Blog inspiration

So I'm following about a dozen blogs and getting inspiration from all, especially the non-quilting ones. I'm realizing that even without a photo, it is good to post more often to this blog. I'm also on facebook, but I don't like to post there-my thoughts of the moment seem too personal to put there, and I'm so conscious of the wide variety of possible viewers-quilt buddies, daughters, family....

Yet, I need to keep my posting semi-quilt related here, right?

So tonight is our guild's business meeting, and a board meeting before that, so I need to go home early to make sure a dinner is at least planned for DD and DH. Plus I need to gather up my guild bag and nametag since I didn't remember to do that last night. I don't have much business to present and intend to have others on my program committee do the talking tonight. That's kind of nice.

Laziness or really busy? Which excuse to use when I admit here, now, that no quilting related progress made this week, since Sunday that is. At least I worked on some projects Sunday with my small group. So this weekend I wish to:

Cut all the remaining parts for that purse

1. Hand applique the circles I have pinned in place
2. Machine quilt the borders on Kitty in the Corner
3. Perchance, even cut and sew on the binding for #3?

Non-quilting tasks?

1. Trouble shoot (and repair?) the non-functioning closet light for DD
2. Trouble shoot (and repair?) the broken garage side door jamb
3. Shop for a new chest freezer and get that installed. I'll leave dealing with the old freezer for Monday

That's it for now.

How to get back into the quilting swing of things

I really have been sewing-more than the blog or I recognize. The new school year started about six weeks back, and I knew there would be homework nights with my DD. So I visited my quilting space and located the UFOs I wanted to work on as part of a guild challenge for the next year, through August 2011. Then I figured out the baby steps those projects have that would need smaller time chunks. It helped that I've set up an old DVD player in my sewing space, and I'm working my way through the Harry Potter movies in advance of movie #7 coming out soon.

So here's my progress so far:

• The kitty in the corner hanging from a previous post: the center is quilted (two 1 hour evenings) and the background around the kitties is quilted (two 1 hour evenings).
• I have cut and pieced the backgrounds for the Tom's t-shirt quilts-I even have the batting bought. (four 30 minute evenings) Layering comes once I have the kitty cat quilt done. I'll use fusible spray.
• The paper pieced flowers for the gaggy 30s quilt are done (two Saturday afternoons-including that recent retreat)
• The black yo-yo flower centers were done (three 30 minute evening sessions)
• Took a Becky Goldsmith class (spent two days as her hostess and pupil), and finished 3 of the 4 class projects. I'll get the circles done soon.

So in the past 6 weeks, I've worked through 15 separate sewing room visits, not to mention making great strides with an antique needlepoint project I'm determined to have done by next summer's end. I have set aside Sunday afternoon to go sew with buddies, so that will be productive time. If the weather is good, I may take one of those t-shirt quilts outside and do the spray basting. We suspect the spray bothers my DD, even though I don't think the smell is overwhelming. So that is better done outside.


I'll need to get the gaggy 30's quilt back on the wall soon to make sure I'm making that flower section and side panels the correct sizes. I'll take pics and post soon. (Yeah, famous last words!)