August To-Do

Here's how my design wall looks on the first of the new month. It's just busy as per usual. I have the newly ironed Bohemian Wife quilt and back hanging up so that I can get it layered, basted and quilted for the BAMQ UFO Challenge. That's pinned on top of the languishing Patchwork Palooza quilt. Maybe once I get the Bohemian Wife quilt done, I'll be in the finishing mode? There's also the HRT's' for the Lupine Mystery quilt. Up on the upper right is the Bending the Calendar quilt,  pinned up so I can think about how to finish it (one of the UFO's for this year). Underneath that are two finished projects, the QCR Mini Pumpkins and the award-winning (hah1)Ocean Effect quilt. In the front is the finished quilts that need to be put in storage or hung up on the walls of my house on top of some Project Bags. It's a lot on that wall.

Note: the use of 🥏👽  by a project name indicates that it's on the 2026 UFO Finishes challenge list of six projects that I committed to finishing at the beginning of the year (more on that list later). Note, this is not the same list as the UFO Challenge for BAMQ, that UFO will have this next to it on the list:🌀🌐  

QUILTS

Design & Begin

Pantone Project - work on an overall design, either in EQ8 or up on the design wall.

Lupine & Laughter Mystery Quilt - keep making units following the clue instructions

BAMQ BOM - make monthly blocks of varying sizes through the year.

Continue Assembly

Patchwork Palooza - Decide on borders, make backing & binding

Keep working on Sour Grass Grace from Jane Sassaman class.

Old Town Mystery Quilt - make a backing & binding, decide on whether to have it quilted

AG Stamp Quilt - continue to make more blocks using the final group of fussy-cut stamp block centers from Tula Pink fabrics.

Continue the piecing of Selvedge Candy (maybe the name) quilt originally designed for the 2025 MQG challenge.

🥏👽 Sew the last 6 columns and sashing together of the 2023  Temperature Quilt together to make the quilt top.

🌀🌐 David Owen Hastings class piece, make more blocks, assemble into quilt top, quilt, finish🥏👽 

                                      

Quilting

🥏👽 Bohemian Wife -  Sandwich this and start quilting it🌀🌐 

Mosaic Table Runner - Sandwich this and start quilting it

Final Steps 

🥏👽 Bending the Calendar - Cut up? Re-arrange? Embellish?🌀🌐 

HANDWORK/BAG/CLOTHING PROJECTS 

Make a Cotton Candy pouch for myself.

Make a Charlie's Aunt wool purse for myself, first felt the wool from Pendleton Mill.

Toned-Down Circle Sampler - now that I have the appropriately sized grey background felt, arrange and appliqué the circles, start embroidering.

Y.E.S. Coat - continue making pieces/blocks. assemble on foundation, cut out lining pieces from the fabric that I dyed

Snake In The Garden - Finish hand stitching -  🌀🌐

Body Pillow-knit cotton pillowcase - 🌀🌐 

Quilted Dog Jacket for Meg - 🌀🌐  

Hey! This Is All Finished!

🌀🌐  Mini QCR Pumpkins 🌀🌐  

I made and attached binding and a label to a Community giving quilt.

I caught up and finished my ICAD work.

Well...how about that? That's four months in a row with some actual finishing happened. Here's hoping that I can continue with the finishing energy into August.

Accoutered August

Well, here it is, already August, I'm calling it Accoutered August. It's been a fun exercise for me this year coming up with an adjective for the month ahead that starts with the same letter and isn't necessarily a word I already know or use. Accoutered means: Having been fully equipped or furnished with necessary items or accessories, indicating preparedness and readiness (prepared, equipped, provisioned). Which is definitely the state of my studio, I have just about everything in there that I would ever possibly need (and more!) from here on out. 

The monthly marker is made up of two photos, the first one of the Lupine Mystery HRTs.

edited in the Percolator app,

 and this ICAD piece layered over in the SnapSeed app and edited.

 Here is my 1sE video for the month, one second of every day of the month of July

 Monthly I-Did List for July

1. I cut out the rest of the rectangles for the HRTs needed for the Lupine Mystery quilt.
2. I finished binding a Community Giving quilt and wrote and illustrated a ruler tutorial for myself
3. I made an interesting backing for the Mosaic table runner.
4. I caught up and finished my yearly participation in ICAD.
5. I worked on making the HRTs for the Lupine Mystery quilt and almost finished them.
6. I designed a quilt in EQ8 using the new to me Judy Martin stars add-ons.
7. I finished my Mini QCR Pumpkins project for the BAMQ UFO Challenge.
8. I made two napkins out of beautiful toweling.

I only got a few things done this month due to being ill, but I did make it to Sew Day. and managed to have a couple visits with family. I haven't gone to the gym for the whole month and I miss it so much and will be going back starting on 8/1. I didn't do a whole lot of gardening, as I was only able to water a little bit at a time, just enough to keep things alive. I only went to one PT visit early in July for my right wrist, but the rest of the month, all that rest seems to have let it really heal up. I'm raring to get going in August after so much down time, but I have to keep in mind to not overdo things.