Strippy Slab Star & now I have 8. I need 1 more.
4 more rail fence to add to the ones from last year, so I will need a plan soon.
4 more Patchwork Hearts from Quilty Love & now all that is needed are 2 gray hearts.
8 string blocks to throw in the drawer for future donations. I thought my aqua/teal string bin would at least not be overflowing after this, but no, it’s still piled over the top.
The last of the County Fair blocks by Amy Smart, in the book, “Scrap School” by Lissa Alexander. I had to make a few extra in other colors to have enough for the setting. So in the fall months, I’ll cut setting triangles & get this together. Hopefully. I’ve been known to procrastinate this step. (See below) Of my 8 RSC2025 projects, I now have 3 projects with all the blocks made!
Inspired by Deb A’s RSC2020 project, I made these blocks in 2021 for RSC, then left them in a project box all this time. ?? I have tons of project boxes, they are all full, & I needed one for the new quilt group project. So I pulled these out & sewed them together, thus freeing up a box & getting a WIP done for August, so wins all around. It’s going to Many Hands and Many Hearts along with the jelly roll race below.
I’ve never actually made one of these, but it seemed like a great way to use up big print teals that have been languishing in a scrap box for a long time. They don’t work for my RSC projects because they are so busy, but hopefully somebody will love the donation. And I love using up all that fabric. 5″ squares got cut for our next quilt group project, 2.5″ strips for this, & leftover strings in the bin. Scraps processed!
Now for a finish: this is my “12 Days of Christmas” auction quilt for Primary Children’s Hospital Festival of Trees, the first week of December. It’s done, so if there’s a disaster between now & then, I don’t have to stress. The fabric is from the same line as the panel, so there are figures from each verse in color in the green border, then tone-on-tone in the red border & gold sashing. The white stop border has the lyrics. All in all, it’s very cute!
End of August check-in: I have a goal to get 12 WIPs to flimsy stage this year, meaning a project started before 2025.
- Mister Rogers donation (gone)
- Chandelier donation (quilted, not bound)
- red Amy Ellis donation (getting quilted)
- Brightly #2 (hanging in closet)
- Scrappy Hearts (finished)
- Rainbow I-Spy #6 donation (gone)
- 12 Days of Christmas (finished)
- Purple pansy donation (pile to be sent)
- Blue pansy donation (getting quilted)
- Friendship Stars (pile to be sent)
Those star blocks from Deb A are such pretty ones – I had forgotten about them! I love your Christmas donation quilt, too. I hope it brings in lots of money for the hospital!
Oh my! You have a lot of fun stuff and great variety of donations! Kudos!
That is a lovely collection of aqua blocks! You’ve made some impressive progress on your UFO list. I had made a list of 12 projects this year to finish completely, and have been working my way through it.
And there are still 4 months left in the year, so we can do it!!