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!!!!!!!!!!

****************************

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.

Well - it's working again! for how long? Who knows!!!!

The bells and whistles sewing machine is working again!!!  HOORAY!!!  For how long?  I have NO idea!  What was wrong with it?  I think it was tired and wanted a vacation!

Sounds like the machine is alive?  Maybe... maybe not!  Either way - there is NOTHING that I did to it that I didn't do before!  .....  Taking it apart, cleaning out the lint (although setting on my desk probably provided more cat hair lint than what it had after I cleaned it!), re threading it (daily until I gave up - then suddenly one day THAT worked!), replacing the needle.  Rethreading the bobbin.  Replacing the bobbin with another one.  Putting my tongue on the left side of my cheek.  Opening the window in preparation to make good my unfounded threat to toss the machine through the window.

Nada!

Went through all the steps!  Even contacted the repair place to come clean and repair tired parts on my treadle so that I could use that! (at $150 just for the visit - not counting any time/labor/parts for the machine - I have to rethink how I'm going to do that!  So my lovely treadle just SITS there - driving me crazy with wanting to use it!)  And suddenly it worked!  NO IDEA WHY!

I swear the thing is alive!  And personally I think it was tired before but now it felt lonesome, neglected (because it was) and so it changed its tactics.  Working great now!

When did it decide to work?  Dec. 24.  What have I done since then?  Brought my Arizona Skies quilt (aka Tequila whatevers) to the point where I need to work on the borders!  SCREECHING HALT!  Apparently I had decided to repurpose the fabrics in the meantime.  I have found out where I had stashed 3 out of 4 of the fabrics and can use unbleached muslin in place of the patterned background.  But the 4th fabric????  Not sure - but THINK I have it here SOMEWHERE!  (Keep in mind please that I had 81 project UFOs at the time and my sewing room is in chaos!)

So that has been put aside in favor of working on Bonnie Hunter's Tobacco Road (I will work on Allietare sometime in the New Year - am printing out what I need to do in the interim and saving in an Allietare folder!)

do I have pictures of anything?  Ummm - no!  And I put my camera in that safe place again - drat it!  Will post pix when I find the camera!  The Arizona Skies is QUITE colorful!  Not a true scrappy - but a fun quilt! (I may re-make some time and do this differently!)

I HATE MY SEWING MACHINE!!!! GRRRRRRR *#!@!!!

Goals for Week 39 - WB 09-19-15

GO AND DO
Yom Kippur
PT appt on 09-22-15 and 09-25
Mammogram on 09-25
23 - First day of Autumn
Babysit Evan
Post office
Project update on Saturday

HOUSE

• Zone 1
• Front Porch 
• WHB
• Entrance and 2nd floor landing
• WHB
• Back Stairs
• WHB
• Side Porch
• Zone
• WHB
• Zone 2
• Kitchen
• Zone
• WHB
• Zone 3
• Bath
• WHB
• Laundry Room
• WHB
• Sewing room
• Zone - see Bonnie's Spiff up
• WHB
• Zone 4
• Bedroom
• Zone
• WHB
• Zone 5: 
• Living Room
• Zone
• WHB
• Study
• Zone
• WHB
• Paperwork 

GARDEN

• Harvesting - anything I can!
• tomatoes
• Squash?
• Tomatillo
• Skip the Pix of garden for this year! 

DEHYDRATE
Make out dehydration/food preservation plan - what and when
Fruits I don't raise (but can buy locally) - visit Price Rite or Farmer's Market
Veggies from garden
Order foods from bulk foods.com OR Emergency Essentials (freeze-dried)

KITCHEN - get pantry ready for lts/ menue will be Spark People (trying to lose weight) for the next 3 months

