I wish I had put read 4 books on my goal list last week. Yep...I did spend a bunch of time reading this past week. And my finished (or even worked on) list shows it. I did jump off list for one little sewing spree. But I'll share that later.
Here's last week's list.
3/13/2023
✅Add border to sea life quilt -- Finished, put in the to-be-quilted closet.
✅Make more FCQ Equilter blocks (picture below) -- all done.
✅Work on Rainbow Scrap blocks (picture below) -- one done.
Start working on APQ UFO Challenge #11 -- I "thought" about it once."
Cut out another 3 yard quilt -- I actually drew out a pattern and figured if I had enough fabric to do this quilt. Don't know when I'll actually cut it out.
Eh, I really wasn't very motivated by the end of the week. And, honestly, I am forcing myself to even think about the UFO challenge quilt. Here is this week's list. (Note - I tell a little more about the challenge quilt below.)
3/20/2023
Finish pink and start green RSC blocks
Design UFO Challenge #11, rough cut shirts
Baste baby quilt and start quilting
Cut out another quilt
First up the pics of what I did get done.
Here's the one (yes 1) RSC block I've done for February. I like the block idea but honestly it's time consuming to make and have it turn out well. I am thinking of just making 1 per month and then put sashing between and possibly borders and call it either a baby quilt of a wheel chair quilt. I'm having an issue cutting these with the Accuquilt cutter. I think I might have had one piece of fabric the wrong way. Most of the time the fabric needs to go length of fabric to prevent it from stretching the fabric. Additionally, I am going to think about fixing the issue at the top center below. (Of course that doesn't mean I'll actually fix it.)
My squirrel project came about from picking up a packet from my quilt guild on Wednesday. Along with various sizes of quilts, walkers bags, dog beds and other miscellaneous items we make, we are making NICU Hearts. These are small hearts made out of flannel that moms of babies in the NICU can wear next to their skin for a day. Then the hearts are put in the isolette with the baby. Evidently it helps the baby bond with its mom. I'm excited to work on this project but I really want to use my own flannel. I have a LOT of it. One draw back, it uses a 4" Accuquilt heart die, which I don't have. But a friend does so I hope to borrow hers and then keep a pile at the ready to work on for a while.
Above is the heart sewn, right sides together. I've left a space to turn it on the right. Below is 5 of the 11 little hearts that came from the guild.
The pink one with the flowers was my first one. I used a decorative stitch to make it a bit cuter. However, one of my friends mentioned the NICU she gives to doesn't want anything but a regular stitch keeping them together. Evidently the extra stitching can bother the baby. I'll ask our charity chair to check with the local hospital to see if that is an issue when she delivers items to them.
In case you didn't realize it the March APQ UFO Challenge for March for me is make a tee shirt quilt from my son's tee shirts. He gave me two bags. I separated them into college rowing shirts and running and biking shirts post college. EH. There are a lot of shirts. Hubby and I made some decisions about how to arrange them. I'm probably going to make this a two sided quilt with the running and biking shirts on the front and the college shirts on the back. It may be so heavy that no one will be able to crawl out from under it when done! I need to take time to measure all the shirts and decide how to put them together. Then comes the rough cutting and fusing interfacing on. I'll also need to buy some fabric to go with the shirts. I only want to get to the point of having the shirts interfaced along with the layout design this month. I have the rest of the year to actually make it. Pictures will come after I get the front of the top done. (By the time that is done you will have totally forgotten about the project!)
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Happy Quilting All! Bonnie