June Goals and finishes.

June goals: 

1. Label and bind 9 quilts  (ended up 11 quilts finished)

2. Finish quilting 3 quilts that are ready and waiting: 2 are waiting, 1 quilted

3. Make cat quilt top and get ready for quilting: blocks made, time for design wall

4. Layout the jelly roll/charm blocks Elementary and stitch together

5. Layout the Cool Water blocks and stitch together

6. Layout the half square triangles of brown, beige and red and stitch together needs a border

7. Work on March RSC blocks (half done)

8. Work on April RSC blocks: half done 

9. Layout and stitch the 15" Farmer's wife blocks from RSC 2021 and stitch together.

10. Patterns by Jen: block for June, mustard

11.  Cut batting, make backings for: Penny's bear paws, Survivor #2, 16 Patch RSC, Elementary jelly roll/charm quilt, Cool water in browns, 

12. Blocks for Quilt of Valour that I started playing with after a visit to Pinterest

13. Make hug blocks for CQA quilt show

14. Dig out Modern guild projects in bags and finish for donation 

OK... so I finished up some goals from a week ago and have added in more for the next two weeks.

This week is busy with dental appointments (root canal, new crown... ugh $$$), plus local guild meeting, and Quilt Canada as well as tennis if we can get lucky with dry courts to play on. 

Lots of pictures of all the quilts I managed to get labeled and bound this week.  I had a marathon session finishing these up. 

St. Louis 16 patch that was made a bonus demonstration for the guild class I taught last month. 

Stack of finished quilts that are waiting for me to write the QOVC registration numbers on the labels

Bricks from leftover red and gray fabrics in my winter sewing room.  Inspired by Mary's Quilts.

Cool Water, pattern by Fons and Porter in Quilting Quickly (2014?) and made from a Patrick Lose jelly roll with extra strips added in to get it large enough for donation

Topsy Turvy, a 3 yard quilt that used more than that for yardage as I made it bigger and you can see the various gray squares I had to add in.  I had loads of the red and black but not the gray.

This was a top handed into QOVC made by Penny.  It was a wee bit small, so added some extra borders to it, quilted and bound it and ready for donation. 

3 yard quilt called Dot Dash.  Again, it needed a border to get it large enough for a QOVC donation.

A 5yard quilt from Connecting Threads. 

Bento blocks were given to me by Theresa, picked up by Nearissa and I put the top together and finished it for donation.

Puzzle me this is another 3 yard quilt with extra fabric cut to make another row of blocks in each direction. 

Carolyn's blocks made using a strange assortment of fat quarters but all with a Canadian theme.  I taught this class to the local guild last month and now it ready for donation.  A great way to up fat quarters that you aren't too sure what else do with them? 

Jigsaw is a 3 yard pattern and this one is made from batiks. Super simple and quick to make.

 So, 11 quilts got totally finished this week.  Once they get their registration numbers onto the labels, they can be stored in my closet until needed.  

Of course, I also had some new starts and finished up a few tops from the blocks I was working with last week. I saw a picture on Pinterest and though it would make a good QOVC donation quilt with the fabrics I pulled from my stash.  I am using the 3 yard technique for piecing the block components and so it will go together quickly. 

The blocks using the Elementary Jelly roll and charm pack with a few added fabrics, is now a quilt top and waiting for batting and backing.

Mustard was the theme for the monthly Patterns by Jen challenge and they are now complete.

During all of my stitching, I took the time to clean out my machine and change the needle.  wow... lots of fluff! 

 

These are my 16 patch blocks from last year's RSC challenge and they are now together in a top, patiently waiting on a hanger for the next step. 

The Heartstrings group I belong to chose Jelly rolls for the June challenge and I have made two tops so far from brown, beige and red strips.  This pattern is the Cool Water pattern see above in a finished top.

So, lots of progress but as fast as I finish up quilts, I seem to find more to work on.