Stash Report for Week 17 - 04-27-14

04-27-14 -Week 17 - Well - this week didn't happen!  At least not for much!  

Nothing in/nothing out!

Used This Week:0 yard
Used This Month: 3.75 yard for  April
Year to Date: 7 3/8 yards

Added This Week: 0 yards
Added This Month: 0 yards for April
Added Year to Date:0 

Net Used for 2014: 7 3/8 yards

Design Wall for Week 17 - 04-28-14

This week will be mostly a quilting/binding week.  Bindings are to be sewn on machine (NOT by my ouchy hands!)  MOST quilting items are by walking foot, although a few are designated to be done by FMQ - but will be stippled.  We'll see how THAT works!

Some of this is for the stashbuster retreat - all day sewing - which I extended to Tues midnight - even if I did start late (thank you college party idiot kids upstairs who party until 3 - 4 AM!!!!)  I am not even intending to work on piecing until Tues - and what gets done on that day gets done!  Then back to quilting!

Sewing is just find the pattern and cut it out.  NEXT week I will sew.  Hopefully!

Oh yeah - I MAY just be done with the Bodacious quilt - completely - and will post the finished product in my ta - da folder which can be seen Tues eve (actually Wed AM - retreat ends Tues!)  Have REALLY loaded it on here in the thought that with this much I will get SOME done.  May have others which won't be - but should be at least pinned and ready to go!

BINDING

Bodacious baby quilt- I want to finish this up Sun.  Pix on Wed AM

St. Paddy's Day - Optical Illusions.
Would LIKE to get this done also on Sun.

Passover table runner - another Sun project

All about Hearts table runner. Would like to finish this Sun as well

MACHINE QUILTING

Apple cider quilt - aka Evelyn Sloppy's Sweet and Sassy quilt

Snow people table runner

Mini twister table topper

Thanksgiving table runner

Cinnamon Stix table runner

Hurricane Sandy table topper

New Year's (2010) table topper

PIECING

AZ skies - aka Tequila Buzz

Underground Railroad

SEWING

and cut out 2 - 3 blouses for May

Goals for Week 17 - 04-27-14

GO AND DO

• DONE Post office
• DONE Holocaust Remembrance
• DONE Stashbuster retreat

HOUSE - springtime decluttering - and freecycling

• PAPERWORK - a mountain of it! work on at least a half hour a day
• S
• M + 1 hour - Things to do
• T
• W + 1 hour - Filing
• R
• F + 1 hour - Bills
• Sa
• ZONE 1
• Front porch
• WHB on Fri
• Side Porch 
• Zone
• WHB on Fri
• Entrance
• WHB on Fri
• Back Stairs
• WHB
• ZONE 2 - 
• Kitchen
• WHB on Fri - 
• Dining Area
• WHB 
• ZONE 3 
• Bath
• DONE WHB on Fri
• Laundry Room
• DONE WHB on Fri
• Sewing Room
• DONE WHB on Fri
• Study 
• Rearrange
• Zone
• WHB on Fri
• ZONE 4 
• BR - 
• DONE Zone
• DONE WHB on Fri
• ZONE 5 
• LR - 
• Rearrange?  (changes walk pattern)
• Zone
• WHB 

GARDEN - 

• Rake lawn
• S - front and W side house.  Prepare seed beds - W. side house.
• M - front east side drive area - get sticks and brush hauled off.  N. car out of here. 
• T - East side house - haul sticks.  Front porch cleared off
• W - Trim trees and haul sticks off. Side porch cleared off.
• R - D group - feed and prepare soil.  Set up wood frames.  clear back fence.
• F - C2 group - set up framework. C1 group - set up framework
• S - Orchard - plant remaining trees, clean between trees and get plantings done.  mulch orchard and bushes.  
• Seed inventory - Complete this Sunday
• Seeds ready to order - 
• Greenhouse seeds - late season
• March seeds
• April Seeds
• May/June seeds

STUDIES - (NOTE - will work on week's assignments - Mon AM to update from weekend frenzy)

• RELIGION
• Work on Passover lapbooks 
• SCIENCE
• World of Plants (WOP)
• Unit 4
• Lapbook Unit 4
• Coloring Book (college level) (CB)
• CB 10
• CB 11
• CB 12
• CB 13
• THE EARTH
• EH - catch up 
• EH - assessment 44-47
• Lapbook
• EXERCISE - week 4
• Yoga R. A wk 4 (increase times) (Sun, Tues, Thurs) 
• DONE S
• DONE T
• DONE R
• Yoga R. B wk 4 (Mon, Wed, Fri)
• DONE M
• DONE W
• DONE F
• MATH
• DONE 86
• DONE 87
• 88
• 89
• 90
• RUSSIAN
• Continue Daily review
• DONE Lesson 7
• DONE Lesson 8
• Lesson 8
• Lesson 9
• Lesson 9
• HANDWRITING
• Book A
• DONE M
• DONE T
• W
• R
• F
• CREATIVE WRITING
• Writing Strands 
• DONE 12-6
• DONE 12-7
• 12-8
• 12-9
• 12-10
• 12-11
• LIFE SKILLS
• Paperwork 
• MUSIC
• ART

