Tuesday To-Do Week 14: Two Finishes and a Trip to Annapolis/DC

Hello motivated do'ers and welcome to the weekly

Tuesday To Do party hosted by Quilt Schmilt

and Sew & Tell hosted by Melva Loves Scraps!

Sorry about the skip last week but I was busy trying

to pop out 2 more finishes before we headed out to

finally see the cadet compete live--instead of on

Instagram where we've watched them these 4 years.

I'll get to that fun stuff in a minute but first let's be

all-business and discuss my list from 2 weeks ago.

* * * Week 12 Priority * * *

1) Finish WP quilt #'s 5 and 6

Number 5 is a finish!

I preferred slightly smaller outer border on #5 but I

needed a larger quilt.  It works, and I got it to 65x80.

Number 6 just needs binding and label attached.

On this one I started first with a white border, making

 the design float a little.  This brought #6 to 71x86. 

I think that is it for the West Point quilts for a while.

They are my own designs and I really like them,

but working with the same colors for 8 quilts 

(6 plus the 2 I made my son)...

Well, I think you get me here.

These two quilts took up about all the time I had so

very little else on my list was completed.

2) Settle on charity challenge quilt design

Done.

3) Catch up on Edyta's QAL

Well, here we are on month FOUR and I'm totally behind...

4) Piece 2nd layer-cake quilt (chain)

Nada, but no hurry.

5) Get pics of 3 finished quilts and list

Nada, and there IS a hurry here!

And now for a little humor...

I did squeeze in one little practice round of golf all

by my onesie.  It was totally worth braving the early

morning cold to get the entire course to myself for the

first hour.  That is when I get my best practice in!

(No we still don't have leaves on our trees!)

(UPDATE:  Actually, they're all coming out now!)

Anyhoo, so I was working my way (quite nicely) toward

#10 when something shiny in the tree caught my eye.

Apparently someone was feeling a little frustration.

Oh, I know the feeling buddy!  I'll never throw

my clubs but I do know the feeling.

(Just not right then; I parred that hole--yay me!)

In other news...

On Thursday we travelled to Annapolis, MD where the

US Naval Academy was hosting the Army/Navy track meet.

We stayed at a historic inn right on Main Street which is full

of fun shops (where I found some cute things) and great

restaurants (where I ate too much--ugh!  But seafood!).

We also popped into Maryland's capital building.

On Saturday things got really fun when the cadet set

 a new PR AND took first over Army's biggest

rival (mostly friendly) with a vault of 16' 7"! 

 YES!!

(See the winning jump here.)

Sunday we headed to Washington DC to do a little

sightseeing and museum-touring.  Hubs has been

there plenty but I have not and I was very pleasantly

surprised by how gorgeous the buildings are and how

clean and tidy everything appeared.

By the next afternoon, we had walked over 18 miles just

around the nation's capital so I'm thinking if you add in

the walking in Annapolis, at least a good portion of all

of that yummy food and drink was burned off before we

got back home.  Well that's my hope anyway!

It was a great trip and I'm so glad we were there for the

cadet's big win.  It's really pretty overwhelming to think on

all the places we've been in recent years!  I love to travel

but I'm also a huge homebody, and right now I'm pretty

happy to be home this morning enjoying my morning

coffee in my studio.  I keep saying that after next month,

I think we should just stay home for a whole year!

(Pfft.  Yeah right.)

Moving on to next week.  Being Holy Week there will

be other activities going on but I'll try to fit in some

quilting as time allows.

* * * Week 15 Priority * * *

Work on "Autumn Shimmer 2"

I need a different name for this one.  If you caught my

April monthly goal, you know that I am making a second

version of my above quilt that I sold a couple years ago.

Maybe it's a little odd to be working with fall colors right

now but I love them so it's all good.  I plan to whip right

through this one and then move on to something springy

next.

Other plans

2) Cut out and piece blocks on charity quilt

3) Catch up on Edyta's QAL

4) Piece 2nd layer-cake quilt (chain)

5) Get pics of 3 finished quilts and list
C'mon weather!  Play nice!

Speaking of buying up fabric,

I come to you now from the Box of Shame. 

2023 Stash Report

Fabric Purchased: 130yds

Fabric Used: 75yds

Net: +55yds

 Yes, I have purchased that much fabric already this year.

But you should see the deals I've gotten!!  

(Don't laugh--I'm serious!)

I love every thread of every fabric I've purchased.

I'm really too good at this game, especially in light of

the rising costs of fabric, but it's probably time to stop

opening sale emails and stop visiting clearance racks.

(Okay, now you can laugh!)

In my defense, I have made 5 big quilts among some very

busy months for me.  I'm looking at yet 2 more busy months

 and then things should settle in and, amazingly, it'll be time

to ramp up the production for the holidays.  (Sheesh!)

I think I've already pushed it with the pumpkin so maybe

I'd better stop right there at the mention of the holidays!

But there's nothing wrong with staying ahead of it all,

quilty friends!  I'm just sayin'.

But I'm gonna need more coffee!

Happy quilting!