May Recap and June Goals

Goal number 5: Making progress on the guild challenge

My May goals were: 

✔1. Document my rug braiding experience.

✔2. Make the orange string blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

✔3. Finish my 2022 through 2023 Temperature quilt.

✔4. Begin quilting my small group Kaffe challenge.

✔5. Make progress on my guild challenge project.

✔6. Decide what to do for the current book club book.

✔7. Determine the next step for Good Fortune.

✔8. Make the President's block for CCQ.

✔9. Quilt Beyond the Surface.

Finish Good Fortune--it's back from the longarmer

Wahoo! I met all my goals for another month! Gertie, my inner squirrel, never tires of doing the happy dance about the studio! She solemnly agrees that progress should always be celebrated! I'm especially happy to have finished my 2022-2023 Temperature Quilt! 

Finishing that project also meant that I met goal two on my annual list which was to finish at least five of the 21 works in progress that I listed. I plan to finish more before the year ends. 

Fabric Accounting:

Current Month:

Fabric in: 0 yards

Fabric out: 20.5 yards

Finish my group challenge quilt

Net loss for the month: 20.5 yards 

Year to Date:

Fabric in: 24 3/4 yards

Fabric out: 87 yards

Net loss: 62.25 yards 

Best Book of the Month: Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. The journey of a young boy searching for his father at the beginning of the depression. He ends up finding a different sort of family.

My June goals are:

1. Make progress on my guild challenge project--I'm considering adding words and/or graphics. . .

2. Finish Good Fortune. It is back from the longarmer. It needs to be bound, labeled and a hanging sleeve attached.

3. Determine the quilting for "Read," the project for the book, "The Last Bookshop in London."

Segments of strings bag

4. Determine the quilting and the backing as well as layer and glue baste the sashiko project.

5. Finish my small group challenge project.

6. Publish a post of my sourdough bread recipe tries.

7. Make string blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. This month the color is pastel. 

8. Make progress on my rug braiding project.

9. Begin string piecing bits from the bags that over time I've gathered 2 1/2, 3 1/2, 4 1/2 and 6 1/2 inch segments. The bag is over full. The time has come! 

10. Process the leftovers of the backings and battings from Good Fortune, Dash and Beyond the Surface.

11. Determine which Bonnie Hunter project, I'll work on next. Will it be a leader/ender or a started project?

I've a lot of quilting to do again this month! Gertie and I are determined to make good progress on projects that have been hanging about in the studio space!