Make-A-List Monday - Progress, and Giveaway Winners!

 

Hi, all!

School is back in session, so I've lost all my excuses for not finishing things! Here are two of my three grandkids (Lilli is WAY too grown up to stand still for "first day of school" pics) this morning as they got ready to go...

Middle school!  How did that happen?  By the way, Emmy is only wearing computer glasses because she thinks they make her look cool.  And Lilli is a sophomore, and so grown up.  I have a couple of days of Nana responsibilities this week while my daughter is out of town, but after that my days will be a lot less full of grandkids.  I'm going to miss them!

Here's how last week's list went...

1.  Deliver the two t-shirt quilts I finished last week.

Done!  My customer was happy with the results, and that makes me happy!

2.  Complete another t-shirt quilt commission.

Done!  If you saw my blogpost last Friday, you know I ran into some problems with an over-protective dog when I tried to get ready to spray-baste this quilt, so it took a little longer to finish than I planned.

3.  Quilt and bind three full size quilts for the quilt ministry.

I didn't get to this one, but it's top of my list this week!

4.  Determine the colors I need for Nathanael's annual quilt.

I didn't get to this, but I did find two pieces of Pokemon fabric that will help me choose colors.

5.  Pick out the fabrics for Lilli's annual quilt.

I didn't even think about this one!

6.  Determine the dominant color for Emmy's annual quilt.

Or this one.  Bad Nana!

I did have a lot of fun spending time with the kiddos several days last week, which cut into my sewing time.  But it's a great trade-off, and one I wouldn't pass up for the world.  So here's what I hope to get done this week...

1.  Quilt and bind three full size quilts for the quilt ministry.

2.  Work on the annual quilts for the grands.

3.  Quilt a baby quilt for the ministry.

4.  Clean up the studio a bit.

5.  Look at some vintage blocks sent to me by my cousin and see what I can do with them.

I'm going to stop there - I don't think I can get to all of that, but it's an aspirational list, after all!  

Now some fun things that happened last week...

Kate, who did a stop on the 12 Days of Christmas in July blog hop, sent Bree two of the Christmas bandanas she did a tutorial for, and Bree loved them!  It was also very exciting for her to get her own mail!

And it has been so hot here - as it has almost everywhere, it seems - but combined with the humidity, it's been so hot Bree didn't even want to spend time outside.  Today, though, after a super windy thunderstorm blew through, the temperatures dropped and so did the humidity, making it tolerable outside.  Bree spent a lot of time rolling the grass, laying in the sun, and unfortunately, cooling off in a nice deep mud puddle that turned her dark brown all the way up to her belly!  But it was hard to blame her, and she had so much fun!

But I know you want to know who will be receiving the kits I had to give away.  There were 64 comments - what a great response!   Oh, and for those of you who asked for Lilli's recipe for the hand pies, I did say that she works without a recipe.  So she said that she guessed it was "start watching cooking shows when you are four and experiment a LOT"!  I did find what looked like a good recipe on the internet, though, and very similar to what we made.  

But those winners!  The random number generator chose commenter #1 (Julie in GA) and commenter #50 (Rebecca Grace)!  Congratulations, ladies!  I'll reach out to you via email but if you don't hear from me (salliesue57 at gmail dot com) email me directly so I can get your kits sent to you!  

And now, I really need to know - - - what are YOU working on this week?

Hugs!

Sarah