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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.

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.