Short List – May goals

• Top 3 piecing quilts – Dancing with the Stars, Grassy Creek, Scrappy Stars Around the Corner
• Hand work – Simple days, Raining Cats and Dogs
• Knitting – morning socks, Weasley Sweater (front)
• Cross Stitching – just do a bit on my weekly project every day (whatever tiny decisions selects)
• To Be Quilted – Finish the orange quilt (finish quilting, add the label, do the binding, take a nice picture and post about it) – DONE

How I did last week –

1. Cross Stitch – I stitched on Gamer twice last week.
2. Knitting – do 10 more rows on my Weasley Sweater and do the heels on my morning socks. – I did my 10 rows on the Weasley sweater and I finished the second heel on my morning socks.
3. Gardening – watered the plans every other day or so
4. Quilting:
   1. orange quilt top – get label and binding ready – done. I just kept going and finished the quilt. 🙂
   2. simple days, continue to embroider the 3rd block of the January clue. – I’m back in love with this project. Another one of my guild mates is working on this and I love what she’s doing. It’s inspiring me to move forward on it.
   3. Dancing with the stars – continue piecing more of Block A – I finished piecing all of Block A! So I set this aside while I worked on Grassy Creek
   4. Pull Out Grassy creek and start clue 5 – which meant I was able to pull this out, figure out where I was on Clue 5 and keep going. I’ll need to cut more fabric on the small 9 patches to get this part of the clue finished. => I have cut some more fabric and will start piecing again.

This Week:

1. Cross Stitch – this week: Ariadne
2. Simple Days – I have two zoom sessions with the cool quilty people on Tuesday and Wednesday so I plan to do a little on both days.
3. Grassy Creek – Get the itty bitty 9-patches done. I will need to cut more fabric and I’m fussy cutting scraps so it takes much longer than strip piecing but it thrills me to no end to use up as much scraps as possible.
   1. I have 7 -9 patches done so quite a few more to go. I’m doing these the long hard way to use the most of my itty bitty scraps. I plan to keep working on this for now and will not move on to dancing with the stars until this is done.
4. Dancing with the stars – figure out how many of Block B I need and start working on it. => haven’t done this yet.

Happy crafting, friends!

Melanie

I know I posted this picture yesterday. I think I can post another picture. 🙂

Short List – May goals

• Top 3 piecing quilts – Dancing with the Stars, Grassy Creek, Scrappy Stars Around the Corner
• Hand work – Simple days, Raining Cats and Dogs
• Knitting – morning socks, Weasley Sweater (front)
• Cross Stitching – just do a bit on my weekly project every day (whatever tiny decisions selects)
• To Be Quilted – Finish the orange quilt (finish quilting, add the label, do the binding, take a nice picture and post about it)

How I did last week –

1. Cross Stitch – I stitched on the dragonfly 3 times last week.
2. Knitting – do 10 more rows on my Weasley Sweater and do the heels on my morning socks. – I did my 10 rows on the Weasley sweater and I finished 1 heel on my morning socks. I’m about a third of the way through the second heel. I was able to knit on my socks 4 times and on my Weasley Sweater.
3. Gardening – I did finish planting the seedlings I had. I also went to Sego Nursery and bought more cosmos, marigolds, rosemary, orange balm and lemongrass.
4. Quilting:
   1. orange quilt top – get label and binding ready – done. I just kept going and finished the quilt. 🙂
   2. simple days, continue to embroider the 3rd block of the January clue. – I fell out of love on this project. I worked on it a bit during my minigroup meeting but I used that time to work on the orange quilt top.
   3. Dancing with the stars – continue piecing more of Block A – I finished piecing all of Block A! So I set this aside while I worked on Grassy Creek
   4. Pull Out Grassy creek and start clue 5 – which meant I was able to pull this out, figure out where I was on Clue 5 and keep going. I’ll need to cut more fabric on the small 9 patches to get this part of the clue finished.

All in all, even though I worked a lot, I still go a lot of my crafting goals done. part of it is being super focused about what I want to get done this week and making sure I’ve got a list of things to do before each crafty session. Even if I only get 1 strand stitched on the cross stitch, that’s okay. I may not get done with it fast but I’m a process crafter so that’s 1 strand stitched.

This Week:

1. Cross Stitch – this week I get to work on Gamer again. It’s been months since I pulled her out and I’m not done with that second row. I’m almost done but I think I can get it finished this week assuming I stitch every day.
2. Simple Days – I only have one zoom session with the cool quilty people on Sunday so I plan to do a little bit on sunday.
3. Grassy Creek – Get the itty bitty 9-patches done. I will need to cut more fabric and I’m fussy cutting scraps so it takes much longer than strip piecing but it thrills me to no end to use up as much scraps as possible.
4. Dancing with the stars – figure out how many of Block B I need and start working on it.

Happy crafting, friends!

Melanie

Short List – May goals

• Top 3 piecing quilts – Dancing with the Stars, Grassy Creek, Scrappy Stars Around the Corner
• Hand work – Simple days, Raining Cats and Dogs
• Knitting – morning socks, Weasley Sweater (front)
• Cross Stitching – just do a bit on my weekly project every day (whatever tiny decisions selects)
• To Be Quilted – Finish the orange quilt (finish quilting, add the label, do the binding, take a nice picture and post about it)

How I did last week –

1. For my cross stitch – Blooming Bouquets #2: Cheerful – I stitched 4 times last week and below is a picture of where I left off.
2. continue knitting on my morning socks and do at least 10 rows on my Weasley Sweater. – DONE
3. Gardening – Plant the seedlings Julie gave me, as well as the others I bought this weekend. 🙂 – I did get a number of these planted but I still have a few more to plant. We got hit with a brief heat wave and my seedlings wilted by the end of each day of heat. I had to water twice a day to keep them going and it looks like they will be fine.
4. Quilting
   1. finish quilting the orange quilt top – DONE
   2. Simple Days – continue embroidering the 3rd block of the January clue – worked on this and I’m still working on it.
   3. Dancing with the stars – continue piecing more of block A – worked on this a bit more and I’m still working on it.
   4. Pull out Grassy Creek and start clue – NOT done

This Week:

1. Cross Stitch – this week I’m working on my Dragonfly piece.
2. Knitting – do 10 more rows on my Weasley Sweater and do the heels on my morning socks.
3. Gardening – finish planting the seedlings I have. I will be making my bi-weekly trip to Sego Nursery, my local garden nursery that I love to go to and check out what they have. I’m looking for nasturtiums, more basil, more mint, and whatever else I find.
4. Quilting:
   1. orange quilt top – get label and binding ready
   2. simple days, continue to embroider the 3rd block of the January clue.
   3. Dancing with the stars – continue piecing more of Block A
   4. Pull Out Grassy creek and start clue 5.

Happy crafting, friends!

Melanie