Sew........This Is My Blog: July 2022

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

July Goals

Since I accomplished my June goals, after failing to do much at all in April and May, I think I might have enough mojo now to set my goals for July.

I started on a One Block Wonder in September of 2019. Yikes! That's embarrassing. Okay, it needs to come off the UFO list soon for sure! I started quilting it around then, but got discouraged shortly after that (with Covid and life, not just with quilting) and set it aside. I had quilted all the blocks in the center of the quilt but not the borders.

It is definitely time to finish it. Hubby made a template for me to match the shape of the six inch hexagons. (I tried, but mine was wonky!) So far, I've stitched a few hexagons in the border, but it's going to need something else.

I'm kind of figuring it out as I go. I need to figure fast, though, because finishing this quilt is my July One Monthly Goal.

Another goal for this month is to get my Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks made using this month's color - purple. This is definitely going to be fun since THIS is my purple stash .....

..... all of it!

And this is everything from my juvenile/novelty prints that has any purple at all in it.

So. Let the challenge begin!

Linking up with One Monthly Goal and So Scrappy

Saturday, July 2, 2022

RSC-Blue Goals and OMG Goals Met, And Then Some!

What a month! You would think I was trying to make up for the last two months, or something.

I got all my blue Pinwheel, Sawtooth Star, and "brick" blocks made for the RSC-2022 scrap challenge.

Then, I focused on the quilts I had started for my daughter-in-law's friend's twin grand babies. I wanted them to be similar but not identical, so I made Pinwheel blocks for one and Broken Dishes blocks for the other.

Huh. The Broken Dishes blocks made a secondary pattern that looks like - guess what? Pinwheels!

They're pretty easy to tell apart, though. The cornerstones and the backings are different. More "Seashore Drive" from Moda. Such a sweet collection.

My quilting friend and neighbor, Denise, made labels for me with the girls' names on them. If that doesn't make them different, I don't know what would!

Back to the June goals. The applique' stars baby quilt is finished. I made it in time to call it a June finish. Barely. This will be a donation quilt for our local St. Jude affiliate hospital.