Trying to set up a #QuiltingChallenge with my mom. She is competitive, and so am I. #Quilting is her forte, but it is not my forte at all!
We decided the due date is Christmas 2024 at 7am, queen size, at least a 14" drop, at least 54 trees, and it must be completely finished (i.e., quilted and bound). Whoever loses has to feel the "pain". We are still negotiating the pain portion. /1
So far, ideas have ranged from 12 quarts of homemade canned peaches, a cross-stiched certificate of bragging rights, a gift certificate for commercial quilting, etc. 🤣
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We've decided the loser has to make a handmade gift for the winner. I'm sure we both already have something in the works for the other we could just finish. 🙄 I think I will just focus on my own personal goal of stash-busting!
First load of #fabric washed, dried, and folded. I'm getting closer to being able to start on my first block! Yay! #quilting #sewing
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I guess I'm going to have blue trees in this "holiday forest" #quilt. 💙🌲 I've also found some browns for the trunks. 😌 /4
Here are the greens and some whites all washed, dried, folded. I did find some already cut out pieces, but I washed them and I think I can use them. I think I can finally start making a block now! 😄
#Quilting #QuiltingChallenge #Sewing #Fabric #StashBuster
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Absolutely LAST stack of red "scraps" washed, dried, folded and I'm off to start making a block now! 😄
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Okay, first blue 💙 block is done! I submit to you all for review. 😂😅 *takes a bow*
P.S. There has been a recent development and a revision has been made to the rules: the amount of tree blocks has been lowered from 54 to at least 48 tree blocks. 🤨
#Quilting #QuiltingChallenge #Sewing #Fabric #StashBuster
/7
Talked to my mom after she saw the picture of my first block. 🤨 She wanted to know how long it took me, said she had a "moment" where she was worried that I could possibly finish before she could! 🤣 Said she was still deciding what fabric to use, piecing, etc., but now figured she better make up her mind fast. 😂 Already playing her mind games!
The great race has begun. Let the games begin! Look out! Hahaha *evil, wicked laugh* 😈
#Quilting #QuiltingChallenge #Sewing #Fabric #StashBuster
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UPDATE: First red ❤ block done. Second block, overall. No fun when you run out of a particular fabric and have to end with another...
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/9
So, my opponent has apparently not even started. Something about piecing and color motif is still undecided. (However, she has been known to cheat during a game of Monopoly.) The question is: has she started or has she not started? 🤔 Maybe she just wants me to THINK she hasn't started and she is already four blocks in? 🤨
Today, we talked about barriers to working on blocks. My biggest barrier is the stairs, hers is the cold. 🤔🤨
#Quilting #QuiltingChallenge #Sewing #Fabric #StashBuster
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I talked to the opposition just now. I'm firmly in the lead, so I told her I was #winning. She made a comment that she was banking on #gardening season when she knows I will lose steam and then she will come from behind to take the lead from me! 🤣 She's totally got a point there...
Working on a green block now, which is a bit difficult, trying to make sure things don't clash with limited options... 🤔
#Quilting #QuiltingChallenge #Sewing #Fabric #StashBuster
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Fourth block. I'm starting to have feelings for it. 🤔
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I think creating stuff/making art is a form of therapy and is a good emotion-focused #coping mechanism for me. I get stressed out easily. Maybe that's why I keep wanting to go up there and make a block? 🤔🤨 (I'm not a quilter, it's not my thing.) Otherwise, I don't know WHAT THE HECK is happening to me! LOL 😅😂
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Good Morning, CoSoNauts. ☕🍳 I woke up wondering about the weirdest thing: how to use quilting stencils. 🙄🤪 Now I'm obsessed with choosing which ones I want to use on my #QuiltingChallenge. 😂Fascinating stuff! 🤔
#Quilting #Sewing #Fabric #StashBuster
/15
I've been thinking about my #QuiltingChallenge a lot lately. 😅😂 Haven't gotten anything done really since what, February? 🤔 My opponent was correct that I would get very distracted by gardening and outdoor projects.
However, the haying is done, the garden is doing it's thing, and I think I am in a lull until the canning begins. I think it's time for some #XmasInJuly, don't you agree?
