Design Wall Monday Week 12

Not much to show this week.  I only got a few blocks stitched together.  My time this week has been spent working on cabinets in the house.  And cooking.  So much more cooking now that I am stuck at home and have three extra mouths to feed.  That's why the design board looks almost exactly like it did last week.

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Sunday Stitching Week 12

I didn't spend much time in the sewing room this week. I may be flattening the curve by not leaving the house, but it is doing the opposite with my waistline. Every meal has to be cooked at home and while we are eating better than we have in awhile, it is fairly time-consuming. With the kids in the house more, I've been working on the pantry and laundry room shelves so I can get some of this stuff put up. So my sewing time has been a bare 15 minutes most days and I don't have much to show for it. No fabric was bought or used, and not much progress joining quilt blocks.

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Life in Pieces

Design Wall and To Do Week 11

Saturday evening, I worked on a design for the Scottish Sun blocks and on Sunday afternoon, I stitched three of the rows together. I didn't even remember that I had written that as one of my goals last week, so that is a happy coincidence.

I also started joining string blocks for my leaders and enders, but I don't have a firm plan for them yet.

Other than the three rows of the Scottish Sun, I wasn't very successful with last week's goals:

✔1. Join three rows of Scottish Sun blocks
X2. Design borders with remaining fabric
✔3. Make floor mats for gransons's chair
X4. Take down design wall and finish wall behind it
X5. Finish sweater makeover

I would like to drop the sweater from my ToDo list. I am not liking the alterations I've made, but I am determined to finish it and see if it looks any better. So once again, it will be on this week's list.

1. Finish sweater makeover
2. Join three rows of Scottish Sun blocks
3. Design borders for Scottish Sun

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Sunday Sewing Week 11

Other than this floor pad, I haven't done much this week. I made the floor pad with duck cloth which I hope is a little tougher than quilting cotton. Instead of batting, I used old towels. Have your towels ever done this?

I hate when that happens to towels! I cut off those scrunched ends along with the edges, and stitched two towels together to make it big enough. Hopefully, it will absorb smaller spills before they get to my concrete floor. A word about polished concrete floors if anyone is considering them. Don't! They etch worse than marble.

Allrighty then, on to the reports. I used two yards of duck and a quarter yard of quilting cotton binding making the pad, so not a bad week for usage.

I didn't have such a great week with my daily sewing and I missed two days. After babysitting Thursday, I was too tired to even think about sewing, much less climb the stairs to do it and Friday was errands day. I hadn't been to the grocery store for more than a handful of items in a couple of months and was out of everything. I was going to go to Costco, but after hearing about the crowds on tv, I decided to go to Walmart in a small town nearby. Let me tell you, Friday was not the day to go to Walmart, even in a small town. Not only were they out of many normal grocery items, it was packed. By the time I got home and made dinner, I was wiped out. So no sewing Friday either.

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Celebrate Freedom