Scott and Sue Family

I got the aqua & yellow blocks made for My Town & the Nine Patch & Snowballs. I finished the rest of the half snowball blocks needed for the borders.

I also made the aqua & yellow blocks for Starlets, so now all the colors are done for this project. I can get it assembled during Nov or Dec.

Now that my 3 monthly projects are done, I can begin my WIP for this month, so I’ve begun cutting the flying geese sashing for my RSC2025 sampler project of Moda Blockheads. I made all the blocks last year & never got them together, so this will be a satisfying finish.

I’ve been AWOL from posting during July since each week would have been the same news: still sewing Hamilton Gardens. I’m still using the wheelchair for the stress fracture in my foot, so I just kept plodding away on sewing this together. I sat & cut the low-volume sashing strips & when I needed more colors, I drew from the box of charm squares on my table. It got harder when I had to put it on the design wall & sew rows, but that was this week & I’m supposed to start walking a few steps a day before my appointment next week, so walking happened in the studio. I finished the flimsy in time to post for this week’s link up. Yay! Since I can sit & cut, I had my hubby pull fabric & got my aqua & yellow houses cut out for RSC, so sewing on those will be my task for next week. I’m also going to try to get my Nine-Patch & Snowballs made in those colors. We will see how the next week moves along! Hope you’ve all been sewing up a storm.

My planned WIP for aqua month has been this Utah quilt by Maker Valley. The squares have been cut & in my pile of kits for several years. Why haven’t I sewn it up? You can guess. Squirrel! Shiny & new! I’ve been dealing with a stress fracture in my foot for a while now but have been walking with a post-operative shoe (not big boot). So I’ve been mobile. But it’s not healing as fast as they want, so now I’m using a wheelchair. Ugh! I can’t stand & cut, so my sewing is a bit limited. I had started laying this out before the wheelchair, so I could sit & do the bottom part. Then hubby pulled the columns & we clipped them so I could sit & web it. And it’s done!

So more aqua will have to wait a bit. I have a small area to trim by my machine, but large cuts are impossible. So I pulled out another WIP called Hamilton Gardens by Bonnie Hunter. Some 4-patches were sewed, so I finished those & started making triplets. I can cut the little sashings by my machine, so I may finish this.

This was an RSC2025 project. I sewed the blocks each month last year & finished sewing it together this week. So happy to have another WIP finished, especially one that’s only from last year! This is ScrapStash Plus & you can get the free pattern by subscribing to the Quilty Love newsletter at the bottom of this page. It’s great for scraps. Mine was made with 2 jelly rolls from my stash.

I made 6 blocks in the third colorway for the charity block drive for Many Hands and Many Hearts. You can find the instructions here. All of these blocks used up a good pile of my 2.5″x4.5″ bricks & they are ready to send off.

I’ve been working on these Ocean Waves blocks as L&E’s for over a year now. Sometimes I set it aside temporarily, like when I made the charity blocks above as L&E’s. But I decided it was time to sew the small blocks into the bigger blocks & see where the pile ended up. And it’s about 2/3 of a lap quilt, so yay!

For the last 3 months of evening hand sewing, I’ve resurrected the old hexie project from sometime in the 2010’s. I sewed together the three sections I had made & created an amoeba. So I began on one side & tried to make a straight edge to see what I need to fill in. I cut a bunch more pieces of fabric to make more flowers & have been basting those so that more can be added. This is an improv Grandmother’s Flower Garden & it certainly looks crazy in its current shape!

Since I have been sewing hexies instead of binding quilts, I have a bunch hanging in the closet that need hand sewing. So this week I pulled one out & took a hexie break to finish this Birds quilt. It was a quilt group project, also from the 2010’s. Glad it made to the final finish line.

I began the week thinking, “What shall I sew this week?” I wondered if I could scrounge enough pastel charms to make a 99 Charms, inspired by Nancy. I pulled a bunch, cut a few from yardage & voila! another donation top in the box for Many Hands and Many Hearts.

I made a patriotic table banner that got put out for Memorial Day & is staying up with RWB decorations until after July 4th. But then I thought I needed a summer one on the side table where I have summer decorations. So I bought another stand & made this Sand & Sea banner this week. Now I have to make a bunch more so I can keep both stands full all year! LOL

These are in the second colorway for the charity block drive for Many Hands and Many Hearts. You can find the instructions here. My bin of 2.5″x4.5″ bricks made 6 red & green blocks. Next week I will make the last color duo for L&E’s.

And finally, I started webbing the blocks for last year’s ScrapStash Plus. It leans toward pastels, and it will be good to get it done.

How are your pastels coming along?