Get It Done 2013

I'm not sure if it's that I'm so behind or if others are also behind, but I tried searching for the Get It Done link-up post at Patchwork Times and couldn't find it, though I see that Judy does have her August goals set on her sidebar. Maybe she doesn't do a separate post for that and I've just forgotten. update - Found It!


So with that said, I'm going ahead and posting my goals for August here as well as in the tabbed page I've set up for my goals.  I've also updated some of my prior months' goals info.

• Catch up from vacation!
• As Marty has started my quilt room 'makeover', it needs to be finished and then moved back into with greater organization, so the goal: Get back into my quilt room
• Quilt one, any one, UFO project

I hope you've all been able to make great progress on your July goals.  I clearly need to go back through January-July and work on some of those that ended up not met!

Get It Done

I hadn't posted my April Get It Done list as I really didn't make the list until mid-month.  A-ha! Moment: Maybe I should add each following month as a to-do item on the previous month's Get It Done list and that way it'd be ready!

Here's what ended up on April's list, shhhh I had most of the items done before I put the list together, but it was still in April, LOL :

For April 2013

•  Convert some stash scraps to bow tie sets DONE
•  Convert some stash scraps to spool sets DONE (sufficiently for now)
•  Convert some stash scraps to tumbler pieces DONE (sufficiently for now)
•  Finish O Christmas Tree to flimsy DONE

I also converted some stash scraps, and anything under a 1/4 yard of fabric, to 3" squares.  More on those with my NewFO report at the end of May.



For May 2013

•  Complete 3 large blocks on NewFO from April project #039
•  Begin May NewFO, 3" squares already cut
•  Practice free-motion quilting
•  Put borders on projects #16a, #16b aka the "bricks" UFOs

Linking to Patchwork Times to 'stay accountable', if only in my own mind, hehe.

The Hurrier I Go, The Behinder I Get

Does that sound like a familiar refrain?  Frankly though, I don't know that I ever do much hurrying, I pretty much just poke along doing what I do.

So let's see, I'm behind on Sunday Stash Report.  I'll skip it this week since there's nothing in nor anything out. 

I'm behind on Design Wall Monday.  It's completely empty as I haven't worked on any project, so I'll skip that post this week too.

I'm behind on Get It Done 2013 for May, though technically today IS the first of May, so I have till midnight right? I'll add that as a separate post.

And last, I think, and certainly not least, I'm behind on my posting about my NewFO for April and linking up at Cat Patches.  I'm trying to think what I actually did in April.  It seems I was constantly busy with fabric, and I think what was mostly done was cutting up scraps into future projects aside from one finish :).  But I DID give one of those sets of pre-cuts a project number, which that and being kitted was as far as I got on it.  So, that qualifies it as a NewFO and here is April's NewFO project:  a 'duplication' of project #029 shown in my gallery  

Project #029 ~shown for affect~

My new project is #039 and the colors will be pretty similar as most of the logs are cut from the same scraps as the first one.  An entirely different gold is being used for the centers and stars, and a different blue is being used for the sashing and borders.  Can I just say I wish I had a lot more of the original blue, I really liked it for this project.  The photo doesn't really show it very well either.

Today I went to my quilting student's home for her lesson.  She is such a very creative young woman.  For her second quilt she found something online she liked as a basic idea and created her own blocks for a quilt for her young son.  The quilt has a space theme using primarily reds & blues, mostly starry and space fabric along with some plaids - she learned all about those plaid brushed cotton type fabrics that shift a lot.  For the back, she decided to piece it and in piecing it - completely her own design, ended up with a dilemma as she realized that she's going to lose some of the parts she pieced.  Her solution, after we discussed a number of options and possibilities, is to make two quilts since her son has two twin beds in his room, and just use a solid/solid-read fabric for the backs of each.  

I also showed her the basics today of straight line, stitch-in-the-ditch, and free-motion quilting, the latter of which I'm not proficient at and consider myself as a novice and she realizes that's going to take awhile to learn.  She has a little bit of another dilemma with then doing all straight lines, as four of the blocks in the original quilt are large squares featuring a cartoonish space ship - different in each block, and she doesn't want to quilt through the space ships.  The blocks need to have some manner of quilting in them.  She's considering hand-quilting around the ships and a few other objects within the block but she'll ask another person to show her how to do that as I've not hand-quilted, though I could probably teach her some basics from having seen it demonstrated frequently and via internet & book resources.  Time ran out, so we'll see where we are next week.  She already has fabric and a pattern for a third (or fourth given that one turned into two) quilt.  She's having a ball, and I am really enjoying working with her - we inspire each other and I am truly blessed to also grow in friendship with her and the children.  I knew her husband from a creation outings group I was involved in back in the '90s ... oooh, that sounds sooo long ago.

Design Wall Monday

Don't you just love checking out blogs of others on Mondays to see what they're working on?  I enjoy it, even if I don't always comment on someone's blog - I should more often!  The only problem with checking out all those blogs is, my day disappears too quickly!  Head over here and see what others are revealing.

This is what's been on my design wall, or the bed, or the sewing machine, or wherever this past week.  Yes, I've been working on three projects at once, bouncing back and forth, and I still need to work on some of the items from my Getting It Done list!  

Easy Street being guarded by Raven - block rows are pinned together & ready to sew.

Had been on design wall but didn't like individual block positions so took it down; was going to put Easy Street back up but laid it out on a bed instead - easier on my back!

This is Bella Luce, it's on the Getting It Done list, and I'm much further along than what I 'planned/hoped' to accomplish.

I hope you're getting some sewing in today, because I'm not, at least not yet, maybe later.  Enjoy your day whatever you are doing.

Getting It Done

I'm a couple of days late in getting this listed as it should have been posted on 31 December 2012.  Judy has changed from her UFO Challenge of recent years to a monthly list of four items to get done in given month.  These don't have to be complete projects from start to finish, but elements of any given project in an effort to make progress towards getting 'it' done.  I can do that, I think.  After all, that's pretty much all I managed to do with my UFO Challenge progress anyway.  How does one eat an elephant?  One bite at a time.  And with that, here's my list of four items to accomplish in January:

• Finish Easy Street to the flimsy stage
• Quilt #031 Valentine Quilt (see my 2012 UFO list)
• Start Bella Luce: prep and cut fabric
• Finish the Dresden Plate block on #23 Rooster Quilt (see my 2012 UFO list)

And there it is, my very first list for 2013.