Tuesday To-Do '21: Week One

A whole new year of To-Do Tuesdays are upon us!

The projects!  The possibilities!  The finishes!

Just not this week--lol.

We're still winding down from the holidays around

here so my to-do's continue to take a back seat.

Son 1 went back up to school on Sunday; Son 2

heads back next week.  The mad checking off of

to-do's will likely resume after that but for now,

it has been a nice, easy pace of just-whenever.

1) Fireside reading & sewing

Done.

A little reading, a lot of sewing.

Good progress on sewing up old trimmings.

We'll call it Project Scraps-To-HSTs.

(Not very catchy, I guess.)

Here's one set of 340 HSTs.  I have 4 sets

now sewn but only one has been trimmed.

I know normal people throw these things away

but a lot of us aren't normal, are we?
Who's with me here?

Once I started working on these, it was like the

darned things heard me and suddenly every drawer

and cabinet I opened produced another bag or jar of

trimmings!  At first, tackling this seemed like a

fun little side-project that I could complete in a week.

Now I'm wondering if it'll even get done before

spring.  Maybe by the Super Bowl if I'm diligent?

I'll have to do some inventory and next time I'll

have to post numbers on how much I have.

2) Finish Pine Tree Lane

Not done.

I did trim it up and make the binding.

Tackling more today.

3) Load Pumpkin Patch, quilt, bind and label.

Partly-done.

Half-way through quilting.

4) Bring knitting back out.

Done.

Ok, it's out--but that's as far as I got.

(See Project Scraps-To-HSTs!)

This year, for a little fabric accountability, I'm going

to try adding this at the end of my lists (for fun):

Fabric used:  none

Fabric obtained:  none

Back to my membership in the "abnormal club".

For kicks, I decided to collect all the spools

that I empty in a year.  If there is one thing that I

consistently excel at, it's that I come up with

all my great ideas too late.

(I also consistently lose track of recipes but that,

my quilty friends, is a whole other basket of

scraps that is best left for another post.)

So of course this great idea of seeing how many spools

I go through in a year came to me about, oh, March.

Above is my 2020 9-month collection of emptied spools.

I didn't think the above picture was a proper show so:

Much better.

I call this picture "Trophy Window at Sunset".

(Watch for it at the MoMA.)

The basket has now been emptied and I 

can actually start in January this time.

I'm still trying to take things a little slow for the

ol' shoulder.  So many of you asked how it went!

How nice to be thought of!  The doctor was able to

break up the calcium deposit completely so now

with that out of the way, I wait and see if the tear

heals by itself.  My cortisone shot doesn't seem to

have done much so there's yet another reason for

making a list of just-whenevers and -whatevers.

1) Finish quilting Pumpkin patch, bind & label

2) Bind and label Pinetree Lane

2) Knit

Anything.  Even if it's one row.

3) Project Scraps-To-HSTs

Anything.

If you missed my 2020 project wrap-up

please give it a look.  I take a bit of a different

view on the year while looking back over the

quilts I was blessed to finish.

Til next week...

Happy quilting!

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