Challenges are really challenging for me. I am still working 6 days a week and an average of a little more than 8 hours a day. Of course, Saturday is considered my short day. Time with the sewing machine is not happening!! My hand piecing at work is coming along just fine but that is the only sewing progress I am making.
This is UFO #1 from Patchwork Times, I am thinking that I can finish this one. So far I have not finished any of these UFO challenges. But this one I am going quilt on my machine and it should be a piece of cake and none of this yardage has been counted.
Brown is color of the monochromatic challenge from Patchwork Times. Not my favorite to work with and I am not sure that there is much brown in my stash. At least it does not have to be a big project.
My final challenge for March is the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and the color is green. I am still making bags and I am sure that I can whip out a green bag or two.
So it seems that March might be a better month for challenges. Only time will tell!!
February is looking to be yet another challenging month in more ways than one. The monochromatic color is Violet and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is Red. The UFO is #10. I did not finish the UFO challenge from last month. But life has gotten in the way. I am back working as a temp at my old job. We have just been trained to take phone calls and since Monday we have been taking calls back to back. The weather in St. Louis and Bloomington, MN has played havoc with my work schedule. I was already doing 9 hour days and today it has been upped to 10 hours. One hour of overtime and one hour after my shift. Yippee!! I have heard it all, the money is so nice. But what people fail to realize, is that you are too tired to enjoy anything. I get up, work out, go to work, come home, eat, and go to bed and then repeat the whole process.
In 2011 I have signed up for three challenges and I think I am going to be able to finish all three of them for January. In fact, I did finish the monochromatic challenge at Patchwork Times for January. Yellow. I made a lovely yellow shopping bag that I am taking the stuff I need for work. It is certainly a sunny thing to carry in all the gray, snowy weather we are having in Ohio. More snow is on the way today!!
I am also doing Rainbow Challenge and the color for January is blue. I am making a blue backpack. I cut up a lot of blue fabric this weekend. I cut charm squares for the backpack and have enough squares {less two} to make a second back pack which would make a nice gift. I also cut strips for a string quilt. And some 3.5 x 7.5 inch rectangles for another project for a later date. This will make a lovely blue and white quilt but not this month.
I am also doing the UFO challenge at Patchwork Times. UFO number 6 was picked for this month. It is a baby quilt I designed on EQ7. I worked on this project over the weekend and I am ready to cut it out and start sewing on it. It will be a baby quilt on hand just in case.
Work has picked up and overtime has kicked in. Last week I did 15 hours of overtime, 4 which were mandatory. This week the mandatory overtime has kicked up to 13 hours including all day on Saturday. Certainly cuts into my sewing time! And snow is in the forecast for today and that will lower the number of workers who will come to work. Many of our workers do not drive in the snow. I will be leaving shortly for work and my car is packed for any weather emergency. I have my snow shovel, a broom, a long handled broom with a scraper on the end, my boots, and melting compound. The long handled broom goes in the office with me. I can then brush off my car at the driver's door and not get snow in the car when I go to start it after work. I hate sitting in the wet seat on the way home.
In stitches,
Judy
I have joined the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and this month the color is blue. I have lots of ideas rattling around in my head. I am so excited to be back at work after being out of work for almost a month but the overtime is cutting into my sewing time. I finally got to get back to the sewing room this afternoon. Not much to show for it. And nothing blue. I have been pulling blue thoughts together and have lots of things I would like to do. I think I have settled on two blue projects.
One needs 32 charm squares and the other needs various blue strips.This is my blue project cut out. I am thinking that the really old stuff in my stash is going to be chopped into squares and strips. Indeed, I did cut the out stuff out of my stash. There were things in my stash from 1992. That makes some of stash 19 years old!!! There is not much in the way of blue scraps in my scrap basket. Green and brights are more my style.
In stitches,
Judy
I have signed up to do three different challenges for 2011!! What was I thinking! I am hoping to get something done for each of these challenges. The latest challenge is Rainbow scrap challenge at So Scrappy. This month is blue. I have wanted to make a back pack for myself like the one I made for my mom for Christmas.
I guess mine will be blue. I have plenty of blue fabric in my stash. This is helping with stash control. I am not buying any new fabric this year if I can help it. I am using my stash to piece the backs of my quilts. All these challenges should help me get a handle on my stash. And I should have lots of things to show for all my challenges!!!
In stitches,
Judy
