Goals for WB 05-29-16 - Sunday

GO AND DO
Post office
GARDEN -
Visit and babysit with Evan - R

HOUSE

• Zone 1
• Front Porch 
• Zone
• WHB
• Entrance and 2nd floor landing
• Zone
• WHB
• Back Stairs
• Zone
• WHB
• Side Porch
• Declutter
• Zone
• WHB
• Zone 2
• Kitchen
• WHB
• Zone 3
• Bath
• WHB
• Laundry Room
• WHB
• Sewing room
• WHB
• Zone 4
• Bedroom 
• WHB
• Zone 5: 
• Living Room
• Zone
• WHB
• Study
• Zone
• WHB
• Paperwork - 
• M, W, F

GARDEN - M, W, F

• GARDEN - plant - peas,Re-plants bird hit veggies (greens, coles)
• GARDEN - Weed garden
• GARDEN - Water garden
• GARDEN - garden tools - clean and mend

DEHYDRATE

• FOOD PREP - W, F
• PREP - T, R

KITCHEN

• Breads
• whole wheat bread
• pizza dough (whole wheat)
• Challah
• Soups
• Turkey vegetable and freeze most of it
• Salad in a jar
• tossed salad, super salad

EDUCATION

• EXERCISE
• Yoga - routines 1, 2, 3 (alternate over 3 days)
• Strength - arms, legs, core (alternate and paired up with yoga routine)
• Cardiovascular - dancing, walking, marching, housework
• RUSSIAN - M, T, W, R, F
• MATH
• Algebra - M, T, W, R, F
• MUSIC
• Rachmaninoff - S, M, T, W, R, F
• RELIGION
• Torah - S, W
• Hebrew - M, R
• Holiday - T, F
• EARTH
• Pre- Camb - M, W, F
• HANDWRITING - M. T. W. R. F
• CREATIVE WRITING - M, T, W, R, F
• SCIENCE (doing review of some of work)
• Botany - S, T, R
• LEARNING TO LEARN MODULE
    
  • S, T, R
• ART - M, W, F

QUILT

• STASH REPORT (Sunday)  catch up year's amount
• DESIGN WALL (Monday) Take pix of all projects since beginning of year
• FINISHINGS - Bindings, movies, spiced tea, hot cider or hot chocolate (Friday at Open Sew)

• BINDING - 
• Baby quilt - sampler 1
• Baby quilt - sampler 2
• QUILTING 
• Baby quilt - sampler 1
• Baby quilt - sampler 2
• Awful Ugly Slippers
• Above is what I definitely PLAN - however - there ARE several others hoped for - BEFORE end of May!!!!:
• New Year's (2010) (January UFO)
• Charleston Baby blanket (2015) 
• Yellow Brick Road
• Summer Breeze (tie quilt)
• Valences (yes, these need quilting)
• Apple Cider quilt
• Lilacs in Bloom
• Hearts Around
• Hurricane Sandy
• Mondo Bag
• Cinnamon Stix and January table runner
• It's all about hearts table runner
• Luck of the Irish
• Snow people and Valentine TR

Any or all of the above completed before 05-31 will be GREAT!

• PIECING
• Eons old swap - finish ASAP and post  Deadline - 3 weeks - then turn remaining blocks into flimsy for charity
• Swaps - Caught up through JULY!!!!
• Jamestown Landing (goal would be entire flimsy - HOWEVER I will be overjoyed to get this ready for the outer border  (5 gazillion blue strings in border marching around the center!)
• Frog 2 upside down rows
• Re-do those 2 rows.
• Put rows together
• Inside border (Dark blue?)
• Four Patch Re-Visited - New and temporary LE only until 05-31!
• working on square in a square Leader - Ender method
• Orange Crush - LE
• LE in June - until all June projects completed!!!! - it is a quilt along with Wendy!
• Allieterre - still a vision on the FAR horizon! - IF and ONLY IF Orange crush is DONE DONE (quilted and bound!)

