March’s One Monthly Goal is a Finish!

I did it! I completed my March One Monthly Goal which was to finish my Scrap Snap quilt! Binding and label, too! I love it! 😀

I spray-basted the quilt yesterday afternoon before I left for retreat and started quilting it this morning. I used the serpentine stitch on my Pfaff to stitch three horizontal lines across each row of blocks. I changed thread colour to match the colour of the row and used white on the back. I used up most of this black and white dots fabric I just love. Perfect for framing all the colours. 

I finished at 10:40 pm March 31st, so I completed my March One Monthly Goal. Hmmm, what goal shall I set for April? 😊

Linking to: 

Elm Street Quilt One Monthly Goal (Oops, I’m too late for the link party 🙁)

So Scrappy Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2023

February One Monthly Goal Moves to March's One Monthly Goal and The 350 Blocks Project

My one monthly goal for February was to finish my Scrap Snap quilt. Well that just did not happen. I did manage to get it to the Flimsy stage. At least it has moved forward. You can read more about this quilt and find the link to the tutorial in this post. 

So, my One Monthly Goal for March is to finish the Scrap Snap Quilt. 

I've been procrastinating because it is such a chore to drag out the box and wrestle out the batting to cut for just one quilt. I just need to do it, and cut batting for a few other flimsies while I'm at it and it will seem like its worth the effort.

February 1st, I signed up to participate in Prairie Moon Quilts The 350 Blocks Project, which I found through another blog. Its a fun little challenge where you keep track of and report the number of blocks you make each month and then submit your total to the blog host. At the end of the year, if you meet the 350 yearly total, you'll be entered into a grand prize draw. Fun! And it is achievable, since all you need to do is keep track of the number of blocks you make. Easy-peasy!

Since I started in February, I checked with Shelly, the host, and she said I could include the January blocks I made in my February total. This may help explain (not excuse, 😉) my distraction from my one monthly goal. Counting up the blocks really shows you the progress you've made, even if I don't have any finished quilts to show yet. 

From January 1st to February 28th, I have sewn: 

• 87 - 30's Repro Bricks and Stones blocks to add to the 215 blocks I made last fall (more than enough for two good sized quilts!)
• 45 - Windmill blocks
• 43 - Pink 16-patch blocks
• 41 - Puss in the Corner blocks (assembled into a top, I just need to add some borders)
• 8 - H blocks (Cathy @ Sane, Crazy, Crumby Quilting calls her finished quilt Animal Crackers. Cute! I get so much inspiration from her!
• 2 - 4-patch blocks
• 2 - 9-patch blocks
• 1 - Bento Box block (6" finished) (Cutting instructions for the 6 inch block can be found here and alternate assembly method tutorial here)
• 1 Celtic Twist block
• 1 Zipper block (finished to the wrong size, its missing two teeth 😏)

A grand total of 231 blocks in two months!! Yay!  Shelly has announced March's goal is 30 blocks. Since I have lots of sewing dates in March, including a 4-day quilt retreat, I'm pretty sure I can meet that goal 😃.

I couldn't resist sharing a picture my husband took yesterday of one of our Fur Babies, Bella. She was overlooking the stairs, out the front windows at the snow falling. 💚

I am linking up to:

• Elm Street Quilts March One Monthly Goal
• Prairie Moon Quilts The 350 Blocks Project
• So Scrappy RSC 2023
• Quilting is more fun than Housework Oh Scrap

To-Do Tuesday #3 and a Flimsy!

I definitely think making a list and posting it to my blog is helping me. I can misplace a hand-written list, but the blog is always handy. 😊

Here’s a look at my progress on last week’s list:

• Sew together Scrap Snapper quilt top ✅ Its all pressed, and stay-stitched, too (lots of seams on the edge).

• Choose backing for Scrap Snapper quilt – I still need to do this.
• Prepare binding and make label for raffle quilt ✅ I made a 6 inch Bento Box block to add to the label.

• Iron pink scraps - Some progress this week
• Keep sewing 16-patches with scrappy 2 1/2” pink and gray strips (until I run out of scraps) I've finished five blocks, and have 10 more pinned to sew. To be continued...

• Keep cutting fabric for Zipper blocks for retreat - No progress. 
• Sew bindings on at least two guild community quilts - I finished binding one quilt.