• PANTRY
• Get jars and lids ready
• Get Food Saver thingy for the jars
• 3 day kit - get it ready
• Babysteps check list - #1, 2, 3.  
• Plan for winter food supply
• Declutter cookbooks.  Fix those I want to keep.
• BREADS
• Challah
• whole wheat bread
• CEREALS
• Homemade granola - LOTS of it
• MIXES
• Make mixes.  LABEL them - mix name AND date I put them together!  Store on meal prep shelf.
• Biscuit mix
• Chicken Baking Mix
• Homemade bread Mix
• Hot Roll mix
• Muffin Mix
• Onion Soup mix
• Pancake and Waffle mix
• Potato coating mix
• Stuffing mix
• Tortilla mix

EDUCATION 

• BOOKS
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that changed America. by Erik Larson
• Finish - Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson
• Audio: Suddenly Love by Aharon Appelfeld
• MOVIES:Check Netflix queue
• RELIGION
• Complete module
• Tisha b'Av
• H2R
• 474-478
• Review Elul, and Rosh Hashanah.
• Plan next study 
• SCIENCE (doing review of some of work)
• CB
• Bacterias, Endosperms
• CB24
• CB25
• CB26
• CB27
• CB28
• CB29
• Review 
• EARTH
• 
  
• EXERCISE
• PT appt
• Yoga
• Strength -Week 2 (REPEAT) - 8 minutes
• Cardio - bicycle, dance, clean, lots of weeding
• ALGEBRA
• Lesson 38
• Lesson 39
• Lesson 40
• Lesson 41
• Lesson 42
• Lesson 43
• CREATIVE WRITING
• Level 4
• 8-3
• 8-4
• 8-5
• 8-6
• 9-1
• 9-2
• HANDWRITING
• B - 
• 43
• 44
• 45
• 46
• 47
• 48
• RUSSIAN
• Lesson 42
• Lesson 43
• Lesson 44
• Lesson 45
• Lesson 46
• MUSIC
• Rachmaninoff - 2nd C
• Review sect 1-16
• Start on Second movement
• Scarlatti
• ART
• Lesson 9

QUILT (Needs to be worked on!  Once again!)

• STASH REPORT (Sunday)
• DESIGN WALL (Monday)
• BONNIE H. ARCHIVE NIGHT (Tues)
• 15 MINUTE "SPIFF UP" WITH BONNIE (IN STITCHES' BONNIE!) (Wednesday)
• SLICE AND DICE NIGHT (Thursday)
• FINISHINGS - Bindings, movies, spiced tea, hot cider or hot chocolate (Fri or Sat)

• BINDING
• Hand sew Binding on Log Cabin (finish)
• QUILTING
• Quilt the large olive green quilt for raffle
• *2 baby blankets (for charity)
• Buckeye Delight baby blanket
• PIECING
• CLASS - 
• *On Point BOM blocks - bring up to date!
• SWAP - 
• *Sampler - any re-do's remaining - and post pix to original group and individual members who haven't recieved blocks as of yet! January project!
• 50 4 patch aqua and white for Wendy
• LE - 
• Jamestown Landing
• PIECING
• Irish Double Chain (January UFO)
• Wendy's QOV
• APPLIQUE 
• *Halloween wall hanging 
• SEWING
• Fall nightgowns
• FOCUS on above

Goals for Week 38 (just a tad late!) - for WB 09-13-15

GO AND DO
DONE Rosh Hashana First Day
DONE Rosh Hashana Second Day
DONE PT appt on 09-16-15
DONE Babysit Evan
DONE Post office
Project update on Saturday
First REAL Quilt Retreat for me weekend (Join me anyone?  I promise I will be there this weekend!)

HOUSE

• Zone 1
• Front Porch 
• DONE Zone
• DONE WHB
• Entrance and 2nd floor landing
• DONE Zone
• DONE WHB
• Back Stairs
• DONE Zone
• DONE WHB
• Side Porch
• DONE DECLUTTERING
• Zone
• WHB
• Zone 2
• Kitchen
• Zone
• WHB
• Zone 3
• Bath
• DONE Zone
• DONE WHB
• Laundry Room
• DONE Zone
• DONE WHB
• Sewing room
• DONE Zone - see Bonnie's Spiff up
• DONE WHB
• Zone 4
• Bedroom
• DONE WHB
• Zone 5: 
• Living Room
• Zone
• WHB
• Study
• Zone
• WHB
• Paperwork 

GARDEN

• Harvesting - anything I can!
• DONE tomatoes
• Squash?
• Tomatillo
• Skip the Pix of garden for this year! 

