To-Do Tuesday #243 Weekly Update

Join us today for the 243^rd weekly To-Do Tuesday list and update. Linda is the hostess with the mostest and has the To-Do Tuesday linky party. We appreciate her weekly encouragement and we thank her for that!

To-Do for the week of February 1^st through 7^th:

1. Round Four in the SAHRR √ Done
2. Continue the appliqué blocks for Colt’s quilt – √ Done
3. Start a new baby quilt needed in April – √ Done
4. Short list = stress-free! – √ Done

To Do #1

Wendy at Pieceful Thoughts announced the Round Four prompt just yesterday for the Stay At Home Round Round. It’s an autograph block and we took a slightly different route with our interpretation.

Since we changed direction on the project to focus on a dresser runner that needs to be skinny and long, we stretched out the autograph block. We used HRTs (half-rectangle triangles) successfully on the third try! Here is the round three layout so far, if we don’t change our minds again. As you will see below, we switched our hearts to being stacked instead of side-by-side. This is definitely becoming more of a rectangle shape for the dresser runner!

To-Do #2

Woot woot! All six footballs are complete, I am thrilled to report. The background fabric is definitely reminiscent of a closely clipped turf, real or otherwise.

Here’s a glimpse of how I appliqued the laces with white thread. White bias tape clipped to the same length is what comprises the football laces. I actually pulled out a hem ruler I had saved from back-in-the-day. I quickly learned that using fabric glue is the way to go to keep these little pieces in place while awaiting their turn for sewing. The first attempt, which used many, many pins, was not fun. Being stuck multiple times hurts, and those darn pins did an awful job of keeping the pieces laying nice and flat. Go the glue route!!

To-Do #3

Our good friends are going to be first-time grandparents in May, and we want to make a special baby quilt for the new parents-to-be. We had all kinds of ideas that weren’t concrete, but once Quilting Gail shared her recent quilt finish we knew this was PERFECT. Stop the presses . . . we both hot-footed it back to the sewing room and started pulling fabrics. Here is Gail’s inspiration piece that we think is just adorbs!

Of course, we’re making a few design changes but we thank Gail for the cute inspiration!! Want a little sneaky peek at some of the Beau Bear fabrics?? You’ll have to wait for more info . . . I’m mean like that.

To-Do for the week of February 8^th through 14^th:

1. Work on the Round Five prompt for the SAHRR
2. Do more appliqué blocks for Colty’s quilt – there are a total of 20 blocks to go
3. Keeping working on Beau Bear baby quilt
4. Make a mocha cheesecake for Chris’ birthday on the 13th – celebrate Valentine’s Day with our littles!
5. This is treading towards too many items – it might become NOT stress-free!

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