Menu for WB 05-29-16 - Sunday

SUNDAY
B:Fried eggs
L:Turkey Burgers
D:Leftovers
S:

MONDAY
B:Cous cous
L:Soup
D:Baked Stuffed potatoes
S:

TUESDAY
B:Biscuits
L:Super Salad
D:Lo country Beef and Rice
S:

WEDNESDAY
B:Hard boiled eggs
L:Cheese sandwich
D:Leftovers
S:

THURSDAY
B:Cold cereal
L:leftover casserole
D:
S:

FRIDAY
B:English muffins, Jelly
L:Leftover luncheon menu
D:Blackened salmon
S:

SATURDAY
B:Doughnuts
L:Crockpot Italian Vegetable Stew
D:Pizza
S:

Goals for the rest of WB: 05-22-16 Sunday (and this is Wednesday!)

GO AND DO
DONE Post office
Called and cancelled GARDEN -Groomer Appointments?
DONE Visit and babysit with Evan - DONE M, DONE W, DONE R, DONE S
HOUSE

• Zone 3
• Bath
• DONE WHB
• Laundry Room
• DONE WHB
• Zone 4
• Bedroom 
• DONE  Zone
• DONE WHB
• Paperwork - 
• DONE T, DONE W, 
• DONE Bills

GARDEN - M, W, F

• GARDEN - plant - peas, DONE bought in plants, squash, cucumbers, sweet potatoes
• DONE GARDEN - buy in remaining plants

EDUCATION

• EXERCISE
• DONE Cardiovascular - dancing, walking, marching, housework

QUILT

• PIECING
• Jamestown Landing (goal would be entire flimsy - HOWEVER I will be overjoyed to get this ready for the outer border  (5 gazillion blue strings in border marching around the center!)
• DONE Complete Rows
• MOSTLY DONE Put rows together
• Four Patch Re-Visited - still sitting there!  New and temporary LE!
• DONE working on square in a square Leader - Ender method

Whu-u-ups! It's MONDAY - and almost the end of MAY - and I haven't posted my menues!

SUNDAY
B:Baked eggs, milk, coffee
L:Hot Turkey sandwich, salad, tea, fruit
D:Leftovers or Pancakes
S:Milk, fruit

MONDAY
B:Couscous, brown sugar, milk, coffee
L:Green bean Soup, toast, tea, fruit
D:Mexican torta, milk
S:Milk, fruit

TUESDAY
B:Muffins, milk, coffee
L:Turkey salad, fruit
D:Pasta Turkey Satay, Baked sweet potato, salad, tea
S:Milk x 2, fruit

WEDNESDAY
B:Scrambled Eggs, w wheat toast (homemade bread), milk, coffee
L:Cheese sandwich, Milk, fruit
D:Leftovers, or Turkey burger
S:Milk x 2, fruit

THURSDAY
B:Cold cereal, milk, coffee
L:lo casserole, fruit
D:Black and White Checkered chili, corn muffins, spinach salad, tea
S:Milk x 2 , fruit

FRIDAY
B:French toast, honey, milk, coffee
L:leftovers from lunch, tea
D:Pan-roasted chicken and potatoes, Carrot coins, spinach salad, tea, challah
S:Milk x 2, fruit

SATURDAY
B:Coffeecake, milk, coffee
L:Orange chicken (turkey, subst)(crockpot), coffee or iced tea, challah
D:tuna salad, challah, milk, fruit
S:Milk, fruit

Trying ONCE again!!!!! Sparkpeople - I'm ba-a-a-ack!

Today I didn't even bother to climb onto the scales!  I KNOW I'm overweight - WAY overweight!  When I put my arms down at my sides and the pudginess keeps me from feeling my ribs - I am too entirely fat!  Not just overweight, not pudgy - but FAT!

The emphasis these days is to love yourself regardless of what weight or size you are.  Fine, well and good!  However when I'm FAT - I have increased problems breathing, problems standing and walking, my knees pop out more, my chronic fatigue makes itself known once again and my metabalic rate plummets!  I also feel bad!  WAY bad!

So - I need to tackle this problem.........  I don't know how others do it - but I DO know how I do it and what can work for me (IF I stick to it!).
1. EXERCISE!  Yoga for sure - especially if I enjoy walking, standing, sitting without pain.  And Strength exercise - my muscles are going in the wrong direction for now - and definitely need to be built up!  Especially if I enjoy the walking, standing, sitting activities for which Yoga has given me the flexibility!

