April in review... a month of lockdown

The lockdown situation has been the most weirdest environment to live in.  On the one hand it has been quite enjoyable having the time to enjoy my creative endeavours... on the other... sometimes there has just been too much time to worry about every damn thing.

I started the month working through the various BOM activities I set for myself
Happy Cloud sampler

Blocks 7, 8 and 9 of the Ultimate Beginner sampler

Two more six inch blocks and flying geese joiner for the 2017 Summer Sampler

My huge One Monthly Goal was to put together these orphan blocks and I finally made the whole design work together and it just flowed... Check out everyone else's goal progress  Here

It is massive... 95" x 98"

So there is a decent overhang...

And onto the quilting pile it goes.

Then back to BOM blocks... Line Dried  with the itty bitty 3" Ohio stars

And now I've got the whole top row sewn!

And because I'm a sucker I pulled out this Timeless Traditions quilt that stalled out... maybe last year... maybe the year before...

So I got the blocks sewn together for the third quarter...

Started the applique on the corner section...

And fused the fourth wreath block.

And then I got caught up in the excitement of 2" scrappy strips and made this log cabin top from the Growing up Modern book...

Although I added a wider white border and added colourful strips top and botto  to make it rectangular.

Then proceeded to go completely mad with sorting my blue scraps into similar bundles of blueness...

Choosing the soft dreamy blues to start and made some 2" strips which were sewn end to end...

And so began a different scrap quilt from the blog Sugar Bowl Crafts.

Sometimes when I just start playing with my fabric stash I can just put it all away again...

Other times it knows exactly what it wants to be!  An Iris Quilt!

This quilt is constructed similarly to the tube version of Trip Around the World...

I'm using a charcoal for the sashing and am not quite sure whether I love it yet.