Hello May

Hello - I hope this finds all of you healthy and happy. 
In April I severely over estimated what I could accomplish.  I was going to finish one embroidery piece and get "X" amount done on another.  Whoa was I wrong or what. All that to say - I'm not sure how to gauge what is reasonable for May.  
I have been mega busy with family and work, and not with sewing.  However, I think I am finally at a point with my work schedule that I can get in some kind of a routine.  I will have different days off but will have the same shift daily.  That should really help. 
Okay now back to the sewing part... 
I will try again to get to the bridge on my "Over the River and through the Woods".  Here is where I am at as I start this month. 

That's it for the goal.  It doesn't seem like much but with only 5  or 6  day's off  until end of month it's enough.  The fold in the center of the next picture is where I want to get to. 

As you can see, it took me all month to get the rest of the tree branches done, the one house and some fence posts.  

This is my One Monthly Goal and I will be linking up over at Elm Street Quilts.   

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If for some reason I do get that far and want extra credit... ha ha ha....I will work more on my Halloween wall hanging.

Again, I hope you are healthy and happy and I hope you all are sewing up a storm.  

Blessings to all,

Lynn 

OMG Wake Up

This morning I had that nice feeling of gently tossing and turning because I knew I had the day off and I actually got a full nights rest. So as I was slowly waking up - all the sudden I had a jolt of electricity go through me .... I forgot to link up my finish for the March OMG.  Dang!!  I finished it on March 10th.  Dang. It's one thing to not finsh something and not be able to link up, but to finish and then forget.  Did I happen to say Dang!?.   It has bugged me off and on all all day.  (Dang!)  
Okay - I'll let it go.  April is a new month and with all that is going on in my little world, let alone the whole world right now, a missed link up is really nothing.  
So I'll post about April and the One Monthly Goal I want to accomplish.  


For April I want to get the rest of this embroidered.

And get at least 1/2 of this panel embroidered. It would be around the brick bridge. 

(You may have to click on it to zoom)

The pattern is "Over the River and Through the Woods" 
This is my year for "Hand Work".  I have _?_# of WIP and UFO's that need a lot of hand work before they can be completed.  Also I've gone back to work and 6 weeks into it, I was offered full time -I guess hardly unheard of.  So with the limited time I have to sew, the hand work will work well.  (And I may get some UFO's knocked out) 
Okay time for me to finish up and get this linked up. Then go check out some of the rest of the links. 
Have a Blessed day - Stay Safe.
Lynn 

Swirly Sheep and Goblins

One of my September goals was to start quilting my newest great granddaughter, Adrianna's quilt.  

Here is a little close up on my swirly flowers.  

Before I worked on this I played around with a new little design - a cat. 

And then I practiced my swirly flowers on the cat wall hanging. 

Remember the Halloween wall hanging that my friend dropped off for me to take to the retreat? Well I got it finished Wednesday and then got the binding on Wednesday night. 

I went ahead and used the patterns suggestions on how to quilt it - and I like how it came out. 

On Thursday I went to my guild meeting and was able to give it to my friend so she be able to give to her granddaughter.

(I have blocked her name tag since it has both her first and last name) 

It was fun to do and even more fun to know that I was able to give it back to her. 

Not sure what today holds but if I get sewing time I will be making more swirls on my sheep.

Have a Blessed Day!

Lynn 

May Finishes and Junes Goals

May Goals

1. Scavenger Block - Sunbonnet Sue - Queen of Hearts and Embroidered Block.  Not totally sure how I'm going to do this but I may paint part of it like I did the frog.   Goal Met. 

I changed my mind a couple times on this and it's funny each month how I'll think of doing these blocks one way and then do them totally different.  

Isn't she cute?  :)  

2. Buttermilk Basin  Finish "T" Block  and "I"  Block and prep the next "T" Block.  Goal Met ??  They released an extra block in April with the letter "I" it was a snowflake.  I have been watching and looking and waiting, but have not seen the next letter - "T" released. So I've done the two blocks from April - and I can't prep a block I haven't received. 

3. Work on gifts!  Towels, Scissor Fobs - need to make progress on gifts to give. Finish Ronni's Mat by Retreat time. Then I  want to also paint another block and make it into a wall hanging for a friend.  So this may be my gift goal for this month.     Goal Met - I did work on the gifts. 

I did the last little bit of Stitching on Ronni's sewing mat and gave it to her.  :)

Then I worked on the painted wall hanging that I wanted to do for my other friend and it kept wanting to bleed on me. I don't think I've had it do that to me like that.  

Time for a do over.

I will now quilt it and make into a wall hanging. 

4. Quilt something.  Not sure what just get some quilting done. I keep saying Bee Hive Baby, but maybe I need to pick something else to get me going. :)  Here are a few that already pin basted - so I just need to get going on them.   Goal Met - don't fall off the chair I actually did quilt something.  

Here's a close up of some of the quilting.  I'm still working on my free motion quilting and this was my first spider webs.   Not perfect but it was fun.  

5.  UFO's  APQ random ufo buster # 7  Which is too funny.  Because I am doing 6 UFO's for 2 month's each #7 is the same as #1.  Which is the same as last month.  :)   Porch Time.  As always the goal is to make progress. Goal Met!   I wanted to get even more done - But thankful for what I did get done. 

