Scrap-a-palooza day 24 and 25 and almost done with the DNP quilting

I have been busy on several fronts yesterday and today: working at home, cutting scraps, quilting the DNP, and shopping to finish up odds and ends for Christmas. Here are the scraps and strings I have cut.

Here is what is left for me to sort and cut. This bin seems to never end! I think a couple more hours and it will be empty.

The area circled is what I have left to quilt on the DNP. It is about 2.5 SF to go.  I am going to try and get that done before I go to bed. I will have gone thru 78 bobbins of thread! There won't be much thread left on the cone; I am just glad I had enough to get this done! Tomorrow I will start on the binding. I am so glad to be ahead of schedule on this!

Scrap-a-palooza day 23, DNP status, and snow

I got a few more scraps cut. This pink and purple bin seems bottomless!

I am now down to 22 SF that needs quilted on the DNP. Looks like I am ahead of schedule! Yeah!

We got some snow; maybe 2 inches tops. Here is the track where I sometimes walk to at the high school about a mile from my house. I remember when I was working on this job. It was brutally hot the summer the track was installed. This is where I go to walk when I don't feel like walking up and down hills or dealing with a lot of bad sidewalks.

I got an email from work that since we cannot have the company Christmas luncheon, they would be sending all the employees a honey baked ham gift box. Sweet! I love honey baked ham. The box came today and here is what was in it - yes, that is turkey! LOL!!! Oh well, I am sure it is delicious!

Scrap-a-palooza day 22 and DNP progress

I got that file broken down into smaller files and got them downloaded to the architect - whew!!! I learned a lot and what to do for a couple more jobs that I will eventually closeout. I was able to get a bit more of the scraps cut.

I headed outside in the snow - yes, the snow fell here today - for a walk before I sat down and quilted on the DNP. After I wound another 15 1/2 bobbins, I have used up the first of two cones of King Tut. There are 2000 yards per cone. If I did my calculations correctly, I will have enough to finish this quilt. I now have about 31 SF quilted so I need to get another 5 SF done tonight or I will be behind my goal of 9 SF a day.

Pantone colors of the year

I won't be making a quilt in gray and yellow because I already have! These quilts are from 2013. Was I ahead of the trend? The first one is a baby quilt and the improv striped one is an oversized twin.

Scrap-a-palooza day 21 and the DNP

What a day! I had work to do for my job. I needed to reorganize files on the computer so I could download them to the architect's website. I am working off the hotspot on my phone which is slow. Then I had one huge file that would not open. I spent over an hour doing a remote session with IT to try and get the file to open. To make a long story short, we got the file to open but not in a pdf format. It wouldn't download to my desktop, but I finally figured out to download it to a thumbdrive and that worked! Tomorrow I will break the file down into smaller units. I didn't have much time to cut scraps today, but I did get a few done.

I went for a 4 mile walk instead of quilting. I did get another 5 square feet done while watching the Browns game last night. That got me to 27 S.F. so I am still on schedule.

Scrap-a-palooza day 19 and 20 plus progress on the DNP quilt

I was just too tired to post yesterday so here is what I did get done on day 19.

So today I sorted scraps into piles. Here is a pile that will be cut into 3 1/2" squares, 4 1/2" x 16 1/2" pieces for chevron tops, and pieces that will end up 3" wide for making zig zag blocks.

Then I made piles of these like pieces.

Then there were some more pieces for string blocks.

I could not avoid quilting the DNP any longer so yesterday I broke down and got started. I guess I am dreading this job because this quilt is so darn big.  I started free motion quilting yesterday.  I made pretty good progress. I figure I have 9 days to get the quilting done and two days for binding in order to have it done for Xmas. That means I need to quilt at least 9 square feet a day! Right now I have 22 square feet quilted which means I am ahead of schedule. I figure there are 81.7 square feet to quilt!  I will get a bit more done while I watch the Browns game tonight. The sooner I get it quilted the sooner I can bind it and the sooner it will be done.  In this picture the quilt is folded so there is a lot more top to quilt!

Scrap-a-palooza day 18

I had a busy day today. Went and got frozen ravoili, and red and afredo sauce for Xmas Eve dinner. Last year the Italian grocery ran out so I wanted to make sure I got what I needed. A quick stop a another grocery, then 25 minutes waiting in line at the post office to mail the flannel quilt and pillowcase - the line was out the door and they only had one clerk working, geeze! - then pick up my watch that was repaired. That all tired me out! Here is what I managed to get cut before I headed out for a walk.

Here are the pictures of the feathers and the deer that I couldn't post yesterday because the internet was so slow.