To-Do Tuesday #36 & Monday Musing

Two of our friends host a weekly linky party. Brenda at Songbird Designs has a Monday linky party called Monday Musings. Our friend Carol at Quilt Schmidt hosts To-Do Tuesday with a linky party as well. We will share our weekly updates on both of their websites.

Walk Challenge Update:

My goal is 10,500 steps a day, and *20-30 minutes of yoga. How did I do last week?

• 1/28 = 11,746*
• 1/29 = 11,825*
• 1/30 = 11,741*
• 1/31 = 10,646*
• 2/1 = 11,362*
• 2/2 = 12,663*
• 2/3 = 11,448*

Coming Up:

I am excited to announce that we will be a participant in the 2024 Villa Rosa Designs blog hop in March. Running from March 14 – 21, it’s called Fast & More Fun Blog Hop. VRD has all of its designs on a postcard and costs only $2. Such a deal! We’ll be making something special from the new designs being released just for the hop. Will we make a table runner, a 5″ charm square quilt, a 10″ square quilt (or 2.5″ strip quilt), a panel quilt, or a fat quarter quilt? Or multiple projects, maybe . . . more will be revealed.

To-Do for last week:

1. Sew the HRT squares into a quilt top – dropping this off the list for now
2. Continue with the appliqueing project for Andrea
3. Two limit list for a stress-free week

To-Do #1

Only 2 days have had sunshine here in the SE corner of Wisconsin in January excluding yesterday. Expand the count to include December and the count didn’t improve much. Two out of 48 days. What the hail? Yesterday was one of those days, and we enjoyed the heck out of it. The HRT project is being relegated to the pause pile for now.

Instead, let’s talk about mushrooms as a change of topic. Did you know that “mushrooms” are trending? I do not see the charm in adding mushrooms to my decor. It’s a fungus, people. Fungus. That’s a brown pillow on the futon featuring mushrooms, in case you can’t see them. Now, Sue had this funky mushroom bank back in high school, circa the late 70s. We may still have it around somewhere, perhaps in a box in the garage. Why a mushroom with a mouse hiding underneath it was considered a good idea, I cannot say. But it was the 70s. Hippies, Woodstock, Nixon, Watergate . . . that may explain why it was in vogue. By the way, “retro” is also trending so the bank would fit right in!

To-Do #2

We rock if I do say so myself. Replicating a pattern that we made back in the 1990s without the actual pattern is one thing. But doing it when the block measurements do not match or equate to 5 7/8″ is another. We decided to standardize the block size to 6″ finished with skinny sashing that finishes at 1/2″. We also decided to throw caution to the wind and add a 1/2″ finished border all around and 2.5″ squares as the final touch.

The project might have gone south at that point. Alas, it did not! I sewed the 11 squares together for each side and attached them without issue. After that, I sewed 13 squares together. Again, no issues sewing the top and bottom to the center. Well, as I said . . . we rock (and I’m modest, too). Now it will be quilted the next time we fit it into Carol’s longarm schedule. All of this fabric came from our newly organized stash. The 2.5″ squares from my nifty tote which stores stacks of them. Woohoo! We’re happy with how it turned out and will be quilting it on Wednesday. Barring any unknown complications, that is.

What To-Do Next Week?

1. Back to the applique project for Nicole – Halloween runner and a surprise
2. Only one – no stress (and it allows for extra squirrels that may have invaded)

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