Jacob's Ladder

Began 2003. Finsihed February 2021.

To Do Tuesday #79

Today is the last To Do Tuesday at Home Sewn by Us. Chris from Chrisknits is going to take it up next week, so the lists will continue. Thank you to both Roseanne and Sue for starting it and Chris for continuing it!

I have been quilting Jacob's Ladder this week and that is all I've done except some cross-stitching to relax my shoulder. I wanted to have it finished by now, but dragging that quilt through my sewing machine and holding it up so it doesn't pull the stitches is killing my shoulder and I can only do it for short bits of time. So last week's goals are not done, not a single one.

Repeat Goals for February 9, 2021

• Make six more scarf bibs
• Finish quilting Jacob's Ladder
• Rip out the stitching from one pinwheel block so I can reuse the backing
• Quilt the string block on the new square in a square block

This list may be too ambitious, considering how long it is taking me to quilt Jacob's Ladder. But it's easier to keep up with projects if I don't take it off the list.

Linking to:
To Do Tuesday at Home Sewn by Us

One Monthly Goal for February 2021

I could make this easy and declare that I will finish the Jacob's Ladder quilting. But since I am so close to finishing that, I'll make it harder. I really would like to get the Scrappy Pinwheel blocks off my design wall, so my goal will be to finish the last block and quilt all the blocks. I haven't decided whether I am going to do a border, so will leave that for next month.

Linking to:
One Monthly Goal February at Elm Street Quilts

Sewing Reports for Week 6 of 2021

This was another week of where-did-the-time-go. I did get stitching in every day since Saturday, but just barely. With Hubby taking off next week and needing space in the garage, most of my time has been spent sorting and putting back tools in the tool chest. I'd like to say the coming week will be better, but with him here all week, it is more likely that I will be pressed into service.

The stash report is unchanged, but I'm showing it anyway. I plugged in a few numbers in my spreadsheet and I need use an average of three yards per week to achieve my goal of a 15% reduction by the end of the year. I'll try but I'm not optimistic. The stitching report doesn't look as bad as I thought it would after not sewing last weekend. But the two days were split over two reports so it looks a little better.

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

To Do Tuesday # 78

So much for having a sewing-at-home-retreat this weekend. I accomplished zero sewing this weekend, not even 15 minutes. After saying I will never help someone else move again, there we were Friday morning, schlepping up and down stairs loading our flat trailer and Daughter's car. Then Hubby left for a camping weekend of ham radio and I came home to recouperate. At least I thought I was going to rest. But then I thought since the travel trailer was out of the garage, I would sweep and clean up that bay. It was a mess and took all weekend and into Monday to clean and reorganize. Meanwhile, our flat trailer loaded with all Daughter's stuff is parked in the other bay and that side is quickly turning into a mess. But for now, my aching back and I are ready to sit at a nice, clean, sewing machine and get back to work.

I'm not going to start with a list of all last week's goals I finished, because there are none. Nope, not one. So my list for this week is the same as last week:

Now Goals for Febuary 2, 2021

• Make six more scarf bibs
• Finish quilting Jacob's Ladder
• Rip out the stitching from one pinwheel block so I can reuse the backing
• Quilt the string block on the new square in a square block

Sewing Reports for Week 5 of 2021

Since I was being covered with dust instead of threads this weekend, I didn't have time to make any Sunday sewing reports, so I'll include them here too, even though I'm disappointed to break my sewing streak so early in the year. But life happens and it was bound to happen eventually.

PhD Report for the first month of 2021

If you just look at the charts, it looks like I did nothing. But I am almost finished quilting Jacob's Ladder and Gairden Walk is at the quilter's. She still doesn't have her machine back from the repair shop though. He had started working on it and then got covid, so not telling when she will get it back. Also, there are four quilts ahead of mine to be quilted. Good thing I didn't list this as a finish for January.

Linking to these parties:
To Do Tuesday at Home Sewn by Us
PhD in 2021 at Quilting Gail
15 Minutes to Stitch at Life in Pieces
Sunday Stash at QuiltPaintCreate