DEHYDRATE
Make out dehydration/food preservation plan - what and when
Fruits I don't raise (but can buy locally) - visit Price Rite or Farmer's Market
Veggies from garden
Order foods from bulk foods.com OR Emergency Essentials (freeze-dried)

KITCHEN - get pantry ready for lts/ menue will be Spark People (trying to lose weight) for the next 3 months

• PANTRY
• Get jars and lids ready
• Get Food Saver thingy for the jars
• 3 day kit - get it ready
• Babysteps check list - #1, 2, 3.  
• Plan for winter food supply
• Declutter cookbooks.  Fix those I want to keep.
• BREADS
• Challah
• whole wheat bread
• CEREALS
• Homemade granola - LOTS of it
• MIXES
• Make mixes.  LABEL them - mix name AND date I put them together!  Store on meal prep shelf.
• Biscuit mix
• Chicken Baking Mix
• Homemade bread Mix
• Hot Roll mix
• Muffin Mix
• Onion Soup mix
• Pancake and Waffle mix
• Potato coating mix
• Stuffing mix
• Tortilla mix

EDUCATION 

• BOOKS
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that changed America. by Erik Larson
• Finish - Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson
• Audio: Suddenly Love by Aharon Appelfeld
• MOVIES:Check Netflix queue
• RELIGION
• Complete module
• Tisha b'Av
• H2R
• 474-478
• Review Elul, and Rosh Hashanah.
• Plan next study 
• SCIENCE (doing review of some of work)
• CB
• Bacterias, Endosperms
• CB24
• CB25
• CB26
• CB27
• CB28
• CB29
• Review 
• EARTH
• 
  
• EXERCISE
• PT appt
• Yoga
• Strength -Week 2 (REPEAT) - 8 minutes
• Cardio - bicycle, dance, clean, lots of weeding
• ALGEBRA
• Lesson 38
• Lesson 39
• Lesson 40
• Lesson 41
• Lesson 42
• Lesson 43
• CREATIVE WRITING
• Level 4
• 8-3
• 8-4
• 8-5
• 8-6
• 9-1
• 9-2
• HANDWRITING
• B - 
• 43
• 44
• 45
• 46
• 47
• 48
• RUSSIAN
• Lesson 42
• Lesson 43
• Lesson 44
• Lesson 45
• Lesson 46
• MUSIC
• Rachmaninoff - 2nd C
• Review sect 1-16
• Start on Second movement
• Scarlatti
• ART
• Lesson 9

QUILT (Needs to be worked on!  Once again!)

• STASH REPORT (Sunday)
• DONE DESIGN WALL (Monday)
• BONNIE H. ARCHIVE NIGHT (Tues)
• 15 MINUTE "SPIFF UP" WITH BONNIE (IN STITCHES' BONNIE!) (Wednesday)
• SLICE AND DICE NIGHT (Thursday)
• FINISHINGS - Bindings, movies, spiced tea, hot cider or hot chocolate (Fri or Sat)

• BINDING
• Hand sew Binding on Log Cabin (finish)
• QUILTING
• Quilt the large olive green quilt for raffle
• *2 baby blankets (for charity)
• Buckeye Delight baby blanket
• PIECING
• CLASS - 
• *On Point BOM blocks - bring up to date!
• SWAP - 
• *Sampler - any re-do's remaining - and post pix to original group and individual members who haven't recieved blocks as of yet! January project!
• 50 4 patch aqua and white for Wendy
• LE - 
• Jamestown Landing
• PIECING
• Irish Double Chain (January UFO)
• Wendy's QOV
• APPLIQUE 
• *Halloween wall hanging 
• SEWING
• Fall nightgowns
• FOCUS on above

Design Wall for Week 38 - (and probably next week as well!) - 09-13-15

BINDING

Log Cabin quilt

QUILTING

This is the mini version (which is done and gone!) of the BIG quilt that I want to finish
 and donate for auction for Alzheimer's Association

Baby blanket - I think it is large enough for a youth bed for Evan
Buckeye Beauty.

