15 Minutes Report and Design Wall Monday

Here are blocks for three quilt alongs on this Design Wall for Monday.

A 2022 Temperature Quilt; I love the squares and rectangles only, yet it will have a ton of movement when completed.  I will link to the pattern and designer in a future post.  (Remind me if necessary.)

Blocks 8, 9, and 10 of Jessica Dayon's Scrappy Samper block of the week, which I linked to in a recent post.

And the first two blocks for Secret Lives of Color weekly sew along, which is themed on a sort of "history of color" book Pat Sloan is telling us about in her DAILY Youtube videos.  I think it's educational, and I need all the art education I can get.

A decent start on 15-Minutes to Stitch 2022:

January 2-8

• 15 minute days/week = 6/7 days
• 15 minute days/Jan = 7/8 days
• 15 minute days/2022 = 7/8 days
• Success rate = 88%  

It's icy here today.  A great reason to stay inside and keep stitching, which I have been doing and plan to continue doing.  How about you?

Linkup partying with:

Life in Pieces

Small Quilts and Doll Quilts 

Thank you for checking out my blocks and these parties!

Kimberly

A 2019 Finish - Fun All Over

 

Even a quilt this bright has trouble under a winter gray sky.  It's simple four-patches and half-square triangles in random order.  I don't remember a pattern; it's more likely that such a setting was inspired by another blogger, whom I cannot remember after so long.  Tell me if you know! 

The four-patch scraps echo the colorful dots in the black yardage.  Also this was great free motion practice.

The backing below is a thrifted vintage sheet. The background is white, not blue, but my camera is defiant.

I'll be connecting with and visiting the posters at the following linkups this week:

Finished or Not Friday by Alycia Quilts

Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday

Thank you for reading my blog; you are appreciated!

Kimberly

Monthly Goal and Weekly To Do List

January's One Monthly Goal is this predominantly green quilt from a recent magazine pattern which I will elaborate on in a finishing post, which I'm committing to completely finish by the end of this month.  Don't point out to me that it is already almost done, lol.  I'm just easing into 2022 and trying to get a feel for it.

My 1/4/22 To-Do Tuesday list includes finishing the above green quilt as #1, because ideally it will happen in this week, and I can begin FMQ or straight line on another UFO in the stack. 

#2 is keeping up with the QALs I've started.  I'll soon list them on a PhD in 2022 post (I hope) by January 15.

#3 continue tidying up my sewing area... it's blessedly large but that makes it easy to destroy from end to end before feeling boxed in.  It's reaching the point of mental mess interference and holy moly I don't need that.  I have some business-y things to do this month which I'm finding lightly stressful with the potential for increase, but all turning out well in the end.

Enough with that brutal honesty.  And that's also enough for a list.  I want to feel accomplished next week and able to report back 3 for 3, an unusually high amount of focus for sure.

I'm enjoying others' posts linking to these parties:

Monday Making

To-Do Tuesday

Mid-Week Makers

THANKS for reading this blog, and Happy New Year to each and every one of you!

Kimberly

Our 25th Anniversary Brief Vacation

 

You're looking at two felled trees stretching across an unused, gravel road in the dense (to me) forests of northern West Virginia. The leaves everywhere are deep (again, to me), big oak leaves mixed with pine tags.  Crunch, crunch.  On this hill top stands this beautiful rental "cabin."

This dark-ish photo makes the house look giant, but it actually isn't.  It's so-well designed inside that it feels 'spaciously cozy.' (How do  the pros pull that off?)  All the amenities were there, including an outdoor sauna not visible here.  Yes, it was a memorable two nights.

On most trips anywhere we would go out for a drive once, but here we stayed put.  I didn't want to miss a minute in this relaxing atmosphere.  Below is an inside sequence from morning, afternoon, and night, from the same vantage point.

Yup, we were up tiptoeing around in the moon light.  I didn't intend to take the same photo ice, but so it happened. As you can tell, I'm not a photographer nor a travel reviewer, but maybe it is time to catalog something.  

Getting married between Christmas and New Year's has a lot of perks we've found. For instance, it's a needed interlude at the time of year, whether or not we left home.

Thanks for reading,

Kimberly

Scrappy Sampler Blocks 1 and 2

Block 1 and Block 2 of the FREE quilt along hosted by Jessica Dayon Patterns.  Jump on over there and join in the fun!

Linking up with Cynthia's Oh, Scrap! party at Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework , which it most certainly is.

Thanks,

Kimberly

Scrappy Stars for a QAL

Very scrappy stars in a row!  A pleasure in any palate of color, but especially for autumn.  Raise your hand if fall is your favorite season ✋

I got motivated by Carole at From My Carolina Home who generously is leading us through the Autumn Jubilee 2020 quilt along.  It's going to be a row quilt ... my first!  Wow, I don't get to say that often, lol.

Carole is also sharing a cornucopia 😉 of crafting this whole season, so be sure to check it out.  

There are earth-toned kitties in there if you look closely.  I think they want out.

That rooster would chase the kitties if they all got out.  Good thing they're staying in the quilt.

Linky partying with:

Put Your Foot Down at For the Love of Geese

Thank you so much for reading my quilt blog!

Kimberly

Two Fabric Pulls

 And all from stash.  All of it.  Because it really must be reduced!

Sewcialites is calling me.  The above collection from Connecting Threads is maybe two years or so old, and is called Wildflowers and Honey.  It nearly replicates the colors in the digital quilt image being used by the Fat Quarter Shop.  I'm pretty much just going to exactly copy their quilt!  

Alycia at Quiltygirl is having a five-week quilt along.  Just three fabrics of good contrast are needed, in yardage.  There is a patriotic theme.  The above red and blue are yardage came from Connecting Threads the Heirloom Manor collection, and is also two or three years old.  I was on a buying bender that year.  

Can you tell the sunshine is blindingly bright today?  That is NOT a complaint.

I'll be linking this post to:

Finished or Not Friday

Thank you for reading my blog!

Kimberly