Design Wall Monday - August 24

A new week, and the last full week of summer. Yikes!! Some region schools have started already, and others will start this week. The big deal in town this week is the Corn Palace Festival, an annual event with carnival rides, carnival games, and  food trucks, all lined up on the streets around the Corn Palace.  The Corn Palace will host a couple of concerts later in the week.  

My plans for the week include the monthly lunch with the retired group from school, a couple of PT appointments, an ophthalmologist appointment, and some sewing of course.  The main sewing project will be the autumn mini vertical banner.  

These mini banners are paper pieced, and I did get all the parts cut and labeled with the stickers from the kit.  Shabby Fabrics make their paper pieced kits so easy to use.

It's also time to choose another UFO to move forward.  I really need to get Salt Water Taffy back out, because the blocks are all made.  The blocks just need to be assembled into a flimsy and then there could actually be an empty project bin.  I've really procrastinated on this particular project all summer.  

There are so many UFOs, and WIPs and new kits to choose from but I do have one final item on my PHD (Projects Half Done) list at The Pin Cushion - also not started yet.  They challenge us each year to put 12 items on our list, with each finish checked off moving us toward a reward at the end of the year.  So far I've finished 10 of the 12, have #11 in the quilting queue, and #12 sitting in a project box.  It's a kit for a round quilt, with snowmen and snowflakes appliqued all around.  Maybe - IF the first 2 tasks get done this week - I can at least get this kit onto my September To Do list. Maybe I can at least get the applique traced onto the fusible.

I'm linking up today with:

https://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/ 

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RSC26 - Week #34

Friday was mostly a sewing day.  It felt so good to be in my sewing room for more than just a few minutes.  The hubby left in the morning for a golf tournament, so I had total peace and quiet to do whatever I wanted.  And it didn't involve laundry, cleaning, or grocery shopping.

Originally I was going to make the beehive blocks during the yellow month, but for right now I've just made the 2 bees.  I might still decide to do a beehive but we'll see.  The bees themselves are just too cute. 

A few Ticker Tape blocks were born. Luckily I have a bunch of these cut, and the pieces clipped together in a small basket.  They are quick for when I just have a few minutes.

Each month I've made 4 Scrappy Stars blocks, and the yellow ones were finally finished yesterday.  I've had them cut out for a couple of weeks but just got around to sewing them.
 

One design board had the yellow Snail Trail block parts layed out, but only one of them has been sewn so far.  The other 3 will hopefully happen next week.  Today I plan to cut the parts for the yellow Catnip block and maybe some Vintage Spools with yellow.

Let's go check out more Rainbow fun . . .

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Finished (or not) Friday

There just wasn't much time for finishing projects this week, but that's OK because spending time with friends and family is more important.

On Saturday I stopped at Hobby Lobby on my way to pick up my granddaughter.  The plan was to pick up a 24" pillow form to use in the denim and Tilda pillow.  Of course I couldn't leave Hobby Lobby with only the pillow form!  A cute little grey elephant stuffy and some fall silk flowers came home with me too. 

The binding is on 2 more placemats.  These used more RWB leftovers, but didn't even make a dent in the RWB scraps unfortunately. 

That's it for finishes this week!  

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Poking along

Wednesday morning I had PT, but had a little sewing time once I got home.  This morning I also have PT, and then I'm hosting cards this afternoon.  But I should have a little sewing time in between PT and cards.

The first priority yesterday was finishing the 4 Dutchman's Puzzle blocks for the Marigold mystery.  These are 8" finished. With these 4 blocks joining the 5 star blocks already done, I'm caught up with the August prompt for the mystery.  

I also worked on the yellow Honey Bee and yellow Scrappy Star blocks that were already cut out, and waiting on design boards.  Progress was made on them.  A little sewing time today and tomorrow should finish these up.

And I got a start on the 12 blocks for August's Saturday Sampler prompt.  These finish at 6", but I'm trying to make sure none are identical so I'm poking along slowly on them. 

Progress

While my granddaughter was sewing a couple of recent days, I did some prep work on a couple of my own sewing projects.  One task was prepping more of the small snowflakes (about 3") I'll be adding to my Saturday Sampler in a future month.  They had to be traced onto the fusible, and then ironed onto the fabric before cutting them out.  This month's assignment will be some fairly simple blocks, but I haven't started those yet.  

The Marigold mystery (Meadow Mist) for August has us making 5 sawtooth stars, and 3 Dutchman's Puzzle blocks.  My stars are done.  

Back to routines

After having 3 of the grandkids here for a few days, we're back to our usual routines - golf for grandpa and sewing for grandma.  Pretty predictable aren't we?

The boys fished every day, sometimes twice.  LOL  And they played golf. 

Olivia sewed with me Sunday and Monday.  Her very first sewing project was her pillowcase, and then she began working on a table runner. She sewed it and she quilted it herself, but I did do the binding for her.  She did a really good job on all of it.  My daughter said when the grandpa dropped the kids off at home she put her pillowcase on her pillow, and the table runner on her nightstand.  So I think she was pleased.

The final project Olivia worked on was a doll quilt.  The flimsy is all done, including the borders.  So I'll find something for backing and binding and then this one will go into the donation box with a stuffie.

Design Wall Monday - August 17

Wow - how can we be halfway through August already!!  Summer flew by like always. 

On our road trip to Omaha, granddaughter Olivia picked out fabric for her first sewing lesson with grandma.  She is a huge animal lover so this dog fabric isn't surprising. 

She did a great job on her pillowcase.  She started on a second project - a table runner.  Maybe we'll work on it a little more today before they head home.  

My own goals for the week are pretty fluid for right now.  But I do know that finishing the August blocks for the Meadow Mist mystery is my first goal.  I have some yellow RSC blocks cut out and waiting to be sewn.  And then I need to work on this month's Saturday Sampler blocks.  We'll see how the week goes.

I'm linking up today with:

https://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/ 

https://songbirddesigns.blog