June Goals

I have several goals for June.  However, I also have a lot of spare time.  I teach preschool and school is out!!!!  I also take online classes and the one I am currently taking only has two weeks left and I get the rest of the month off before starting the next one. That leaves a lot of hours to sew...

1. Finish my Monster Polka baby quilt - this is an easy finish, just a little bit of hand stitching to secure the binding and it will be done.

2.  Finish my Giraffe Crossing Tumbler - the giraffe appliques need to be blanket-stitched.  Then it needs to be sandwiched, quilted, and bound.

3.  Finish my Quilty Fun Sew Along sampler - the blocks for the top need sewn together.  The label block for the back needs to be made and it needs to be quilted and bound.

4.  Finish my Star Surround quilt - it is for my bedroom. It needs the bottom row sewn to the top and to be quilted and bound.

5. Make bedroom valances - I have the pattern and the fabric and would really like to get these done.

6.  Finish the Snug as a Bug Super-sized Nine Patch #3 - it needs to be quilted and bound.

Snug as a Bug Super-sized Nine Patch Quilts #1 and #2

I have set some lofty goals, but I really want to get all of these finished during the month of June.  Off I go to get started ...

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WIP in Wednesday - Fog Day!!!!!!

Our phone rang at 6:00 am this morning.  We were still in bed (although I had been hitting the snooze for 30 minutes) and our first thought was who's calling us at 6:00 am?  Well, it was a great call for me (my kids too) because school is delayed two hours due to fog.  We live in a rural area so approximately 50% of the students live in the country and it's not safe for the buses when we have this much fog.

I teach preschool three mornings a week for a private Catholic school, although I usually work the entire day planning, etc.  When school is delayed two hours, that means I get the day off.  Yay!!!!!

So now the question is, what should I work on given this nice block of free time?  I have 9 works in progress.  That seems like a lot, especially since I only started quilting in July of this year.

I have chosen two projects I would like to make considerable progress on today:

1.  Finish the top for the Star Surround QAL.  This should only take about an hour and would be great to have finished.

2.  Finish piecing the top for The Princess's Neon Jelly Roll Jam.  This would not take more than a few hours since I made considerable progress yesterday and over the weekend.

Hopefully, I will soon be posting about two newly finished tops.  Wish me luck!!!

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Homework or Sew Work or Work Work

Seriously!  All I want to do is sew!  I am such a procrastinator!!!!!  The current classes I am taking end on Sunday.  One class is complete, all assignments are turned in.  The other class ..... not so much.  I can't sew until I get this class done.  Literally, I took my straight pins to work and left them there so I couldn't sew.

So when I can't sew what do I do?  I Pinterest.  I dream about all the things I would sew if I didn't have other stuff I am OBLIGATED to do first.

My current passion is completing the Star Surround Quilt-A-Long with Melissa over at Happy Quilting.  You can find the first post here.  I started out a little behind while I chose my fabrics and waited for them to arrive.

Here's a picture of the fabric I chose.  The line is Heirloom by Joel Dewberry.  I chose the sapphire palette.  

I chose to make the biggest size quilt because I need a quilt for my bedroom.  (First, I have to teach my dog to stay off the bed because she has ruined several comforters in the last two years.)

Then Week 2 came and it was time to cut the pieces.  I messed up and had to order more of one kind of fabric.  But I guess that's what happens when you are in a hurry.  Measure twice, cut once is what they say.  I measured correctly, I was just cutting the wrong size for what I wanted to make.  Here's a picture of my cut pieces.

Then we made half-square triangles (HST).  These I actually had done on time.

The week of August 5 we worked on flying geese.  I also got these done on time.

I stayed on track the next week as well.  That week we were building our block centers.  Some of mine didn't turn out perfectly, but I am okay with it as this is my first quilt ever.  Also, if and when my dog ruins the quilt I won't feel so bad about it.

Then came the week of August 19, building the star surround.  This was also the week school started for my children, I had to go back to work (I teach preschool), I was no longer ahead in my classes (I am working on a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education), and we were adjusting to our new family member (a foreign exchange student from China).  You can see why I got behind in the Quilt-A-Long.

Anyway, the Star Surround Parade is on Monday and I am going to try to make it.  I think I can do it as long as I finish my last assignment by tomorrow evening and remember to bring my straight pins home from my classroom.  Wish me luck!