Bodacious baby quilt!!! And then there's the changing pad....!!!

It's Done - and I love it!  I finished earlier this week - but couldn't find my camera.  Finally found it where it was supposed to be - only covered up so I couldn't see it!

I had thought originally of quilting the background fabrics - but I like the pillowy softness for a baby quilt!  All I did was Stitch in the Ditch around the "rattles" and the sashing and borders.

This is the changing pad.  Actually it's a walking-foot quilting Sampler - which isn't great - but baby won't mind!  LOL  Sorry about the picture quality - shadows do "fun" things sometimes!

Design Wall for Week 18 - 05-05-14

Baby Bodacious is DONE!  Pix will be on a separate post (I hid my camera again! Looking for it today!)

All other pix are from my picture album I have on my computer!  I will update - EVENTUALLY!

BINDING

None this week!

QUILTING

It's All about Hearts

St. Paddy's Day Optical Illusion

Passover table runner

Snowpeople

Mini Twister

Cinnamon Sticks

Thanksgiving table runner

Halloween trick or treat!

PIECING

Toes in the Sand -
only I'm doing it controlled Scrappy style and with Repros
I need to do Block 4

Arizona Skies - maybe won't happen this week - all depends!

Underground Railroad - this week - sashing!

Holy toledo - make sure ALL blocks are made (including setting blocks!)

SEWING

2 blouses cut and sewn at least through the first step

Menues for Week 18 - WB 05-04-14

SUNDAY
()B:poached eggs, toast
()L:cheese sandwich/grilled
(15)D: (8)Broiled smelt, (1C=4) brown rice, (0) kale, (3) baked sweet potatoes

Snacks: Grapefruit (2), apple (2), popcorn (3C=7)

MONDAY
B: scrambled eggs, mushrooms, cheese, onion, toast x 2. 
L: soup - probably chicken kale 
D: Butternut Ravioli stew, spinach salad, whole grain rolls 

Snacks:S: (1) grapefruit (2) cottage cheese and tomatoes (3) apple
E: 30 minutes = 2 miles

TUESDAY
B: Rolled oats with raisins
L: spinach salad with hard boiled egg, bacos, Ital ff salad dressing,
D: Crockpot Chicken Jambalaya, brown rice, salad

Snacks: cheese, pudding with skim milk

WEDNESDAY
B: Fried apples
L: Vegetable plate with cottage cheese
D: cube steak skillet stew, mashed potatoes, carrots, spinach salad

Snacks: apple, cheese

THURSDAY
B: Kasha
L: Black bean soup, corn muffins, spinach salad
D: Baked Ziti, salad
Snacks: cheese,

FRIDAY
B: Pancakes (3), Honey
L: leftovers - soup
D: Garlic Lime salmon, brown rice, kale, baked sweet potatoes

Snacks: orange

SATURDAY
B: Apple coffeecake, boiled egg
L: Layered enchilada casserole, salad, broccoli
D: chicken salad, grapes, veggies,
Snacks:

SUNDAY
B: Coddled eggs with cheese, toast
L: chicken patty, toast,
D: leftovers

Stash Report for Week 18 - WB 05-04-24

05-04-14 -Week 18 - Yeehaw!  Bodacious baby quilt done!  Pix to follow! STILL hope to get other items to be quilted done (but not bound until later this coming week! so while baby bodacious will go on THIS week's stash report - because it is done! done! done!  The others will go on NEXT week's stash report - IF DONE!
Using Bonnie Hunter's figures - this is slightly less than 1/4 the size for the full quilt - Blocks = 2 1/2 yd, sashing = 3/8, inner border = 1/8, outer border = 3/8 yards.  Binding = 3/16 yard, backing = 1 1/2 yards.  Added 1 yard which I THOUGHT I needed (I didn't!)

Used This Week 5 1/16 or 5.0625 or 5.063 yard
Used This Month: 3.75 yard for  April, 5.0625 for May
Year to Date: 7.375 + 5.063 =  12.438 yards

Added This Week: 1 yards
Added This Month: 0 yards for April, 1 yard for May
Added Year to Date:1.0 

Net Used for 2014: 11.438 yards

Goals for Week 18 - 05-04-14

GO AND DO

• Post office
• Israel Memorial
• Big Brothers Donation
• Library
• Bills (ugh!)
• Open Sew 
• Lynne's Birthday

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 
• WHB on Fri
• Entrance
• WHB on Fri
• Back Stairs
• WHB
• ZONE 2 - 
• Kitchen
• Zone 2
• WHB on Fri - 
• Dining Area
• Zone 2
• WHB 
• ZONE 3 
• Bath
• WHB on Fri
• Laundry Room
• WHB on Fri
• Sewing Room
• WHB on Fri
• Study 
• WHB on Fri
• ZONE 4 
• BR - 
• WHB on Fri
• ZONE 5 
• LR - 
• 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 "Counting Omer" 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 5 (increase times and add a routine - date/3 + R)
• Yoga A wk 5 (date/3 +1)
• 05/04
• 05/07
• 05/10
• Yoga B wk 5  (date/3 +2)
• 05/05
• 05/08
• 05/11
• Yoga C (date/3 + 0)
• 05/06
• 05/09
• MATH
• 88
• 89
• 90
• 91
• 92
• RUSSIAN
• Continue Daily review
• Lesson 8
• Lesson 9
• Lesson 9
• Lesson 10
• Lesson 10
• HANDWRITING
• Book A
• M
• T
• W
• R
• F
• CREATIVE WRITING
• Writing Strands 
• 12-6
• 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)
• BREAD
• Challah
• Whole Wheat
• Pita
• MAIN DISHES
• DESSERTS and SALADS
• MAKE MENUES for the week (do Monday)

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

• STASH REPORT (Sunday)
• DESIGN WALL (Monday)
• 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)
• OPEN SEW
• PIECE 
• LE - Jamestown Landing - String  blocks
• Binding
• Quilting  - as many as possible!  
• 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
• Piecing
• Toes in the Sand
• Block 4
• Celtic Solstice
• Borders!!!
• Holy Toledo - 
• Sew blocks together
• Setting Triangles
• Border
• SEWING
• Cut 2-3 blouses

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!