Recap September and October Goals 2025

Temperature quilt 2022 and 2023 pin basted

My Annual Goals are:

✒1. Have a net loss of 100 yards of fabric from my stash.

✒2. Finish six UFOs

✔ a. Temperature 2021--pin basted and ditched quilted started in January;  progress made in February. Almost finished the quilting in March. Completed the project in April. Hooray!!!! 

✒b. Temperature 2022-2023--pin basted in September

✒c. Martha's House blocks--purchased backing in May; determined a quilting design in August;

✔d. Positively Grows--pin basted in February; started ditch quilting in July, finished in August, documented in September.

✔e. Maze top--purchased backing in May; longarmer quilted and I added the binding, sleeve and label in June!

Stitch By Stitch quilted

f. Butterfly number four 

Fabric Summary:

Fabric in this month: 0 yards   

Fabric in year to date: 64 3/4 yards

Fabric used from stash this month: 20.75 yards 

Fabric used from stash year to date: 103 yards

Net loss/gain this month: -20.75 yards

Net loss/gain year to date: -41 yards  

Books:

My favorite listen of the month was: "Christy" by Catherine Marshall. A nineteen year old leaves home to teach school in the Smokey Mountains. She learns as much from the pupils and families as they learn from her. The author bases much of her story on her own experiences. 

My favorite read of the month was: "Winter Garden" by Kristin Hannah. Learning about Anya in war torn Russia 50 years earlier is a puzzle her two American daughters unravel.

Grassy Creek string blocks pieced

My September goals were:

✔1. Document the finish of Sweet Tooth.

✔2. Document the finish of Grow.

✔3. Document the quilt that I gave my niece for her wedding in July.

✒4. Share my progress with the Triple Treat Leader Ender Project. Post is written; but, ran out of days to post it!

✔5. Continue documenting my recent trip to London, England and Paris, France. post 5, 

✔6. Make progress on Grassy Creek. I've finished stitching the string blocks for the border. I have stitched about half of the blocks.

✔7. Makc the Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks.

1/1/2025-6/9/2025 blocks for 
2025 Temperature quilt

✔8. Make more 2025 Temperature Quilt blocks. I have pieced the blocks through June 20 and have added the rows through June 9. While I'm still far behind, I'm less behind than I was!

✔9. Layer and baste Temperature Quilt 2022-2023.

✔10. Document the blocks I made during the July virtual retreat and the prize I won.

✔11. Make more progress on Stitch By Stitch. This month, I finished the quilting. 

✔12, Schedule a QOV presentation. I managed to schedule
and hold it before the end of the month. I will document the presentation next month!

It was another good month of progress inspite of working twelve days this month. I helped with a special project and taught two classes. I often work five to seven days in a month! I'm most pleased about the progress I have made on the Temperature Quilt for 2025. 

My October goals are:

1. Post about my sourdough baking.

2. Share my progress with the Triple Treat Leader Ender Project.

3. Make progress on Grassy Creek.

4. Make the Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks. 

5. Make more 2025 Temperature Quilt blocks.

6. Finish of Stitch By Stitch.--It lacks a sleeve and blocking.

7. Prewash challenge fabrics that one of my small groups is doing.

8, Make a knit skirt for my granddaughter.

9, Piece the batting for Beyond the Surface.

10. Begin quilting the 2022-2023 Temperature quilt.

11. Document the QOV presentation.

12, Continue working on the virtual retreat.