Cardiovascular activity - uhm - IF I keep up the above - this one follows almost automatically - usually in the form of walking around the house, dancing (although it can - and has in the past led to knees popping out of joint again!)

2. STAY AWAY from coffee.  or at least stay away from more than 1 cup a day.  Tea is fine - to an extent - just not strong tea!

3. No dieting per se - but re-figuring my food intake options - and going for healthy food choices - and yes, I do like the Spark people diet.
a. Limit fat intake.
b. Limit sugars
c. More fiber
d. Veggies - esp raw ones are good - just watch the sauces
e. Make sure I consume 3 glasses milk daily - OR the equivalent
f. One helping
g. REGULAR times for eating.  Breakfast at 7. Morning pick me up at 10. Lunch at 12:30.
h. at 8 PM - evening snack - which is figured as part of day's caloric intake.
i. at 3 PM - afternoon snack - also part of day's caloric intake.
j. Weigh and/or measure EVERYTHING!
k. Make friends with salads!

4. Ummm - I SHOULD be journaling the diet - but considering that I spend too much time sitting and being on the computer anyway - that can be a problem.  Consider planning - and then following the plan!

5. Weigh in - uhm - this gets to be a problem and then I hyperfocus on foods and overeat or binge eat.  Consider losing inches rather than weight - and decreasing clothing size!

6. Rewards for each week?  hmmm - at this point a reward for each DAY would be nice!  should be something fun and NOT food!  Must think on this!  I definitely am too food oriented - and, no - hot fudge sundaes will NOT work as a reward! Neither will adding to my overly abundant stash!

May's quilting goals - and what I'm doing!

(Pix to come - eventually!)

Egads - I'm up to Number 20 (and probably a lot closer to #1 by now~!) on the UFO Queen's list on Stashbusters - something to NOT be proud of!  Trust me on that one!  Ah well, never mind - I'll have a week before I have to pay in a FQ should I hit the #1 spot!  And I have the little baby quilt that would be just right for it!

The numbers for May on the Numbered UFO list are - #12 - which is Four Patch Revisited and #53 which is Jamestown Landing, both Bonnie Hunter's patterns!.  I truly do NOT expect to be at the final quilting on either of these - but will be instead be glad to get them to the flimsy stage!~  I'm still at the practice a lot on the FMQ - and choose to do my practicing on table toppers of some description and baby blankets!  Hence the baby blankets!

As for pictures of either of these - well, ulp!  I don't have any yet - but I WILL have them!  and WILL update my flimsy gallery as soon as I get the pix taken!

Mostly though I'm working on Jamestown landing - and considering that prior to this month I only had 35 string blocks out of the 168 needed and that my dd and I have been doing swaps with her portion being 500 blue and white HST which would be coming my way 100 at a time (I need 840 of these doodads!)......  well, all of a sudden things started moving faster - and Wendy sent 400 to go with last month's 100 and I got busy on paperpiecing the remainder of the string blocks!  Currently I'm putting together the alternate rows (the star rows are DONE!) and will be making the remaining blue and white HSTs after I figure out exactly where I am with what!

Originally I had thought of changing the color of the intervening unit block to green - or gold - or red - because I was afraid there wouldn't be enough color in there!  ROFLOL!  Even though the string blocks are "light" - they are comprised of ALL KINDS of lights and I just love them!  Definitely enough color in there with the string blocks looking "light" from an onlooker point of view!  Love this quilt!
..............................

Re the Four Patch Revisited - I have ALL the little blocks leftover from when I downsized Bodacious to a baby quilt which I gave Evan.  While I don't have any double pink like Bonnie used - I do have several other pinks and am switching my LE to attaching the triangles for the square in a "square" (the tiny Bow-dacious 4 patch blocks)!  Still need to figure out what other color to use!  This will probably be a quilt for my bed - uhm - an alternate winter quilt????  not sure! (My Log Cabin is first choice!)   This is the LE as stated - HOWEVER since it is also a May quilt - it is of short term duration - and LE will revert back to the Orange Crush quilt once Jamestown Landing is done!

