I'm feeling a bit panicky that it's already September. Completing my PHD this year feels like a long-shot based on my progress thus far. However, sewing is supposed to be fun and the point of PHD is to move projects forward even if I don't actually complete the PHD. Here is my progress for this month.
In chart form, it looks like I didn't accomplish anything for a third month in a row (other than in the starts column). I did move several projects forward this month.
I started and finished a cardinal mini that I gifted at the beginning of the month (start #5). I started Meadow Mist Design's Magnificent Mystery (start #6). I have all of the cutting complete. This project won't finish until 2026, so I'm not concerned about it.
I have not made any progress on the Linda Hahn class (start #1). It feels like forever ago that I took that class, but it was only March.
I have made progress on Forever Neverland (start #2). I mis-cut the outer border fabric and had to order more. It arrived yesterday and I'm hoping to get it cut and sewn this week.
I quilted Pink Grapefruit in Blue (UFO #7) and am working on hand-stitching the binding. I'm hoping to finish it off this month.
I moved the race car quilt (UFO #11) very slightly forward by sewing and cutting more strip sets and dividing all the strip sets into block units. These block units need a stitch-and-flip corner added, which I am currently working on. I have one set finished and two more sets marked and ready to sew. I feel confident that I'll be able to finish this quilt this year.
I have not made any progress on UFO #4, 6, or 10. These all just need to be quilted and bound. I do want to custom quilt them and occasionally try to work out a quilting plan.
Those of you who are eagle-eyed may have noticed that I switched out UFO #8. It used to be alligator quilt, but now it's Nancy's quilt. In case you missed my previous post about it, one of my fellow guild members passed in May. In August many of us brought home her projects with the intent to finish at least some of them this year. This is a full kit that she hadn't started yet, so I'm gonna try to meet the guild challenge to complete it this year in her honor.
Moving away from PHD, I quilted a few things since last week. I finished up quilting Box Tie on Sonja's quilt. This one took me two days to quilt. I attached the binding to Gina's king-size quilt.
I made and attached the binding to Leslie's quilt.
I stitched tiny-scale Threaded on Deb's quilt. This was a multi-day project.
I stitched Triangle Meander on Maria's quilt after adding the borders and seaming the back. I'll add the binding to the front of this one too.
I quilted Beaded Clam on Sara's quilt. On the home front, something got to our entire crop of pears before we could harvest them. I suspect squirrels, but I don't know. Every single pear is gone, not even anything on the ground. We are growing more pumpkins and watermelons and peppers. The weather has taken a turn towards cooler, drier temps. I wonder how this will affect things. The tent worms (army worms) are really bad this year.
The house repairs are complete and the porch is formed. The termite treatment is scheduled to be applied today. Hopefully we can get the cement guy out soon. I'm ready to start moving past this.
I agreed to purchase a new grill because ours is over 20 years old and starting to rust. We got the new grill home and discovered that it is damaged. The person who deals with that sort of thing was gone all weekend. Of course we had planned to do several grilled meals over the weekend. No big deal, we'll just use the old grill. Nope. The squirrels ate the gas supply line for the second time in as many months. Ugh.
Meanwhile, we've had some drama between the county plan commission, the subdivision developer, and the residents over the developer's lack of installing sidewalks over the past 19+ years. The developer is now 90 and incapacitated, his family doesn't wish to pony up the shocking amount of money it would take in today's dollars, and none of the residents even want sidewalks. (We live out in the country and there aren't sidewalks and the proposed ones would only be in 1/3 of the subdivision.) I'm not sure why the county didn't deal with this in a timely fashion. Their lawyer threatened to sue the developer, who could then sue the residents for the money (tens of thousands of dollars per lot). I had to miss quilt guild last night to attend the second meeting. Right now it looks as if they've agreed to a better solution than installing sidewalks and street trees we don't want or need and agreed that suing the residents isn't fair or right. We'll see how it shakes out.
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