My January Goal for ONE MONTHLY GOAL linky party...

Heidi at Red Letter Quilts has started a new linky party to share our 2016 monthly goals.  I found by setting monthly goals with Melissa and Shanna I was able to finish a lot of my UFO's and even new projects.  The party is called OMG or One Monthly Goal.

My January goal is going to be a project different from anything I've done before.

I have a old stool that was in my Mom's kitchen for many many years.  She down sized about five years ago and I brought the stool home with me.    It had black rubber glued to one of the steps when we brought it back to Michigan.  The other step was covered in dried glue...it looked pretty sad!!  

In August DH removed the black rubber and the glue on the steps.  He cleaned the chrome and painted the steps white.  It looked great except for the seat. Since then it has been waiting for me to recover the seat.  Originally I was going to quilt some novelty Coke themed fabric. Then I found some black gingham vinyl that came home with me from the fabric store...months ago.  I loved it with the newly painted steps.  I'm still not sure if I will go with the Coke seat or the black gingham seat or...why it has taken me so long to finish recovering it.  I guess I really do need to put my goals in writing.  It's not a big goal but it is my January 2016 goal for the OMG linky party.   

I'm linking up with Heidi at Red Letter Quilts.  

Thank you Heidi for encouraging us to finish our UFO's.

Happy Stitching

A gingham sneak peek and my ALYoF goal for September...

Here is the sneak peek

I took 2 yards of the large yellow gingham

and stitched sunshine, butterflies and clouds on the long arm.

It is such a happy 2 yards of quilted gingham.

I have more...as I bought the whole bolt.  I just luv it!!!

and now for my goal for September's ALYoF...

I would like to have 3 of the 6 smaller blocks embroidered

for the Vintage Tin quilt.

I'm starting with the easiest...I don't want to get discouraged!!

This is what I am doing today...batch #3.

 Yum...below is batch #1

There is no time for me to get into any trouble.
We are heading to Canada tomorrow morning...
our plans include seeing a house in the same area we moved from in 2002.

We had nasty storms again last night...all is OK here
but Wayne County in Michigan did get hit hard.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend!