Tuesday To-Do #72; Completed Quilts!

 Merry Christmas Eve-Eve-Eve.

I'm betting this is a pretty important To-Do Tuesday

for a lot of us.  If you haven't gotten 'em done, well...

you probably have some fast and furious sewing

ahead of you.  Godspeed, and may your needle

be swift and your bobbin hold to the very end.

I don't have any last-minute projects going but
I still want to finish everything up by the end of

the year for multiple reasons so I've been

working on completing my "open" projects.

1) Bind Ombre

Done!

Were you starting to think it wouldn't happen?

I even washed it up to see if the quilting

looked any better.  It didn't, but good news!

The colors didn't bleed at all!  So I squeezed in

a little extra charity for the season by boxing

it up and sending it to a local shelter.

Maybe some teen girl will give it some love. 

2) Bind September Glow

Done!

84 X 78

I settled on September for the name because

around here, most of our leaves are gone in

November.  With the green fabrics mixed in,

I just see more September....and October

but I'll save that month for Halloween.

I meant to get a better closeup of the borders:

the outer has a gold acorn print (on green) and

the inner is a larger print of leaves and acorns.

Quilting the oak leaf/acorn motif over all,

I think I made it clear this is all about fall trees!

Now that it is officially winter though, Glow

is already packed away--yet another quilt

finished at the end of its season.  But also

another that will fun to pull out next year,

all new, at the beginning of the season.

2021 is already lookin' good.

3) Start quilting Peppermint Forest

Started.

I chose the snowflake pantograph:  slow-going

but it is ever so much fun making snowflakes!

How often does a person get to make snowflakes?

(I mean since those paper ones in kindergarten...)

I'm a little over half-way done and the quilting

is going well enough.  I'm thinking another

few hours or so is all I need--and that might

even happen today.  This all depends on the

hub's meeting schedule, of course.

4) Make backing for pumpkin quilt

Not done.

Just didn't get to this one.

5) Make one more stocking (for granddaughter)

Done and hanging up!

It's good to have everyone represented

and ready for the big day!

And that's it for my week.  It may not look like it

but I did slow down.  I even threw in some fun

baking and cooking for the family...but then

yesterday I found out I'm probably going to have

to pick things back up if I'm going to finish my

last three quilts before 2021 arrives.

I have news on my shoulder pain.  Along with the

arthritis, it turns out that when I thought I just

over-did it while swimming laps (18 months ago!)

I actually tore it.  Since then, my body built up a nice

calcium deposit under the tear so I now have both

to deal with.  Next week is my first "go" at getting

the calcium broken up (by needle).  If I'm lucky, the

radiologist will get it in one or two sessions.  Once

it's broken up, then I will hopefully begin healing.

If not, it's surgery and 6 to 8 weeks of no quilting.

Because that is how we measure all of

life's turns and upsets, right?

I don't know how much these lavage sessions

will set me back, if any, but I'm just going to try to

get these last three quilts done by next Tuesday.

It's not likely, but I can still try.

All that aside, I'm super-happy to know that it's

nothing serious and that I can be fixed.

I can't believe I went 18 months on that...or 

maybe I can.  I know me.  I would totally do

something like that, <rolling my eyes>

regardless of the increasing pain.

A lesson to learn in 2021.

For next week:

1) Finish quilting Peppermint Forest, bind, label

2) Load up Pine Tree Lane and quilt; bind, label

3) Make backing for Pumpkin quilt;

load, quilt, bind and label

I know, I know--this will take a Christmas

miracle.  I'm not going to push it.

3) Update 2020 quilt list

4) Start on 2021 quilt list

And now it's time to start building the big list.

The yearly one.

This also means I need to bring 2020's up to date.

The tab is all updated and I'm working on the

end of the year post.

Happy quilting and a very beautiful and blessed

Christmas to all my quilty friends!

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