My One Monthly Goal for April was to quilt, bind, and mail this cute little quilt.
Tu-Na Quilts: The Elephant Quilt is Done
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Tu-Na Quilts: February Goal
I didn’t do too well last month so let’s try again this month. January’s One Monthly Goal was to finish and mail the elephant quilt.
I laid the elephant quilt on the guest bed and figured out what needed to be done to make the rows the same size. (They were sewn on two different machines and are not equal in length.) But that’s as far as it got as we were getting overnight company. So I gathered up the rows and they’ve been hanging over the ironing board ever since.
And then I got distracted making some pine trees for my Bee Inspired Bee Mate
You can find the free pattern here.
and this super cute mixer which I wrote about here. Now you can read my post on the Bee Inspired Blog here and why I needed to sew one and who gets it.
You can find the free pattern here.
I also spent a couple of all day sewing sessions working on a mystery quilt hosted by my Arizona quilting group.
I picked up this tip to keep organized with the steps by putting the pieces into labeled zip lock bags..
I completed these pieces for day one of the mystery quilt. I must admit that I spent a lot of time checking out the fabric choices of the other class members as well as just chatting.
Here’s a wonderful batik quilt. Even Tu-Na Helper likes this one.
I did lots of volunteering in my AZ community in January: making popcorn for Monday Movie Days, clearing and resetting tables for the Sloppy Joe Lunch, being in charge of ticket sales for the shuffleboard club, and chairing the membership committee for the quilting group. That brings me to this month wondering what happened to the rest of January.
I’ve got several projects needing to be finished this month that I could list here but I want to keep this elephant quilt as my One Monthly Goal. After all it really needs to get done!
So February’s goal is to finish this cute elephant quilt top, quilt it on the longarm, bind it, and put it in the mail.
What I Learned Today:
- I suffer from MPD (Multiple Project Disorder).
- I am also afflicted with DSD (Distracted Sewing Disease).
- I have a problem with time management.
- There’s so much to do all the time here at “winter camp for seniors.”
- I need to use my time wisely as it will continue to pass quickly no matter what I do or how much or how little I get done.
Question: What do you do help with time management?
Thanks for stopping by and do come again.
Karen, Tu-Na Quilts
Linking to:
One Monthly Goal at Elm Street Quilts
WIPs at Silly Mama Quilts
Finished or Not Friday at Busy Hands Quilt
Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Tu-Na Quilts: Let’s Talk About the Elephant in the Closet
Yes, lets’ talk about that elephant quilt lurking in my closet. I’m making it for my best friend’s granddaughter who already celebrated her first birthday in November. So it’s officially not a baby quilt anymore. And I’m officially very late with it.
This project became shelved when I began having eye issues. It needs a bit of seam adjustment to make the rows match.
Everyone (well, at least the blogs that I follow) talks about their one monthly goals and up to now I figured I didn’t need to set myself one goal a month. But after last year, I do need an incentive or something to help me move some projects along. So I figured I’d join the party.
The rules are to write a post about the one item you want to move along or finish this month and link to the party at Elm Street Quilts. Then at the end of the month, write a post about your progress and link to the finish party. I figure it may be just the incentive I need to move along a few projects. Oh, and there are prizes to win, too.
I started this quilt last spring. You can read about the exciting birth of that baby elephant here as Dr. Tu-Na was present in the delivery (sewing) room. I posted about this quilt’s progress here in Let’s Make Elephants, and here in We Have an Elephant Parade, and here in Progress on She Has Her Mommy’s Nose.
I’ll post about my progress on this Elephant at the end of the month or sooner if I actually get it done. Yes, completely done: pieced, sandwiched, quilted, bound, and in the mail.
What I Learned Today:
- There are 25 days left in January. I better not wait until the last week to work on this project.
- It gets cold in North Dakota in the winter. We braved the cold temps and spent the holidays with our family in North Dakota. The coldest it got was -28°F with at least two days of never getting above 0°.
- My plants in the sunroom don’t like the cold. The dieffenbachia froze.
- It’s time to bring on the heat and head back to Arizona.
- I’m thinking an Arizona Family Christmas next year just might be perfect.
Question: What project do you have that’s been hiding in the closet? Oh, I have others that will hopefully make their appearances this year but this is the one that really needs to get done so someone cute and little can snuggle with it.
Thanks for stopping by and do come again.
Karen, Tu-Na Quilts
Linking to:
One Monthly Goal at Elm Street Quilts
Main Crush Monday at Cooking Up Quilts
Moving It Forward at Em’s Scrapbag
Monday Making at Love Laugh Quilt
Linky Tuesday at Freemotion by the River
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