November has flown by! The beginning of November we decided to finally replace the upstairs carpeting. I spent several days packing up china and moving, sorting and organizing into boxes items that have accumulated in in all corners of the upstairs rooms. Those boxes are now neatly stacked and stored in the guest room. The new floors are in, the furniture is back in place just in time for Thanksgiving dinner! Now I am taking my time sorting through the boxes of stuff to decide what we really need or what can be given, sold or donated! Before I replace and reload the china cabinet in the dining room, I am going to finish painting the wall that was hidden behind it!
I spent the week before Thanksgiving preparing for and working at Santa's Workshop with the Cookeville Jr. Womens Club. It is a lot of work, but all funds raised go back to community service organzations like Mended Hearts to buy defibulators, Happy Haven Home to buy coats for the orphans living there, and many other worthy causes.
Thanksgiving week was spent organizing, preparing, and hosting the family dinner.
On a quilty note...
I completed the remaining parts necessary for Orca Bay and assembled six of the fourteen rows for my half-sized quilt.
I shopped Goodwill and my stash to find 37 shirts in suitable colors for Celtic Solstice. All the shirts were deboned, pressed and ready to go, just in time for the Black Friday Step 1 reveal!
WORK COMPLETED IN NOVEMBER
....04.....customer tops quilted (YTD 66)
.....02.....customer quilts bound (YTD 20)
.....00.....flimsy completed waiting for quilting (YTD 13)
.....00.....quilted flimsy (YTD 11 )
.....10.....hand-work hours (156 YTD )
MY PROJECTS COMPLETED THIS YEAR: 12 !!!!
Lucky Charms wall hanging (1/21/13)
Basket Sampler Welcome wall hanging (2/15/13)
Knitted afghan (3/20/13)
Scrap Mania quilt (3/19/13)
Orange/Blue Jelly Roll quilt (3/18/13)
Hope Academy Banner (3/27/13)
Jaxson's quilt (3/22/13)
Baltimore Album (4/5/13)
Civil War Snowball (4/5/13)
Big Brother Quilt (5/7/13)
Easy Street (7/22/13)
Matthew's Puppies (7/25/13)
Floribunda (9/9/13)
Projects Waiting to be Quilted
Sloanie Christmas Star Swap
Projects in Progress
Spring Wall Hanging.... all my tulips are now stitched down, daffodils next.
Disappearing 4 patch...blocks are completed, ready for assembly
Sweet & Sassy.....9 blocks completed, sashed and aquilt corner assembled
Becky's Barn basket wall hanging...assembled, needs final border
Novelty Quilt... blocks cut, need assembly
Happiness Key...background complete, needs applique/embroidery
Floral & Pinwheels.... made 4 pinwheels then renamed.... Florals&9patch
POTC swap blocks completed and sent..next swap will be in January
Dresden Plate placemats
Bonnie Projects in Progress
.....06.....cheddar bowties blocks hand-pieced (YTD 6 of 81) ... (81 of 162 in 2012)
.....00.....cheddar bowtie rows stitched (YTD 0 .... 9 of 18 in 2012)
...done....Orca Bay Step 1 hourglass blocks made (YTD 49 plus 21 in 2012) total 70 of 112
....done...Orca Bay Step 2 3.5in string blocks made (completed in 2012 )
....done...Orca Bay Step 3 2in HSTs (YTD 55 plus120 in 2012) total 175
.....done..Orca Bay Step 4 5.5in string blocks (YTD 08 plus 24 of 32 in 2012) total 32
.....done..Orca Bay Step 5 cut 350 triangles and stitch to part 3 to make winged triangles (175 of 175)
.....done..Orca Bay Step 6 cut 2.5in squares and assemble Ohio Stars (0)
.. ..14...Orca Bay Step 7 make flying geese (64 of 64)
.half done..Orca Bay Step 8 assemble quilt- 6 of 14 rows assembled
..............Talkin Turkey..... 2 blocks complete plus parts
..............Midnight Flight....1 block complete plus parts
..............Winston Ways... 2 blocks complete plus parts
......21...... Celtic Solstice... Goodwill shirts deboned (37 of 37)
......140... Celtic Solstice Step 1 orange base triangles cut (140 of 140)
......120... Celtic Solstice Step 1 neutral base triangles cut (120- 240)
.......00.... Celtic Solstice Step 1 blue triangles cut( 0 of 380 pairs)
.......00.... Celtic Solstice Step 1 star point units sewed (0 of 380)