I knew this was going to be a push to do, so I did what any smarty-pants quilter would do. I picked the smallest quilts in the pile 😁. I have a container overflowing with bits of left-over bindings. 

I looked through it and found the perfect colourful binding made up of strips of yellow, orange, green, red and blue. It was leftover from a topsy turvy quilt I made a few years ago. The piece wasn't quite long enough, so I dug some more and found another piece that used the same blue. Pardon the lousy picture. 

I joined them together and bound the quilt. And this is what is left of the binding! Talk about playing binding chicken. Whew!  

Since I did not make the quilt, I'm just sharing a picture of the binding.

And on top of the list, I also wrote a tutorial for making a 12 inch Bento Box block and provided cutting instructions to make a 6 inch Bento Box block.  So I am happy about that. 

This week's To-Do List:

• Choose backing for Scrap Snapper quilt 
• Make binding and label for Scrap Snapper
• Sandwich, quilt, bind and label Scrap Snapper (my February OMG) #1 priority
• Keep sewing 16-patches with scrappy 2 1/2” pink and gray strips (until I run out of scraps)
• Keep cutting fabric for Zipper blocks for retreat
• Sew bindings on at least two guild community quilts
• Gather supplies for some Taggie blankets (a guild initiative) to take to sew at retreat

Linking up to: 

Quilt Schmilt To-Do Tuesday

My Quilt Infatuation NTT 

 

RSC February 2023 - Pinks

I've made some progress on this week's To-do list. I took down the Scrap Snap blocks off my design wall, and I was reminded of my naughty kitties. They did this a few years ago. Grr. I have to make sure they don't do any more damage. AND I should fix that with some iron on interfacing or something. Ideas?

I'm making some good progress on the 16-patch pink blocks I've been making this month. I still have lots to go. I'm now up to 29 blocks. They are fun and easy to make. 

I will keep making blocks until I run out of greys and pinks. I am having to dip into some stash a bit to find the grays, but I'm trying to make do with what I have. I slapped the blocks up on the design wall.  The dark grays will have some friends joining them, so they won't look so glaringly out of place. I'm also going to work some lighter pinks into the group. Lots of fun!

I'm ready to sew some more with these pretty pinks and grays!

Linking up to:

So Scrappy Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2023

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop

TGIFF!

To-Do Tuesday #1

I follow a number of other bloggers who practice “To Do Tuesday” and make a list of their goals for the week. I thought I would try this to see if it will help me keep on track, and maybe accomplish more.

My goals for this week: 

• Sort out pink scraps from red/pink bin for RSC blocks ✅
• Iron pink scraps
• Sew more 16-patches with scrappy 2 1/2” pink and gray strips (until I run out of scraps)
• Cut fabric for Zipper blocks for retreat
• Vacuum sewing room floor 😆. This needs to be done before the next task!!
• Iron extra-wide backing for guild raffle quilt
• Prepare binding for raffle quilt
• Take raffle quilt to longarmer
• Sew together Scrap Snapper quilt top - my OMG

Linking up to: 

Quilt Schmilt To-Do Tuesday

So Scrappy Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2023

Say Goodbye to the January Blues!

 Well, I managed to get quite a few Windmill blocks done in mostly dark blues, the RSC colour for January. I managed to use up a few scrappy 2 1/2" strips of fabric making these. They are so fun and easy to make that they make up in no time.

I am chairing our guild's Community Quilts program this year, and I included this fun block in our newsletter. I'm delighted that guild members have been making and posting these blocks. Once they are all collected in March, we'll have a fun time playing and putting these together into a number of  donation quilts, guessing by the number of blocks posted. :)

Linking up to So Scrappy Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2023

RSC January 2023 - Blues

 I've got started on some navy blue blocks. I am making these Windmill blocks and will keep making them to put together quilts for our guild's community quilts program. 

I've got two backgrounds going on, white on white and creams/white on cream, so I'll be making at least two quilts from this project. These are so fun and easy to make, as there is only one seam to match. These will finish at 8". 

There are so many lovely blocks that other RSC participants have shown (I always look forward to seeing what the two Cathy's are up to (https://saneandcrazy.blogspot.com/  and https://cathyscrazybydesign.blogspot.com/). They are both such prolific and creative quilters, it's hard not to be tempted to start another project. 

But, I need to focus on my one monthly goal done for this month because my sewing machine is going in for servicing this upcoming week. 

Linking up to So Scrappy Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2023