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Our Girl's Weekend from Life In Pieces

My sister and I left Oklahoma for Texas on Thursday and got back home Monday night. That left us Friday, Saturday and Sunday for lots of crafty stuff. I found a great rental to use for our retreat.

The dining room table was big enough for 3 sewing machines. Just mine and my sister's are set up in the photo. We were able to use the center island for cutting and pressing. It was a very user friendly set up.

Grad Girl had stuff going on for most of Friday, so she wasn't able to take off as ...

added by Kate 2 weeks, 1 day ago. under cathedral windows pin cushions , grad girl , meadow mist designs , monday design wall , queenie , shadow demon , vacation

Stitching Stuff: Week 42 from Life In Pieces

We are in the middle of our girl's weekend. I spent most of the week getting ready to sew all weekend. So it's been another good week on the stitching front.

15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
15 minute days/Oct = 19/19 days
15 minute days/2024 = 293/293 days
Success rate = 100%

I've not done as much sewing on my projects.

Most of Friday's sewing was helping Grad Girl learn her new sewing machine. She has never wound a bobbin or threaded a machine or used a foot pedal. Her first task was ...

added by Kate 2 weeks, 4 days ago. under 15 minutes to stitch , grad girl

Just Piecing and Pressing from Life In Pieces

It's been a busy week. Grad Girl and I spent one day in Tulsa and then another in Oklahoma City. We had fun, but it did impact my stitching time this week. I managed my 15 minutes every day, but sometimes not much more than that. It's OK, she heads back to school tomorrow. I'm glad we had a chance to hang out so much while she was home.

All I have to show for the week is a bunch of pinned pieces at my sewing machine.

At the top is the last of pieces needed to ...

added by Kate 10 months ago. under grad girl , indigo way , malted mystery , monday design wall , patchwork & quilts , sahrr

Stitching Stuff: Week 1 of 2024 from Life In Pieces

The first week of 2024 has been slow compared to the end of 2023. That always seems to happen in January. We've all recovered from Covid. My Guy went back to work on Tuesday, Grad Girl will head back to Texas on Tuesday of this week. So we're not quite back to status quo, but we're getting there.

In terms of stitching time, I track my time by calendar year, so last Sunday was my last tracking day for 2023. I exceeded my goal of 75% for 2023.

15 minute days in 2023 = 310/365
2023 Success ...

added by Kate 10 months ago. under 15 minutes to stitch , embroidery , grad girl , queenie

Not Much on the Stitching Front from Life In Pieces

Happy 2nd day of Christmas. That's the way My Guy greeted me this morning. My family does our big celebration on Christmas Eve, that allows all of us married people the opportunity to spend Christmas day with the our in-law side of the family. There's a longer story to why it works that way, but we'll leave that for another time. We don't do a big celebration with My Guy's family since his mother passed, so we just pretty much just vegged out on Christmas Day. It was nice. I actually had the time and ...

added by Kate 1 year, 10 months ago. under buddy , grad girl , monday design wall , queenie

Stitching Stuff: Week 37 of 2022 from Life In Pieces

The last stitching stuff post was back in June, 14 weeks ago. I really didn't intend for my break to last that long, especially not the break from my sewing room. It's been a struggle to get back into my habit of heading to the sewing room for at least 15 minutes every day so my metrics really do look sad.

15 minute days/week = 3/7 days
15 minute days/June = 9/30 days
15 minute days/July = 0/31 days
15 minute days/Aug = 10/31 days
15 minute days/Sept = 9/24 days
15 minute ...

added by Kate 2 years, 1 month ago. under 15 minutes to stitch , embroidery , grad girl , pillows

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