2018--November 16------I am Grateful

I am grateful that I've worked all week on Quilting projects---i.e.  Stitcher' "African" Garden,  a daughter's portrait,  and Christmas tablecloth ( from Christmas fabric crumbs)

To make my world a happier place through the next week, I'm intending to  (1) get my house spiffy (company's coming for Thanksgiving)  (2)  work on Christmas tablecloth, and cards, and gifts for my quilting group members.

I reaffirm that I have the time I need for all I do!

Three amazing things that occurred this past week:
        1.  I finally finished fusing all the flowers for the SAG to the quilted backgrounds and now I have 19 blocks  left to embellish and add border sashings to.
          2.  Watched as week went by, BP and FBG numbers go down to normal levels.
           3.  Started meditating again.

What would have made my week even happier:  To have cleaned house thoroughly by now.

Finishing up:  Two pieces of Huntington series.
This first one is titled, "Once there was a bridge"

And the second one is , "Churches of Huntington"

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

October 31- November 8.

I am grateful that I've almost completed the blocks for my African version of Stitcher's Garden.,--and for time to work on it freely this past week...and for the portrait workshop going well.

Today would be great if I finished the Stitcher's Garden blocks, and made time to work on the Christmas table covering I've started also from scraps, and tidied up mystudio a bit..

I have the time I need for all I do!  ( the week's affirmation)

3 Really bright spots this past week:

           The portrait workshop I gave to the Innovative Fabric Artist Network (IFAN) went really well.
            I started a portrait of my daughter <----her christmas="" nbsp="" p="" present="">          
<----her christmas="" nbsp="" p="" present="">             Here's the current update of the (African) Stitcher's Garden.    

• Seeing my friend Lynn at church bazaar; she looked happy, healthy, and well.
• Finished getting basement organized and tidied up.   YEaaaaaaaa!

It might have been a better week if I'd met all my intentions for it.  Will try again this week to finish up blocks for ASG, with borders and make progress too on Christmas tablecloth, and Adrianne's (my DD =darling daughter) portrait.

Wishing you all a happy and progressive week!

The 5-Minute Journal

      I learned of the 5-Minute Journal from Adam Brown's Bright Spots and & Landmines (he got it from Tim Ferris's intelligentchange.com  I found it very adaptable for my Bullet Journal that I keep these days.  It is a sort of shortcut journaling of a day and it seems well suited for my thoughts and reflections on quilting on this blog.  One of the reasons I'd given up blogging here was because I seemed not to have much to say, or I had too much text.  The 5-minute journal offers me a way to review my work and reflect on the process and progress of it.  So I'll try at least a weekly entry for a month or so and see if it works for me.
      The journal is really guided by 5 questions:

I am grateful for:
1._______________________________________________________________
2._______________________________________________________________
3.________________________________________________________________

What would make today (this week) great?
1._______________________________________________________________
2._______________________________________________________________
3.________________________________________________________________

Daily (Weekly) Affirmation:

1._______________________________________________________________
2._______________________________________________________________
3.________________________________________________________________

Three Amazing things that happened this week:

1._______________________________________________________________
2._______________________________________________________________
3.________________________________________________________________

How might I have made this week better?

AND  that is all there is to it.  I just want to focus on quilting and the many projects I have going. And it will help so much seeing things in a capsule form. I'm thinking it'll help me keep things in  a right perspective and organize my work too So here goes....


This week October 14-20, I'm so thankful for getting my project sheets set up for completing the Stitcher's garden.  And for cutting out Christmas Pillow cases for my grandboys, and working on Christmas table cloth, using the crumb chaos method.

II.  For the coming week ( Oct. 21-28)  I plan to get the rest of the flowers onto the backgrounds.

III.  Affirmation for the week: I choose to see everylbody and everything with joy, love and tenderness.  ( I've been so negative about Donald Trump.  I get so angry about things he's done and all his bragging about what he wishes he'd done.)
 
IV.  Three amazing things that happened this week were (1) I completed two more of the 25 blocks required for SG. And I cut out pillow cases and worked on crumb quilt tablecloth as stated above ( more than I'd accomplished in past month)  Oh and I prepared materials sheet for workshop on making fabric portraits for Nov. 3.

V.  this week I plan to to work toward completing all the background quilting and fuse flowers on each block, then I can begin embellishing  and framing (putting on borders).
photo pending.

Quilting Conference

1st National African American Quilting Conference