My goal for this challenge was 5 books: Planet hopper level & I achieved my goal with the following books:
Daughter of the Deep, Rick Riordan
What the Wind Knows, Amy Harmon
The Many Daughters of Ahfong Moy, Jamie Ford
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler
Light of the Jedi, Charles Soule (Star Wars: The High Republic #1)
July has not been a great month for sewing, which is why I haven’t posted in a while. The first week was a bust because of family commitments, then the second week was trying to get some things done before my carpal tunnel surgery. That surgery has blown the rest of the month. During that second week I was able to make a little progress. I finished the pink pixellated heart & got it to the quilter as it’s a Christmas gift & the year is half over. I also got the Festival of Trees auction quilt theme & pattern finalized with my partners, so purchased all the fabric to be ready for when I can use a rotary cutter again.
My virtual quilt partner & I finished the Cookie Cutter tops & I need to piece the back & get it to the quilter. Our other partner is back from the humanitarian service mission she & her husband have been on for the last year, so we cut out a diamond quilt called Cascade before my surgery. I managed to do some chain piecing on the triangles & sides with them this week so we are going on that project. I’m using a fat quarter pack of fabric a friend brought back from Hawaii for my birthday several years ago. I’ve hoarded it for the perfect project & this is it!
I finished the binding for this RSC2021 project of my own design. Plus is made from all 2.5″ squares & is a Christmas gift for a nephew & his new wife. I love how it turned out & have ideas for another one with variations. Maybe a project for RSC2023??
I also made 4 Disappearing 4-Patch Covered in Love blocks for the July/August drive in case I don’t get any more made with my hands out of commission. They are for Project Linus in Uvalde, Texas this time.
Here’s my purple for this month: the Sweet Kisses & the Shine blocks. They were all cut out at the beginning of the year, so I was able to just sew them up. I’m hoping to get caught up next month before I have the procedure on the other hand, but I have to do the Festival quilt plus finish one more Christmas gift, so I may be finishing up my scrap colors in December! That’s life. 🙂
My current status for the six five RSC2022 projects:
I finished this L&E project that was cut out in early 2021. It sat by my machine & slowly the squares & rectangles became flying geese, then they got sewed together, then they got borders. By the beginning of 2022, I had them laid out on the design wall & sewed them together. The flimsy hung around awhile, then went to the quilter, came home, got binding, & finally some hand-sewing to finish it off. And now “Flying Home” is ready to be gifted at a future date. The pattern is the free Jelly Belly Bars from FQS, but with the flying geese variation from Elm Street Quilts.
My blue Sweet Kisses blocks, plus a blue block for the May/June block drive at Covered in Love. Also a red/yellow still on the wall, made last month.
Catching Rainbows with string border blocks; another twinkling friendship star in the lower right; 10 blue blocks for the Tula Pink sampler. I like the contrast I got in these, which is better in person.
I recently picked up three kits of these zipper blocks to sew for Quilts for Kids. Here is the first flimsy done.
Because I work so many projects at once, there is a lot of sewing going on with projects in various stages. In the works: a monochrome gray called Ellipsis, Guiding Stars kit with Songbird fabric, chandelier blocks as LE project, September Sky by Bonnie Hunter, Rocky Road to Grayson by Bonnie Hunter, and a pink pixellated heart. I float back & forth on what I want to work on, then get to the point where I just want to finish something, then off I go to get ‘er done. Crazy, I know!
Currently waiting for binding: On the Move, the dark gray plus quilt, woodland critters row quilt
Currently at the quilter: the Lone Star from plains&pines, and the Rockabilly Swing (snail trail) from Bonnie Hunter
My current status for the six five RSC2022 projects:
THE GIST: The idea is to read books set in European countries or books by European authors. The books can be of any genre – fiction, nonfiction, novels, short stories, memoirs, travel guides, cookbooks, biography, poetry, whatever. You can participate at different levels, but each book must represent a different country — either written by an author from a different country or set in a different country, no two books from the same country. It’s supposed to be a tour!
I signed up for the level: FIVE STAR (DELUXE ENTOURAGE): Read at least five books by different European authors or books set in different European countries. And here are books:
1.The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman- UK https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4454474270
2.The Murder on the Links (Hercule Poirot #2) by Agatha Christie-France https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4558530375
3. The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck-Germany https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2788361498
4. The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict-Austria https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4652781230
5. The Longest Echo by Eoin Dempsey–Italy https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4743415414
Thanks to Carolina Book Nook for hosting. I’ve finished up this challenge for the year & read a book with a title that fits each category.
I’ve participated in this challenge for several years & always enjoy searching for books to fill the categories. This year, three were audio books from the library and three were from my TBR shelves.