I just realized I missed posting here last week 😮 How the heck did that happen! I also lost my #dosomethingquitlyeveryday mojo last week…maybe they’re connected, LOL
Let’s see what I have to catch up on… Two weeks ago I caught the ‘start-itis’ bug and pulled out my solids stash & scrap bin. I purchased a die from Accuquilt a few months back and figured it was time to try it out. It cuts 2.5″ strips so I went through that bin cutting as many different colors as I could find
Then I followed the instructions for the ‘Jelly Roll Race’ quilt and started sewing…I had over 1900″ in total length!
It took two days to finish the top… woah, that’s a lot of color!! It measures 60×61 at the moment.
This is where I started to lose a little steam… I noticed my ‘scrap pillowcase’ was starting to get pretty full so I sewed up the end and now it’s ready to be donated to my local shelter.
Start-itis hit again and I pulled out more fabric and started playing. I decided to cut 5″ squares from the remaining pieces fabric from my Squared Up quilt and looked for a pattern I hadn’t made before…enter the Chandelier quilt
And this is as far as I’ve gotten…I lost my mojo after putting this up on the design wall. It just needs to be pieced into a top but I avoided my sewing room for three straight days 😦
To break the cycle, I finally forced myself to just go do SOMETHING in my sewing room. I still wasn’t up for sewing this top together, instead I pulled out my scrap bins and started cutting 5″ squares. This made sense to me because I’m on a mission to use up all my scraps and Sarah of Fabric Addict Quilts is posting ideas for using charm squares for her Hands2Help charity challenge this year… WIN/WIN! I got this lovely stack accomplished last night.
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I haven’t lost any weight over the last two weeks and I’ve decided I’m changing my WW membership to Online only. I’m just not going to the meetings and paying for it certainly isn’t motivating me. I have been tracking my food with the app so I’m just going to try that for a while.
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That’s all for now…have a great rest of your weekend!
I had a bout of startitis last week too! This morning I got myself together, folded up projects, even put away one group of fabrics I’d pulled from the stash and generally cleared space in my sewing room so I can concentrate on just three projects this week. Two have deadlines and the other is my ‘fun’ project to keep me motivated! Hope your sewing mojo kicks in again this week along with the walking too!
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Thanks! I’ve gotten back in my sewing room to cut more 5″ squares…now I just need to figure out a plan for them. I need to set myself a deadline to finish my WIPs!!
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Hi Sharon — your startitis projects look great! I love the jelly roll race quilt in solids –I’m starting to love solids more and more ♥♥
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Thanks Karla! I’ve made several ‘solids’ quilts but I just can’t seem to get to the bottom of my solids bin!! LOL
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