Well, March has certainly flown by!
I've (almost) managed to get my blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge completed just in time.
The colour for the month was light greens. Here are my three little birds for the month...
....and here is a group shot of my flock of birds...
The block of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge is this one...
It's quite a pretty block and my goal is to do three of the monthly block, but I just have this one. I hope to rectify that and have three by the end of the weekend.
The colour for April is yellow and gold...that should make for some pretty little birds!
I had a nice sewing afternoon yesterday. I haven't sewn garments in many years and I have never even touched a serger in my life! Three of us were making the same tunic but in three different fabrics.
Here is mine...
Hmmm, not a great picture, but you can see how pretty the top is. It's a bit "gappy" at the back of the neck, not sure why but maybe a good pressing will help. I just have to hem one sleeve and do the bottom hem....so hopefully a half an hour today will take care of that.
I must say, trying to sew with a 5/8" seam allowance when you haven't done it in years is a bit difficult! That seam allowance seemed positively huge!!!
I am linking up with So Scrappy today so we can have a peek at what others have accomplished this month on their RSC18.
Just a quick post today as we have house-guests for the weekend.
I wanted to show my blocks for February's Rainbow Scrap Challenge.
Here are my purple blocks for Squared Away, I am making the 7.5" size...
......and here are my purple birds for my Rainbow Birds....
The cutting of all the background fabric for Rainbow Birds, as well as the leg/background piecing, was my February goal for OMG-One Monthly Goal.
Even though it's been a crazy busy month, I was able to sneak my goal in and got it completed...
Not the best picture, but I am glad this got done...it will make the piecing of my Rainbow Birds much quicker every month.
That's all for now! My step-son and his baby are here for the weekend from Alberta. He has just finished his 7-month deployment in Latvia and has a bit of down-time now that he's back.
This means a big family dinner tonight and a couple of outings before they go home on Monday.
Wow, this has been such a busy week!
I am linking up with So Scrappy for Scraphappy Saturday. I'm looking forward to what the colour for March will be.
And I'm linking up with Elm Street Quilts for OMG- One Monthly Goal.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Here we are in February already....Spring can't be far off, can it???
I don't know why, but for me, even though February is the shortest month, it feels like the longest :(
February is my least favourite month. I hope to keep busy and beat off the Winter blahs.
Maybe it's fate that for my least favourite month I am choosing a somewhat boring goal, lol....but one that needs doing and I'll happy that I did it.
My goal for February is to cut all the background pieces for my bird quilt that I am doing for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge and complete the legs for all the birds.
I need to think of a name for this quilt, as the pattern is one of Lorna's from Sew Fresh Quilts called Black Birds...
...hmmm...maybe Rainbow Birds??? I like that name, for now. I don't like getting political, in life or in my blog, but perhaps this quilt will represent inclusiveness to me....so now I like the name Rainbow Birds even better :)
I am linking up with Pomegranate and Chintz today so I can take part in the linky party for the 6 & 6 in 2018.
I want to show my finished Down the Rabbit Hole quilt top...
.....and my new "start". This is the beginning of the first block of Sarah Fielke's BOM, Simple Folk...
My background fabric is an indigo-coloured Grunge fabric with purple running through it. I think it will show off the brightly-coloured applique beautifully!
Today I will do the final longarm quilting on my Happy Days quilt. I can't wait to take it off the frame and see how it looks!
I'll have to do a bit of repair on the quilt....right at the top, when I first began quilting, didn't I notice a small blood stain! How could I have not seen that when I was doing the applique! I tried the old hand-quilters' trick of using my own saliva on the stain, but it didn't work this time....I think you have to catch it right away.
I will fix it, though, because if I choose to enter this quilt in the Fall Fair this year the judges would disqualify it for being stained.
I am linking up with Elm Street Quilts for One Monthly Goal, and with Confessions of a Fabric Addict for Can I Get a Whoop Whoop!.
Happy Groundhog's Day!!
