Our trip to Texas started on April 1st. Between getting laundry done and packing, there just wasn't time to get all my project photos taken before we left. I missed the April linky party at Ms. P Designs. Even though the link up has closed, I'm still going to publish a March report to reference at the end of the year (my memory is very short). Here's my PHD report as of the end of March.
There is finally a finish to report. Kate's Choice is finally a completed quilt after 14 years on the UFO list.
Kate's Choice is the first quilt I've quilted myself. I learned so much while finishing it off. If you want to read about the long road from start to finished for this quilt, you can find the whole story here.
Just the one finish, but there has been good progress on several of my other projects.
With all the sewing that happened in March, there was a lot of progress on the blue blocks for Wild and Goosey (Bonnie Hunter). More than half the blocks are finished. The blue blocks are almost finished, just 10 of the 3.5" blocks left to make. The plan is to keep working on the blue blocks till they are finished unless either teal or purple is chosen as the RSC color of the month, then I'll work on those colors. If I can keep up the momentum, hopefully this will be a finished quilt top by the end of the year.
I was hoping to have Magnificent Mystery (Meadow Mist Designs) assembled into a quilt top before the quilt parade last Thursday. All the full blocks are finished, but I'm still working on the half blocks. It's been such a fun quilt to make. I'm happy with how the color palette worked out. Hopefully it won't take me too long to get this project to finished quilt top.
The April block of for the guild block of the month was shown at the March meeting. That block has been finished for awhile, but I don't show the blocks on the blog till the guild has seen them. Now I'm working madly on finishing up the next 3 or 4.
After keeping up during the challenge, I fell a bit behind after the SAHRR (Quilting Gail) prompts were done. The pieced borders were added before I left. There are still two borders to be added, but if there had been time to photograph it at this stage, I would have sent it on to the parade. We had to be in Houston by 6:30 PM the day we left, so there wasn't any wiggle room in our schedule and I just didn't have time to get it up on the design wall. This project won't take much time to finish up.
Scenic Waypoint (Meadow Mist Designs) was assembled before the end of the quilt parade for the Stash Busting Quilt Along. It was nice to get some of my older stash made into a quilt. Hopefully it gets quilted before the end of the year. I really like the way this project came together.
A finish and significant progress on several projects, definitely not a bad month. All the consistent progress during first quarter paid off. There are few more colored squares on the project tracker.
Though I missed a number of my deadlines, there was still good progress in March. A finish really made my month. Not as clean of a slate as I had hoped to start second quarter with, but it could be so much worse!
Linking up with the typical Monday linky parties: Patchwork & Quilts and Sew & Tell Monday.
3 comments:
You've made good progress on everything, in spite of being out of town for a good chunk of time I particularly love Scenic Waypoint. Pretty design and really striking colors!
Wow! Kate's Choice turned out so beautifully. Great job on the quilting too. The Wild and Goosy project just makes me smile each time I see it - love how you've chosen and arranged color.
You have a TON of great progress!! Kates choice is amazing - so glad you kept at it . Wild and goosey - Swoon!! I love how you are laying this one out!!! Have a great day!
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