Week 8 Sewing Reports of 2019

I haven't been doing a lot of stitching lately. Between sitting with my mother-in-law and working on the house, and trying to keep up with cooking and cleaning, my days are pretty full.

I've been using one of my Amazon "oops" purchases though. It was sold as a computer light, because the cord plugs into a USB port. I thought this would be a reading light that I could mount beside the bed in the trailer. But it has a clamp instead of a base and won't mount to the shelf the way I wanted. Instead, I clamped it to the cabinet beside my chair and forgot about it. But when I started working on my cross stitch project again, I found it is just perfect.

It's arm bends in any direction so I can adjust it to direct the light just where I need it. When I'm not using it for stitching or reading, I bend the arm over my chairside cabinet. It has several light settings and I can use it as a night light when we're out of the trailer or bright light. And to think, I was so disappointed with it at first that I thought of returning it. Now it's my favorite light.  In the pictures below, the trailer ceiling lights remained the same.  The only difference is the light from the reading light.

Here is the progress I've made so far on my stitching.

Now for the stitching reports. I'm afraid I fell below my 70% success stitching goal and I haven't made any progress on stash reduction. We may have workers here this week, and if so, I'll find a place to sew rather than work on the house and risk being in their way.

Linking to:
15 Minutes to Stitch at Life in Pieces
Sunday Stash at QuiltPaintCreate
Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

Week 7 Sewing Reports of 2019

It has been a work on the house week, not a work on quilts week. I didn't use any fabric this week, nor did I add any. But I did get in one day with a little hand stitching while sitting with mother-in-law at the nursing home, but the light wasn't good and I when I got home, I had to rip out nearly everything I put in. So in a way, that doesn't even count. I need to load up my EPP (English Paper Piecing) case to do at the nursing home next time. My sewing time success rate dropped to 70%, and I just hope I can keep it from dropping lower. It's a good thing that my sewing goals won't be brought up in a job performance meeting!

Linking to:
15 Minutes to Stitch at Life in Pieces
Sunday Stash at QuiltPaintCreate

2019 Week 6 Sewing Reports

This has been a strange week. The weather can't decide whether it is spring or still winter. The high was 78 on the 6th but didn't get out of the 30's today. With my mother-in-law in the hospital all week, it hasn't been a good week for sewing either. If it weren't for my cross stitch project, I wouldn't have anything to report. Hubby and I also fit in a couple of doctor appointments for ourselves too. Hubby has been dealing with ear and hearing problems for about a year and finally found an ear specialist who did a culture and found that the problem is a bacterial infection. He was prescribed several medications which he has to compound himself to make ear drops, but it seems to be working. Now if he could just hear me when I am telling him I am right about something.

My daily sewing average has dropped a little more, but I'm still over my 70% goal.

I still haven't added to the stash this year, so that is encouraging. I had hoped to show a loss this week but that didn't happen either, so the stash report remains the same.

I think I'm going to add money spent to this report. Since I haven't spent anything in 2019 yet, it should be easy.

I am posting this Saturday night because if we will have to rush out the door in the morning. If I have time in the morning, I will link up to the usual parties. If I don't have time, maybe they will do it for me.

Join me as we try to maintain our daily sewing and our stash at:

15 Minutes to Stitch at Life in Pieces
Sunday Stash at QuiltPaintCreate

February One Monthly Goal

I thought about doing this post last week and then got busy and forgot. I hope I'm not too late.

My goal for February is to make the backing, binding, and five pillow cases for the Depression Block quilt. I don't have a photo at the moment, and I'm really not sure what I would photograph, but I'll see if I can find something tomorrow.

Linking to:
One Monthly Goal February Goal Setting at Elm Street Quilts

Week 5 of 2019 Stitching Reports Sunday

I don't know if I mentioned what a big difference my new glasses made. When looking straight ahead, my double vision is usually corrected. I still have the macular pucker wave and offset blur, but that is so much better than two distinct images. So a big YAY there! I can even use saws again. I know, that has nothing to do with sewing, I just thought I'd throw that in, especially since using the table saw took up more of my time this week than the sewing machine. There were a couple of days I worked on the house from the start of my day to the end of my day, but I did manage to get in five days of sewing this week. I'm behind on my goals, but maybe I'll catch up soon.

I'm still above my goal of 70% sewing for the year too.

Nothing has changed with my stash, but I hope to work on a quilt back tomorrow, so my report will finally show a change next Sunday.

Linking to:
15 Minutes to Stitch at Life in Pieces