Though I've not spent a lot of time in the sewing room the last couple of weeks, there has been some planning going on here and there. The Meadow Mist Designs Magnificent Mystery kicked off back in July with the fabric requirements. I don't usually start cutting the fabrics till the first set of block instructions come out, which happen Thursday this week. I've been pulling fabrics and putting them back, but I think this weekend I reached my final selection. | Life In Pieces
My apologies for being so late posting today. It's not been the best week on a number of fronts. It started with My Guy getting admitted...| kate-life-in-pieces.blogspot.com
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It was nice to get back to the sewing room on Sunday. After a week away from home, the first decision was to decide what to work on. I finished off the August inverted star block for the guild BOM so I was free to work on something else. Since I'd really like to get another finish in soon, the project box with the quilted Kate's Choice blocks was pulled off the shelf. First step was to cut the sashing strips for the front and back of the quilt and attach those. | Life In Pieces
I'm a bit late posting this week, I completely spaced that it was Sunday. Grad Girl and I spent the week in Houston doing some apartment ...| kate-life-in-pieces.blogspot.com
Not sure what happened to this week. Allergies have been bad and I'm still dealing with the changes in my schedule with Grad Girl home duri...| kate-life-in-pieces.blogspot.com
The summer allergies are still hanging on, but it wasn't so bad this weekend. A lot of sneezing, but I've not needed quite so many tissues....| kate-life-in-pieces.blogspot.com
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The typical August heat and humidity came back this week. It wasn't nice at all outside. Plus something outside is putting off nasty allergens. All three of us have been sneezing, congested and just not feeling great this week. Between the heat and the not feeling well, I ended up missing a day of stitching time this week. | Life In Pieces
July was a busy month. I was away from home for over a week helping Grad Girl move. So there's not a lot of progress to report for the July PHD report over at Ms. P Designs. | Life In Pieces
We've been enjoying a bit of cooler weather the last few days. It was a nice start to August. I'm still working on getting used to my new schedule. Grad Girl takes care of herself, but the keeping the cat happy still takes a bit of work. Though neither affected my time in the sewing room this last week, but for some reason I struggled with my to do list. | Life In Pieces
It was a slow, stay around the house kind of weekend. We went to church and that's about it. Most of my weekend was spent in my sewing room. My focus was to make some good progress on my "quilt as you go" project, Kate's Choice. | Life In Pieces
Hard to believe it's August. July sped by. With all the time spent moving Grad Girl last month, this is my first full week of stitching time since mid June. | Life In Pieces
I'm a day late posting this week's to do list. We are still working with uncertain scheduling since Grad Girl and Queenie moved home. Grad Girl left yesterday morning for Houston. She has two job interviews this week. Which means I'm on kitty babysitting duty, that includes at least 30 minutes to an hour of outside time in the morning. She's used to having access to a third floor balcony to observe life from. We have a fenced backyard, but Queenie is far from an outside cat and we're ...| Life In Pieces
We all expected an adjustment with Grad Girl moving home till she finds a job. It's not so much having Grad Girl home, she's pretty self sufficient. But her cat, Queenie, has had a harder time adjusting. I think she's finally getting over the stress of moving. But probably, it's that she's gotten us through the initial training of having a cat running the home. | Life In Pieces
Hard to believe that it was just a week ago that we finished Grad Girl's move home. I'm still dealing with sore knees after all the steps, but other than that I'm mostly recovered. Consequently this week was much better than last week on the stitching time front. | Life In Pieces
It's been over a month since our last photo challenge post. I was the problem this time. With family stuff going on for the 4th of July weekend, then Grad Girl's move, I really wasn't concentrating on my photography. I only got my photo taken yesterday, both My Guy and Grad Girl have had photos for weeks and were pushing for us to move on. The prompt for week 145 was: | Life In Pieces
It's been two weeks since my last to do list post. Between being way to busy packing and moving Grad Girl, plus the lack of Internet, putting a list together last week just didn't happen. So here's the progress on my last to do list. | Life In Pieces
We finally made it home early yesterday afternoon. All of us were hot and tired. Queenie, Grad Girl's cat, isn't a fan of hotel rooms. So none of us got a lot of sleep the previous 4 nights. Needless to say after we unloaded and got lunch, everyone of us, including the cat, took naps yesterday afternoon. It was early evening before I made it up to the sewing room and took stock. | Life In Pieces
It's been one of those weeks where the stitching plan just didn't work out with the rest of the to do list. | Life In Pieces
It's been a busy week. Grad Girl has been home this week, so we've had a chance to hang out. We finally started decluttering her room on Wednesday. It was fun to laugh over the memories and the inevitable, "Why did I keep this?". My Guy and I celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary this week. We went out for a very nice dinner. I've also developed a summer cold, the last couple of days a tissue box has pretty much gone everywhere I have. All of that to say, it wasn't the best week on...| Life In Pieces
It was a busy weekend and though I got my stitching time in most days, I was still busy enough that it was hard to get to everything on last week's to do list. | Life In Pieces
Secret projects didn't used to be very common in my sewing room. But with taking on the block of the month program for the guild, I don't feel like I can share much of that sewing till I've showed it at the guild meeting. Getting a bit ahead has been my focus for the last month, so there's not much else going on in the sewing room. If I take off all the bits and pieces of the BOM off my sewing table, here's what's left. | Life In Pieces
We had a wonderful 4th of July holiday with my family. Grad Girl made it home. She'll be here all this week, then she heads back home to pack and move. I did pretty well at fitting in some stitching time most days. | Life In Pieces
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The end of June is not only mid year, it is the end of the 2nd quarter. When I was working, mid year progress reviews were required. I don't have a supervisor anymore, but Quilting Jetgirl has a linky party up for the 2025 Quilting Q2 Check In, which is a good reminder to check how it's going with my 2025 quilty ambitions. | Life In Pieces
Hard to believe we are half way through 2025. Now that it's July it's time to take another look at my progress with the June PHD report over at Ms. P Designs. | Life In Pieces
Do you ever look at your calendar and realize that you don't really have that much time to get ready for something? Grad Girl will be movin...| kate-life-in-pieces.blogspot.com
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We've been enjoying our 3 day holiday weekend by playing catch up around the house. The work project that will not end is still going. Fin...| kate-life-in-pieces.blogspot.com