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

RSC 19 January Red Scraps

I spent a few hours with my niece, as she is making a quilt for her friend’s birthday. I can’t show any pictures yet. I cut, she sewed, and we had a great time catching up and sharing some laughs.

After she left, I pulled out my red scrap drawer and started sorting and ironing.

I’ve decided I’m going to make another spiderweb quilt using Bonnie Hunter’s free pattern on Quiltville.com, except I’m going to make each web using one colour. I have been so inspired by looking at many of the RSC finishes, where the blocks and quilts are “controlled” scrappy and I just love how they look!

I managed to sew one web and I’ll probably make another red web as I don’t have as much variety of red scraps as I thought. Some of the scraps are large enough to cut bricks and other useful sizes, so I’ll work on cutting them up and working on a few more scrap blocks this week.

My first time linking up for Scraphappy Saturday atRainbow Scrap Challenge and Oh Scrap! on Sunday. Be sure to check out all of the wonderful projects that everyone is sharing! 

Happy quilting!

~Kat

Happy New Year!

I was always terrible at writing consistently in a diary. I write for several days or weeks, then lose interest. Thus, the neglect here. It’s nice to have the break between Christmas bustle and New Years to relax and reflect on the past year and consider goals and plans for the upcoming year. No promises that I’ll post more often, just that I will here and there.

I am signing up for two quilty challenges, the 2019 Finish-A-Long (details here) and RSC19 Rainbow Scrap Challenge. Optimistically, I will tackle one or two finishes a quarter. It will be great to finish a few! I have lots of scraps so I am also looking forward to working on some scrappy projects, too!

I’ve signed up and will start training for a 30K race in early April (it’ll be the second time doing this race!) and several halfs this year (BMO Half, Scotia Half). Looking forward to the training schedule! I always thought when I saw someone running, that they could just run. It never occurred to me that, a) not everyone is a natural runner, b) runners come in all shapes and sizes, and c) you have to train (at least most mere mortals do!). There are a lot more training miles that come before the race, and that’s where you need to put the effort in!

I’ll post some of my sewing/quilty finishes over the last year or two, and start making my list of projects I will to work on/finish in the first quarter.

Happy New Year!

Kat