Setting my Goals for November

Here we are again, starting another month and deciding what to focus on for November.  This time of year is always busy for us, and now that we are out of lock down, it is no different.  Therefore, I am going to set rather modest goals and will hopefully get to meet them.  Here goes.......

STITCHING GOALS

1.    ONE MONTHLY GOAL and ONE PROJECT A MONTH

I will be combining these two goals this month.

My main goal is to add the binding to my Laundry Basket Mystery Quilt.  I still have to cut and join the binding.  It isn't a big job, but at least I can be pretty sure of getting it done.  I can't wait to put this quilt on our bed.

2.    WOOFA CHALLENGE and DONATION PROJECT

I have a combined project for these as well.

I want to continue to work on a donation project each month.

This is where I got up to with my latest donation quilt last month.

I've since selected backing fabrics.  The blue is left over from my Jocelyn Proust quilt backing and the green was a very lucky find at an op shop.  There is one metre of this Robert Koffman green, which matches the quilt colours perfectly.  Joined together, they will make a nice backing.  I'm so pleased I bought a great big roll of batting on special from Spotlight recently.  It is getting lots of use lately, and having consistent left overs, they will work well for some quilt as you go.

I want to have a go a spray basting on this quilt.  It is something I haven't tried before.  I will have to make sure we have a nice still day to do it outside.  It would be nice to have the quilt finished this month, but I'm not sure if that will happen.  I just want to keep it moving along.

FRIDAY NIGHT WITH FRIENDS

Tomorrow is the first Friday in the month, so some stitching should take place.  I don't know that I will get a lot done, as there is a TV show I want to watch, but I will make some progress.

CHRISTMAS PROJECT

I'm still slowly working on a secret project........It's secret.

NON STITCHING GOALS

These will probably be the more dominant goals this month.

READ A BOOK

Well, I've actually already read one, so I'd better expand the goal to two books.

TRY A NEW RECIPE AND REVISIT AN OLD RECIPE

I'm going to be trying a new recipe tonight.  Fingers crossed it works out OK.  I haven't decided what old recipe to revisit.  I'll have to have a look through my recipe books.  We hope to continue experimenting with the camp oven as well.

FRIDAY FUN DAY

This is going to happen tomorrow.  All things being equal, there should be a couple of other fun days, just not necessarily on a Friday.

HAVE A WEEKEND AWAY IN THE CARAVAN

Nope.  Won't happen.  Too much else going on.  I'm OK with that.

I'm now a little enthused to get a start on these.  Let's see how we go by the end of the month.