It's Fall 2017
Today is Thursday the 28th of 2017, and once again I have not written in a long time. Several days ago our youngest grandson called and said Happy Fall grandma, it made me smile. I have a love hate relationship with fall, living here in the north country. I love the cooler temps and the colors and I even love the shorter days. But I hate what follows on its heels. It's the much hated "S" word and COLD!!!!. I won't say the "S" word for fear it will come sooner rather than later. As it nears I get more and more into the harvest/prep mode. Collecting the garden harvest and hauling it into the house and preparing projects to sew on during the long winter months. But I find my thoughts always go to the places I've been and the quilts I've made during the year. Such wonderful adventures and beautiful quilts.As most quilters, I have many, many......... many, on going projects and as of late, I have found I get more done when I have a list in the order I want to get stuff done.
My list is something like this;
1. I have to get going on Beth's log cabin star quilt, "king size" (they seem to go on for ever) but its an easy pattern just lots of cutting and lots of mindless sewing, I want this finished by Christmas and that is my number 1 goal, Beth is my husbands cousin and asked me to make her the same quilt as she currently has on her bed, the hickie is I got her stuff 2 years ago and am just finishing 3 memory quilts for 3 sisters who lost their mother. those will be done before Christmas I am also hoping. Since I do not do the long arm quilting on them , the time frame will wait on those who do the quilting then back to me to bind all of them, which I do my hand...
2. Make Rifles (youngest grandson) Christmas stocking and several extras in case I missed getting someone one in years gone by, (the years are flying like an eagle now days and this grandson is already 5 years old)!
3. Make all of the Bonnie Hunter quilts and blocks I have marked in her books and in the Quilt Maker magazines. (which basically means I'll never be able to die, as I will never get them all done.
4. Organize fabric, (fold and place on shelves in color order, 30's prints, civil war fabrics and so on)
5. Catch up on scraps, iron, cut into usable sizes and bag and sort into labeled see thru totes. (I have 2 huge boxes and 1 extra large laundry basket that needs caught up!!!) yikes... how did it come to this?
6. Make retirement quilt for oldest son, who retires from 20 years of service in the US Army. I have his old uniforms from all his deployments disassembled and ready to do something with I just need to figure out what to make with them and get it done! (wish I was retiring at ages 38!)
7. Get into the huge box of kits and UFO's I have gathered and need to be tackled.
8. Gift most of the quilts and wall hangings I have made that need homes.
9. Catch up on Quilt guild projects.
10. In November start on the mystery quilt that my dear friend Bonnie Hunter puts out every year!
11. Finish pumpkin quilt.
12. Find turtle quilt pattern and make it.
13. Finish thread spool quilt by Adyta Sitar
14. Make quilt for neighbor kid from his grandmothers fabrics.
My list, like most, could go on and on, but truly it does help to have a list and try to stay on task, I can't tell you how good it feels to cross something off the list... And I do literally print it off and pin it up on the wall... right by the light switch when I walk into my quilt studio. then I can see it... One more thing I do I print the most important ones in colored ink so I do jump around but red is "PRIORITY"
Today I am preparing for my Fast and Furious Star quilt class I am teaching in Broken Bow and Susie Walker owner of "The Quilting Shack", is hosting me. I am so looking forward to making new friends and showing a new technique. I" L-O-V-E" this quilt and it makes so very happy when it is wrapped around me. My quilts hang in the shops that offer classes and it always makes me long for them when they are gone...
Happy Fall ya all!
God Bless you and yours!
Hugs from The Millboro Quilter
