Eyes on March Patchwork and Quilting

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Well haven’t posted for a couple of weeks, kept sewing but feeling a little blah so haven’t been doing heaps.

Last time I posted I want to

A few Weeks Ago

Work on my March UFO number – which was number 1 on my list.  This turned out to be a sew along that I did with Pat Sloan – Sweet Dreams. So the goal is to further it along. As the top was made, I used a few bits of the same fabric and made a backing and am in the process of quilting it.

Work on Sewcialites blocks.  I am up to date with these. I only do the three inch blocks when they are really simple patterns. I do all the six inch ones!

Work on BOM from FQS.  I have done the number nine block and sewed two log cabin blocks so that I could put together row 2. I have row 1 done. I have changed the finishing a little because I don’t want a big quilt, it will be big enough as it is! Always thinking ahead to having to quilt it!!

Plans for the Coming Week

• Sort out a pattern for a baby quilt and then start to think about fabric. This is for one of my sisters to give as a gift to someone special to her. It is going to be a girl. So far she has given me the size she wants, now I am messaging her about colour and pattern.  Baby arrives in June.
• Continue to quilt Pat Sloan quilt.
• Some piecing – Sewcialites blocks for coming week and some work on FQS Mystery BOM.

Good bye February

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Plans for the Last Week

• Hand sew binding to J Steves Bom ’21 and so finish. Done. And was my February Month Goal
• Make Sewcialites Block #17. Yes made the six inch and three inch.  The Simplicity Block designed by Vanessa Goertzen.
• Add final border to the NICU top. Done.  I found enough fabric to make the required size for the border so I didn’t need to make a patchwork one.  So this takes care of the 6 inch blocks I made from A Quilting Life’s BOM.

Plans for the Coming Week

This week I think will be a “whatever week”. I have blocks I can make in a few projects. I will wait to see what my March month goal will be and then start to work on that. I have a list of 12 things to progress, but am following along with Sherri at a Quilting Life for giving us the number in  her Patreon group. Of course Sewcialites #18 block for sure.  Possibly wash a quilt or two depending on the weather.

Happy Little Things Finish

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My February goal was to finish up Happy Little Things – a BOM designed by Jacquelynne Steves in 2021.  I made the top then but just put it away.

I took the top and found a backing for it from a left over wide backing and quilted it and put binding on it.

It measures about 43 1/2 inches by 53 1/2 inches. I am not into putting quilts on walls so what could this be used for?  Fabric is by Sherri and Chelsi.

I think it would make a good knee quilt or something you could put on the floor for a baby to lie on. Apart from that I am not sure.

To Do Tuesday. February 21st

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Plans for Last Week

• Make binding for BOM quilt by J Steves and sew the machine part on.  Done
• Make Block 16 of Sewcialites sew along when it publishes. Done.This was designed by Corey Yoder and was certainly one of the more challenging blocks. I  made it in the 6 inch finished. I’ll leave the 3 inch alone! One day though I’d like to make this block in various sizes.
• Sew the blocks together of the blue and yellow blocks from sewcialites – made 12 in this combination as want to make NICU quilt top with them. Done as far as getting to the final border which I need to think about. I don’t have one piece of fabric for it so guess I’ll have to do something scrappy.
• Anything that might come along, like maybe another block with the Scrappy Irish Double Chain. Made one.  If I make it full size its going to be very big. At this stage I am not sure what I will do.

Plans for the Coming Week

• Hand sew binding to J Steves Bom ’21 and so finish
• Make Sewcialites Block #17
• Add final border to the NICU top

Lots of Small Accomplishments

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Plans for Last Week.

• Pin and start quilting the BOM with Jacquelynne Steves  from ’21. It is a smaller quilt so will be easier to move around.  To finish this is also going to be my OMG for February.

This is coming along nicely, I have completed the quilting part.

• Make Sewcialite block for the coming week when it posts on Friday. Done  Pattern by Minki Kim.  Block 15   

The six inch version and I am using Nantucket Summer fabric by Camille Roskelley, the scraps left over from the Mystery BOM below.