 I worked on this area - I got one of the small hands appliqued on and then put the strips on the side so I could put the next hand on. 

I got the flower blocks trimmed and sewn together

And then I prepped most of the blocks in this sections and appliqued the star block.

Again - wish it was more - but it was some progress.  

6.  Retreat Projects - Make Progress - Yep got another retreat going on.  May 19 - 21. Back in February when the power went out on us - well they offered us free rooms because of that - So what do you do with a free room?  Well we book a new retreat.  :)   I reserve the right to change my mind but as it stands now I am planning on taking my very old "Quilt as you go" Quilt to finish up.  Nope didn't take this one. 

Next I am planning to continue on with the "Snowman Collector" that I took to the retreat in February.   I have one more block to applique and top stitch and then I can start making the sashing and borders.

This one I did take and made progress so - Goal Met.  

I had this one last block to do.  

Then I needed to put all the 2" squares for the sashing and borders. The blank area above will contain the letters to spell out "Snowman Collector".  Which my friend cut on her AccuQuilt cutter.  

The Retreat was a little different than some of the others I've gone to but still ended up being good. You can read more about it Here.  

7.  Charity!   Goal Met

7a. I want to finish up the 1/2 quilt that I've got going on for the CRQ guild.   Done

7b. Along with that I need to work on some charity stuff for the SNR guild.  Here are some orphan blocks I'm going to sew together to make a couple of tops.

Here is what I got done.  

7c. Bonus Points -  If I get the quilt made for SNR  then quilt it.     No Bonus Points for this - However I have a feeling it will be in with Junes goals.  

8.  Blog 7-10 times.  Goal Met! 

Extra's - 

The wallet - I blogged about it here and here.   

I re-covered some dinning chairs -  Not a quility thing, but I wrote about it here. 

And the Dress for my Great Niece.  I blogged about it here.

And a picture of Ava in the dress and Ava with her twin sister Brynn.

Well  I did pretty good this month I at least met each goal except the bonus points so I'm happy about that.   So what does June Bring?  

June Goals

1.  Scavenger Block(s)  At the June SNR guild meeting, our last meeting for the summer, I will be handing out the remainder of the scavenger block clues. The goal is for everyone to get the blocks done and a quilt made by December's Christmas Party which is the Second Tuesday in December.  That should be plenty for June - Then I can use July and August while we are dark to do some of the others.

Goal for June is to get at least one block done and Bonus Points if I can get more done.    

Junes items are:    Any Star Block - Snowball and Musical notes.

July's items are:     Flip Flops - Thimble and Polka Dots

August items are:  Something Plaid - Spool of Thread and Hankercheif

  

2.  Bear Quilt - I haven't had that one on the list for a month or two and I need to get back on it.  I want to work on getting the bears on the background with the Aspen tree's, branches and leaves in and around them.  This will involve the tracing cutting and fusing of all the tree parts - So the goal will be to have the bears placed and fused along with the some of the tree's and leaves. 

Since there are two of them I need to figure out how far apart I want them and then will fill in with the aspen trees and the branches and leaves. 

3.  Continue with quilting.  This needs to be an all quilting summer.  I want start quilting  the train quilt for my grandson.  Goal is to have it at least half done.  

4.  More quilting.  I have 3 charity quilts for SNR that need to be quilted. I thought I was going to be able to hand them off - but the couple that does the quilting have 90 quilts backed up for charity so I think I need to do these myself.   Goal:  Have at least one of them pinned and quilted. I have 3 months while the guild is dark to quilt 3 quilts so I need to do at least one a month along with my own stuff. 

5.  Buttermilk Basin BOM - The next letter.  They normally release them on the 3rd Friday of the month.  If that's when it's released my goal is to have it prepped and ready to stitch.  It should be the letter  "T".    

6.  APQ   UFO Buster # 10  - Christmas Quilt.   This is a pattern by Cheri Saffiote Payne. I originally started this with a group of friends when I still lived in Oregon and we would get together one Saturday a month and work on it together.  At the time I was still trying to finish up my "Sweet Land of Liberty" quilt that the rest of the group had already finished and did not get very much done on this one.  It is small though so hopefully I can make some good progress this month.   

Beginning Status: 

 I am doing this turned under with a primitive whip stitch with black quilting thread. Since this is how I started this - I will continue it that way. 
This is where I left off.  And it's been so long since I've worked on this I wasn't even sure what it was.  LOL  But it is Santa and I posted the pattern below it.   So it looks like I have about 1/4 to 1/3 of the top blocks done.

Since this is my first of 2 times to work on this UFO this year - I may be able to finish this UFO this year. But before I get ahead of myself :)  .... for June 2016 

Goal:  Make Progress

7.  Blog 7-10 times.  

Bonus Points

There is always something that comes up that I either need to do, or I want to do. Or my sweet husband thinks I'm talented enough to do.  (chairs)   Since I don't really know what these things are ahead of time I am going to award bonus points to the extra's - whatever they may be.   :) 

I'll keep you posted on how it goes.

Have a Blessed Day - Lynn