The importance of mini goals

After patting myself on the back for being so organised, August has been passing me by with barely a skerrit of progress.  Although I jotted down some monthly goals... I neglected to write down any mini goals... resulting in almost nothing being achieved.  Some of this I will blame on winter and rain and cold and general dreariness.  Some of it is just poor planning and minimal motivation.

So, this weekend it all changed and I wrote those goals... And you know what?  Quite a lot of them happened!

Last weekend I got partly through the next This Little Piggy block...

And it took most of the week to decide on chicken colours and get some eyes and nostrils on the cow... And decide on block backgrounds and placements.

Filling up nicely.

So the mini goal for the next block was to trace the elements.  Done!  And you know what... it was pretty easy to do the trunk... then the tree... the piggies were a bit more detailed, but in the end not really that much work.  And look, another block ready for blanket stitch.

Now we're really getting somewhere!

Oops, forgot the sun!  This is going to be positioned partly outside the block so is not attached until the sashing and borders are completed.

Also on the agenda was to cut another Meadowland block ready to stitch up during the week. 

And to start piecing the Dash to the Finish quilt into rows.  Row 1 is done.

I have started construction of Nadias half square triangle quilt and have been using this as an intermittent leader and ender project.  My goal for this month is to get this bottom left third constructed.

Just need a few more half square triangles to fill in the blanks! 

I may be sick of half square triangles by the end of this one 😂

As July slides into August...

The start of August means that another birthday has been celebrated over this last week.

I had ordered some fabric at the end of June which finally arrived... must have been having a pretty fabric moment while I was ordering, because it is very PRETTY AND FLORAL!

Yellow is not one of my go to colours, but I am trying to buy it more frequently and especially when I see one that i actually like!

These two belong to the same range.  Love me some dots.

These two greens and the pink are from the same range, although the light background floral stripe fits in very nicely with it.

And this was a remnant... Love it!

I got 4 yards of this rich orangey red floral.  I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to do with it, but it had to be bought!

I also spent some money at my local shop The Country Yard, adding to my fat 1/4 and 1/8th collection and got some notions as well... new pins, a small square ruler and a hem gauge.

This fabric has a nice selection of fun and neutral colours to match up with.

Hmmm... these all work in nice together.  And see that yellow, already working its way in.

Choosing fat 1/8ths is like picking candy...