Conquer the day with coffee in hand and courage in heart ☕️🌟👍🏻
Happy Monday morning everyone. Welcome to Monday Musings. We are in the typical August “dog days of summer” here in the south. Hot, humid, with pop up storms just about every afternoon! I hope you are all saying cool/warm, depending on where you are. Did you do a lot of stitching last week? Now, let’s move on to the good stuff!!
Here’s how my story ended for the week of 8/3/26- 8/9/26:
- Continue working on Heather! DONE!! I’m not quite finished with her, though I am on the last part. There is a new flower stitch I’m working on and will be sharing Heather next week. I had to get some cookie pop sticks or BBQ skewers for this and we picked them up after church yesterday at Michael’s.
- Sew Day on Wednesday. DONE!! We worked on some blocks for SafeHouse of Shelby county, who put out a call for quilt blocks as they are making quilts for those who need them. I gathered all my orphan blocks and then many more were made during our sew day and were carried to SafeHouse on Thursday.
- Work on stockings. DONE!! One partly completed and have good ideas for the other one!
- Maybe start my ByAnnie’s carrying bag for Little Princess. NOPE! I didn’t get started on it, though I took a good look at the pattern and will hopefully begin on it this week.
- Connie’s blog hop begins tomorrow. DONE!! Here is my project, as well as my new quilt with her signature fabrics. You can read more in my previous post if you missed it.
- Whatever suits my fancy!! DONE!! MD appointment on Friday and my doc was very pleased as my Hgb A1C has gone from 5.9 to 5.4, which is in the normal range! She was also very pleased with my 35 lb weight loss! YAY ME!!
Plans for the week of 8/10- 8/16/26:
- Finish stitching on Heather and hopefully begin Belle!
- Jennifer from Curlicue Creations’ blog hop is this week. My day is Thursday and I will have a new pattern release for it! I love her new signature collection…especially the name of it!! The schedule will be below.
- Continue working on stockings.
- Hopefully get started quilting the fabric for my Stitcher’s Suitcase for Little Princess.
- Little Princess is ready to be picked up today from her spa treatment. I’m anxious to get her back and play with her some more.
- Begin cutting and stitching my blocks for the new Marigod Mystery at Meadow Mist Designs. Check it out HERE.
- Whatever cranks my tractor!
Here is some quilty inspiration shared last week!
Thanks to everyone who linked up! If you want to know more about any of these, click through the links in the last Monday Musings post.
Now it’s your turn to link up projects you’re working on!
Here is the blog hop schedule:
- Monday August 10th – Curliecue Creations – Jennifer
- Tuesday August 11th – Freemotion by the River – Connie
- Wednesday August 12th – Lisa’s Quilting Passion – Lisa
- Thursday August 13th – Songbird Designs – You are here!
- Friday August 14th –Sew Cute & Quirky – Brianna
- Saturday August 15th – Textile Time Travels – Sandra
- Sunday August 16th – The Darling Dogwood – Emily
- Monday August 17th – Quilted Delights – Leah
- Tuesday August 18th – I Heard it Through the Quilt Vine – Cat
- Wednesday August 19th – Pamela Quilts – Pamela
Songbird is Jennifer’s new signature fabric collection with Island Batik, Lumin Fabrics, designed by Jerry Khiev. It’s a gorgeous collection.
Shopping…in case you need some quilty goodness this month!
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Electric Quilt:
August 16-18: 25% off EQ8 Lesson Books! Promo code: LESSONS. All sales exclude EQ for You Starter Box, EQ classes, and EQ Membership. A text link is available now.
August 26-28: 25% off BlockBase+! Promo code: 4000BLOCKS. All sales exclude EQ for You Starter Box, EQ classes, and EQ Membership. A text link is available now.
Early September: Labor Day Sitewide Sale! Dates TBD.
AccuQuilt: Check out the sales at AccuQuilt by clicking THIS link! They have a new die that I am loving and may just have to break down and buy. It is the Ugly Sweater 8″ finished Die! Check it out HERE. They have some cute free patterns to go along with it too.
UPDATE!! Yes, I did go buy this sweater die!! I hope to make something with it in the not too distant future!!
Specials at Fat Quarter Shop for the month of AUGUST!
– The Basic of the Month: Eyelet by Moda Fabrics
– The Notion of the Month: ByAnnie
– The Book of the Month: Family Favorites Quilt Book
– The Patterns of the Month: Chelsi Stratton’s Patterns
– The Cross Stitch Sale of the Month: Digi Stitchery
SEWCIALITES 3 QAL!
Sewcialites 3 is ongoing! All the details can be found on the FQS blog. Download the guide and information packet, grab some fabric, and join the fun!
Check out ALL the sales at Fat Quarter Shop HERE! And HERE you can find the daily flash sale! FQS adds new specials daily/weekly, so be sure to check them out!
Have a wonderful quilty week. Until next time…
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Congrats on your health report and weight loss. I love your new quilt 🙂
What an awesome report from the MD appointment and kudos for the weight loss. That is one difficult task! I hope you have lots of success with meeting your goals next week.
We must lead similar lives: Dr apt for me, too, yesterday with similar experiences and outcomes. We have to consider this like we do our quilt projects and take pride in our work. A hearty congratulations! Nice to see all your quilt projects finished and ideas coming to completion. A lovely post!
Good for you losing that weight. And kudos on the test results too. Nothing like good news to motivate you to keep it up. Those are two cool quilts you are sharing. I’ll have to check back in on Thursday.
What a great week with nearly all of your goals met! Thank you for hosting. 😊
Shew you had a great week – lots of checkmarks!!! Love your blog hop quilt
How fun to have another blog hop and beautiful quilt pattern/design ready to share again this week. You’ve been very busy behind the scenes!
Songbird really is pretty. You are busy with blog hops! I know you’ll be glad to get Little Princess back. Have a great week!
This is my last one for a while. It has been a busy month, though. I’ll definitely be glad to get Little Princess back! Stay cool this week!
Congratulations on your quilting progress and finishes, and congratulations on the good news from your doctor about improving your health. 🙂
Happy Monday, Brenda. That is wonderful news that you got a good report from the doctor. Woo Hoo! You have been working hard. Congratulations on the weight loss . It looks like you have a full week ahead. I wish you a great week. Hugs.
Thank you so much, Melisa! We were both very pleased with that report. Have a great week! Hugs.