So Much Coffee Cup Fun!

 

I was going to just make one coffee mug per month as my RSC block, but I got carried away. 😄 I finished all the blocks for a wall hanging and hope to sew them all together this afternoon and then handquilt it. This one I intend to keep for myself to hang above my coffee/tea buffet.

Since one of my big goals this year is to make lots of charity quilts and thus use a lot of my stash, I wanted to do coffee mugs for at least one of them. But, I don't want to spend a lot of time with small pieces and these blocks only end up at 9.5" square. So, it was off to the graph paper {I'm very math-challenged and very hands-on visual} to design a larger block.

I came up with 15.5" blocks that look like this:

So I'm off and running on that project as well as continuing to finish off at least two Scrappy Spools per sewing session. And I've been able to sew nearly every day recently. Happiness!!

Because I've got so many projects at once and I'm a little on the scatter-brained side, I made myself a dry-erase productivity plan {aka get-your-focus-back-board} with monthly plans broken down into daily snippets. {Good grief, the photos aren't coming out too well today. Sigh.}

So, this week's goals are:

Embroidery

* Keep stitching on Elefantz BOM from January

* Trace Elefantz pattern for February

Crochet

* Hat that actually keeps my ears warm when cleaning animal pens

* Maybe start edging around flannel receiving blankets that are now hemmed {for pregnancy care center}

Quilting/Sewing

* Continue trying to finish off 2-4 Scrappy Spools/day

* Probably make more 15.5" coffee mugs cuz I can't resist

* Keep cutting scraps for use in various projects {Scrap Wrangling}

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I have just finished an amazingly helpful and encouraging book by Brant Hansen.

It and another of his books {Life is Hard, God is Good, Let's Dance} are so engaging, well-written, funny, and inspiring to just let God handle the "bad guys" and we'll focus on loving and caring. The chapters are short so you can dip in as you have time, or read them all because they draw you in so much.

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I leave you with these cute pictures of newly hatched quail chicks and the hope that your week is a joyfilled one.