First post of the month

Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.  I do know it's going to be full of 'stuff'.  :)

For some reason, this one didn't get posted last month...

and this is the back....

I also finished my Summer Quilt Along project with Julie Cefalu...

the fabric on the left was left over from backing fabric for another quilt and the partial panel ( was whole to begin with) is something that I found in my stash as I was looking for something else to use with the fabric on the left and because I didn't want to risk covering up flower petals with my binding, I stitched it on from the front and brought it around to the back and hand stitched it down.  Somebody please mark that on a calendar lol.

Monday, I decided to get back to working on a BOM from last year... I think I have only three more 'months' left and then it will be ready to put together.  I got this from Shabby Fabrics... I don't know what I was thinking - I signed up for TWO BOMs with Shabby Fabrics last year, along with the fatcatpatterns.com BOM ( the fishing lures).  It's not that I don't like the BOM kits - I do like them and I'm sure I did some serious pondering over whether I really wanted to join in or not... obviously, I thought I could handle all three and keep up.  Obviously, I thought wrong.  That's ok... there's no timeline; they'll get done when they get done - either by me or someone who receives the kit after I pass.

Tuesday, I did this.... it took all of MAYBE three hours from cutting pieces to finishing the top.  This is one that I'll be keeping a copy of the pattern in with the guild's charity quilts.  I'm blaming this one on Katie's (http://www.katiemaytoo.blogspot.com) 'squirrel' coming down to my house... I had no intention of working on this at this time... the squirrel sidetracked me!  I sent him/her back home where I knew Katie was planning on making something from her 'squirrel poop' ( pieces of fabrics/blocks that she had left from her Swoon quilt).

The one I worked on Wednesday ( July 4th) and Thursday was this one....

 It was a pretty quick one, too... from 9 fat quarters and about 1 1/2 yds of background fabric.  I've had the pattern and fabrics in a plastic bag for awhile - decided it was time to 'giterdone'.  Once I get backing fabric for it, it will be finished and set aside for my son.

Today, I decided I'd better get on the ball and get to working on my BOM and RSC.

The BOM is Gnome for the Holidays

and the RSC is red this month...

I don't think I have much in red red... so chose this darker red. 

Oh yeah, and yesterday, I also worked on some more applique'.  I've been working on these here and there but haven't done them in a few weeks and, since I had some scraps sitting on/around my sewing table...

It's hard to tell but the flower petals in the top pic are purple and lavender.  These make seven done, I think... so thirteen more to go.

And, while I was kind of cleaning, I found some half square triangle pairs that just needed stitching together ( to make a square), so I stitched them up.  Some were about 4" and others were larger.. so I squared/trimmed them all to 3.5" and stitched them together to make a doll quilt.  It wasn't quite the size that I thought it should be, so I grabbed another piece of fabric, cut some strips off from it and stitched borders on, layered it onto scrap batting and muslin & it's ready to quilt.  As you can see from the clock in the background of this pic, it was dinner time and I had to quit.

Well, now that I've tired myself out with all  this 'reporting'.. I think I'm going to call it a night and go read for a bit.

take care

ttyl