What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

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 ...

It's been another one of those weeks where things haven't gone exactly to plan.  I spent some much needed R&R time in my sewing room on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then I woke up Thursday morning with a text from my Mom saying she needed my help.  She really hates to ask me for help, so when she does, I know it's most likely something significant.  Thankfully, things lined out on Friday, so I was able to come home that night.  I still did pretty well on the stitching front even with the unexpected road trip.  

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It finally slowed down midweek.  Grad Girl is moved in and has started her new job.  My Guy left on Tuesday as he had to be back at work. I stayed in Texas the rest of the week to finish the unpacking and take care of a few errands while Grad Girl was at work.  I'm flying home today. On the one hand I'm sorry to be leaving Grad Girl, it's been fun to hang out post all the moving stress, but I am ready to be home and spend some significant time in my sewing room ...

My apologies for being so late posting today.  It's not been the best week on a number of fronts.  It started with My Guy getting admitted to the hospital on Monday.  Thankfully, they found the source of the infection, treated him and he was out of the hospital by late Tuesday afternoon.  I've been trying to help Grad Girl with the apartment leasing process. She's been dealing with two major miscommunication errors the apartment management made that prevented her from finishing the leasing process, so she still doesn't have an apartment and she starts work in ...

I'm a bit late posting this week, I completely spaced that it was Sunday.  Grad Girl and I spent the week in Houston doing some apartment hunting.  I'd forgotten just how bad Houston traffic is. The heat and humidity was another not missed living condition. It was a long, tiring week. We were out most of the day and spent our evenings recovering.  It wasn't the best week for stitching time. 

• 15 minute days/week = 3/7 days
• 15 minute days/Aug = 16/23 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 208/235 days
• Success rate = 88.51%

Not sure what happened to this week.  Allergies have been bad and I'm still dealing with the changes in my schedule with Grad Girl home during her job search.  But it looks like the schedule will go back to normal in September.  Grad Girl has a job offer, though she hasn't seen the official paperwork yet. I know that's the goal of all parents, to get their kids self sufficient.  Being honest about it,  I'll miss the disruptions once she's off doing what she's supposed to be doing.   

As I noted earlier, it wasn ...