomly picks a winner each month for a little prize, and apparently I was the winner last month!

Pieces From the Past:  3 blocks, one was a do-over.  This is the sewalong that Melva from Melva Loves Scraps is doing.  She got permission from C&T Publishing to scan and share the blocks that were originally published in Kansas City Star.

Private BOM:  1  block.

Signature Block:  1.   Shelly requested a signature block for something she was working on, and I sent one, but forgot to take a picture.

Ella Maria Duncan  6 blocks.  I had to redo 2 blocks.  I couldn't get the top left one to lay flat.  Finally it is better than it was. 

Sunflower Blocks:  2 blocks this month,  For my Stitching Sunshine Project.

Scrappy Mystery Sewalong by Joy @ Days Filled With Joy   12 blocks.  I need to get these sewn together.

Cassandra's Circle :  1 block.  I am currently redoing this one.  But I did finish it.  I didn't like the blue I chose for the flower and am redoing it so it goes more with the other blues in my blocks.

Tea Towels:  2

Face Mask:  1.  No picture.

Father Christmas:    1 block

Stitcheries + making cushion covers:  I made the two patriotic ones for my daughters, and granddaughter Kyleigh saw my spring one, and wanted me to do one for her.  The Patriotic ones were from Kathy Schmitz's One Stitch at a Time Club from last year, the spring one was a freebie on Primitive Gatherings Blog.

So my total for June was 33 blocks.