1. Month 7 Designer Mystery – DONE!

2. Month 8 Designer Mystery—Done!

3. Month 3 Love Letters – halfway completed

4. Month 4 Love Letters – nope

5. Fifteen Arrowhead Blocks – got twelve done

1. Complete Month 3 Love Letters
2. Month 4 Love Letters
3. Month 5 Love Letters
4. Two Tsunami quilts
5. Sandwich Pineapple quilts
6. Complete Cleaning & organizing sewing area.

Last week was a sort-of hectic week.  Tuesday, I picked up my new sewing machine – a Janome 6600.  I played a little with it that day, but really didn’t get a chance to do much sewing until Thursday.

Wednesday, I decided to re-organize my sewing area to accommodate the new machine.  I also finally was able to convince my husband that we no longer needed the desktop that resided in there.  I was prepping the room for the removal of that computer and desk.

Thursday was mine and my husband’s 17th anniversary and I went to lunch with my hubby that day. That was when I got the 12 arrowhead blocks completed.  I have 10 more to make.

Friday, My husband and I had a nice dinner out at a steak restaurant.  Not much got done that day. 

Saturday was a lot of household chores, but I did manage to get my Designer Mystery blocks caught up and most of one month of Love Letters.

Sunday, we went to the beach.  When we got home, we took the computer desk out of the sewing room and set it out for our monthly bulk trash pickup (where we can set old furniture, etc, that does not fit in the trash can)..  I do believe that it may not be there when they actually come to pick up the bulk trash though – it is fine with me.  If someone can use the desk I say “go for it”. 

WRONG.

January I had the problem of not being able to sandwich a quilt.  It was a good excuse.  I didn’t want to damage my new dining room table.  Then my friend Joan came to my rescue and sent me a video on a new method. I will admit that I was interested, so about midway through the month, I finally got around to going to the hardware store for some boards.

I tried it and liked it.  It was SO easy to sandwich a quilt.  I did change the method up just a little to suit me better.  I drew a line on the board at the halfway point.  I then marked the center point on each end of the quilt with masking tape.  I also taped down the first edge so that it was easier to roll up. 

I managed to get three quilts sandwiched in two days.  A record for me.

I even started to quilt one.  But it wasn’t one on my UFO listing to the right.  It was one from my list way back in January.  Oh well.  I still have March, right?  It shouldn’t be hard to quilt a bunch of quilts this month, right?  Considering I still have to sandwich two of them?  Do you think I can do it? 

How did I do with my February Goals?

Date Done	Project	Task
2/16/2010	Home For the Holidays	Sandwich
	Home For the Holidays	Quilt
	Home For the Holidays	Bind
2/17/2010	Friendship Braid	Sandwich
	Friendship Braid	Quilt
	Friendship Braid	Bind
	Simply Sophisticated	2 Blocks
2/6/2010	Neptune Quilt	Blocks into Top
2/6/2010	Neptune Quilt	Inner Borders
2/6/2010	Neptune Quilt	Piano Key Border
	Triple Scoop	Sandwich
	Triple Scoop	Quilt
	Triple Scoop	Bind
2/17/10	Pumped Pumpkins	Sandwich

My March goals are:

• Sandwich Triple Scoop
• Quilt Triple Scoop
• Bind Triple Scoop
• Quilt Friendship Braid
• Bind Friendship Braid
• Quilt Pumped Pumpkins
• Bind Pumped Pumpkins
• Quilt Home for the Holidays
• Bind Home for the Holidays
• Piece Back for Designer Mystery 2008
• Sandwich Designer Mystery 2008
• Quilt Designer Mystery 2008
• Bind Designer Mystery 2008

Nancy husband has picked #2 for the UFO challenge this month.  At least it is one that I already have the backing for and don’t have to buy any.  Yea!

• Opportunity Quilt – 6 blocks - I did part of them and handed them over to the Chair for this project to complete.
• Friendship Braid – Piece Backing – Completed!
• Simply Sophisticated – Two Blocks - Completed not only the two blocks that I wanted to do, but finished the top.
• Sweet Treasures – Two Blocks – yea… didn’t get to this one
• Friendship Braid – Bind – nope
• Friendship Braid – Quilt – nope
• Friendship Braid – Sandwich - nope, I am having problems sandwiching now that I have a new dining room table.
• Pastel Lucky Stars – Complete Binding – yes, this was done
• Home for the Holidays – Piece Backing - yes, this one got completed
• Home for the Holidays – Sandwich - again, nope because of the problems with sandwiching things
• Home for the Holidays – Quilt - nope
• Home for the Holidays – Bind - nope

All in all a productive month, but some things I really wanted to do didn’t get accomplished.  I do need to find a way to sandwich my quilts without having to put them on the floor.  I used to put them on my kitchen table and clamp the layers to the table and then pin.  I got a new dining room table at the first part of the year and now I don’t want to mess it up at all.    I tried to use my table in my sewing area, but I can’t clamp to it because the table is too thick.

I hope you had a productive month too!

This is the year.  I am going to get back to listing my monthly goals.  You can see up there on the tab that states “Goals for 2010″ – they will stay up there every month.  This is what I have so far.  Why I say “so far” is because I don’t know what the quilt for the UFO Challenge will be this month.  I will update my list when it becomes available.

• Opportunity Quilt – 6 blocks
• Friendship Braid – Piece Backing
• Simply Sophisticated – Two Blocks
• Sweet Treasures – Two Blocks
• Friendship Braid – Bind
• Friendship Braid – Quilt
• Friendship Braid – Sandwich
• Pastel Lucky Stars – Complete Binding