KITCHEN

• SOUPS (serving kept out for Monday - freeze the rest)
• DONE turkey vegetable soup
• DONE turkey broth for turkey and rice soup (freeze this)
• BREAD
• DONE whole wheat bread
• DONE pancakes
• MAIN DISHES
• DONE cube steak and skillet stew
• DONE crockpot chicken jambalaya
• DESSERTS and SALADS
• cabbage/apple/orange/raisin slaw
• DONE spinach salad with hard boiled eggs
• DONE MAKE MENUES for the week (do Monday)

QUILT  (Depending on what I finish today - I may add other projects!)

• DONE STASH REPORT (Sunday)
• DONE DESIGN WALL (Monday)
• DONE BONNIE H. ARCHIVE NIGHT (Tues)
• SLICE AND DICE NIGHT (Wednesday) - 1 bag scraps (only 4 bags left!)
• FINISHINGS - Bindings, movies, spiced tea, hot cider or hot chocolate (Thursday)
• DONE RETREAT (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday)
• PIECE 
• DONE LE - Jamestown Landing - String  blocks
• Quilting  - as many as possible!  
• DONE Bo-dacious baby quilt
• Both table runners Quilted and bound!
• Halloween
• Passover table runner
• Any remaining table runners quilted
• All about Hearts Valentine
• Snow people
• Optical Illusions - St. Paddy's day
• Thanksgiving
• Celtic Solstice
• Borders!!!
• Holy Toledo - 
• Sew blocks together
• Setting Triangles
• Border
• SEWING
• 2-3 blouses

Menues for Week 17 - 04-27-14

SUNDAY
B:Steak/egg/cheese bagel, hot caramel mocha
L:Muenster cheese sandwich grilled
D:Black bean soup, spinach salad, corn muffins

MONDAY
B:bulghar wheat
L:turkey vegetable soup
D:leftovers

TUESDAYB:rolled oats
L:lo casserole (mac and cheese?)
D:cube steak skillet stew(?), mashed potatoes, carrots, spinach salad

WEDNESDAY
B:pancakes, maple syrup
L:lo lunch menu
D:Spinach pasta casserole, salad, carrots

THURSDAY(27 allowed, 27.5 used)
(7)B:french toast (2 = 5), cranberry preserves(2?)
(1)L:salad - veggie - ff dressing = 1
(13)D:Spicy honey-glazed chicken (2 drumsticks (6), brown rice (1 C=4), brussel sprouts (0), baked sweet potatoes (1 = 3)
(6.5)Snacks:M:cottage cheese (1/2 cup =  1.5), tomatoes (6 grape = 0); Muenster (1 oz = 1), Tortilla (1/4 10"= 2 ); baked apple (1= 2)

FRIDAY (27 allowed)
(6)B:jalapeno/cheese omelet (2 eggs = 5, cheese = 1, veggies = 0)
(5)L:cheese sandwich (cheese 2 oz = 2, mayo = 1, 2 x ww bread = 2)
(15)D:(8) Broiled smelt, (1C=4) brown rice, (0) kale, (3) baked sweet potatoes
Snacks: grapefruit (2), apple (1=2), popcorn (3C=7)

SATURDAY (27 allowed)
B:apple coffeecake, boiled egg
L:crockpot chicken jambalaya, brown rice, salad
D:Baked Ziti, salad

SUNDAY (27 allowed)
B:poached eggs, toast, orange preserves
L:cheese sandwich/grilled
D:leftovers

Design Wall for Week 16 - 04-21-14

OK - PART of what I have is from last week - BUT it's the BINDING that needs to be done!  Part of what I have on here will possibly be done on retreat this weekend (namely all the piecing!)! And what I do today/tonight I am cheating on (thank you sick machine last week!) and will post on my LAST week's Ta-Da post (going out later today - as late as I can get it! LOL)

Now - DON'T start laughing!  Or else you'll be running like crazy to that little room out back!

BINDING (machine sewn!)

Bodacious baby quilt

It's All about Hearts table runner

Optical Illusions table runner - aka my St. Paddy's day t. r.