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Jamestown Landing is a Bonnie Hunter quilt - and found in String Fling.
Bow-dacious is also a Bonnie Hunter quilt - and is found in Adventures with Leaders & Enders.
Four Patch Re-visited is also a Bonnie Hunter quilt and is also found in Adventures with Leaders & Enders.
Orange Crush is a Bonnie Hunter mystery and is found on her blog: quiltville.blogspot.com  Quiltville's Quips and Snips.

Needless to say - I'm a Bonnie Hunter fan and I LOVE scrap quilts!

Menu for WB 05-01-16 - Sunday

SUNDAY

B:Cheesy eggs, toast

L:Hot turkey sandwich

D:Leftovers

S:

MONDAY

B:Rolled Oats, brown sugar, butter

L:Green bean soup in turkey broth

D:Turkeyetti (with veggies)
S:

TUESDAY

B:Pancakes

L:Egg salad sandwiches

D:Succotash soup

S:

WEDNESDAY

B:Poached egg on toast

L:Turkey sandwich

D:leftovers

S:

THURSDAY

B:Cold cereal, milk

L:tuna salad

D:Asian Burrito

S:

FRIDAY

B:Waffles

L:leftovers from lunch menu

D:Mediterranean fish, baked potato, sour cream (lite), spinach

S:

SATURDAY

B:Muffin

L:turkey pot pie (crockpot)

D:Noodle kugel, veggies, fruit

S:

Goals for WB 05-15-16 - Sunday

GO AND DO
DONE Post office
DONE Medical Appointments
DONE Visit and babysit with Evan
HOUSE

• Sewing room
• DONE Zone - am rearranging room - ugh!
• Zone 4
• Bedroom 
• DONE WHB
• Zone 5: 
• Living Room
• DONE WHB
• Study
• DONE WHB
• DONE Paperwork - F

GARDEN - M, W, F

• DONE GARDEN - plant - beans, bought in plants, 

QUILT

• PIECING
• DONE Swaps - Caught up through JULY!!!!
• Jamestown Landing (goal would be entire flimsy - HOWEVER I will be overjoyed to get this ready for the outer border  (5 gazillion blue strings in border marching around the center!)
• DONE HSTs - the rest of them made up - 168 I think
• working on it Complete Rows
• SOME ARE DONE Put rows together
• working on it Four Patch Re-Visited -Leader - Ender method
• Orange Crush - this will be a quilt together with Wendy - on hold until both of us are ready for it
• Allieterre - still a vision on the horizon!

Menu for WB 04-17-16

Sunday
B:Poached eggs, toast, coffee
L:chicken and noodles
D:leftovers

Monday
B:Kasha, coffee
L:green bean soup
D:fried trout, greens with lemon, pan fried potatoes, cornbread

Tuesday
B:Waffles, coffee
L:tabouli salad
D:pizza with cheese, salad

Wednesday
B:Sausage egg cheese burrito (homemade), coffee
L:peanut butter and jelly sandwich
D:Turkey burger, baked potato, peas and carrots

Thursday
B:homemade granola, coffee, milk
L:chicken salad sandwich
D:leftovers

Friday
B:Popovers, coffee
L:leftovers
D:Fresh fish - potato,

Saturday
B:Passover apple kugel, coffee
L:
D:Sat eve P meal
Sun - P meal with Nathan and Lyn

Quilting Marathon!

Actually it starts on TUESDAY - March 29, 2016.  HOWEVER - I just finished quilting (and binding) another quilt - and I'm on a roll!  Essentially!  So - I'm prepping for the quilting - and maybe doing some quilting surreptitiously along the way!  :)

Items I want to quilt............

