Making preparations

So today I woke up a little later than planned... again, but apparently I'm tired lately.But I woke up and I finished up the 1/2 squares that I needed to finish up, and I'm officially done with the squares that only have the tiny squares. yey!

Then I took a break and ran some errands, picked up some food and Josh's shirt for the wedding from the drycleaner, then I worked on my outfit for the bachelorette party, since its a themed party.

then I got back to work, still kind of unmotivated today so the little breaks were welcome, 

Josh came home and we did a couple errands. We are donating 2 backbacks full of school supplies through Josh's work to a poor inner city school, in the town Josh works in. So we picked the stuff up for that, it was fun.

then back to working on the quilt.

sewing 144 HSTs

then trimming them.

Goal for tomorrow: finish sewing all squares, so I need to finish trimming them, then cut 144 brown squares in half and 144 white squares in half and sew everything together... 

wish me luck! and an early wake up :D

Unmotivated

Today I woke up, worked 8 hours and wasn't really in the mood for quilting,
So Josh and I took a little drive then got home and Josh encouraged me to get my quilt on. So I sewed some HSTs and trimmed and layed out enough for the 14 1/2 1A squares.

So tomorrow I need to pick up the Shirt from the Drycleaner, then I need to work on my quilt-a-thon, since I don't have to work.
However... I need to do ironing... but I think I might hold off... and only iron what I need to pack...
we shall see...

Josh is a distraction

So this  morning I woke up about an hour and a half later than planned... oops...
but I apparently needed the sleep.

but I woke up to a moving truck a couple houses down, this is the second new family moving in to the neighborhood within a week of each other. Good to have the houses filling up.

but in about 2 and a half hours I whipped out 6 squares (you might think this took time, but I finished sewing the HSTs together and then I had to cut them apart and trim them)
then tonight it took me 3.5 hours to get the same work done, cause of Josh :D don't get me wrong, I love him, I just get more done other wise :D

Today I finished what I had hoped to finish yesterday 36 1B squares done

And of all of the squares both A and B I think this is my favorite

I have to work 8 tomorrow, so I will have some time in the evening, 

but I have friday off, we were planning to go backpacking... but the weather looks like it took a turn for the worse... so that makes 3 full days of quilting :D perhaps I will make it... 

I give it a 5

If I were still at whirlpool I think today would have ranked as a 5. Not meeting goals. (1 being the highest, 5 the lowest)

I didnt meet a single goal I set out for myself yesterday.
However I did manage to sew 12 more blocks, and about 250 HSTs so that is progress, just not as much as I was hoping for,
but the main reason I think was because I forgot I had other responsibilities I needed to take care of today. (oh and I woke up an hour later than planned... oops)
1. Pay the bills (complete)
2. Drop off mail (complete)
3. Drop off dry cleaning (complete)
4. Laundry (Extra complete)

so maybe I should categorize this as a 3... cause I did finish some things that needed to be done to survive life...

in other news, biopsy report came back good. check up in 6 months :D

tomorrow I have to work in the afternoon, so  that gives me, 4 hours in the morning and 5 hours in the evening, lets hope I can finish out those last 12 squares and then some... I think someone is going to get an IOU for their wedding not a quilt :(

No Pictures Today

Well, I cut my time for sewing down to 12 minutes a block. which is good, and I pushed out 12 of the 1B blocks... meaning I need to finish up 24 tomorrow, which hopefully will be easy.

2nd night sewing to midnight...

tomorrow, I will work my tail off as well... I want to have the rest of the little squares done tomorrow and I hope the main big square... wish me luck!

I also need to run to the post office and dry cleaner... other than that I'm locked to the sewing room...

Wow this is going slow!

So I have been working on the 35 squares of 1A, it has taken me 9 days to finish them. I figured out it takes me about 15 minutes a square to actually sew them together, which seems like a ridiculously long time, but dont forget I'm making the HSTs as I go,
this is the help I get

Don't judge the fact I'm sewing min my jammies... its comfortable...

But finally 35 done.

my goal is to have the other 36 done tuesday... cause I only have 12 days left and there needs to be time for my mom to actually quilt it!!!!!

YIKES!

35 done... they need to be trimmed!

I also found a dime at our campsite 2 weeks ago, a penny at the lynx station and another dime at kohls today (yey for no tax weekend!)

bringing my total to: $2.68

Finishing up for the week

so I have exactly 23 days until this wedding.. EEK... I did no blocks today
but I got some HSTs sewn while josh printed out our directions to our camping trip this weekend.
tomorrow, I need to prepare Mister for the weekend (clean litter, extra food and water), pack EVERYTHING, and iron, so Josh has clothes to wear to work next week...

then hopefully after all that before Josh gets home I can whip out a couple of squares... I'm beginning to panic... I forsee an all nighter in my future! (and I thought after college I was all done with those... actually no, I thought after I quit my job working as a global lead talking to China in the middle of the night I was all done with those... guess not)

what I did get today was a refill for my rotary cutter, because I used my last one and I like to have a spare on hand, my sewing pencil is getting low, so I picked up one of those, and I was tired of moving my GIANT ruler around, so a tiny one was in order... and I was having a bad day, I was hoping this would help cheer me up... no luck.

also, I am a penny richer... found it in the Sams store while picking up some food...

total: $2.47