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 The blog post I wrote earlier today was deleted by Blogger because somehow, I contravened some of their rules and I have no idea how showing pictures of quilting and writing about quilting was a 'bad' thing but they did say something about issues... so am trying again and will keep it simple, just in case, as happened earlier, all is lost! 

This is my updated list

1. Finish binding on baby bricks

2. Bind Penny's quilt

3. Bind my L blocks quilt

4. Quilt Falling Charms quilt and bind

5. Load and quilt RSC scrappy strips blocks #1

6. Load and quilt RSC scrappy strips block #2

7. Make Quilt of Valour hugs blocks quilt with 30 blocks given to me

8. Quilt and bind my moose wall hanging. 

9. Finish make disappearing pinwheel blocks and put quilt top together. 

10. Make the charm square quilt  

Of course, the list has grown but, as mentioned, am keeping this simple. 

My baby blocks quilt that was a UFO is finished.  

Falling charms is done. An RSC quilt from 2020.

Quilt made by Penny and used some of my panels is quilted and bound by me.

RSC #2 (Rainbow scrap challenge) is made from L blocks and it is finished. 

I am stopping here to see if this post is successful or if I have some kind of issue with my computer that is causing grief?

Middle of May and I am enjoying our sunny, spring weather.

This is crazy but, I wrote this blog post yesterday morning and posted it, all as usual and later in the day I had a message that the post was deleted because I contravened their community standards... so, I wrote another short post to see what would happen and it passed their standards.  This morning I had a message saying that my original blog post had been reinstated after they looked at it again.  I guess we need to be grateful that someone is making sure nothing 'nasty, horrible and in bad taste' gets sent out to blog readers... but seriously, me?  A little old lady posting about her quilting?  Oh well... all's well that ends well!  So, a bit of a duplicate of the short post but here are all my efforts that happened in the past 10 days.  And I assure that I will not be posting pictures of naked people or discussing politics.  

 

 My list from the last blog post: (I have since added a few more that I had forgotten about)

1. Finish binding on baby bricks - DONE

2. Bind Penny's quilt - DONE

3. Bind my L blocks quilt  DONE

4. Quilt Falling Charms quilt and bind DONE

5. Load and quilt RSC scrappy strips blocks #1 DONE

6. Load and quilt RSC scrappy strips block #2 DONE

7. Make Quilt of Valour hugs blocks quilt with 30 blocks given to me - in progress

8. Quilt and bind my moose wall hanging. 

9. Finish make disappearing pinwheel blocks and put quilt top together. Still have 10 blocks to make

10. Tshirt quilt

11, Wonky heart log cabin blocks

12. FVMQG quilts made last fall #1 #2 #3 all need quilting and binding 

13, Patterns by Jen May block DONE 

So, not looking too bad for accomplishments.  Great weather for playing tennis daily and being outside in the garden. My Falling charms quilt is finished.  These blocks were made last year for the Rainbow scrap challenge.

I quilted this for Penny.  She made the quilt top using some panel bits and pieces that I had in my stash and this is for Quilts of Valour.

This is the second Rainbow scrap challenge quilt that I made from L blocks in 2020.

My Heartstrings group is challenging us to make something using charms this month and I had this kit that I won at my March retreat.  It was a bit different but easy to make with everything cut for me. 

Rainbow scrap challenge #3 using scrappy strips of colour and neutral (low volume) fabrics from my stash. 

And lastly, Rainbow scrap challenge #4, again made from scrappy strips.

I was handed a batch of 'hug' blocks for Quilts of Valour to make into a quilt.  These are blocks made by Canadian quilters across the country using Northcott Oh Canada fabrics.  Northcott has been producing this line of fabric for 10 years with a few new ones added each year.  I am adding a border around each block and will have 10 each of red, black and cream when I am finished. 

The baby bricks quilt is finished.  A UFO from a few years ago.

The May block for Patterns by Jen - she gives us the pattern and the colour was "potatoes" 

I am still working on my disappearing pinwheel blocks.  I need 10 more!

My May Rainbow scrap challenge blocks are done - red was the colour of the month.

Hopefully, the second half of the month will be as productive as the first two weeks?  Today my car got insured for another year and we had a great game of tennis.  We are waiting, as patiently as possible, for our second Covid vaccination and hoping it will be in the next few weeks so we continue, in the meantime, to stay safe as well as being careful with self distancing and washing our hands.  Life is good, today!

Welcome May 2021 and so far, so good!

 We have had a few nice days for the start of the month and yesterday was a great day for me, starting with an usual but awesome sleep on Saturday night.  I managed to clean the entire upstairs of our house and get laundry done as well as heading to the tennis court for some skills and drills with my husband, then a few groceries that were needed and home to cut the grass in the front yard and pull a few weeds.  That left me some time to play with fabric and do some piecing plus I quilted my last preemie which is also a UFO.  

A lovely soak in our big tub and the day was done.  

Sadly, a lousy sleep last night but today was early tennis and we avoided any rain which was a good thing and home to start vacuuming my downstairs space and load the quilting frame. 

This first quilt is one I finished last week.  It was my jelly roll project for Heartstrings and I found a batik "Canada" fabric for the centers of the block.  This looks much better up close and personal than it does from a distance.  A UFO that used up a jelly roll bundle that had been sitting in a bin for as long as I can remember.  

The quilt above is loaded and I have done a few  passes and figured out what design I want to use on it.  This is my charm quilt from the Rainbow scrap challenge last year. Another UFO! And, after this one is quilted, I have yet another RSC quilt top waiting for a turn at being quilted.  Batting and backing are ready.

Two quilts were finished last week and binding is made and waiting.  One is my L block quilt from the 2020 Rainbow scrap challenge and the other is a Quilt of Valour that I quilted for a friend.

In the meantime, I had a large bag of Northcott Oh Canada fabric scraps, bit and pieces dropped off to me and in there was a stack of 30 blocks to make a hugs block quilt plus an assortment of blocks that were missing a piece or needed to be finished.  So, those are ready to be mailed off to the collector of hug blocks from across Canada. 

I dug out an old UFO and I must look to see if I can find this on my blog to see just how old it is.  It is a Missouri star disappearing pinwheel.  I dug out a panel from the scrap bag mentioned above and will use it in the quilt along with the blocks.  It is a simple block to make but it needs really careful measuring.  

Step one is to take a print and a white 10" square, right sides together, stitch around the entire perimeter and then cut diagonally into 4 half square triangles. The four triangles get stitched into a large pinwheel.  And then you carefully cut in four directions around the center pinwheel and last step is to rearrange the blocks and sew back together. 

I did get my baby bricks preemie quilt top finished and quilted and just need to add the binding and this UFO is done! 

And I would really like to get this UFO quilted.  The wallhanging is from last September and the kit orginally older than that.

The heartstrings challenge for May is charms and I got this kit as a door prize in March when I attended our small retreat.  I think it will be perfect to make.  

So my list for May:

1. Finish binding on baby bricks

2. Bind Penny's quilt

3. Bind my L blocks quilt

4. Quilt Falling Charms quilt and bind

5. Load and quilt RSC scrappy strips blocks #1

6. Load and quilt RSC scrappy strips block #2

7. Make Quilt of Valour hugs blocks quilt with 30 blocks given to me

8. Quilt and bind my moose wall hanging. 

9. Finish make disappearing pinwheel blocks and put quilt top together. 

10. Make the charm square quilt 

And there you have it for the first Monday in May.  Rain might come so time to get more stitching done!