In terms of crafting and making, Dr. King’s words ring true too!  Every step is another step to the finish!  I’m not going to make a to do list for this week.  Here are the projects I want to work on this 1st quarter:

Missing Ivy – needs to be quilted but I am holding off as I don’t want to spend the $80 it will be to rent the long arm.  I hope that this will change in February.

Celtic Solstice – the inner top is almost done.  Then I’ve got the borders to do.

Celtic Solstice
The sides and bottoms are all done and here it is with all the blocks laid down.
11/28/2016

Have yourself a quilty little Christmas! – The top is almost done too.  I just have the border to do.

Raining Cats and Dogs – I’m hand quilting this and I haven’t touched it in a long time.  I want to start working on this again so.

Provence – All the blocks are done so I just need to start putting the top together.  I’m pretty sure there are borders but I can’t remember if that is truly the case.

I do want to focus on getting some of my UFOs and WIPs done this year but I’m not going to have my goals listed out each month like I did last year.  I am keeping it simple in that I’m going to work on one project at a time.  Right now I’m working on Celtic Solstice.  I think I could get this top finished in January.

I’m looking forward to a great week!

Celtic Solstice
chunking in process
12/5/2016

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~Melanie

Celtic Solstice
chunking in process
12/5/2016

Last week’s to do list:

• Celtic Solstice – attach pairs of the 4-blocks together. There will be 12 of them.
  • done
• Scrapitude 2016 – continue working on these as my leaders/enders between other projects.
  • done
• Provence – piece pairs together.
  • done
• Area One 2012 Mystery Quilt – now that Bonnie’s mystery started for the season, I’m putting this project on the back burner.  I probably will not get started on this again until after Bonnie’s reveal in January.
• En Provence –  Bonnie’s 2016 Mystery – work on the first clue and play!
  • done!!!
• Have yourself a quilty little Christmas! – work on the borders.  I picked up the kit when I came back from Colorado but haven’t gotten around to actually doing anything with it.
  • not done!
• Missing Ivy – I still need to do this but I have to call and schedule time on the long arm.  So that’s the next step.
  • not done

So this week, here’s my target:

• Missing Ivy – schedule time on the long arm, press the front, back and prep the batting.
• Have yourself a quilty little Christmas! – finish up the border.
• En Provence –  Bonnie’s 2016 Mystery – work on the second clue and play!
• Celtic Solstice – piece quadrants together… There should be 4 of them.
• Scrapitude 2016 – continue working on these as my leaders/enders between other projects.
• Provence – prep the side triangles and piece them

I’m looking forward to a great week!

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~Melanie

Celtic Solstice
The sides and bottoms are all done and here it is with all the blocks laid down.
11/28/2016

As I get going on this year’s Bonnie Hunter mystery, I’m also finishing up the top from her 2013 mystery quilt.  This still has a few ways to go since I’ve still got the borders to do.  But I’m going to try to make this my first finish of 2017.  Of course, that means I have to do what I plan to do in December. ;0

Last week’s to do list:

• Celtic Solstice – attach the right sides (5) and the bottoms (4) and the odd one in the corner (1)
  • done!  woohoo… I can feel the finish coming… 🙂
• Scrapitude 2016 – Okay so I’ve been very good at getting the first step done as my leaders/enders for Celtic Solstice but since I’ve been back I’m slowly running out of one of the needed pieces for the first step.  I’m not sure if I put away the baggie with these pieces (and I’ll need to look around for them) or if I just didn’t cut enough originally (totally possible) or if Charlotte didn’t tell us to cut enough (I don’t think so because she did make updates throughout the progress and I don’t remember seeing her say anything about this particular piece.  So I need to do some research on this one.
  • Okay so I found the little baggy with the missing pieces.  They fell off the side of my sewing table!  I continued to piece these on as my leaders/enders while I worked on other things.
• Provence – I need to figure out what the next step is.
  • done!  I laid out my blocks and was wondering how I was to cut my side and corner triangles.  I didn’t see the instructions.  I found them with the cutting instructions (so obvious, right?)!  Anyway I posted about my progress and issues here and now I need to piece the rows together and buy another yard of fabric for the side triangles.
• Area One 2012 Mystery Quilt – do one of the kits
  • done!  I’ll post an update with pics tomorrow.
• En Provence –  Bonnie’s 2016 Mystery – Retrieve the first clue on Friday and hopefully have time to get started on it!
  • done!  Well, I haven’t finished the clue but I retrieved it and I got started on it! 🙂

So this week, here’s my target:

• Celtic Solstice – attach pairs of the 4-blocks together. There will be 12 of them.
• Scrapitude 2016 – continue working on these as my leaders/enders between other projects.
• Provence – piece pairs together.
• Area One 2012 Mystery Quilt – now that Bonnie’s mystery started for the season, I’m putting this project on the back burner.  I probably will not get started on this again until after Bonnie’s reveal in January.
• En Provence –  Bonnie’s 2016 Mystery – work on the first clue and play!
• Have yourself a quilty little Christmas! – work on the borders.  I picked up the kit when I came back from Colorado but haven’t gotten around to actually doing anything with it.
• Missing Ivy – I still need to do this but I have to call and schedule time on the long arm.  So that’s the next step.

I’m looking forward to a great week!

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Have a great week!

~Melanie