Stash Report Week #43 and 15 Minutes

 Nothing finished, so no stash changes.  I do have a flimsy ready to baste and quilt, so there will be changes again soon!

On the hand piecing front, I put the last stitches in the main part of my hexagon quilt!  I have a few hundred hexagons to straighten out the edges, but the end is abruptly closer.  I think I have 8 smaller and 4 rather large triangle-ish pieces to make.  They will take a while, but it’s nice to be back to basting and assembling individual hexagons.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

Cold Weather Sewing

My recovery is sooo slow.  Unfortunately, my migraines are back in full force, so I’ve had a nasty headache everyday for the last two weeks.  I’m over it.

I almost have my flimsy.  Almost.  My major goal for today is to get these borders on!  This is for my friend with cancer.  She’s already had her first treatment, so I want to keep moving.

These may not be from my scraps, but they are all entirely from stash, and I have my 90 blocks sewn into twosies and foursies.  This is for my my best friend from high school.  She’s getting married in December, and today is the first anniversary of her dad’s death, so it’s a good day to work on this and send her good thoughts and prayers.

My tan and brown 2.5” squares are finally turning into blocks.  I won’t make it to box blocks this month, but at least these will be done!

My big accomplishment for the week is completing the body of my hexagon quilt.  You can see the front and back of it below.  I have the edges sketched out, so it’s now time to start making filler sections.  I’m thrilled.  That also means it’s time for me to consider what the backing should be.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

Stash Report Week #42 and 15 Minutes

 I just keep stitching.  I have the last bit of one star and two more flowers to stitch on my hexagon quilt before I get to work on straightening the edges.  294 days straight of hand sewing!

The binding on the picnic quilt is all done!  I’m relieved to have a finish.  I’m back at my goal of using twice what I purchase this year.  I have a backing already for the next big quilt but I’m not so sure about the smaller one.  I hope to find pieces I can make work!  I have a bag to make for my SiL also, and I think that might be a good small project for the week.

IN this week: 0 yards

OUT this week: 8 1/4 yards

IN YTD: 44 1/4 yards

OUT YTD: 90 1/2 yards

YTD Total: 46 1/4 yards OUT

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

Waylaid

 I’m not dead yet.  Last Friday night, once I was in bed, what I thought was a cold turned into a raging fever.  Fun times.

I did finally catch Covid after all this time.  The AC in my classroom has been broken for two weeks, and I suspect the lack of circulating air may have contributed.  Alas.  While I can breathe, etc., the fatigue has continues to be quite awful.

I am slowly working on the binding for my 16 patches in green, yellow, and red.  While it is nothing like my usual color choices, I do like it.

I’ve hardly touched my brown squares for 16 patches and I haven’t pulled any scraps for brown box blocks.

I’m adding corners to half of my thinker star blocks and then sewing them into pairs.

Since I haven’t reported in three weeks, it seems like I’ve done a lot, but most of this was done in the previous two weeks!  I also started a quilt for a friend with cancer.  Because when I don’t know what to do or how to help, I make a quilt.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

October Goals

 September Goals:

1. Scraps: trim, continue hexagon assembly, finish teal boxes, and finish the 16 patch quilt.  The 16 patch quilt is basted.  Everything else is done.

2. Finish my yeouijumun.  Finished for now.  I will add bakjwi, but that will be a later project.

3.  Work on the star quilt.  I have six blocks left.

4.  Mending.  Done.

5.  The Assistant cut out a pinafore and I should sew it up.  It won’t take long, just a bit of concentration.  Done.  She doesn’t love it, but I learned plenty.

October Goals:

My head is too full of anxiety, I’m trying to not add anything to my list but instead complete a few things.

1. Scraps: trim, hexagon assembly, brown/tan16 patches, maybe some box blocks.  Definitely finish the 16 patch picnic quilt.

2. Assembly the star quilt and baste for quilting.

3. A friend has cancer.  She needs a quilt.

4.  If all that is DONE, I would like to start on my large jogakbo, an illusion quilt,  or a New York Beauty quilt.  Something challenging.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

Stash Report Week #40 and 15 Minutes

 Alas, the stash report is dull and unchanged this week.  I do have my “picnic blanket” basted, so maybe by next Sunday?

I unfortunately have a sick child and a week full of medical appointments again, so we shall see.

I have faithfully hand stitched every day this year.  The hexagon quilt has a one row and one star left to attach before I need to cut and prep for the edges.    Isn’t it funny how things can move simultaneously faster and slower than we thought they would?  I didn’t think I would have the top so close to complete after the first week or two of assembly, but when I first started assembly, I really thought I would complete it in a few short weeks.  Ha!

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

September Block Count

 I made 99 blocks this month!  These included 17 box blocks, 5 16 patches, 7 “sections” for a bojagi, and 70 star blocks.

This brings my total to 952 blocks for the year.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z.

Stash Report Week #39 and 15 Minutes

 I finished a bojagi curtain panel this week, which is good, as I purchased fabric to finish it as well as start a quilt for a friend recently diagnosed with cancer.  I have exhausted 90% of my neutrals, so I didn’t have anything to use.

IN this week: 3 1/2 yards

OUT this week: 1 yard

IN YTD: 44 1/4 yards

OUT YTD: 82 1/4 yards

YTD Total: 38 yards OUT

I have a quilt ready to baste, and a large quilt to assembly in the next few weeks, so I’m still headed in the right direction.  I used up two spools of thread for a total of 18 used for the year.  I feel a need to clear the project list a bit to help clear some brain space.  This year doesn’t appear to be calming down any time soon.

On the 15 minutes front, I spent a depressing week ripping out an entire star.  Somehow I flipped the quilt and attached the star to the top.  So rip, rip, rip, and stitch all over again.  I’m finally past it, so I feel less frustrated, but ripping out a large motif is definitely demoralizing.

from the room of Zana’s Ninis,

katie z,