Week 5, PoD Block

This block took me much longer than I thought it would:  a whole afternoon. I tried to piece the red book out of a 2 1/2 strip and kept making mistakes.  Lesson learned!  I'll only use 2 1/2 strips for books that are less than 2 1/2 inches wide.  It is no fun ripping out paper piecing!

Design Wall Monday

My design wall never remains empty for long.  I have a lot of scrap quilts in progress. Here is one of them:

These string blocks were made a couple of years ago when I was regularly participating in the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.  For some reason, I made a lot of blue blocks and fewer of the other colors.  I will use up most of the blocks if I use this layout, which is my goal.  Two of my sisters have mentioned they would like another scrap quilt, so it will probably go to one of them.  I like to give quilts to people who appreciate them and will use them.

Linking up: https://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/2020/02/design-wall-monday-february-10-2020.html

OMG, February: Blue OBW Top Complete

I am very happy to have this OBW top done!  Here's the panel I started with.

I bought 7 of them.  Six of them were cut up for the hexagons.  The seventh will be on the back, so I can remember what I started with.  

This quilt is 56"x61".

Stash Report:                                                                                                                                             

Used this week: 2.75 (OBW top)

Used YTD: 14.375 yards

Added this week: 0

Added YTD: 10.5 yards

Net:  -3.875  yards

Linking up:  https://www.elmstreetquilts.com/2020/02/one-monthly-goal-february-finish-link-up.html

First Daffodil

I have been keeping track of the date my first daffodil blooms since I started blogging.  Today is that day!

There are several more here ready to bloom and more across my flower beds.  It has been a warm winter here with little snow.  Not that I'm complaining!  The sooner spring arrives, the better!

2012             Before 2/1/12
2013             2/21/13
2014             3/10/14
2015             3/13/15
2016             2/4/16
2017             2/19/17
2018             2/18/18
2019             2/18/19
2020                   2/8/20

Week 4, PoD Block

While I was avoiding working on my OBW, I sewed this week's PoD block.

I think I did a better job choosing colors for this block than the last one.

One Monthly Goal, February

My goal for February is to get my blue one block wonder sewn into a top.  It has been on my design wall for several weeks while I worked on Bonnie Hunter's Frolic.  This OBW is past the fun designing part.  It is at the boring, production sewing part that I don't really like.  There is a lot of pressing and dog ear removing to be done too.

I was tempted to label the rows and put them in a box for later, but I will try to get it put together this month.  Then I'll have an open design wall!

Linking up: https://www.elmstreetquilts.com/2020/02/one-monthly-goal-february-link-up.html

Frolic Top Complete

I finished the top of Frolic today!  I'm very happy to have this one behind me.  It was a lot of sewing!  I do like the way it turned out, though.

The pieced borders didn't go on easily, and they seemed stretchy to me.  I hope my longarmer doesn't have any problems with them.  I added the blue border to control the stretch and so that I don't lose  my points when I bind it.

Stash Report:

Used this week: 6.5 yards (Frolic top)

Used YTD: 11.625 yards

Added this week: 4.5 yards (Blues for OBW)

Added YTD: 10.5 yards

Net:  -1.125  yards