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 It is going to take me some practice to remember to post my progress on the 15 Minutes to Stitch challenge every week.  I have been stitching every day though.  

I've shown you some of the quilting from this month already on the blog:

• The Project quilting challenge #1 where I made An Open Space to Breathe (I originally wrote that as A Quiet Place to Breathe, which is also a good name)
• The project Quilting challenge #2 where I made Change
• The bunkbed blanket I am repairing
• The peacock made with leftovers from the Lupine & Laughter mystery
• The ...

It's been cold, but that polar vortex struck yesterday, now it's really, really cold.  Snow started falling Friday night around 10 PM. The first round of snow left about 3" to 4" of snow depending on where you are in the county. The second round kicked off Saturday afternoon and is supposed to run till midmorning. So we may see another 6" to 8" before it tapers off this afternoon.   It wasn't exactly warm going into this storm, so it wasn't too hard to find time to hang out in the sewing room this week.  

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January is more than half over. But it doesn't seem to be going as quickly as it went last year. I like a slow start to the year.  We've not had snow or ice, but it's been cold with a biting wind.  Definitely makes you want to stay home and just sew.  Which is such a hardship, right?  The weather has definitely been more conductive to more sewing time.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Jan = 17/17 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 17/17 days
• Success rate = 100%

We are more than a week into the new year.  I'm mostly back into my normal groove. I'm doing well with focusing on my goals. But we are only a week in, a year is a long time to keep yourself in line.  In fact, there's a another quilt along that's been posted I really want to play along with that's not on my new project list for 2026.  I'm trying to resist, but I did look to see if I have fabric in my stash for it.  I do.  Oh well, I'll ...

Although I did try to sew for at least 15 minutes a day in 2025, I did not keep track of it, and I wound up losing some motivation in the summer. More importantly, I didn't have a good record of what I did during the year. So I have decided I am going to try again to report my progress on a weekly basis. To help with that, I am going to try to take photos every day. I won't show them all to you, but at least they will be available for my posts.

We are a few days into the new year.  I've spent some time in the sewing room, but also a lot of time looking back and then looking ahead.  My tracking spreadsheet is reset. So I'm ready for a new year on that front. Not so much on other fronts.  Personal preference has me making a clean break between last year and this year.  Here are my final stitching time metrics for 2025. 

• 15 minute days/Dec 2025 =30/31 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 320/365 days
• Success rate = 87.67%

This is the last Sunday in 2025.  The years seem to go faster and faster the older I get.  Maybe this upcoming January will be quiet.  I'm ready for some slow and steady stay at home time.  

It can be hard to find time to stitch during Christmas week, I did pretty well this holiday. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Dec = 26/27 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 316/361 days
• Success rate = 87.53%

It's the Sunday before Christmas. Just one more full week left in 2025. That's really hard to believe.  This week wasn't so busy as last week, but for some reason I was really tired early in the week. Maybe fighting something off as it's that time of year all kinds of yucky sicknesses are floating around.  At any rate, that's what ate into my sewing time this week, There was one day where I just felt yucky and ended up going to bed really early.

• 15 minute days/week = 6/7 days
• 15 minute days ...

This time of year when I type the title of this weekly post, my mind says no that can't be right.  Just two weeks left in 2025?  Really?  I've been slowly taking care of Christmas stuff. I've also been taking some sanity time in the sewing room this week. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Dec = 13/13 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 303/347 days
• Success rate = 87.32%

Did you have a good Thanksgiving? We certainly did. So much food, both My Girl and I ended up in food comas after dinner.  I did eventually go walk some of it off with My Guy.  

With all the family stuff this week, I didn't find the time and energy to stitch a couple of days. 

• 15 minute days/week = 5/7 days
• 15 minute days/Nov = 25/29 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 289/333 days
• Success rate = 86.79%

It was a busy week.  The 2025 Guild BOM took up the early part of the week.  Once that quilt top was finished, making a start on the 2026 Guild BOM dominated my sewing time. All the "required" stitching stuff made for a good week on the stitching time front. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Nov = 20/22 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 284/326 days
• Success rate = 87.12%

My apologies for getting the post up so late.  I've been dealing with memory issues on the computer. Addressing those has been a work in progress.  I tried to get my post put together yesterday and had to just give up to focus on how to fix the memory issues. I've revamped the start up programs. That seems to have helped. But I've done that before and it didn't seem to completely resolve the issue.  The computer may still need a major spa day. So if I go dark for a week or two, know that ...

The blog has been pretty much radio silent this week. First off, I've been visiting Grad Girl for the week and though I've been sewing, she doesn't have a design wall and Queenie pretty much pounces on anything I put down on the bed to photograph. But probably the more scary reason is the computer went wonky on Monday. It's still not running properly, most of the time I've been able to get to my email and read blogs, but not all the time.  I've been backing up files and emailing critical files to ...

It's been a busy week, but not an unproductive one.  Another trip to deal with car tires and a trip to see my mother, but I was still able to get in my stitching time each day. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/Oct = 25/25 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 258/298 days
• Success rate = 86.58%

Mine and My Guy's week of adventures comes to an end today.  He goes back to work tomorrow.  We spent the week in Eureka Springs, AR. We walked a lot, climbed a lot of stairs, did a bit of early Christmas shopping, went hiking a couple of days and best of all ate really, really good food.  It was a nice week away from the every day we both have, me with chores, him with work.  I took my hand stitching with me, which made it easy to keep up with my stitching time for the week. 

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It's been a pretty good week. The only wrinkle was a broken connector on the Outback that caused some scary lights to show up on the dashboard. Reading the manual, the potential issues were pretty scary and making a trip to Tulsa to the dealership didn't seem wise. Thankfully our normal in town mechanic recommended another shop that could handle electrical issues.  They got the parts and we are back in business. We aren't used to sharing one car, but the advantage is I ended up spending a lot of time at open sew at the quilt ...