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/16
Made another tree block for my #QuiltingChallenge. This one is wonky and I cannot figure out why! 🤔🤨 Whatever, that'll teach me to pay closer attention, go back over the directions, etc. I'm a little worried blocks made during the summer when I'm in a rush aren't going to turn out very well! 😅😬
At this late point in time, I would have to make 3 blocks per week, if I want it done by deadline. Even then, that's a tight timeline!
#Quilting #Sewing #Fabric #StashBuster
/17
I talked to my opponent to wave my newly finished #quilt block in her face! (Basically I said, "neener, neener, neener!" 😂) She is looking into getting a #sewing table for her bedroom, so she could more easily work on whatever project is most pressing.
Sometimes I think she is way ahead of me. letting me think she has never started, other times, I'm pretty sure I'm competing against myself. Either way, I'm still motivated! #QuiltingChallenge.
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/18
Trying to stay busy and distracted, so had a #XmasInJuly session with my mother/opponent. SCOOP: she hasn't even started, she picked out her #fabric while we were on the phone! 😄 It's been confirmed that I am solidly in the lead. 😌New block just dropped. #QuiltingChallenge.
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/19
Here is a glimpse of the fabrics my opponent chose. I think I would call this more like folksy/folkart? 🤔 Not sure. #QuiltingChallenge.
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/20
I spoke to the opposition today and turned it into a lecture. (She hasn't been in her sewing room for months and months.) I told her I was going to tell you all that she conceded. That perked her up and she indignantly said, "I did NOT!" I told her she better get busy! 😂🤣 I also told her how mad I was going to be if she didn't whittle down the fabric in there and make it into something before she gets too old to sew! 🤨 #QuiltingChallenge.
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/21
My Peeps, I need to have a reality check on this #QuiltingChallenge. It's only like 8 to 9 weeks until deadline (Xmas Eve)! 🤯 I got really sidetracked by the Halloween placemats. 😬
If I want to win, competing against myself & against my opponent (believe you me, I DEFINITELY want those bragging rights!), then I think I'm going to have to make this into #QuiltingBootCamp?! 😲 (41 blocks left to make, & quilting, & binding! 🤪) Can it even be done?
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/22
I spoke to my opposition and she asked if I was conceding, and I said NEVER! AAARRR! 🤨🏴☠️ (She hasn't made a single block yet. I think I'm competing with myself, which is fine.)
Let #QuiltingBootCamp begin then! It's one block 🎄 per day STARTING NOW! If life gets in the way and I don't make a block, I have to make two blocks the next day to make it up. 😬😅 I'm going to be sweating!
#QuiltingChallenge #Quilting #Fabric #Sewing #StashBuster
/23
New block 🎄 done. I timed myself. Took me an hour and ten mins to fussy cut scraps and make one block. 😅 I'm slowly getting faster...
#QuiltingChallenge #Quilting #Fabric #Sewing #StashBuster
/24
New block 🎄 dropped! (This one got a wee bit crooked...Oopths.)
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/25
New block 🎄 done. Ran out of this particular background fabric before I could finish the block. 😬
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/26
Block 11 🎄 done. I've been trying to get this block done for days. 😤 FINALLY finished it! I'm so far behind, I'm losing faith. I'd have to make two blocks a day for a week, I think, to keep up with the most recent timeline I had set... 🤔😔
#QuiltingChallenge #Quilting #Fabric #Sewing #StashBuster
/27
Block 12 🎄 done. I'm now out of decent thread, awaiting my order of new thread (and some goodies I got myself, last purchase until after my bday in Jan.), and having to use crappy old thread while I wait. 😬
#QuiltingChallenge #Quilting #Fabric #Sewing #StashBuster
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@SandHillThicket Is one of the three for today? Only teasing more ambition than I have - my sunflower crochet quilt made it to 17 granny squares before I got sidetracked. I started last Jan to be useable by this Dec, yeah not gonna happen.
@Lucky188 😆 I will be lucky if I get one block done today! I have no clue how far I'm going to get before Xmas eve... Guess I'm just trying to get something, anything, done. 😅
@SandHil That Sunflour crchet blanket I had a simular deal with myself. Someday I'll dig it back out - even more likely this winter as I think how nice n warm it would be lol.