1. The Valences (3) (yup - I'm quilting it - backing with a white sheet and then quilting enough so that the block will stay a block when washed!
2.  and 3.   These are 2 baby blankets that I pieced from blocks leftover from the  Valences - 4 blocks each!  And there are STILL leftover blocks I will use SOMEWHERE!
4. Charlestown baby quilt - turned into a flimsy this past January when I was SUPPOSED to be working on my Tobacco Road Couch quilt!
5. Yellow Brick  Road - and I FINALLY know how I want to quilt this.  Now to see if I can develop the skills I need!
6. New Year's Mystery quilt table topper (2010)
7 - 12 - Table Runners for different holidays
13. Summer Breeze - a full size quilt
14. Scrap Basket Quilt - a QOV I want to get finished and on its way!
15. Apple Cider table topper
16. Hurricane Sandy table topper

and I'm quite sure I can find others hidden away - uh - tucked away on my shelves!

Of course I need to clone myself and my machine several times over in order to get this all done!  So - I'm going to just list these here - then play elephant.  You know - how do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time!  Probably starting with the easiest first (table runners, valences, baby quilts!)

What I did this past week and weekend!!!

Here's pictures of the Log cabin Quilt that I finished binding in January (not this past week - but also wasn't posted either!)  My daughter did all the quilt design of this (I did the piecing and the binding!)

Detail of the white parts

4 blocks together and almost pictures of the quilt stitching design

Log Cabin Quilt - all bound

Quilted and bound this past week.

Evan's "Big Boy" quilt

(he's being promoted to Big Brother in October!)

I did both walking foot quilting (straight lines)
as well as Free Motion Quilting (the flowers and leave -
which, of course, you can't see!)  First time FMQ on a big project!

You can almost see the blue thread of the flowers in this picture.
Almost, but not quite!

You can barely see the shadows on the backing for the design -
flowers with leaves!

Menues for WB 03-13-16

SUNDAY
B:Poached egg with corned beef hash, Applesauce, coffee
L:turkey burger Sandwich , milk
D:leftovers
S:

MONDAY
B: Cracked wheat, home dried raisins, coffee, milk
L:Soup - broccoli, milk
D:stir fry with cheese
S:

TUESDAY
B:English muffin, honey, coffee, milk
L:salad -  big leafy green with cheese, egg, milk
D:Eggplant parmesan casserole, tea
S:

WEDNESDAY
B:Poached eggs on toast, coffee, milk
L:peanut butter, jelly sandwich, milk
D:leftovers
S:

THURSDAY
B: cold cereal, milk, coffee
L:lo casserole, milk or coffee
D:corned beef and cabbage with potatoes and carrots (crockpot - 1 serving and freeze the rest)
S:

FRIDAY
B:waffles, milk, coffee, syrup or honey
L:lo, milk or coffee
D:Vegetarian lasagne (1 serving and freeze the rest), applesauce, challah
S:

SATURDAY
B:Bagel, cream cheese, coffee, milk
L:crockpot - chicken and rice - Hawaian Style with green peppers, sweet onions, pineapple, challah, coffee or tea
D:tuna salad, apple slices, challah

Quilting plans - what I did in January

New day - New Year - Fresh Start!

At least that's what I envisioned!  Fresh start being FINISHING a bunch of quilts!

January's plans - and it all started so simply.............

I re-did all my quilt lists.  To me, considering how SLOW (procrastinating) I work through some stuff - I decided to list SEPARATELY all hand work stuff, all STRING stuff, all APPLIQUE stuff - at least until some point when I could move them over to the quilting lists.  That was the plan!

There were those quilts that I had sort of not really almost started - you know, the ones I REALLY wanted to do, selected the fabrics and maybe sliced one strip of fabric from.  And that was about all.  Anyway - after last year's discovery that I might not even have a clue what the original pattern was - I moved all of those to WHIMs (wishful hopes in mind?) and there they sit!  They do NOT belong on the WIPs (works in progress) list!

And, of course, I wanted a group of FAST and EASY items so I could throw something together and GET IT DONE (such as when my number got close to the top on Stashbuster queen's list!)  Uh huh!

My January list:

1. Swap with Wendy
2. January numbers - the one I DIDN'T have - I substituted for LE my Tobacco Road quilt (at that point - only 2 strips of fabric sewn together).
3. January numbers - New Year's Mystery table topper.
4. Buckeye Beauty baby quilt - all sandwiched and ready to go.  If I was on a roll quilting wise - I could do THIS one as a swap.  If not - well there was the LE Tobacco Road

And that was it!

