Sunday Summary: August 18

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Is this you? It certainly describes me!

A Give Away!

As a Missouri Star Quilt Company Affiliate, I was given the opportunity to receive some Christmas Templates.

And the BEST part: Is that YOU have an opportunity to win a set as well. You have to follow both Missouri Star and myself on Instagram (@quiltinggail and @missouriquiltco). Find my IG post that talks about the templates and leave a comment. I will choose a winner on August 25!

A Finish!

This has been waiting to be finished for quite a while! This quilt was made with the left-overs from the Lone Star Quilt I made with Island Batik‘s Pin Dot Floral (a signature collection for Megan Best). You can read about that quilt on THIS POST! I didn’t want to do a straight piece in the back, so I used a bunch of the left-overs and made the strip piece in the middle. The quilt was quick and easy to quilt – just a simple stipple.

A Squirrel hit me!

Something new to tempt me!! And it promises to be oh, so pretty!

Denise at A Quiltery is starting “Floral Fusion” a Sew Along with new blocks each Monday. Hurry and get this week’s block while it’s still free! (See HERE).

Here’s my first block … isn’t it pretty? It was pretty quick to cut out and fuse onto the background fabrics!

Stitching Stuff

Kate, from Life in Pieces, is hosting “Stitching Stuff” and the goal is to sew for at least 15 minutes a day. I use Kate’s guideline, but my personal goal is to sew for 30 minutes a day. On those “blah” days, it does motivate me to sit at my machine and 30 minutes often turns into several hours. Thank you Kate for the motivation!

  • January – July:  194 / 212 days
  • August: 18 / 18 days
  • Total: 212/ 238 89 %

Design Wall Mondays

Judy, at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts, hosts a linky party for “What’s on your Design Wall” every week.

Piecing projects:

  • Island Batik October project. This is a byAnnie bag called “Payday.” I’m making both the Large and Small bags.
  • Fall ’24 mystery quilt. Some progress made
  • 2025 SAHRR. I’ve started …
  • Monthly Colour Challenge: Layout (Jen has posted the sashing and border blocks for this challenge. You can access it HERE.). I’ll be doing this as a leader and ender.
  • Twilight Blog Hop – for Create with Claudia – in progress
  • Floral Fusion: work on Block 2 on Monday!

Quilting:

  • “Stash Yardage” I took 2 pieces of stash and sandwiched them.
  • “5 fat quarter” quilt is sandwiched … need to decide how to quilt it!

Sunday Stash

Donna at Quilt Paint Create hosts a weekly linky party where you can display your stash numbers. This has really kept my stash from growing (somewhat!) Before I buy anything, I am always mindful of the fact that I need to report it on my blog … That sometimes stops me in my tracks!

The Lone Star- left-overs was finished. It used 5.5 yards of fabric. No shopping this week!

  • Fabric Used in the last week:   5.5 yards
  • Fabric Used in 2024:     146 yards  from non-IB: 57
  • Fabric Added in the last week: 0 yards
  • Fabric Added this year:     29.5 yards 
  • Net Fabric used:              101.5 yards

To Do

Carol from Quilt Schmilt is hosting “To Do” every week.

To Do from the last report:

A little bit of this and a little bit of that was done, but nothing finished from the list this week.

  1. Work on Island Batik October project. in progress
  2. Finish the Fall Mystery Quilt flimsy and writing directions. in progress flimsy almost done!
  3. 2025 SAHRR. get centre block done. √   DONE. 
  4. Monthly Colour Challenge: Layout (Jen has posted the sashing and border blocks for this challenge. You can access it HERE.). I’ll be doing this as a leader and ender. in progress
  5. Twilight Blog Hop — square up the blocks and web the quilt in progress Blocks are squared … need to figure out the layout and then web them
  6. Do NOT be distracted by any SQUIRRELS! I NEED this continual reminder! Not Successful. I started the Floral Fusion
  7. Tidy & clean studio for 30 minutes. √   DONE. 

To Do for next week:

  1. Work on Island Batik October project. Try to finish the Large one.
  2. Finish the Fall Mystery Quilt flimsy and finish writing directions
  3. 2025 SAHRR. get prompt 1 done
  4. Monthly Colour Challenge: Layout (Jen has posted the sashing and border blocks for this challenge. You can access it HERE.). I’ll be doing this as a leader and ender.
  5. Twilight Blog Hop — web the quilt
  6. Make a decision on the Be Kind blog hop.
  7. Do NOT be distracted by any SQUIRRELS! I NEED this continual reminder! 
  8. Tidy & clean studio for 30 minutes.

Upcoming Blog Hops

Here’s the links to the “It’s a Jungle” blog hop! Starting Monday!

Monday August 19

Tuesday August 20

Wednesday August 21

Thursday August 22

Don’t Forget

Here is my Affiliate link: https://glnk.io/mzmmj/quiltinggail If you order over $50 from Missouri Star, you will get 20% off your order and I may receive a small commission. Thank you for your support!

I am now a Silly Moon affiliate! So what does that mean? When you use my affiliate code Quiltinggail2024 at Silly Moon, you will receive 10% off your order and I will receive a small commission.

One who sleeps under a quilt is covered by LOVE!

Happy Quilting! 
Gail 

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4 thoughts on “Sunday Summary: August 18”

  2. Another busy week. Great metrics and your new squirrel is looking very pretty. Hard to resist flowers in any form. I’m excited to see that you’ve gotten started on the plans for SAHRR 2025. I just finished the quilt top from 2024, so am looking forward to playing along next year.

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