Depression Block Flimsy Makes Me Happy

I didn't think I was going to make my January goal. After toiling over making the blocks, I thought joining them into rows and then joining the rows would be a piece of cake. It was much easier, but still a little time-consuming and I just finished the flimsy tonight (the 30th). I haven't ironed it yet, but maybe tomorrow if I can find a place big enough (and clean enough) to let it drag the floor over the ironing board.

January OMG (One Monthly Goal) is DONE! On to the back for February.

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Week 4 of Sewing Reports Sunday

This has been a barely sewing week due to working on the house. I've tried to get in my 15 minutes of hand stitching but even that was skipped a couple of days. But we're making progress on the house and I'm encouraged to say that I should have the interior completely textured and painted by next weekend. Hubby hosted a winter field day event for his ham radio club and while everyone was here, someone helped him lift the oven onto a cart so we could use it. I may have to take a break from painting this week and make some real bread. That is one thing that just doesn't turn out well in an RV oven. I can almost taste it now.

So onto the reports, I'm sorry to say that no fabric was used this week, but on the good side, no fabric was brought in either. If I'm going to make my goal of using 15% of my stash this year, I need to start sewing!

After a long day texturing and painting, it was nice to take a shower and then relax in my chair with my cross stitch and a good tv show. The two days I painted ceilings by myself were the two days I couldn't stitch. After tilting my head up so long, I just couldn't tilt it down enough to stitch. On those days I probably could have used a drink stronger than Sleepy Time Tea, but I survived and all but the bathroom ceilings are painted. I'm still on track to accomplish my goal of 70% stitching for the year but I can see that I can't take off too many days without the percentage dropping significantly. I finally got my new glasses this week and I'm thrilled to say that they have corrected the double vision, even at night. I hope this will make my machine piecing easier.

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Blog Hop Game

Yesterday, I was taking a painting break and decided to read a few blogs on my blog roll. Then I saw an interesting photo on the blog roll of one of them and went to that blog. Then I looked at their blog roll and chose one to read. Before I knew it, I had read five new and fun quilting blogs!

Try it! It's fun. My blog roll is on the left. (If the blogs will just stay on it.)

Sewing Report Sunday Week 3

I wasn't going to make a post for todays report because I usually write my report on Saturday night, and I didn't think there would be any change to the week before. I've been working on my cross stitch, so no fabric bought or used, and at the time I thought of writing this post, nothing had changed with my 15 Minutes of Sewing. But then it changed. Yesterday was a day for working on the house and I never had time to sit down and stitch. So the 100% success rate roll I was on has broken, and now I need to update my report.





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Sewing Report Sunday Week 2

I am happy to say goodbye to Week 2 of 2019. I spent most of the week sleeping or in my rocker, though I still managed to get some stitching in each day. Friday, I finally began to feel normal and yesterday Hubby finally quit following me around with a can of Lysol. If it weren't for Buddy The Cat begging to get into my lap, I would have felt like Typhoid Mary. And all I had was a cold. I'm still a little congested, but no lingering cough with this one, for which I am very grateful. So onward and upward and I am looking forward to this week. Stay well everyone!

Last week, I worked on putting together my Depression Blocks, RSC January RED blocks, the Pond Lily block, fabric baskets, and ugh, mending. I pulled a little from my stash for the basket lining and mending, but can't really pinpoint where it all went.

I am glad I was able to get some sewing time every day, even though some days it was just barely fifteen minutes. I hope to have more to show for it in the next report.

After the sheetrockers finished downstairs, there were several sheets of sheetrock left. Yesterday, Hubby hauled them up the stairs (I have no idea how he did that by himself - he rocks!) and hung them so I can have a real design wall. So what's on the wall now? My design wall!

That piece of flannel worked fine in my last house, hooked to command strips, especially when my sewing room was in the living room and I had to convert the room from sewing room

back to living room, within minutes.

My sewing space in this barndominium will be a double duty space also, but for the most part, it's just going to be for sewing. At least it's not in the front room of the house. Eventually, I want to cover a couple of foam insulation panels with flannel and mount them to the wall. While using the foam as my temporary design wall, I found I really like being able to pin the heavier pieces so they can't fall off.

Linking to:
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