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February 17, 2025
The 2025 SAHRR: Border 4 from Life In Pieces

I noted in my Stitching Stuff post that not much got done this week.  That included any progress on the 2025 SAHRR,



I was able to finish off all the Friendship Star blocks from border 3 and worked out a plan for week 4.  



The green border strips are cut, but didn't get attached.  I finished 2 blocks for border 4, but that's it. The border will be a mix of blue and green blocks.  I'm hoping to catch up this week, finish border 4 while working on border 5.  We'll see how that works. 

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February 16, 2025
Blocks for both panels with SAHRR from Quilting & Learning

Hi and welcome. I've been spending as much time as possible in my studio. There's still just enough space to work in and that's what matters! I've been enjoying piecing my blocks. Now that I've stopped playing with 8 HSTs (half square triangles) in one block, it's all good

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my creative week including embroidery, sewing piecework, and a painting from Not Afraid of Color

 

still trying to live a creative life, and this is a mention of this week's work... glad you're here! 

the pic above is my latest finished embroidery. I learned to make tassel flowers, very wild and 3-d

more about the embroidery in a minute, but first my stay at home round robin nest row was slice into a block and insert a new fabric. It was a hard pain week so I took it easy on the creative front. I did a sliced insert in an X thinking it would look like a trellis... well.... 

it's too ...

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February 14, 2025
my creative week Project quilting and stay at home round robin from Not Afraid of Color

 


7" X 10" 

this is my entry for Project Quilting this week, the prompt was to take three traditional blocks in the common usage and make a finished quilt. I took out my scrap bags of Cherrywood hand dyes to use thinking I'd make a sketchbook cover. My bags have strips from  a half inch wide to 2" wide. 

I made a sawtooth star, put a log cabin around it (taking into consideration two values on each row) and made my improv flying geese for the top and bottom. I loved it and thought of all the things I ...

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February 12, 2025
Snow Happens Finish, SAHRR & Mom's Mat from Quilting & Learning

Bonjour and welcome

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February 11, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 02/11/2025 from Life In Pieces

It hasn't been the best week on a number of fronts.  I've got some type of respiratory infection that's been ramping up for the last week. Yesterday was pretty much a recliner/couch/bed day. My nose is sore from all the blowing, my chest hurts from all the coughing, and my head hurts.  With all that going on, my sewing room time hasn't been wonderful this last week.  


To Do List for 02/04/2025

1.  2025 SAHRR: Finish the 3rd border - progress

2.  Guild BOM: Finish the March blocks - no progress

3.  Chocolate Marshmallow ...

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February 9, 2025
The 2025 SAHRR: Round #3 from Life In Pieces

It's been one of those weeks where I ended up with less stitching time then normal.  So I'm a bit behind on Round #3 for the SAHRR.  This week's prompt of "stars" was posted by Quilting Gail.  


I had hoped to play catch up this weekend, but I forgot that I was judging Science Fair this weekend, so there went most of my Saturday.  I've made good progress, but it takes a while to make 30 3.5" Friendship Stars.  




The plan is for two borders of blue stars and 2 borders of the green/blue ...

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February 5, 2025
January 2025 PHD Report from Life In Pieces

Usually January feels so slothful, the days drag and the month feels like it goes on forever. Not this year.  I'm amazed to find we've reached the end of the first month of the year.  It will speed up from here, so 2025 is set to move fast it seems.  


With the end of the month, it's time report on my UFO progress and link up at P Designs USA for the January PHD Report.  First off, my report.  




One new start and no finishes. That's a pretty typical start to my year. At least the ...

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February 4, 2025
To Do List for the week of 02/04/2025 from Life In Pieces

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To Do List for 01/28/2025

1.  2025 SAHRR: Finish second border ✔
2.  2025 Guild BOM: Start March blocks 
3.  Marble Mystery: Finish making blocks 
4.  Old Town: Continue working on clues 
5.  Wild and Goosey: Continue making purple blocks 
6.  Summer Scrap Quilt: Continue as leaders and enders 

It was a good week on the productivity front. Even if I'm not hitting major milestones with most of these projects, it's nice to see progress happening.  

So what's the plan for this week? Pretty much the same as last week and the week before ...

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February 3, 2025
Lots of Updates and Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

January 31, 2025
The 2025 SAHRR: Round #2 from Life In Pieces

The prompt for round #2, half square triangles, can be found at Anja Quilts.  


