Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Midweek: OMG success, under the needle, and flinging

 


Surely I am not the only person wondering where July has gone!  

My OMG was to make the quilt for the AAUW holiday raffle.  I finished it mid-month.  ("Don't 'peak' until Christmas"?) 

Here is the July OMG link up.



SIS-boom-dot is under the needle, though here it's shown rolled up for the last rows.  (SIS=square-in-square / boom = the brights / dot = the black pin dot.)



These boxes are empty!  They held various household items left over from my last garage sale (2019 according to the newspapers wrapped around glassware), a miscellany of tins, and more.   The contents are in cardboard boxes in my car, ready to go to the church for the late-August rummage sale.  

I'll have the stash report and the August OMG in Friday's post.  

Linking up with Midweek Makers and  Wednesday Wait Loss  as well as OMG.

12 comments:

  1. Congratulations on meeting your OMG - it's a gorgeous quilt! And quilting your SIS quilt, too. You're on a roll!

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  2. oh what a feeling those empty boxes must be! i know that feeling! i love the christmas scrappy....

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  3. Lovely finish to your Christmas quilt! I'm sure it'll make a lot of money at raffle. Can't wait to see SIS Boom Dot--that tiny peak is so tantalizing! Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
    https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2024/07/31/wednesday-wait-loss-391

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  4. It took several tries but finally, with the terms "famous quilter elementary school teacher pbs show", the name Eleanor Burns popped up on the googles, the person whom I thought you were going to be emulating based on the title of this post!

    Currently wrestling a twin under my Brother's 9" throat (straight-line quilting) and happy to have that roll-up reminder for how to make my life easier.

    Empty boxes for the win!!! Gold medal to you. USA! USA!! USA!!!

    (Ahem. And I'm not even watching the Olympics.)

    Bird 'Pie

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  5. Loving seeing Sis-boom-dot in the process of quilting, are you using serpentine stitch? Your Christmas mountains is so lovely, I'm sure it will be an amazing success in the raffle.

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  6. Congrats on meeting your OMG for the month. And on all the empty boxes. Decluttering takes a lot of effort. Hopefully you won't have to haul anything home from the rummage sale.

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  7. The Christmas quilt turned out wonderfully. It feels so good to have empty boxes and bins. I need to get back to my decluttering this month. It's time to clean a big closet that holds all the Christmas stuff plus a lot of other stuff that we probably don't need anymore. LOL

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  8. I like the Christmas quilt - and good for you for having empty boxes! When we used to have yard sales pretty much every year I would haul everything that didn't sell back into the house and put it away. Finally came to the realization that if I had decided I didn't want it, I didn't want to continue to store it either. Sure made it a whole lot easier to donate it after that.

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  9. Inspired by your Christmas raffle quilt I started one in that pattern but am finding it a bit of a slog - my finished squares are smaller and it is taking an inordinate number of them, so I'm deciding that a baby quilt would be acceptable. Maybe I'll love it when it's done. And congratulations on the empty boxes!

    Ceci

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