And the 3 ” version.

• Make Designer Mystery BOM ’22/’23 block from FQS.  Done
• Anything else that makes itself known to me.  One block done for the Irish Double Chain quilt I am making with Corey Yoder’s scrap along.  I also made the six inch version of Sherri’s A Quilting Life. BOM. I am using scraps and will turn it into a boy’s quilt.

Plans for the Coming Week

• Make binding for BOM quilt by J Steves and sew the machine part on.
• Make Block 16 of Sewcialites sew along when it publishes.
• Sew the blocks together of the blue and yellow blocks from sewcialites – made 12 in this combination as want to make NICU quilt top with them.
• Anything that might come along, like maybe another block with the Scrappy Irish Double Chain.

A Finish To Celebrate

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I missed last week, we have had some hot (for us) humid weather. The other day I came out of shop into it and thought this is like walking out of the airport at Singapore. Thankfully it has lessened since then. However I was too hot to sew or do much reading. However will see what this week brings.

Plans  Were

• I am going to work on the final border for the Chilhowie top and then I can call that part of it finished.  Done and now I am not sure I really like it, will put it away for awhile and maybe one day quilt it!
• Sewcialites block of course when it publishes. Done and two weeks worth.  Two latest blocks in the foreground.
• Continue to quilt to BOM from A Quilting Life 2022 Done – all finished and love this one. I mostly stitched in the ditch around everything and added some fmq in sashing and borders.  Fabric was designed by Sherri & Chelsi. 
• Anything that takes my fancy.  I made one more block for the Double Irish Chain and now have to wait for fabric.

Plans for the Coming Week.

• Pin and start quilting the BOM with Jacquelynne Steves  from ’21. It is a smaller quilt so will be easier to move around.  To finish this is also going to be my OMG for February.
• Make Sewcialite block for the coming week when it posts on Friday.
• Make Mystery BOM ’22/’23 block from FQS.
• Anything else that makes itself known to me.

Finish Up a Quilt Left Languishing

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I haven’t participated in this for quite a few months, having taking part in Sherri McConnell’s UFO challenge in her Patreon group where we have each listed 12 items to work on – not necessarily finish but to give some sewing love to during the month that its number comes up.

This time it was #7 and that was the BOM ’21 with Jacquelynne Steves.  When I had made the top – yes, I didn’t like it! Still don’t really, but it would make a knee quilt perhaps or if you like really bright a baby could lie on it. Anyway February is its time to be quilted.

So my goal is to quilt and bind it by the end of February.

One Block at a Time

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Last weeks plans

• Quilt my BOM A Quilting Life 2022 – just a bit every day, mostly going to do stitch in the ditch and something in borders. I’ve made a start and doing a block or so a day. Nothing fancy, stitching in the ditch – and I want a fairly soft feel to it. 
• Make sewcialites blocks when they are published. Done. Didn’t do the 3 inch for this one. This is number 12 I so we are about half way through.  Designed by. Barbara Groves of Me & My Sister Designs.  
• Make BOM Mystery quilt from FQS block that arrived last, about six or seven I think. Done.
• Whatever takes my fancy.     And as well I sewed together the blocks of No. 2 BOM from A Quilting Life 2022. This was a very scrappy one, made mostly from half square triangles I had left from other projects. Will leave it now, want to put a border on it but I don’t have any fabric to work in with it at present. I also made one more block in the scrappy Irish Chain, so now I have three. I can now make one more block and then I have to wait a few weeks for the accent fabric to arrive.
• I also stitched together and put on the inner border on the Chilhowie Bonnie Hunter QAL.Now there will only be the outer border.

Finally my calendar arrived from Snapfish, I was about to email them when it dropped at my door today!  NZ Post is very very slow! 

This Week’s Plans

• I am going to work on the final border for the Chilhowie top and then I can call that part of it finished.
• Sewcialites block of course when it publishes.
• Continue to quilt to BOM from A Quilting Life 2022
• Anything that takes my fancy.