Passover table runner

MACHINE QUILTING Binding is NEXT week!
(hand sewing - will NOT be finished this time)

Hexies for Thanksgiving - for dil table centerpiece

 (Free Motion Quilting Foot)

Wendy's Apple Cider quilt - aka Sweet and Sassy by Evelyn Sloppy
will do stippling, I think

Snow people Table runner -
center - swirlies - like a good strong breeze.
Border I will probably grid
Binding is NEXT week!

Mini Twister - stippling with FMQ

(Walking Foot)

Cinnamon Stix - Haven't the FAINTEST idea how I will quilt this!
Probably big X-es and stripes!

New Year's Mystery table topper - sort of a sunburst beginning from around the center SITD square

Nines and Dashes -
I think a skinny border and more of the purple are in order as far as borders.
Will work on this probably retreat weekend.  Quilting will be Xes

Thanksgiving table runner
Center - Xes and long lines or grid on sides

PIECING

Underground RR -
for the retreat -
needs sashing, borders

Double Duty quilt - I think I have all the blocks.
But you never know (unless you're organized!  I'm NOT!)
Needs sewing together (quarters, then halves, etc.) borders - and a LOT of prayers!

SEWING (In my spare non-existent moments - and I DO need this!  Trust me!)

No picture here - but am hopeful I will have several blouses CUT out - 

and maybe in first stages of being sewn together.  

Am saving this project for next Monday!

Retreat weekend #1

I'm scheduling this weekend as a retreat weekend - for me and anyone who wants to join me on Skype!

It starts Friday - and will continue through to next TUESDAY afternoon!

At least that's the game plan!  Anyone who complains about the dust, I will give my dustrag to!

FIRST of all - I want to finish up the Bodacious baby quilt - 

Underground RR - needs sashing, borders, quilting and binding.
NOT planning on quilting just yet!

Jamestown Landing - my LE - BUT it also needs the main blocks!

Arizona Skies - aka Tequila Buzz - it's just that I like the colors - sort of like the colors in AZ!
Needs LOTS of putting together, borders and binding - not to count that at least one border is - gasp - pieced!

Stash Report for Week 16 - 04-20-14

One of a few occasions when my stash and room was actually picked up!

04-20-14 -Week 16 - While I have completed several things - I'm waiting until NEXT week to post - mostly because I want to include bindings done!

Used This Week:0 yard
Used This Month: 3.75 yard for  April
Year to Date: 7 3/8 yards

Added This Week: 0 yards
Added This Month: 0 yards for April
Added Year to Date:0

Net Used for 2014: 7 3/8 yards

Goals for Week 16 - WB 04-20-14

GO AND DO

• DONE Post office
• DONE Library
• DONE Graduation and dinner for Citizen Police Academy 
• DONE Bills (ugh!)
• DONE Stashbuster retreat

HOUSE - springtime decluttering - and freecycling

• PAPERWORK - a mountain of it! work on at least a half hour a day
• DONE S
• DONE M + 1 hour - Things to do
• DONE T

GARDEN - 

STUDIES - (NOTE - will work on week's assignments - Mon AM to update from weekend frenzy)

• EXERCISE - week 4
• Yoga wk 4 (increase times) (Sun, Tues, Thurs) 
• DONE S
• DONE T
• DONE R
• Yoga wk 4 (Mon, Wed, Fri)
• DONE M
• DONE W
• MATH
• DONE 85
• RUSSIAN
• Continue Daily review
• DONE Lesson 7
• CREATIVE WRITING
• Writing Strands 
• DONE 12-5

KITCHEN

• SOUPS (serving kept out for Monday - freeze the rest)
• DONE spinach borscht with sour cream
• BREAD
• MAIN DISHES
• DESSERTS and SALADS
• DONE MAKE MENUES for the week (do Monday)

QUILT  (Depending on what I finish today - I may add other projects!)

• DONE STASH REPORT (Sunday)
• DONE DESIGN WALL (Monday)
• DONE SLICE AND DICE NIGHT (Wednesday) - 1 bag scraps (only 4 bags left!)
• DONE RETREAT (Friday, Saturday)
• PIECE 
• working on it LE - Jamestown Landing - String  blocks

Menues for Week 16 - WB 04-20-14

SUNDAY
B:Passover cheese pancakes, applesauce or sour cream, tea
L:Spinach borscht with sour cream, boiled eggs,matzos and cheese, macaroons, tea
D:chicken soup with Fried matzo balls, Fried fish, mashed potatoes, buttered carrot coins, tea

MONDAY
B:Poached eggs, fried matzo, tea
L:Beef broth with matzo knaidlach, cabbage/carrot/apple slaw, tea
D:Passover mac and cheese, vegetable, tossed salad, fruit, tea

