The only change all year has been a new start which was planned for. No finishes, but no other starts either. Even though there haven't been any finishes so far, there has been a lot of progress on various projects this year. I have my fingers crossed that there will be a change in next month's report.
One of my quilty ambitions since I retired was to learn to quilt using my walking foot. There is finally some progress on that front.
A few blocks of Kate's Choice are quilted and it's not going too badly. This project started in 2012 and was supposed included blocks from Barbara Brackman's Grandmother's Choice sampler. At that time in my quilting life, I just didn't have the skills to make some of those blocks, so I finally decided to just do my own thing and finish it with whatever blocks I felt like making.
The 2017 Bonnie Hunter Mystery, On Ringo Lake made it to finished quilt top.
I'm hoping to quilt this one with the walking foot. The plan is to practice on a much smaller quilt before tackling this one. So it will probably be much later this year before this becomes a finished quilt.
The RSC color for April was red. I didn't get much done with my Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter) blocks this month.
I started two blocks, but didn't finish any last month. I'll move on to green once these two are finished. My priority for the month is to quilt the Kate's Choice blocks, I probably won't make much progress on this project in May either.
The Simply Sensational Summer Scrap Quilt (Kevin the Quilter) suffered the same fate as Wild and Goosey, not much progress since the first 2 weeks of the month were spent quilting.
All the 16 patches for the center are made. I'm still fiddling with block placement, but this should be close. I'm not sure how much progress I'll make on this in May, the quilting comes first.
Old Town (Bonnie Hunter) has been my late night sew project for April, mainly because it's the one project I have a lot of the pieces already cut so I can just sew.
I made good progress on clue 2, finished clue 5 and made a start on clue 6. I have all the pieces cut for clue 6 and clue 8. I still need to look at what I need to cut for clue 7. This will continue to be my late night sew project for May.
Yellow was the guild BOM color for May. I have to be a month ahead as I'm leading the BOM this year.
I went scrappy with my version of the blocks. It's been fun to see what others in the guild are doing. The first draft of the quilt assembly instructions is done. I'm going to let them sit for a bit and then look over them in a month or two to see if they still make sense. Those instructions don't go out till the November meeting, but it's nice to have them done so I have time to review and correct. The blocks for June are almost done. Once I finish those I'll get back to quilting Kate's Choice.
My project tracker shows some good progress for the month.
One more project moved to finished quilt top and two in the quilting stages. The bar for Grandmother's Choice/Kate's Choice looks a bit odd, but when using quilt as you go, the steps aren't in the normal order. I'm hoping to have two finishes for May and hopefully more going out for quilting by the end of the month.
8 comments:
Congratulations on your progress! It sounds like you are having fun,learning how to do the walking foot quilting. Have a marvelous May.
Your guild BOM blocks are a pretty bunch! I hope you're getting good participation from other members. Will you be able to share some of their results when they're finished? It would be fun to see different people's ideas for the same quilt design!
I think it's a very smart idea to work ahead and wait to review the assembly instructions for the guild BOM! Congratulations on the progress you made in April.
It’s all looking good. Do I remember another quilt you made with a similar star? I’m remembering how the center was open, and I like the look of it.
Great progress. The blue 16 patches are vibrant! I really like your guild BOM blocks.
Your guild BOM is coming together so nicely. I like those stars around the perimeter of the bigger blocks. Isn't it interesting to "revisit" projects we began early in our quilting journey? Our skills and our tastes sure change.
I love how you are able to keep track of your progress on projects and what you need to do. You have some amazing projects in the works. Woo Hoo on learning to quilt using your walking foot! Kate's Choice is looking amazing and love your quilt guild's blocks. They are striking. Have a great weekend, Kate. Hugs.
Your projects are progressing the way I wanted to move mine along - each a little at a time. It looks like you are doing well with working that way even if it doesn't yet show up as finishes.
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