September Recap and October Goals

Surface view of rug

My September goals were:

✔1. Document making a special pillow case for the youngest granddaughter.

✔2. Document the activities the youngest granddaughter did during her visit.

✔3. Piece the string blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. This month the color is purple.

✔4. Share what I did at the summer virtual retreat.

✔5. Share my progress on the book club quilt Garden Flowers.

✔6. Make progress quilting the butterfly.

Strips ready for weaving

✔7. Make progress on my rug weaving.--Post surgery, I started with three  one hour sessions of PT to work on sitting. I've spent 45 minutes of each session weaving my braided rug. The second week, I was up to 45 minutes five times per day. I have torn all the flannel strips of the bottom sheet and they are attached to the rug for weaving! The rug is now too big to fit on my sewing room workspace. It is on the kitchen table. 

Every time that I think I'm feeling comfortable with the process, I note an issue trying to happen. I can see that I need to add more stitches as the rug is trying to curl. I am loving the results so far! It now measurers 31 inches which is six more inches than last month!

✔8. Make progress on Lala's Irish Chain.

✔9. Determine what to do for the next book club quilt. We are reading Radium Girls by Kate Moore.

Thoughts of a project for Radium Girls

--I drew some thumbnail sketches. Picked one to pursue. After thinking about it, I decided to come up with a different design and use the main fabric. I even chose different fabrics. Now to make the pattern. .  .

✒10. Do what I can to make progress on the Magnificent Mystery and Floral Baubles sew alongs.--I didn't work on Floral Baubles. Sitting is still not all that comfortable.

✔11. Recover from knee revision surgery--Because 23 months after knee joint replacement surgery, I still have pain and loss of mobility. 

Focus fabric for the Radium Girls project

It was another terrific month in spite of spending half of it outside of the studio rehabbing my knee! I hope to feel like sitting at the machine to piece and quilt in October! I do feel like living life is just around the corner for me!

Fabric Accounting:

Current Month:

Fabric in: 8 yards

Fabric out: 0 yards

Net gain for the month: 8 yards 

Year to Date:

Fabric in: 57.25 yards

Fabric out: 124.75yards 

Net loss: 67.50 yards 

Fabric purchase this month. Fat quarter 
bundle for string project.
Yardage for Magnificent Mystery project

Best Book of the month: The Forty Year Grudge by Liza Tully. This is the second book of the Merritt and Blunt mystery series. It's a cozy mystery. A murder occurs during a small gathering of sorority sisters who are together for their 40 year reunion. I thought I knew who did it and why; but, I was wrong!

My October goals are:

1. Document making the back for Lala's Irish Chain.

2. Document my rug weaving process.

3. Pre-wash and starch some background fabrics for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.

4. Document my plan for the project for Radium Girls.

5. Make a Memory Bear. I cut out the pattern pieces from the flannel sheet that I'm using to make the woven rug.

I'm listing a few goals because this may be a difficult list to achieve. I sure hope that I'll be stitching. Three weeks into my knee revision recovery, however, my body is not ready for sewing. My last PT session set me back. I've returned to using the walker to get around the house. No position is currently comfortable. Sigh. . .I so want to be doing other activities!