My Goals for July

Here it is, the start of a new month and time to set my goals.  This month I refuse to make a comment that things might be a bit quieter, as the last two months have been busier than ever, despite my predictions.

Firstly, to my stitching goals.

ONE MONTHLY GOAL

I am starting to use this goal to give myself a little push to work on something that has been waiting in the wings for a little while, despite my best intentions.  Therefore, this month I will make my goal to complete the appliqué and stitchery on the centre block of my Blue Quilt.  

I prepped it ready to stitch just over twelve months ago, so it is high time to make some progress.  I made an amendment to the design, as the two options for the word in the centre were “Blue” or “Love”.  Neither really appealed.  “Hope” suits it, and us, much better.

Once this block is completed I can start to work on the construction of the quilt, rather than the separate components.  I did say this would be a two year project, so it is still on track, but I really need to get a wriggle on.

RAINBOW SCRAP CHALLENGE

The colour for July is Red.  Time to pull out the scraps to cut the split nine patch and put the black and white blocks together.

15 MINUTES A DAY

This little challenge is really giving me the push I need to achieve some little thing each day.  It works well to have something rather simple on hand for those days when you don’t have the time or inclination to work on something for any length of time.

KNITTING OR CROCHET

I will continue to work on my giant granny crochet rug.  With a bit of luck it will be finished this month.

LAUNDRY BASKET SPRING MYSTERY QUILT

This mystery started last month and runs for six weeks.  I have the first three weeks completed but am dragging the chain.  Week 4 is four pieced blocks, which should be easy, but I can’t decide on fabrics.  Week 5 consists of twelve hexy flowers.  I think Week 6 will be applique.  I hope to catch up, but will not promise a completed quilt top, as I don’t know how much more work will be involved.  The design style is a bit different to the previous years, but I’m sure will be lovely, as are all of Edyta’s designs.  

HAND WORK

This will be an easy goal this month, as there is stitching on the Blue Quilt Centre and I have all those hexy flowers to complete.

WORK ON A DONATION PROJECT

I hope to make and complete yet another simple quilt.

USE MONIQUE

If I make a donation quilt it will need quilting.  I don’t anticipate to be quilting anything else, but who knows.

LEADER AND ENDER

Last month I used my RSC blocks as leaders and enders and hope to do so again.

Now onto my non stitching goals.

READ A BOOK

TRY A NEW RECIPE

HAVE A FUN DAY OUT

GO FOR A MOTORCYCLE RIDE

GO AWAY WITH THE CARAVAN

CATCH UP ON MY BLOG POSTS

Being the middle of winter I don’t anticipate a motorcycle ride or trip with the caravan, but then, you never know what may happen on the spur of the moment.

My main goal this month is to catch up with my blog posts, as we have been up to all sorts of things and I haven’t documented them as yet.  Time to get my act together.

Now to get started.