 PIECING - 

LEADER ENDER

Jamestown landing - only 5.658,979 1/2 to go - or so it seams (pun intended!)
Actually there are less than half still to be done.

 SWAP

(no pix at present)
4 patches - aqua and light! or white!

CLASS

On point quilt.  Would you believe this is the ONLY one I have done?
 It is a BOM starting this last January!
 I think I am just a tad behind!

 PIECING

Irish Double Chain.
 I have to change around some of the part B - which I have managed to mess up!
Pray I have enough of THAT pattern of WOW (white on white)!
This was one of the 2 January UFO numbers called!

Wendy's QOV - which I need to finish and get sent off!
This number was called for UFO numbers to work on I think in February
(actually another QOV very similar was called - which I can't find -
and this one will be a great substitute!)

old picture - from the eons old swap!
still checking to make sure I have all the blocks!  

APPLIQUE 

Halloween hanging!

SEWING
(no pix yet)  clothing is/are  several nightgowns.

Goals for Week 37 - 09-06-15

GO AND DO
Change PT appts
PT appt on 09-08-15 and 09-11-15
Orthopedic person (surgeon or someone re orthotics?)
Post office
Project update on Saturday
Second Quilt Retreat weekend (Join me anyone?)

HOUSE

• Zone 1
• Front Porch 
• WHB
• Entrance and 2nd floor landing
• WHB
• Back Stairs
• WHB
• Side Porch
• WHB
• Zone 2
• Kitchen
• Zone
• WHB
• Zone 3
• Bath
• WHB
• Laundry Room
• WHB
• Sewing room
• Zone - see Bonnie's Spiff up
• WHB
• Zone 4
• Bedroom
• WHB
• Zone 5: 
• Living Room
• WHB
• Study
• WHB
• Paperwork 

GARDEN

• Harvesting - anything I can!
• tomatoes
• Squash?
• Tomatillo
• Skip the Pix of garden for this year! 

DEHYDRATE
Make out dehydration/food preservation plan - what and when
Fruits I don't raise (but can buy locally) - visit Price Rite or Farmer's Market
Veggies from garden
Order foods from bulk foods.com OR Emergency Essentials (freeze-dried)

KITCHEN - get pantry ready for lts/ menue will be Spark People (trying to lose weight) for the next 3 months

• PANTRY
• Get jars and lids ready
• Get Food Saver thingy for the jars
• 3 day kit - get it ready
• Babysteps check list - #1, 2, 3.  
• Plan for winter food supply
• Declutter cookbooks.  Fix those I want to keep.
• BREADS
• Challah
• whole wheat bread
• CEREALS
• Homemade granola - LOTS of it
• MIXES
• Make mixes.  LABEL them - mix name AND date I put them together!  Store on meal prep shelf.
• Biscuit mix
• Chicken Baking Mix
• Homemade bread Mix
• Hot Roll mix
• Muffin Mix
• Onion Soup mix
• Pancake and Waffle mix
• Potato coating mix
• Stuffing mix
• Tortilla mix

EDUCATION 

• BOOKS
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that changed America. by Erik Larson
• Finish - Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson
• Audio: Suddenly Love by Aharon Appelfeld
• MOVIES:Check Netflix queue
• RELIGION
• Complete module
• Tisha b'Av
• H2R
• 474-478
• Review Elul, and Rosh Hashanah.
• Plan next study 
• SCIENCE (doing review of some of work)
• CB
• Bacterias, Endosperms
• CB24
• CB25
• CB26
• CB27
• CB28
• CB29
• Review 
• EARTH
• 
  
