Glory Be Quilter: June 2014

June Review and July Goals

These were my MY JUNE GOALS...so let's see how I did...

1. Finish my report cards early! Pack up my classroom to move to another one! (DONE!)

2. Complete 2 twin quilts for a customer on the long arm by June 14. (DONE!)

3. Complete a class quilt by the end of June. (DONE!)

4. Work on 1 or 2 charity quilts for KSCQs. (NOT DONE!)
5. EPP 8 hours this month as my goal from Hexagon Alley. (DONE!) See blog post here.

6. Complete June's Scrappy Challenge block by Judy Lacquidara at Patchwork Times. (not done because Judy is not continuing with this any more so May was the last month :( )

7. Complete June's block for the Christmas Quilt Along by Beth at Love, Laugh, Quilt. (Not Done)

Well at least a few things got done...

JULY GOALS:

1. Long arm quilt a customer quilt.

2. Long arm quilt charity quilts for KSCQs.

3. EPP hexie flowers 8 hours for July from Hexagon Alley Challenge.

4. Put together scrappy blocks from Scrappy Challenge.

5. Complete June's snowflakes for Christmas Quilt Along by Beth at Love, Laugh, Quilt.

6. Work on my Hawaiian lap quilt.

7. Quilt a Hawaiian block for my niece.

This list might be too long but I will see... I am not working full time in July.

I am linking to:

- Fresh Sewing Day and Small Blog Meet at Lily's quilts by Lynne,

- A Lovely Year of Finishes by Melissa at Sew Bittersweet Designs.

Please visit the links on the right to see some lovely monthly finishes and goals for the next month.

This Week's Finishes and Goals

{29/06/14}

I totally did not post any finishes on Friday...if you have been following my recent posts you know I have been crazy busy.
I had to change classrooms at school and we decided to sell our house. I just finished putting all of the boxes away in my classroom on Saturday so that's done. I still want to paint my bulletin boards yet and I still have to file the report cards in their OSRs.
On the house side, the deal on the townhouse we wanted to buy fell through. We had a conditional offer and someone came in with a firm offer. So we are now deciding if we still sell even though we have nothing we want to move into?? We will have to continue to pray on that one.

Well just like I thought I only worked on EPP hexie flowers when travelling in a car or putting my feet up. I am working on appliqueing the flowers onto a block.

I started cutting out and pasting hexies on the next set of flowers.

Here is a review of my June hexie progress on Hexagon Alley for my monthly goal of 8 hours.

I also purchased another Fiskar's hexagon paper punch in the extra large size. I was thinking of using some of my scraps for this.

These are my goals this week...

1. Work on a customer quilt.

2. Finish labeling and binding these baby quilts and maybe drop them off this week.

I am linking to:

-Sew Many Ways: Sew Darn Crafty Linky party,

-Anything Goes Mondays @ Stitch by Stitch,

-Tuesday Linky party at Freemotion by the River,

-WIPs on Wednesday by the Quiltsy Team

-WIPs Wednesday at The Needle and Thread Network.

Click on the links to the right to see what other bloggers are up to.

Was in my bookshelf....on my phone

I did not post last week...it's been a little hectic around here but that doesn't mean I haven't been listening to an audio book. So this is what I have listened to so far since my last post.

I completed The Whole Enchilada by Diane Mott Davidson. It was a good book to listen to with enough drama and humour to keep it interesting. There is a lot of cooking/food descriptions. I don't enjoy cooking but it was still OK to listen to.

Then I listened to Sweet Salt Air by Barbara Delinsky. It was a long book but very very good. I loved the storyline.

Currently on my phone is Home Front by Kristen Hannah. At first I had a hard time getting into the story but then it grew on me. I enjoy Kristen Hannah's books anyway. This one is about a soldier family but with a twist...the wife is the soldier. I am about 3/4 of the way through listening to this one.

So what are you reading/listening to?

I am linking to Spread the Love Linky Party 2.0 by the Steadfast Reader.

This week's goals...

June 22

I am not sure I will get anything done this week but maybe some EPP... We decided to sell our house and go into something smaller like a townhouse. So we are in the midst of re-organizing and de-cluttering so it can go on the market in less than 2 weeks.

That also means doing the same in my quilting room.

I would like to do some sewing like piecing my blocks from the Scrappy Challenge especially since the challenge won't be continuing...

OR work on my Hawaiian Lap Quilt??

Definately more EPP Hexie Flowers... but I think most of this is a wish list.

I am linking to:

-Sew Many Ways: Sew Darn Crafty Linky party,

-Anything Goes Mondays @ Stitch by Stitch,

-Tuesday Linky party at Freemotion by the River,

-WIPs on Wednesday by the Quiltsy Team

-WIPs Wednesday at The Needle and Thread Network.

Click on the links to the right to see what other bloggers are up to.

Hexie Flower progress

June 22

I completed 2 flowers this week.

So I made 4 flowers this month so far and I have one week left to go to see if I completed the 8 hour a month goal at Hexagon Alley.

I am linking to Hexagon Weekend by A Quilting Reader's Garden by Angie N., Life Under Quilt's Monday Morning Star Count by Jess and to One Flower Wednesday at Journey of a Quilter.

Yes a Friday Finish or two.

It has been a busy month...week...days... June is crazy for me. I did have a finish this week because I have a deadline. We made a class quilt and I wanted it done this week for next week when one of the students gets to take it home. Each student did a block using Crayola fabric markers. I did the one that says LOPEZLAND. I custom quilted it using one of my new Wonderfil threads in light blue. So here it is...

I also completed 2 EPP Hexie flowers this week.

I am linking to the following blogs:

- Needle and Thread Thursday at My Quilt Infatuation

- Inspired Thursdays by the Inspired Wren.

- I Quilt Thursday at Pretty Bobbins by Gemma

- Richard and Tanya Quilts: Link-a-Friday Finish

- TGIFF then click on Sew Fresh Quilts.

- Off The Wall Fridays at Creations by Nina Marie

- Show Off Saturday Linky Party at Sew Can She

Click on the links on the right sidebar to check out some wonderful finishes.

Weekly Hexie Progress

June 15, 2014 Progress:

I completed one block with 3 hexie flowers.

I prepared 3 more flowers with glue basted hexies.

Here are a couple nature inspirations from my garden.

I am linking to Life Under Quilt's Monday Morning Star Count by Jess and to One Flower Wednesday at Journey of a Quilter.

Weekend and Weekly Goals

I went to Quilt Canada and the Niagara Falls Heritage Guild Show this weekend.
We weren't allowed to take any pictures of the Quilt Canada Juried show quilts. So I took some of the guild show quilts. A couple are my Moms.

Quilting the Psalms by my Mom, Dietlind Winter. 1812 Civil War Quilt also made by my mom and long arm quilted by me.