Happy Monday!  On to our to do list for the week!

Last week’s to do list:

1. Raining Cats and Dogs … start hand quilting! 🙂
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      Raining Cats and Dogs
      Hand Quilting
      May 23, 2016

      … done… and I don’t know why it took me so long to get started.  I’m enjoying it and my new goal is to quilt one arm length of thread every day.  

2. Hand work – Work a bit on A Rainbow Garden … not done
3. Knit – keep working on the Rosie Hat … done and it’s finished!  I’ll post a pic as soon as I can.  
4. Cross Stitch – work on the embroidery for the top border and the second row of the 1st page of Farmland! … the top border of the Welcome project is done and I’m not working on the right border.  I didn’t get the second row done, I was able to get a bit of it worked one and I will continue to try to get it done this week. 
5. Moon Glow – Check with my local sewing machine store about renting out their long arm. … decided to not do this and quilt on my Bailey. 
6. Missing Ivy – Step 11, which is piecing the inner top together. … didn’t get this done. I discovered I made a mistake on Step 10 and I’m debating internally whether to fix it or live with it.  
7. Celtic Solstice – put together pieces of Block B as leaders and enders between working on Missing Ivy … not done… I didn’t touch the machine this week as I’ve been working a lot on hand projects. 
8. Spooky Halloween – Row 1, Block 1 – Finish applique’ing the hexis onto the background and applique the bat. …done… to be featured on my next TGIF post! 🙂 

This week’s to do list:

1. Raining Cats and Dogs … hand quilt an arm length of thread every day.
2. Hand work – Work a bit on A Rainbow Garden
3. Knit – Pick a new project, pick the yarn, read through the materials/pattern, and assuming it’s a craftsy class.  Start watching the lessons.
4. Cross Stitch – For the Welcome project finish the embroidery on the right border and for Bukid, finish the second row of the 1st page!
5. Moon Glow – This is now on the frame and I would just like to do a row of quilting every day.
6. Missing Ivy – Step 11, which is piecing the inner top together. Yay
7. Celtic Solstice – put together pieces of Block B as leaders and enders between working on Missing Ivy
8. Spooky Halloween – Row 1, Block 1 – Finish applique’ing the hexis onto the background and applique the bat.
9. Provence BOM – Block 10

I’m looking forward to a great week!

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Have a great week!

~Melanie

Spooky Halloween
Row 1, Block 1
Still in progress
5/16/2016

I’m still working on the first block for Spooky Halloween.  My goal was to get a block a week done to stay on track and so now I’m behind.  But, I’m okay to let that goal slide.  I really want to enjoy the process of making this project so I’m okay with being behind here. I have half of the hexi’s appliqued on to the background.  I still need to finish that and applique the bat in the left corner.

Last week’s to do list:

1. Raining Cats and Dogs … start hand quilting! 🙂 … not done
2. Hand work – Work a bit on A Rainbow Garden … done
3. Knit – keep working on the Rosie Hat … done
4. Cross Stitch – work on the embroidery for the top border and the second row of the 1st page of Farmland! … done in that I was able to work a bit on this project.  not done in that I didn’t finish the second row.  I’m okay with that. 🙂
5. Moon Glow – Check with my local sewing machine store about renting out their long arm. … not done
6. Missing Ivy – Step 11, which is piecing the inner top together. Yay! 🙂 … not done
7. Celtic Solstice – put together pieces of Block B as leaders and enders between working on Missing Ivy … not done
8. Spooky Halloween – Row 1, Block 1 – I got some of the hexis done.  I still need to finish 2 hexis and then applique it onto the background and finish it up with an applique’d bat. … not done… 

This week’s to do list:

1. Raining Cats and Dogs … start hand quilting! 🙂
2. Hand work – Work a bit on A Rainbow Garden
3. Knit – keep working on the Rosie Hat
4. Cross Stitch – work on the embroidery for the top border and the second row of the 1st page of Farmland!
5. Moon Glow – Check with my local sewing machine store about renting out their long arm.
6. Missing Ivy – Step 11, which is piecing the inner top together. Yay! 🙂
7. Celtic Solstice – put together pieces of Block B as leaders and enders between working on Missing Ivy
8. Spooky Halloween – Row 1, Block 1 – Finish applique’ing the hexis onto the background and applique the bat.

I’m looking forward to a great week!

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Have a great week!

~Melanie

Spooky Halloween
Row 1, Block 1
In progress
5/9/2016

I started working on the first block of Spooky Halloween.  First, I cut the fabric and hand pieced the hexis together.  I have 2 hexis left to piece.  Then I’ll applique them onto the background fabric.  I would really like to get this block done this week.  The blocks will be 6.5″ unfinished.  My goal for this project is to finish a block each week. Since there are 5 blocks per row, I’d like to get 2 done in one of the weeks.

Last week’s to do list:

1. Raining Cats and Dogs … Finish the machine quilting on this on my domestic and get going on hand quilting this baby… done
2. Hand work – Work a bit on A Rainbow Garden …  done
3. Knit – keep working on the Rosie Hat … not done
4. Cross Stitch – work on the embroidery for the top border and the first row of the 1st page of Farmland! …  done
5. Moon Glow – I don’t think I’ll be working on this this week. I want to focus on Raining Cats and Dogs, so I’ll probably skip this this week … not done
6. Missing Ivy – Same – I want to focus on Raining Cats and Dogs so I’ll skip this this week … I actually worked a bit on this this weekend and finished step 10
7. Celtic Solstice – Same – I want to focus on Raining Cats and Dogs so I’ll skip this this week … I pieced together some bits… 

This week’s to do list:

1. Raining Cats and Dogs … start hand quilting! 🙂
2. Hand work – Work a bit on A Rainbow Garden
3. Knit – keep working on the Rosie Hat
4. Cross Stitch – work on the embroidery for the top border and the second row of the 1st page of Farmland!
5. Moon Glow – Check with my local sewing machine store about renting out their long arm.
6. Missing Ivy – Step 11, which is piecing the inner top together. Yay! 🙂
7. Celtic Solstice – put together pieces of Block B as leaders and enders between working on Missing Ivy
8. Spooky Halloween – Row 1, Block 1 – I got some of the hexis done.  I still need to finish 2 hexis and then applique it onto the background and finish it up with an applique’d bat.

I’m looking forward to a great week!

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Have a great week!

~Melanie