TUESDAY
B:Matzo meal pancakes, fruit, tea
L:meat blintzes, applesauce, tossed salad? tea
D:leftovers

WEDNESDAY
B:Bulghar wheat
L:chicken soup with lo matzo balls
D:leftovers - or favorite meal

THURSDAY
B:Rolled oats, dried fruits chopped coarsely
L:cheese blintzes
D:lo chicken soup with Fried matzo balls, Fried fish, mashed potatoes, buttered carrot coins, tea

FRIDAY
B:lo sweet rolls, stewed fruits
L:lo cream of potato soup, lo cabbage, fruit slaw, spongecake (lo)
D:vegetarian lasagne, tossed salad, fruit

SATURDAY
B:bagels and cream cheese
L:Beef stew with vegetables, challah, fruit
D:salmon salad bowl with hard boiled eggs and lots of veggies, challah, fruit

SUNDAY
B:any remaining P. lo breakfast menu
L:lo Apple kugel
D:leftovers (and this is nu?)

Open Sew projects

This is for Jamestown Landing - my current Leader-Ender project.
NOT sure I will take this one however.  See note on Charlotte's baskets!

Charlotte's baskets - I'm going to be doing this in a variety of pastels -
or at least that's the game plan. MOSTLY though this Open Sew -
I want to work on the baskets themselves.  The reason for
possibly no Jamestown Landing is because I do have a lot of the pastel string blocks to do!

Goals for Week 15 - WB 04-13-14

On the search for GREENS - and blues, pinks, whites, and yellows!!!
I want COLOR!!!

GO AND DO

• DONE Walmart
• DONE Groceries
• DONE Post office
• DONE Library (books and DVDs return)
• DONE Citizen Police Academy 
• DONE Joint family Spring celebration - Passover, Spring frenzy, Easter
• DONE Bills (ugh!)
• DONE Open Sew 
• NOT DONE Landlord meeting

HOUSE - springtime decluttering - and freecycling

• PAPERWORK - a mountain of it! work on at least a half hour a day
• DONE S
• DONE M + 1 hour - Things to do
• DONE T
• DONE W + 1 hour - Filing
• DONE R
• DONE F + 1 hour - Bills
• Sa
• ZONE 1
• Front porch
• WHB on Fri
• Side Porch 
• Zone
• WHB on Fri
• Entrance
• WHB on Fri
• Back Stairs
• WHB
• ZONE 2 - 
• Kitchen
• WHB on Fri - 
• Dining Area
• WHB 
• ZONE 3 
• Bath
• WHB on Fri
• Laundry Room
• WHB on Fri
• Sewing Room
• WHB on Fri
• Study 
• DONE Declutter
• Rearrange
• Zone
• WHB on Fri
• ZONE 4 
• BR - WHB on Fri
• ZONE 5 
• LR - 
• DONE Declutter AGAIN! (move my quilting stuff OUT of LR and back to SR!)
• Rearrange?  (changes walk pattern)
• WHB 

GARDEN - 

• Rake lawn
• Seed inventory
• Seeds ready to order - 
• Greenhouse seeds
• March seeds
• April Seeds
• May/June seeds
• Plant all late April and May seeds - greenhouse

STUDIES - (NOTE - will work on week's assignments - Mon AM to update from weekend frenzy)

• EXERCISE - week 4
• Yoga wk 4 (increase times) (Sun, Tues, Thurs) 
• DONE R
• Yoga wk 4 (Mon, Wed, Fri)
• DONE M
• DONE W
• 
  
• LIFE SKILLS
• DONE Paperwork 

KITCHEN

• SOUPS (serving kept out for Monday - freeze the rest)
• chicken soup and matzo balls
• DONE Asparagus soup
• DONE Beet borscht (dairy)
• Cream of potato soup
• spinach borscht with sour cream
• Beef broth 
• BREAD
• Chocolate chipped matzo muffins
• DONE Matzo meal muffins
• Matzo balls
• Raisin matzo meal muffins
• sour cream matzo muffins
• Passover Sweet rolls
• Matzo knaidlach
• DESSERTS and SALADS
• lemon meringue Passover Pie
• DONE macaroons
• Passover crullers
• spongecake
• DONE MAKE MENUES for the week (do Monday)

QUILT

• DONE STASH REPORT (Sunday)
• DONE DESIGN WALL (Monday)
• DONE BONNIE H. ARCHIVE NIGHT (Tues)
• DONE SLICE AND DICE NIGHT (Wednesday) - 1 bag scraps (only 4 bags left!)
• DONE OPEN SEW (Friday)
• PIECE 
• Working on them! LE - Jamestown Landing - String  blocks
• Quilting  - as many as possible!  
• Bo-dacious baby quilt
• Both table runners Quilted and bound!
• Optical Illusions - St. Paddy's day
• Passover table runner
• Any remaining table runners quilted
• All about Hearts Valentine
• Snow people
• Halloween
• Thanksgiving
• Toes in the Sand blocks
• DONE Block 2
• DONE Block 3
• Celtic Solstice
• Borders!!!

