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:
- 4 red, aqua, & yellow, 5 pink, 6 green, 10 blue blocks from the Tula Pink 100 Modern Quilt Blocks (on track)
- 1 red, aqua, yellow, pink, green, & blue twinkling friendship block inspired by Deb A. (on track)
- 3 red, 2 blue, 2 pink, 2 green Shine blocks from the free pattern by Melissa Corry (on track)
- 14 red, 16 aqua, 4 yellow, 14 pink, 6 dark green, 14 blue blocks for Sweet Kisses by Gigi’s Thimble (on track)
- 7 red, aqua, yellow, pink, green & blue blocks, plus matching border string blocks for Catching Rainbows by Bonnie Hunter (on track)
I don’t think your way of working on multiple projects at once is crazy! I do the same thing. And when a finish is needed, we get it done! I love your flying geese quilt – that’s a great leader/ender project.
You’ve been oh SEW productive, Sue!! That’s a sweet quilt finish. Speaking of sweet… LOVE those Sweet Kisses blocks in BLUE!!!
Sweet Kisses IS sweet and I love the flying geese quilt. That was a great addition and you sewed it up perfectly! I may try that one day with my own variation: I like making 4-at-a-time flying geese so my boxes would probably be a bit larger. Obviously I’ll need to grab my grid paper. I’m old-school! *wink*