Make-A-List Monday - New Year, New Start!

Hi, all!

Welcome to my first Make-A-List Monday of 2018!  I missed last week, sick with a cold (which is all better now, hooray!) so I'm starting fresh this week!  I love a new year - it always feels like there's so many opportunities.  So let's see what I'm going to use all those opportunities for this week...

1.  Take some donated blocks and turn them into a toddler quilt for the ministry.

2.  Quilt at least one quilt for the quilt ministry.

3.  Make a couple of memory pillows for a friend.

4.  Examine a vintage top to see what repair work needs to be done before quilting.

5.  Start cutting pieces for a t-shirt quilt.

6.  Cut up scraps as I finish working on projects this week (this is my Scrap Attack goal for this month!)

7.  Plan this year's pre-H2H quilt-along.

8.  Set up the schedule for H2H 2018 (can you believe it's time already?)

9.  Keep up with any quilt ministry needs that come up.

A lot to do this week, but it feels SO good to be back in the studio again!  I may not get to all of this, but oh, the possibilities!

And because I hate to publish a post without a picture, I think I'll share one of my Christmas presents with you...

This lovely lady, named Jade, has been sitting on my shelf for two years now, unusable because she had no base and basically sat on her crankshaft.  My husband made this awesome base for her, which includes a covered section store the foot pedal all nice and neat!!  Such a lovely Christmas present - now she is usable!!

And now the question is - - - what are YOU working on this week?

Hugs!

Sarah

Can I Get A Whoop Whoop? I'm Still Alive...

Hi, all!

Well, it's Friday again, and of course that means it's time to get our whoop whoop on!  It's been a weird two weeks for me - I haven't touched my sewing machine the whole time, between Christmas, going to NYC, having a wicked cold, and then, for the past three days, being on Nana duty 24/7!

It's always fun having the kids, but I'll tell you, I have a whole new appreciation for my daughter's abilities as a mom!  

I have the littles because these three are at Universal Studios visiting Harry Potter World for Lilli's 10th birthday!

(I am so jealous...)

It's really cold here, so we've been spending a lot of time watching movies (in between running around the house like loony birds) but I thought I'd share a quiet moment with you.  It was hard to capture one on camera, but I succeeded - whoop whoop!!

And we had a lovely few days in NYC - I even got to see the Empire State Building lit up for the holidays!  It was so cold while we were there, I only caught this picture while we were on the way to look at the tree at Rockefeller Center, but I'm glad I did!  

And here it is!  I've seen it now, in person, and I can return to coming to NYC in warmer weather.  It turns out I still do have orange juice for blood - a long-standing joke because I grew up in Miami, FL.  I've learned to tolerate cold weather a little better - I don't put on a coat at 60 degrees any more - but really cold weather is not my favorite!

So once again, I don't have a finish for the week, but I am doing a little whooping - I've survived (at least so far) 24/7 Nana duty, I got to enjoy NYC before the "bomb cyclone" hit, I finally saw Hamilton (which was AMAZING!) so it's been a really great week!

Can I get a whoop whoop?

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And now it's your turn!

What's got you whooping it up this week?

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What's making you do a little happy dance?

Share!  We want to dance right along with you,

And it's always more fun to dance with friends!

The party will stay open until Sunday midnight.

Hope to see you there!

Hugs!

Sarah

I May Have A Scrap Problem - January's Scrap Attack Task!

Hi, all!

Well, I have been a bad blogger this week - but in my defense, I've been a bad blogger with a wicked cold.  We got back into town late Saturday night, had church and company on Sunday and Monday, and Tuesday morning I was at the walk-in clinic when they opened.  Two shots, a breathing treatment, and a mess of prescriptions, and I'm finally feeling a lot more human!  But I'm afraid the blog suffered through it all, and I haven't touched my sewing machine since I got home!  

However, I did draw a slip out of my Scrap Attack box to see what I was going to be working on this month....

Apparently God has a sense of humor (and a plan!)  because he knew this was the one I needed to draw the most!  (And wanted to, the least!)  But it is certainly the one that is the most likely to establish a good habit - so here's hoping!  

When I posted this pic on Instagram, I had a lot of questions about the sizes I cut my scraps.  If I'm cutting without a plan, I tend to start by cutting as many 10" squares as possible from the scrap.  After that, or instead if it's not large enough, I cut as many 5" squares as possible, then 2.5" squares.  The reason I do that is because there are so many patterns out there for pre-cuts, I know I'll be able to find something I want to do with those sizes.  With what's left, I separate out strings (at least 1.5" wide and around 8 or more inches long).  I also separate out any strings that are narrower but pretty and save them to be wrapped into rope bowls.  Any odd size pieces that are left are squared up and added to my "tiny pieces" box that will someday become a scrap vortex quilt like this...

You can find the link for this quilt along on Crazy Mom Quilts - 

Look on her quilt-along tab at the top, and it's the last one in the list.

It should be an interesting month, because I have at least two t-shirt quilts to make, and those are a whole different ball of wax when we talk about the scraps!  But I've got a mess of those scraps from earlier quilts too, so maybe I'll get them all done at the same time.

So - what did you draw this month?  Did you get a fun project, or a task you keep putting off?  Link up and share if you want - it's always more fun if we're suffering enjoying this process together!

Hugs!

Sarah