2Q FAL

Time to declare what you want to finish for the second quarter of 2019.

I’ve been MIA. Been sewing a good bit just not talking about it and not reading about it much more than that.

1) BCS Mystery Quilt 2017-2018 needs quilting

2) Armadillo wall hanging. Needs quilting

3) Yoda quilt. Needs quilting

4) Renees yellow top. Needs quilting

5) Awareness - red black. Needs quilting

6) Pink Poppy BQ. Needs quilting

7) Marys Strippy - bike. Needs quilting

8) Vikki's Baby quilt. Needs quilting

9) Double Wedding Ring. Needs quilting

10) Nancies Floral and White Blocks. Needs quilting.

11) Red and White bow tie. Needs quilting

12) Scrappy Mountain Majesties. Needs quilting

13) Pieced together contest. Needs quilting

14) Rays Horse Quilt. Neefs quilting

15) Halloween Half Hexi. Needs quilting

16) Aquarium. Piecing

17) Selvedge Tree. Piecing

18-25) Charity quilts. Needs quilting

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26) 3 postcards. New start
27) Hedgehog pincushion. New start
28) I Found a Quilted Heart. New start
29) Strip Stack quilt. Needs quilting
30) Three yard quilt. Needs quilting

Some piecing, lots of quilting. New starts and UFOs. Varietybis the spice of life they say.

Linking with Leanne at She Can Quilt for 2Q Finish Along. Are you playing along?

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March OMG

I decided at the last minute to join in with Patty at Elm Street Quilts for the March One Monthly Goal linkup.  What’s the harm if I don’t meet my goal.  The goal last month was to get the borders on this quilt.  As you can see I got the borders attached but what you can probably not see is the corners are not quite done.  At this point I’m thinking there will be a lot of handwork to finish these.  I’m going to try to machine finish one corner to see how it goes.

I have been away from the blog for a bit.  I have been feeling overwhelmed with work.  We are having to learn a new software tool.  It’s been a huge uphill struggle.  This past week I had a breakthrough in my understanding and use of this tool.  I’m no expert but I am able to independently get things done.  This gives me such relief and makes me happy.

So in the evenings reading blogs, much less writing blog posts, was far from my mind.  I read emails and sewed.  That was about it.  I got lots of sewing done.  I’ll share some of these things in the coming days and weeks.

Tomorrow I am heading to the Dallas Quilt Show.  I’m not really in the market for anything specific.  I’m going to spend time there with a new friend.  She has extra activities planned before and after the show.  It should be interesting.

Did you miss me?  I look forward to catching up with you over the coming days.

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OMG February

Hey there. Needed to get this posted before time runs out for declaring my goal. I’ve been working on a quilt, a BOM actually, for a year now with the last block being given out on the 16th of this month.

My goal is to assemble the entire top. I have to trim all the blocks. The borders are made except for the corners.

Linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts.

What’s your One Monthly Goal?

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January OMG Complete!

I finished all the blocks which was the goal. I then set them together and added the first border!

Linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts and planning my February goal!

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OMG Update

I’ve completed the red and orange blocks.

I’ve completed the units for the blue and green blocks. I do have either one extra green piece or am short one blue unit. Time will tell. 2 blocks done 23 to go.

How are you doing with your goals?

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1Q FAL 2019

It’s that time! Time to declare what you want to finish for the first quarter of 2019. I try to thoughtfully choose my list of items but as soon as I make that list I start thinking and, and, and. This time is no different! Dang it!

1) BCS Mystery Quilt 2017-2018 needs quilting

2) Armadillo wall hanging. Needs quilting

3) Yoda quilt. Needs quilting

4) Renees yellow top. Needs quilting

5) Awareness - red black. Needs quilting

6) Pink Poppy BQ. Needs quilting

7) Marys Strippy - bike. Needs quilting

8) Vikki's Baby quilt. Needs quilting

9) Double Wedding Ring. Needs quilting

10) Nancies Floral and White Blocks. Needs quilting.

11) Red and White bow tie. Needs quilting

12) Scrappy Mountain Majesties. Needs quilting

13) Pieced together contest. Needs quilting

14) Rays Horse Quilt. Neefs quilting

15) Halloween Half Hexi. Needs quilting

16) Aquarium. Piecing

17) Selvedge Tree. Piecing

18-25) Charity quilts. Needs quilting

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26) 3 postcards. New start
27) Hedgehog pincushion. New start
28) I Found a Quilted Heart. New start
29) Strip Stack quilt. Needs quilting
30) Three yard quilt. Needs quilting

Some piecing, lots of quilting. New starts and UFOs. Varietybis the spice of life they say.

Linking with Leanne at She Can Quilt for 1Q Finish Along. Are you playing along?

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Good Fortune and OMG

I played along this year. The last Bonnie mystery I did was Grand Illusion and I didn’t care for it so I didn’t do any others since then and have loved every single one!

This time when she announced colors I decided I would try to work exclusively from the scraps. I will say that I wanted to employ strip piecing where possible so did cut into some yardage that was actually in one of my scrap bags. I also wanted to make a smaller version in the 45x60 range. I will be closer to 54x72.

I was assembling my blocks along with a friend when she discovered she had 50 too many 4 patches. I asked her for her extras, which she gladly shared. I may just make the quilt the full 72” square size.

Here are ny first blocks.

I went with rusty oranges to golds. Right noe I wish I had chosen brighter oranges but I’ll make these work.

Did you make Good Fortune? I think I will make the January OMG to be make the 35 planned blocks. If I make 49 so much the better!

Linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts.

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