Stitching Goals for September

After quite a few months of our life being turned upside down, my sewing room is in utter chaos, with projects not put away, ironing to be done and quite a bit of Mum’s stuff to be sorted through.  Therefore, I will continue with the theme of this year by setting minimal goals and just going with the flow.  Having said that, a little bit of direction won’t go astray.

CHOOKSHED CHALLENGE and RAINBOW SCRAP CHALLENGE

This year has not been a good one for working on the Chookshed Challenge.  There are just two projects remaining and the one that came up this month is the Sashiko bag and I’m not even going to start to think about that at the moment.  The other is to make the Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilt.  That is more achievable.  I have to catch up with the aqua blocks from last month, which won’t take long and the prompt this month is to add whatever you need to add, maybe a light blue or green.  I will pull out all the blocks I have made over the last three years and see what else is required.  I think, from recollection, that I only need to make six more blocks, so the aqua two and four more of whatever looks like it is needed.  Then, it is time to pull out my design curtain and have a play with the layout.  That may be a fun thing to do this month, that is not too onerous.  It would be so nice to have the quilt top for this made this month.

RAINBOW QUILTERS BLOCK

I have joined with Betty and her friends in making some group quilts.  The prompt in July was to make a couple of shadow blocks.  Now that I can start pulling out tubs of fabric it is a priority to get the blocks made and sent to her, as I hate holding up the project.

CROCHET CORNER TO CORNER RUG

I would really like to finish the rug this month before it gets too hot.

This is where I am up to today.  I have just started the fifth ball of yarn.  I think it will probably take seven.  The finished dimension for Wrap with Love blankets is 70 inches by 40 inches.  It is currently 55 inches long, so a little way to go.  Each row takes about 15 minutes at the current length of the rows.  That will get better once I start to decrease for the other corner.  It will have a few rows of trebles added for a simple edging.  I am finding it to be a nice mindless project to work on, particularly at my stitching days.

And that is it.  Anything else will be a bonus……It would be nice to have a bonus something worked on.  We will see how we go.