Quilting

Lots of reasons, but sewing has been slow, so I’m still hanging out in yellow March with no red April in sight. But I will catch up eventually. I did get 6 Patchwork Stars, 4 rail fence blocks, & a Scraptastic Star made this week, so I only have two more yellow projects to go.

I also managed half of the bones for the Frightfully Fun! BOM. When I finish the other three I will have the March blocks done & can move on to April’s pumpkins & candy corn.

With a vacation taking up one week, I haven’t gotten much sewing done, so look for more yellow next week! I did get this RSC2024 quilt all the way done with binding before we left & I love it so much that I’m doing another one for RSC2025. It has a scrappy LV background & prints that read as solids for the hearts. It’s super cute & is the Patchwork Hearts pattern by Quilty Love.

I also got the cauldron done to go under the bird I showed previously. This is one of the March blocks for the Frightfully Fun! BOM & now I have to make 6 small bone blocks, then the April blocks will drop! The FPP takes a while, but I’m definitely getting better & faster, which was the goal, so yay!

These Moda Blockheads take more time to cut & sew than I anticipate each month, so my yellow is going slowly. But here is Rocky Mountain Puzzle & Devil’s Claw on the top row; Trail of Tears, Night Flight & Twice the Friendship on the bottom row.

I got my Strippy Slab Star made with small pieces from my crumb bag in the center & strips from the yellow strip bin for the points.

I sewed the other February blocks for the Frightful Fun! BOM. These are the FPP candy blocks & I got a start on March’s blocks by doing the bird that sits on the cauldron that I still need to make, plus the five bones. Those may fall into April since we will be gone for a week on vacation.

I had to finish up my blue blocks before beginning March’s yellow, so here are my five Moda blockheads. They are Lawyer’s Puzzle, Bow Tie Quartet, Puzzled, Ohio Star Variation, & T Block. I’m doing 5/month. The yellows are County Fair blocks by Amy Smart in the book, “Scrap School” by Lissa Alexander. I did them first, mostly because they are quick & I could get a start on yellow! (Update: a sharp-eyed reader saw my Ohio Star had a problem, so here’s a photo with the repaired star.)

This is the new Thursday group project. It’s a free pattern called Fireworks that’s going to be a table topper. My partners are making theirs in RW&B & I was excited to follow along, but then realized that was not smart as I’d made a square RW&B topper last year & what I really need is a spring one. I have a naked table now that Val Day is over. So I decided to make mine spring inspired & it can finish out this season (maybe), but definitely be ready for next year. So I dug in my stash for green, pink/coral, aqua, with gray background. I cut it all on my own time, then together, we got one of the four blocks made with a start on the other three.

Sometimes life throws you a curve & you just have to breathe & run with it. I had been slowly working on the Split 4-Patch blocks for Many Hands Many Hearts & for some reason I had in my head that they were due at the end of March. Then I saw the post announcing the block drive for March/April was LV 9-patches. (face palm) So this week I spent time getting my 43 Splits all done & then made 16 LV 9-patches to send in at the same time. Along with some cutting out for other projects, that was my week. No scrap blues.

We got the Wholehearted by A Bright Corner all sewed up this week in our FaceTime quilt group, so it goes in the closet to wait for the quilter. I’m so in love with that Albion fabric line by Amy Smart!

The last of my blue RSC blocks will have to get done next week while I start on yellow. I was frustrated at first, but then I realized that nobody is making me do any of this, so relax & enjoy & if I don’t make deadlines, there’s still time next month. It’s all good!