Last week simple goals:

• Finish quilting and bind Dancing Flowers. — Done – Still needs hanging sleeve sewn down

• I want to also get a baby quilt shipped out, but I’ll settle for simply picking which quilt I’m going to send.– still haven’t decided

So here are this weeks goals:

• Sew down hanging sleeve on Dancing Flowers and get it washed
• Clear at least one folding table in my sewing room.  It’s getting deep in here.

This disaster is my sewing room. Last September there was space for 4 women to sew in this room — comfortably. I think the issue is that I didn’t take the tables down – or maybe I did and then put them up again to use when I was quilting one of my larger quilts. Regardless, a flat surface in my house is a place to put stuff.

Check out the links at Bari’s to see what others are planning for this week.

It’s July, so time to review how I’m doing on my quilting goals.

• Keep up with the Sylvia Bridal Sampler Block of the Week 
  • Have made 13 of 26.  I’ve joined another group with a monthly challenge, so hopefully I’ll be able to get caught up.
• Scraps – Clear Basket
  • Finished processing my scrap basket on 5/27 — and I’ve kept my scraps cut up, not that there been many.  No basket for scraps helps.
• Finish New Starts
  • This year I’ve started 5 new quilts:  Springtime Flowers which was completed and delivered to my mother for her 70th birthday; Texas Braid, Blue Ridge Beauty, Star Struck and a Red, White & Blue Sampler.  Texas Braid has made it to the top stage. The other 3 were temporarily set aside when I started quilting Dancing Flower.
• Carolina Christmas Top
  • This Bonnie Hunter mystery top ended up as three quilts. A twin and two baby quilts tops.
• Quilt & Bind 4-Patch Stripy
  • Finished it and a pillow case to match (ok, it still needs a label, but don’t tell anyone).
• Double Wedding Ring
  • I finished the quilt top after the first of the year and started the hand quilting.  I have got to get back to it sooner than later if it’s to be finished by November
• Finish Music Lessons
  • Finished this quilt and it has a label
• Green & Cream
  • I’m doing quilt as you go on this quilt.  Some of the blocks are on my desk, some on the back side of my sewing table and the backing fabric is on top of one of my fabric boxes.
• Finish a Baby quilt
  • I’ve got to get a pink baby quilt in the mail soon as the baby girl was born the end of April.  There’s a baby boy coming in August.  Both of the tops are complete, so it’s just the quilting that needs to be done.
• Quilt a BH Quilt Top
  • In addition to the 4 already mentioned, there are 3 more in my stack of quilt tops: Orange Crush, Old Tobacco Road and Strip Twist.  Would it be cheating if I quilted Texas Braid?
• Dancing Flowers
  • I’m so close to finishing this.  Maybe a little bit of touch up quilting, then trim the edges, bind and label.  This is the last of my 6 month goals I need to complete.
• Attend a Guild Workshop
  • I attended both the Texas Braid and Blue Ridge Beauty workshops by Bonnie Hunter — that was 2 new starts that I  need to finish this year.
• Enter a Quilt in Show
  • I picked two quilts for the show in April — Music Lessons & Springtime Flower.  4-patch Stripy was finished in time, but I didn’t get the hanging sleeve on the quilt — my wrists gave out.
• Move a UFO to Top or Top to Quilt
  • This was an early accomplishment — I completed my Ladder to the Stars quilt top.

It looks like I’ve completed half of my goals and have partially completed another 4, leaving 3 I haven’t looked at. additionally I’ve also done a few things which weren’t on my list – blocks for a swap, tissue covers,  pincushions, pillow cases and worked on my red work snowmen.  Check back to see if I  accomplish the rest of my goals by the end of the year.

It’s June so time to figure out what I’m planning on accomplishing quilting wise this month.  To start off I’m adding –add the borders to the pink Carolina Christmas baby quilt so I can check it off 🙂

• Keep up with the SBS BOW  & make extra blocks — Can I get 17 blocks done this month?  That will catch me up for the year.
• Make 3 birthday swap blocks
• Finish quilting and bind Dancing Flowers – this has to be done by July 19th
• Resume quilting on the DWR
• Finish Star Struck Top
• Ship out a Baby Quilt — which may require quilting — I have to pick from 2 or 3 that are already quilted or quilt one of my several baby tops.

This is the backing and binding I’ve picked for the latest baby quilt.   That backing should hide any quilting mistakes I make.

Simple goals last week:

• Finish cutting up the purple scraps – DONE
• Cut the remaining blue bricks – DONE
• Make a decision on the pink Carolina Christmas blocks – DONE — well the decision is.

This week’s goals will be almost as simple:

• Add the border to the pink Carolina Christmas blocks
• Make this week’s SBS BOW and 3 make up blocks
• Resume the hand quilting on my DWR — aiming for 15 minutes a day

I’m still plugging away at my Star Struck quilt, but since I WANT to work on it, I’ll use it as a reward as I check off some of these other items.  Think it will work?

See how others are keeping on track over at Bari’s.

I’m looking at my list of quilting goals from May 1st and it feels like I missed half of them. But then I take a look at what I accomplished and say “Wow!”

• Keep up with the SBS BOW & make a few extra blocks – didn’t make a single block.
• Work on Scrap Basket – specifically blues and neutrals – Not only cleared the blues and neutrals, emptied the basket!
• Complete the Carolina Christmas Top – Technically this is complete, but I’m not counting it until I get the borders on the 2nd baby quilt.
• Finish Dancing Flowers – Finished the top and started quilting — I’ll call this one halfway done.
• Ship out 2 baby quilts – I got one shipped out.
• Resume hand quilting on the Double Wedding Ring – Didn’t even look at the quilting frame.
• Make 4-patch pillow case – Done May 1st.

The packages are in the mail!

Each one of the packages just needed one little thing before I could seal them up.  Took care of that last night, weighed them, bought postage on-line (love that feature!) and then, because there were 4 of them, took them to the post office.  I can now see over the top of my cutting table.

Now to find the top of the cutting table.