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I got a donation WIP ready for my quilting partner to quilt for Joyful Welcome, a local group we donate to that gives quilts to new moms in hospitals that are teen or unwed. I still have several of these cut & ready to sew with various donated fabrics. It’s a quadrant of Quilty Love’s Star Pop 2 pattern.

Below is Melissa Corry’s Scraptastic Stars. I’m getting so excited to get this to a finish by the end of the year. I had planned at the beginning of the year to make 9 blocks & have a smallish square, but on recent reflection, I want a longer lap quilt, so need 12 blocks. Choice: make a couple extras this year to get it to the finish line in 2025 or let it drift to the first part of 2026’s colors? Not sure.

The top are my County Fair blocks by Amy Smart & I’m also getting excited to get this one put together at the end of the year. The 2.5″ square rail fences are a continuation from last year’s RSC projects, so some day I will have to throw them all on the wall & see what I have!

I started sewing the previously cut auction quilt for Festival of Trees, so maybe in a couple weeks I’ll have a flimsy to show. Our theme this year is 12 Days of Christmas.

Not very fun but necessary for finishes, right? I made eight bindings for quilts hanging in the closet ready for them, or currently at the quilter, or hanging in the queue to go next. Two were sewed onto quilts so I’m hand sewing them in the evenings.

But this IS fun! I finished the large potion bottles for June, then the Frightful Fun! BOM cat block for July dropped, so I just went ahead & made it while the FPP mess was all over. It’s big: 18×18. I’m not squaring up any of these until I get the finishing directions, so yes, there’s a little wonkiness on the edges. Only two more blocks to go, then I can put it together. Can’t wait!

On the left is my Strippy Slab Star made with small pieces from my crumb bag in the center & strips from the bin for the points. That’s the last of my 8 designated RSC2025 projects so I’m caught up! While the string bin was out I made 15 string blocks at 6.5″ that will go in a donation pile for later.

This month’s blocks for the Frightful Fun! FPP BOM are potion bottles, so I got the blocks of small bottles done & now I need to make the large bottles, then on to July.

Finished the binding last night on my quilt group project from last year using the Wholehearted pattern by A Bright Corner. I used part of the Albion FQ bundle by Amy Smart that I was gifted by the hubby last year for Mother’s Day & it turned out to be a perfect choice!

This is my WIP completion for the month. I have several of these Rainbow I-Spy kits cut & ready for webbing. I’ve made five of these for donation in the past, but these kits have been sitting around for at least five years & need to be sewn up & donated. So I got busy & it’s ready to send to Many Hands and Many Hearts with my block drive contribution. I use Amy Smart’s tutorial if you are interested. They are cute, use fun novelty prints, & could be done in several limited palettes rather than the rainbow.

I made two Scraptastic Stars by Melissa Corry this month so that I could have orange & peach. The Scrap Stash Plus blocks are from a free pattern by Quilty Love & there are only a few left to make to finish this quilt, as I cut them all out in January.

The next 5 Moda Blockheads are done & I’m really loving how these turned out. This leaves one more orange block for next week, so I’m doing well with my progress.

I sewed more Scrappy Chains for the Many Hands and Many Hearts block drive, making a total of 38 to send off. Instructions here if you want to add to Cynthia’s pile.

Happy summer sewing!

Two more orange blocks done this week: County Fair blocks by Amy Smart from “Scrap School” by Lissa Alexander and Angela’s Sawtooth Star with the Woven Four Patches center block. So happy to finally be making these from her 2015 tab! They’ve been on my wish list for 10 years. Y’all know how that is!

You may recall I had plans to make one of these small hangings for this stand that correspond to each month. I have most of the kits & got Jan-March done and this April cut out. Then all the things happened that got me behind & I just left this project. I pieced, hand-quilting, & bound it this week & we are pretending it’s for June. I’m going to have to catch up next week. It’s all good.

I started on blocks for the next block drive for Many Hands and Many Hearts. It’s called Scrappy Chains & you can make some, too! Instructions here. I started cutting strips like crazy & then turned them into blocks, getting 16 done, with more to go next week. I do love this pattern & need to use up some of my stash to make some for myself one day.