Of course - there was that cute Charleston picture that I wanted to change around - and - and .....

I decided that Tobacco Road would be a leader ender.  That decision lasted about 2 seconds.

RESULTS:

Swap with Wendy - DONE - for January anyway!
Only difference between this and the reality is
that the 4-patches are red and black

Tobacco Road - all pieces sewn together and started to assemble.  (sorry - no picture at this point!)

New Year's Mystery  Table Topper - still UNDONE 

No idea what I want to do re quilting it!

Buckeye Beauty baby quilt - still UNDONE.  One would have thought that since I didn't know what to do re quilting the NY mystery that I would have done this one.
NO idea how I want to quilt it.
Still, though, one would have thought.............

Charleston - ummmmmmmmmmmmm - well - uh - that started (very briefly) as a LE - and kind of took over.  Baby quilt ALMOST put together by the end of January (no picture at that stage however!)

AND I FINALLY got the binding hand sewn on the Log Cabin quilt.
Queen sized - with miles and miles and miles of binding!

February's quilting goals - and how I did...........

Here's what was planned:

1. Quilt January's New Year's (2010) Mystery table topper
2. Piece Work on Tobacco Road
3. Quilt February number challenge - Yellow Brick Road
4. Quilt February number challenge - Summer Breeze
5. Quilt Valentine Day table runner
6. Quilt Buckeye Beauty baby quilt
7. Piece Charleston

As you can see - 5 to be quilted (actually 4 - 1 is left over from January) and 2 to be pieced (actually 0 - one is left from January and the other was SUPPOSED to be a LE!!!  We see how that goes!

First - the GOOD news! (Provided of course I actually get the NEW pictures POSTED above each item!

#7 Charleston - as you can see - I finished the piecing - after changing sashing width and doing away with all the borders - it is now a very cute little baby quilt!

#2 Tobacco Road - not done, not even a flimsy - but definitely on its way!  Fun thing - because I apparently spin all my pinwheels backward - I had to start at the LOWER LEFT corner instead of the TOP LEFT like everybody else - which involved a lot of re-thinking how to put this together.  I REALLY like it though!  Originally I was going to offer my dil a choice of quilts - not now!  I'm keeping this one!  It's my COUCH quilt (no borders)!

And now for the OTHER news!

 Quilt January's New Year's (2010) Mystery table topper -
STILL not quilted (January project).
Not sure how I want to quilt this - X's???? Feathers????

Quilt February number challenge - Yellow Brick Road
STILL not quilted - not sure how I want to quilt it
but lions, tigers and bears come to mind -
as do wizards, lions, tin man, scarecrow, Toto and Dorothy.

Quilt February number challenge - Summer Breeze
ALSO STILL  unquilted.
And I keep thinking of blue yarn tufts

Quilt Valentine Day table runner
This one I actually started quilting - In MARCH!
Unfortunately I DON'T like the way it is going
so ALL the quilting needs to be taken out!  Oh joy!

Quilt Buckeye Beauty baby quilt
It is all sandwiched and ready to quilt - just NOT done yet!
I was having too much "fun" sewing strips of Tobacco Road
into a flimsy!

Now - as to what I will do in March - I'm hoping to focus on the March items.  Once ALL of those are done, then I can  move ONE above item into place and sew that - probably the Buckeye Beauty since it is all sandwiched.

March - my quilting goals

FINISH - 200 4-patches - 2.5 inch - red and black - (100 from February, 100 from March) - Swap


MARCH NUMBER CHALLENGE -

#4 - Valences

Made from extra valences - baby quilts

#41 - Scrap Basket Blues 

There are other things as well - BUT these are my primary goals!

I'm BAAAACK!