Menues for Week 15 - WB 04-13-14

SUNDAY
B:Scrambled eggs on muffin, tea, hot caramel mocha
L:Roast Turkey, mashed potatoes, latkes (son likes them!), applesauce and sour cream, steamed zucchini and summer squash, chocolate chip muffins, cheese pudding - family meal with Lynn's family, Nathan and Lynn
D:leftovers

MONDAY
B:Toast and cream cheese. tea
L:leftovers!
D:chicken soup with matzo balls, Roast turkey, baked potatoes with sour cream and butter, shredded cabbage with chopped apples, raisins and lemon juice, honeyed carrots, raisin matzo meal muffins, lemon meringue passover pie, matzos, charoses,

TUESDAY
B:Matzo Brie with cinnamon sugar, tea
L:Cream of asparagus soup, sour cream matzo muffins, cottage cheese with diced tomatoes
D:salad with matzo crumbles, hard boiled eggs, salmon, green peas, cheese, olives, tomatoes, cucumber chunks, matzo muffins

WEDNESDAY
B:Raisin Matzo meal muffins, Boiled eggs, tea
L:passover cheese blintzes made with cottage cheese, cinnamon sugar, sour cream.
D:gefilte fish and horseradish, matzos, cheese, macaroons

THURSDAY
B:Matzo and cheese, fruit, tea
L:Beet borscht, hard boiled eggs, sour cream, diced cucumber,matzo meal muffins tea
D:Hoppel Poppel, salad, fruit, tea

FRIDAY
B:Passover crullers, tea
L:leftovers from lunches
D:Cream of potato soup, Baked fish, broccoli, salad, fruit, spongecake

SATURDAY
B:Passover sweet rolls, tea
L:turkey filled matzo pancakes, applesauce, salad - veggies chopped with olives
D:Apple matzo kugel, turkey salad, orange slices, tea,

SUNDAY
B:Passover cheese pancakes, applesauce or sour cream, tea
L:Spinach borscht with sour cream, boiled eggs,matzos and cheese, macaroons, tea
D:chicken soup with Fried matzo balls, Fried fish, mashed potatoes, buttered carrot coins, tea

MONDAY
B:Poached eggs, fried matzo, tea
L:Beef broth with matzo knaidlach, cabbage/carrot/apple slaw, tea
D:Passover mac and cheese, vegetable, tossed salad, fruit, tea

TUESDAY
B:Matzo meal pancakes, fruit, tea
L:meat blintzes, applesauce, tossed salad? tea
D:leftovers

Design Wall for Week 15 - 04-14-14

BINDING
I'm hopeful that today I will have finished both the Passover table runner as well as the table runner for St. Patrick's day - Optical Illusions.  If so - then I'll replace this part with pix of each.

QUILTING
STILL on the agenda - Passover Table Runner (ready to go) and Optical Illusions - both of which I hope to finish today!!!!

Should I finish this - then I'll probably post a REVISED design wall (machine did NOT work last week - blast it anyway!) and the following hopefully will be targeted - All About Hearts and the Snow People being worked on first THEN the Halloween and Thanksgiving table runners.

PIECING  - BORDERS
Celtic Solstice is up first - and just needs the borders attached.  Hopefully today.

Should this happen then the rest of this week I want to work on Holy Toledo, then on the April and May table runners (which I don't have pix of) as well as catch up on my blocks for my class - Toes in the Sand!

Design Wall for Week 14 - 04-07-14

MACHINE QUILTING

(mostly because I belong to Stashbusters UFO challenge - 

and - ULP! - I moved up to #5 on the list!)

Bo-dacious

Hearts Around table runner

Cinnamon Stix table mat

Optical Illusions for St. Patrick's Day

Passover table runner

Snowpeople table runner

AND FOR MY PIECING PLEASURE....

Leader Ender string blocks for Jamestown Landing -
so far I have 50 something.  Need 168.

Celtic Solstice - STILL need to put on borders.
Having problems - but should have fixed by weekend - hopefully!

Holy Toledo - Somehow I think I need to count -
this is NOT all the blocks there are supposed to be!  Hmm!