Mary-Thon Week Ending 1/5/19

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Quiltmouse

This Week’s Score Card

Mary-Thon 2019 – Full Mary-Thon

Goal – 5 Days of 30 minutes activity per day for 26 weeks.

Week #1 – Week Ending 1/5/2019

  • # of Active Days (over 30 minutes) – 5
  • Exercise Bike – 75 minutes
  • Treadmill – 15 minutes
  • Total Miles – 17.3 miles
  • Total Minutes – 280 minutes (4 2/3 hours)
Finishing is Winning

Sewing Room Activity

Goal – Minimum of 1 hour a day for 3 days a week/1 day per week working on OMG

  • # of Days in Sewing Room – 5 (Mon/Tues/Wed/Thur/Sat)
  • # of Projects Worked on – Quillow, Pillowcase, Travel Pillowcase, Cleaning, OMG – (finding material needed for projects)

Happy Stitching & Moving!

Quilt Mouse

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I Don’t Have Enough to Do??

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Quiltmouse

I started my quilting adventure by doing hand piecing, but moved on to using the sewing machine to piece & quilt my projects. I’ll admit, sewing with a machine is much faster than by hand. But there is something ‘soothing’ about doing hand-work, plus it’s more portable. Hand work is something I enjoy. I have cross-stitched (until my eyes no longer liked the small holes!) and still crochet.

2019 Jan – Assorted (and multiple) Hand piecing suppies

The first several classes I took when I wanted to learn about quilting consisted of hand quilting & hand piecing. I still meet nearly every Thursday with ladies I met 12 years ago and we hand stitch our different projects for the afternoon.

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2019 – Off to a Good Start!

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Quiltmouse

New Year’s Day was quiet around here.

I started my Sewing Year by first cleaning my sewing machine. It had it’s annual “Spa Day” in September, but I like to give it some touch up. So, using my disposable mascara brush, I chased all the lint from around the bobbin & feed dogs. Next a drop of oil on the Bobbin track. Then the needle was changed. I keep a Post-it Note stuck to my machine with the size of the needle and date it was changed. I put in a full bobbin and re-threaded the machine. Finally a quick wipe down with a damp rag for both the machine and the table.

2019 Jan – New Year’s Cleaning
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January 2019 OMG

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Quiltmouse

I’m linking up to Elm Street Quilts – January One Monthly Goal.

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And the New Year Begins – 2019

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Quiltmouse

Do you have any New Year’s Day Traditions? We have a few.

First, New Year’s Day is the day to un-decorate the house.

We’ve had the Christmas Decorations out since Thanksgiving and now it is the time to sort through them, discard any broken items and carefully wrap and store till next year. Because the weather is calling for rain the next couple of days, we did begin on Sunday by bringing in the outdoors decorations and lights so they would be dry to pack up.

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