Whew!  I'm FINALLY back online!  I do admit,. however, that not being able to read or post anything (or play games) did mean that (a) I got a LOT done (am involved in Spring Housecleaning - got rid of a LOT of stuff - old videos, ancient spices - and a MOUNTAIN of papers!!!!!  (b) I also got my cabinets and closets clean (well - all except 3 of them!) (c) I sewed up a storm!  Start to finish on a little quilt - Charleston - which, of course, I changed all around and will NOT put borders on - because it is darling WITHOUT the borders!!  I still have to quilt it though!  I also am almost completely done with the 5 zillion and one piece Tobacco Road quilt - and it is GORGEOUS!  Pix as soon as I get all these things done!  I hope to have MOST (not all, unfortunately!) quilted by the end of the month! and will post pix then!

Oh yeah - why was I offline?  broken power cord!  I have a new one now - and am so glad!

Whew! Another good report!

Yesterday I had surgery - a colonoscopy which included removal of 6 polyps plus one that definitely did NOT look good (although biopsy showed no CA cells - that still wasn't the whole thing - plus most of the polyps from last November were pre-cancerous!).  As far as the surgeon can tell, that's it at least for now.  Everything was sent to the lab and official results will eventually wind their way back to me.  However the surgeon says that everything truly looks good and he doesn't expect to see me again for a year!  YAY!!!!!!

Even more exciting - I could EAT again!  Admittedly it was chicken soup (Big Y makes FANTASTIC chicken soup - chock full of shredded roasted chicken, LOTS of veggies and some noodles - and of course the soup part which is always delicious!)  Nathan, in addition to chauffering me back and forth, bought me a whole quart of the soup!  which of course, being me, did NOT last until morning!

Today I decided that even though I was cleared to drive, that I was still enough of a space cadet that I had best stay home - and sewed and sewed! (today I was cleared to operate machines - but not yesterday - not that I wanted to do anything but sleep!)  I've since modified my Fab 4 list to become a FAB 6 list - which is cool!  And fortunately I found enough bonus triangles (check out Bonny Hunter on this one!) so that I won't have to make all 388 HSTs.  Hopefully I won't have to make any! (I do have a BIG bag - somewhere in that mess!  For now I'm working off all the little odds and ends bonus triangle bags!)

I also got some cleaning done (a little), slept a lot, and am getting ready to finish up my binding on my Log cabin (HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) - which of course means I have to find my glasses AND the black thread!  and will be watching one or more of my favorite DVDs.  So far I have 12 possibilities sitting here on the night stand.  I think My Fellow Americans will be the first - especially considering how I feel about some of the potential candidates!

January!!! The Quilting part!!!!!!!!!

BINDING

QUILTING

PIECING

This is a quilt I started before my move to Massachusetts and is for my son who was then unmarried.  I want to at the least bring this to a flimsy and then show it to Nathan and Lynn and go from there!  I also want to do a quilt for Lynn but that may need to wait awhile!

As for pix - none yet.

HAND SEWING

I'm not sure I will get this one done - hand sewing is not my favorite thing.  Still......  I have several quilts mentioned on my blog - but am contemplating (thanks to Wendy's suggestion) working on a Dear Jane quilt (instead of the 365 day one I was thinking of).  Seriously - it would make a lot of sense!  Esp. since I have Civil War Repros and the book already!

Again - no pix!

Goals - 2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!

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These are NOT resolutions!  These are Hope for's and Work on's and Believe I can Do this projects..........  And are NOT just about sewing or gardening or whatever

1. Work on healthy eating skills - think Pyramid chart and post.  No between meal snacks, nothing after 8 PM (unless visiting my son and his wife - their 6 PM dinner is usually ready about 730 - 8 PM)
2. Move that body!  Includes  yoga, strength training, Physical therapy, walking, bicycling - really almost any physical activity.  does NOT include housecleaning - though it should - but after a gazillion tries to include this - it was NOT helping anyway, so I'm ignoring that.
3. Housekeeping - note the difference - not Cleaning since I don't like to do that anyway - but housekeeping - which should be a step up, sounds more friendly, and should mean at least a minimum of effort has been used anyway!  BUT it is more inclusive of so  much more than just cleaning!
4. Sewing - quilts and so on - set up by the month with progress noted.  This includes piecing, hand sewing of some sort, Quilting, binding (my nemesis)
5. Get smarter program - at least one subject 6 days a week.  Doing all my subjects may be something I WANT to do but the time involved is humongous - and I usually don't have that time.