Half square triangles are versatile little blocks.  I played around in EQ, ran a couple of options past Grad Girl and finally settled on this version. 



Not the most original border, but it works OK. I'm ready for prompt #3 coming out on Monday.    

The 2025 SAHRR was also my Chookshed Challenge project for January. My goal was to get the center and first prompt finished.  I've actually finished the second prompt so definitely met my goal for the month.  

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January 28, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 01/28/2025 from Life In Pieces

Just a couple more days in January. This month seem to have passed much quicker this year.  Usually I feel like January lasts forever.  I can't say that we were any busier this year than last. My to do lists have been pretty long this month, though last week's was one of my shorter ones.  


To Do List for 01/21/2025

1.  2025 SAHRR: Finish first border ✔

2.  Marble Mystery: Continue block assembly ✔

3.  Old Town: Continue working on clues ✔

4.  Wild and Goosey: Continue to make purple blocks ✔

5.  Summer Scrap Quilt:  Continue as leaders and ...

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January 25, 2025
SAHRR and Snow Happens on Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Allô and welcome

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Creativity this week... two challenges met and knitting socks from Not Afraid of Color

 

Project Quilting prompt for this week was "ombre" which is a shift from one color to the another. 

I am knitting socks with an ombre affect at the moment. Purple to turquoise

two of my favorite colors! I like to put my own spin on a prompt so I thought I'd graduate from purple to turquoise with fabric PRINTS instead of solids. I wanted to make something I could use too, so an older pattern for a "keeper" fit the need

Now I have a non Christmas colored keeper to hold sock projects in the family room


I arranged ...

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January 23, 2025
The 2025 SAHRR: Round #1 from Life In Pieces

The Stay At Home Round Robin is off and running for 2025. 



I really enjoy the design part of the challenge. My problem is limiting my designs to something I can actually make in a week. At least my first border was an easy sew. Kathleen McMusing set the first prompt: either a King's Crown block or make blocks that begin with the your first initial.  My name starts with a "K", though some people spell it with a "C", so I kept that as a potential option.  You can actually query Google with a search "quilt blocks that ...

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January 21, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 01/21/2025 from Life In Pieces

It always seems like the Tuesdays of the weeks with Monday holidays are actually second Mondays.  It's not as bad as it was when I was working. But I still get off schedule as My Guy is home and I don't follow my typical weekly routine. It's been too cold to do much of anything but sew over the three day holiday weekend.  That worked out well for the to do list from last week. 


To Do List for 01/14/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Finish February blocks ✔
2.  2025 SAHRR: Finish center block 
3.  2024 ...

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Plans for 2025 and Free Motion Mavericks from Quilting & Learning

Hi and welcome

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January 20, 2025
Priority Projects from Life In Pieces

I'm not really ready for it to be Monday, even if it is a holiday.  Of course being retired, it's almost like another day, except I get to hang out with My Guy because he's off work.  I did spend a lot of time in the sewing room this weekend. I finished priority project #1 on Friday, my center block for the SAHRR




I've seen the prompt for the first round posted over at Kathleen McMusing's blog.  My plan is for 3" or  4" borders for each round so her first part of the prompt ...

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January 17, 2025
Getting Started on the 2025 SAHRR from Life In Pieces

The middle of January snuck up on me. I had hoped to have my center block picked out and ready to go before the the first 2025 SAHRR kick off post went up. But that didn't happen. I've been contemplating center blocks since 4th quarter last year. I knew the color palette was going to be predominately green, but hadn't picked the fabrics.  Inspiration struck when Grad Girl and I found a beautiful blue and green Batik in the close out section of the local quilt section.




From that we found the bright blue and the darker ...

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January 14, 2025
To Do List for the Week of 01/14/2025 from Life In Pieces

January seems to be chugging along much more quickly then it normally does.  Tomorrow we'll be halfway through the month. Wasn't it the first like yesterday?  Maybe it's because a cold has put a damper on my stitching time and I don't feel like I got much done last week. Progress on last week's to do list isn't bad, but I definitely didn't have the most productive week. 

To Do List for 01/07/2025

1.  2025 Guild BOM: Start February blocks  

2.  2025 SAHRR: Select fabrics, start center block - progress

3.  2024 ...

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