5 Quilts in a Week?

 

Flower Boxes on the longarm; Ribbons and Wreaths (left) and Butterfly Sanctuary (right) on the design wall in the background

My daughter, grandson and I will be going to Ontario for a family reunion this summer. We each are allowed 3 pieces of luggage: one personal item, one carry-on and one checked bag. Because it's summer and we won't be needing heavy clothing, and we're only staying for a week, I'm hoping there will be room enough in our bags for some quilts. I would like to finally finish three bed-sized quilts that I want to take with me to give to their intended recipients. So, I would like to focus on getting them done before our departure date. 
But in the meantime, I wanted to get some snuggle quilts done first. Five of them, only one of which was already started before last week. And I determined to see if I could get all 5 of them done in one week, so that I could focus on spending the rest of my time working on those 3 bed-sized quilts. And I nearly accomplished it. I have 3 already quilted and ready for binding (Good Vibrations, Flower Boxes and Ribbons and Wreaths). Butterfly Sanctuary is ready for the longarm, and Ashford Square will also be ready for the longarm as soon as the borders are added. 
I was making great progress and then on Friday, I hit a snag. I had no fabric that would work for the binding on the Flower Boxes quilt, which necessitated a trip to the quilt shop. But I had already been to my local quilt shop and didn't find what I wanted. So, I was going to go out of town to the next nearest quilt shop, about 20 minutes drive away. And then my daughter got called into work, so I would be responsible for overseeing my grandson's virtual schooling. And since she was working over the weekend (she's working in healthcare), I decided on some "field trips" with my grandson. On Sabbath afternoon, we went to Elk Island National Park. 

It was gorgeous there, and we exhausted ourselves with over 4 km of hiking. That doesn't sound like much, but most of it was not smooth, paved trails like in the above picture. And that was a lot for this old grandmother who hasn't exercised regularly in too long. 
On Sunday, we took in the Edmonton Reptile Expo and the Alberta Aviation Museum. On Monday, my daughter was asked to work for the rest of the week, for a total of 8 days straight. So, even though my grandson is old enough to not require a whole lot of direct supervision from me, I still had to feed him and my daughter (they usually stay with me when she's working) and I haven't done any quilting this week. And today is Thursday. Maybe today...