• EXERCISE
• PT appt
• Yoga
• Strength -Week 2 (REPEAT) - 8 minutes
• Cardio - bicycle, dance, clean, lots of weeding
• ALGEBRA
• Lesson 38
• Lesson 39
• Lesson 40
• Lesson 41
• Lesson 42
• Lesson 43
• CREATIVE WRITING
• Level 4
• 8-3
• 8-4
• 8-5
• 8-6
• 9-1
• 9-2
• HANDWRITING
• B - 
• 43
• 44
• 45
• 46
• 47
• 48
• RUSSIAN
• Lesson 42
• Lesson 43
• Lesson 44
• Lesson 45
• Lesson 46
• MUSIC
• Rachmaninoff - 2nd C
• Review sect 1-16
• Start on Second movement
• Scarlatti
• ART
• Lesson 9

QUILT (Needs to be worked on!  Once again!)

• STASH REPORT (Sunday)
• DESIGN WALL (Monday)
• BONNIE H. ARCHIVE NIGHT (Tues)
• 15 MINUTE "SPIFF UP" WITH BONNIE (IN STITCHES' BONNIE!) (Wednesday)
• SLICE AND DICE NIGHT (Thursday)
• FINISHINGS - Bindings, movies, spiced tea, hot cider or hot chocolate (Fri or Sat)

• BINDING
• Hand sew Binding on Log Cabin (finish)
• Binding on 2 baby quilts finished
• Binding on Simple Patch Baby quilt
• QUILTING
• *2 baby blankets (for charity)
• *Simple patch baby quilt
• *Valences
• Buckeye Delight baby blanket
• PIECING
• *On Point BOM blocks - bring up to date!
• *Sampler - any re-do's remaining - and post pix to original group and individual members who haven't recieved blocks as of yet! January project!
• *Simple Patch baby blanket (July UFO)
• Irish Double Chain (January UFO)
• Stars and Strips  (orig. was Stars and Ribbons)
• Charm Around
• Crazy Quilt
• Fresh Air
• APPLIQUE 
• *Halloween wall hanging 
• Other Halloween items
• SEWING
• Fall wardrobe - shirts/blouses
• Fall slacks
• Fall skirts
• Fall suit jackets
• Fall dresses
• Fall nightgowns
• FOCUS on above

Menu for Week 37 - 09-06-15

SUNDAY
B:Toast with neufchatel cheese, coffee, milk, Grapes
L:Apple Turkey burger, milk, grapes, small salad
D:leftovers
S:Raisins

MONDAY
B:Kasha, yogurt, apple, coffee
L:Soup - mystery soup I forgot to label!, pbj - half sandwich, milk
D:Honey barbecued salmon, baked potatoes, green beans, spinach salad, milk
S:grapes

TUESDAY
B:Raisin Muffin (freeze ALL the rest!), neufchatel, coffee, milk
L:Super Salad - lettuce and a stroll through the veggies!, milk
D:Polenta Pie, salad, milk
S:baked apple

WEDNESDAY
B:Scrambled egg with fake-bacon bits, coffee, milk, grapes?
L:Cheese sandwich, grilled.  Maybe 1/2 cup tomato soup, milk
D:leftovers, milk
S:grapes

THURSDAY
B:Cracked wheat with raisins, yogurt, coffee
L:Casserole or lo from dinner menu,milk
D:Creamy Ziti, salad, milk
S:grapes or melon

FRIDAY
B:Grain pudding (leftover cooked cereals and raisins mixed up like a bread pudding and baked!), milk, coffee
L:Soup? - lo from lunch menu, milk
D:Blackberry Balsamic Chicken, Roasted potatoes, green beans, baked sweet potatoes, tea
S:Rhubarb sauce

SATURDAY
B:Applesauce Coffeecake, milk, coffee
L:Savory Beans, meat, onion in a stew, salad, challah, iced tea
D:Tuna salad, lokshen kugel, crudites, milk
S:Apple

Menu for Week 36 - 08-30-15

SUNDAY
B:Poached egg, toast, coffee, milk
L:Chopped liver (leftover from Sat eve), crackers, tea,

D:Vegetable spaghetti and spaghetti sauce (meatless), garlic bread (watch out vampires!!!) 

S:

MONDAY
B:Kasha, milk, coffee
L:Chili, tea, broken pieces tortilla chips
D:Leftovers -
S:

TUESDAY
B:Cinnamon biscuits and raisins
L:sliced tomatoes salad with blue cheese dressing.  Soup?
D:Mezzelune stuffed with eggplant

S:

WEDNESDAY
B:Cracked wheat and raisins, milk, coffee
L:Taco, lettuce, tomatoes, tea
D:Leftovers - maybe Carrot soup also
S:

THURSDAY
B:Cinnamon Toast
L:Rice and lo veggies with cheese. Set like a stir fry
D:Meatless Bean soup, homemade crackers - probably a mixed bean type soup - may "cream" it
S:

FRIDAY
B:Rolled oats and raisins, milk, coffee
L:Tomato - orzo soup, salad?
D:Fried fish, green beans, sliced potatoes, sliced tomatoes, challah, raisin pie
S:

SATURDAY
B:boiled egg, challah, jelly, milk, coffee
L:Beans, barley or wheat, onion, potato, tomatoes, any meat with dumpling crust, challah,
D:Pizza with mozzarella cheese, eggplant, tomato sauce
S:

Cauliflower, ,carrots,  , eggplant,
Leftovers - maybe Carrot soup also
Leftovers -

Mezzelune stuffed with eggplant

Goals for Week 36 - 08-30-15R

GO AND DO
Done PT appt on 09-04-15
Done Post office

HOUSE

• Zone 1
• Front Porch 
• Done Zone
• Done WHB
• Entrance and 2nd floor landing
• Done Zone
• Done WHB
• Back Stairs
• Done Zone
• Done WHB
• Zone 2
• Kitchen
• Done WHB
• Zone 3
• Bath
• Done WHB
• Laundry Room
• Done WHB
• Sewing room
• Done Zone - see Bonnie's Spiff up
• Done WHB
• Zone 4
• Bedroom
• Done WHB
• Zone 5: 
• Living Room
• Done WHB
• Study
• Done WHB

EDUCATION 

• RELIGION
• Complete module
• Tisha b'Av
• TIMG
• Done 96
• JW
• Done 260-263
• JH&F
• Done 179-182
• Done 182-186
• H2R
• Done 468-471
• Done 471-474
• Song
• Done 227
• Done 228
• Done 229
• Done 231
• SCIENCE (doing review of some of work)
• CB
• Plant Genetics:Monohybrid Cross
• Done CB18
• Done CB19
• Done CB20
• Algae, Fungii, Lichens, Bacteria
• Done CB 21
• Done CB22 
• Done CB23
• Done Review 
• EARTH
• LOE 
• Chapter 1 - The Infinite Variety
• Done p. 20-34
• Usborne
• Done 10-13
• Done 14-17
• Cartoon History 
• Done 10-13, 14, 15
• TOL
• Done 90-95
• Done 96-97, 98-101
• EXERCISE
• Done PT appt
• ALGEBRA
• Done Lesson 32
• Done Lesson 33
• Done Lesson 34
• Done Lesson 35
• Done Lesson 36
• Done Lesson 37
• CREATIVE WRITING
• Level 4
• Done 6-3
• Done 7-1
• Done 7-2
• Done 7-3
• Done 8-1
• Done 8-2
• HANDWRITING
• B - 
• Done 37
• Done 38
• Done 39
• Done 40
• Done 41
• Done 42
• RUSSIAN
• Done Lesson 39
• Done Lesson 40
• Done Lesson 41
• Done Lesson 42
• Done Lesson 43
• MUSIC
• Done Rachmaninoff - 2nd C
• Review sect 1-16
• Start on Second movement
• Done Scarlatti
• ART
• Done Lesson 8

QUILT (Needs to be worked on!)

• Done STASH REPORT (Sunday)
• Done DESIGN WALL (Monday)
• Done 15 MINUTE "SPIFF UP" WITH BONNIE (IN STITCHES' BONNIE!) (Wednesday)