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RSC2026-purple September

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Cynthia at Many Hands and Many Hearts announced the new block drive for Sept-Nov. If you want to play along, the instructions can be found here. Since my purples were out, I made 14 in that color. I sewed a long strip of 2″ purples & cut it to size, used my Stripology ruler to cut the low-volume backgrounds, & the whole thing was quick & slick. I’ll make more colors when I can sew again, hopefully in October. I’ll also get back to that Moda Blockheads WIP with all the flying geese that currently resides on my design wall.

I made the three purple Nine Patches for September’s color & had all the colors done, plus all the snowballs which I made during previous months. I decided to just start putting it together & got it half done! Thanks again to Nancy @GraceandPeaceQuilting for her inspiration here.

My August goals:

0 WIP-(but I have 14 done which was over the 12 I was hoping to accomplish this year)

6 Starlets

3 Nine Patch/Snowballs

7 Houses for My Town

RSC2026-Wherein I switch gears

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I purchased the popcorn-themed fabric for this year’s auction quilt benefitting Primary Children’s Hospital in April but dealing with the stress fracture in my foot since then has made it tough to do the cutting. Now that I’m out of the wheelchair, I felt like I could stand & cut. So this week I did all the cutting one day & did the sewing the rest of the week.

I finished “It’s Popcorn Time” Friday afternoon & am planning to drop it off for quilting today. The rush came about because now I’m scheduled for thumb surgery for my arthritis on 23 September, so I won’t be sewing for a while. I figured I’d better get my priority quilt done first. The pattern comes from John Q. Adams’ book, Beyond Neutral, a book I’ve had forever & now I’ve finally made one of the patterns!

Popcorn is yellow, so I’m still in the feel of August’s color. LOL Now it’s back to the RSC WIP I was trying to complete last week & maybe some purple blocks??

RSC2026-workin’ on a WIP

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I got another table banner made for August. It’s yellow for the monthly color & even though it will be only be out for a short time this year, it’s now done & can be displayed all of August next year! Slowly but surely, I am working my way through these banners.

My RSC goals for this year are to make blocks in the monthly color for 3 projects & get 1 WIP turned into a top each month. So far, I am up to date on all my colored blocks & have done 14 WIPs. So I’m way ahead on those, which is great. For the rest of the month, I’m going to get this assembled. These are Moda Blockheads that I made last year for RSC2025, but never assembled. I have been making over 300 flying geese, cutting sashing, & finally starting some assembly. The top border is on the wall & the first row is together. I’m very pleased with the look of this project, so far.

RSC2026-July & Aug blocks done

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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.

RSC2026-yellow August

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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.