Sunday, August 24, 2025

Forward Progress on the Baby Brick Quilt

I am getting settled into the school routine and I had a plan for the week, so I was productive this week.  I got the brick units up off the floor and onto the design wall.  

I tried to think better about placement this time.  Currently I have darks on the top and right leading towards lights on the left and bottom.  

Some colors look very different in the photo than in real life.

I am going through my scraps filling in color gaps for bricks that I already made with the hope that I will not have bricks made that don't fit in the final plan.  We'll see.

Thinking through the color placement.

It took everything I had not to just keep sewing as I cut pieces, but I had a LOT of grading and lesson planning that had to get done on Saturday.  And I knew that if I sewed them all up I would not have anything to do when I needed something simple after school this coming week.

Waiting to be sewn on a school day!

I prepped and/or sewed every day except Friday.  I thought about it, but realized I was so tired I should not be making any decisions and certainly not using sharp instruments!  So, I sat in front of the TV and sorted school papers, which was also a much needed task, but no thought required.

No sewing, just sorting.

15 Minutes to Stitch

15 minute days/last week = 6/7
15 minute days/August = 13/23
15 minute days/2025 = 218/253
Success Rate = 86%
 
No stash movement at all this week! 

2025 Stash Totals
Used last week: 0 yards
Used year to date: 86.03 yards
Acquired recently: 15.83 yards 
Acquired year to date: 40.33 yards
Net used in 2025: 45.73 more yards used

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Kate at Life in Pieces.

1 comment:

  1. It's so hard to stop when you are having fun at the sewing machine. You've done so well this year at finding ways to stitch with your busy schedule.

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