To-Do #52+40 Weekly Recap Update

This is our 92nd edition of our weekly to-do list and it’s a New Year.  We share this post on Beth’s Cooking Up Quilts website on Mondays, and Christine’s Stitch All the Things website on Tuesdays.

To-Do for the week of January 7th through 13th:

1. Finish Addison’s birth announcement – √ done
2. Make the nine-patch blocks for Spring Wave – √ done
3. Make a quilting plan for some helping-a-friend-quilting – √ done
4. Continue appliquéing the Quiet Book

To-Do #1

Last week I shared the info that Addison Brooke joined us on Friday, January 4th.  Just as for her brother, we make a birth announcement with all the details to hang in her room.  We couldn’t get started on it until she was born though, obviously.  We set about finishing up this sweet hanging using the same fabrics as were used in her quilt, George the giraffe.  I guess I will need to share all the photos in a separate post as I’m sure you want to see it hanging in her room.  Right?!

To-Do #2

I can almost sew nine-patch blocks in my sleep.  It was always our go-to block and quilt for ages and ages.  We know exactly how many strips we need to yield a baby quilt.  Plus, now that we’ve made one Evening Star using leftover nine-patch blocks, I would like to make another.  Towards that end, I make at least one extra block to add to the small stack from other quilts.  Now Spring Wave just needs to have the rows sewn together for a quilt top.  Oh yeah, and a border added!

To-Do #3

I have a good friend named Mary, and I raised my hand to do some quilting for her.  Not because I’m such a great quilter, or that I have oodles of free time with nothing to do.  Whatever the reason, I hate to hear that some quilter friends have stacks of to-be-quilted pieces.  Mary sent me a few pictures of her beautiful piece which is about 36″ square, and we worked out the details of a quilting plan, etc.  Practice drawings on my acrylic board were sent along with a thread color suggestion to Mary.  We had a plan.  I can hardly wait to get started.  It crossed my mind to feign sick because I could probably get it all quilted in one day.  Very, very soon you will see it all finished and on its way back to Mary.

To-Do #4

Appliquéing is a task that I can do at any time, and I love that about this project.  Have five minutes?  Go do a little appliquéing on the Quiet Book.  Our sweet boy, Dominic, is a very textually motivated boy.  Toward that end we’d like to give him a few more experiences.  He is master of flushing the toilet, and sweeping shampoo bottles into the tub.  Smart boy that he is, he can even switch on/off GG’s lights because he can climb up on the couch now.  Why not focus on zippers, snaps, shoe laces and other useful things?!

January OMG

Our January goal with Patty at Elm Street Quilts is to get Spring Wave made into a quilt top and layered for hand quilting by Sue.

To-Do for the week of January 14th through 20th

1. Sew the rows together for Spring Wave
2. Make the Monthly Color Challenge block for January
3. Gather the Harley Davidson t-shirts for a commission quilt
4. Make a game plan for Dr Seuss #1-3 Etsy quilts

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