Flea Market Flowers

 Progress has been steady on the project inspired by the Flea Market Flowers quilt along designed and run by Lori Holt.

I'm describing this as an improv applique project as nothing is over thought... it's quick quirky imperfect applique designs and quick fabric selections.

The blocks so far...

And how it's looking on the design wall... the blocks are large so are challenging my background fabric stash... might need to do some joins on some blocks.

And just to give a bit of scale... the whole design wall at the moment.  I am slowly adding blocks to the Brightly collection.

It's all about BALANCE

 The beginning of February saw the start of a new challenge - work on WIP's only for 50 days. It's not that long... I can do it... I think :o)

January saw the start of a few new projects... the Winterberries sewalong from the last post, and the Flea Market Flowers applique quilt along... This is a project by Lori Holt and to follow the instructions you need her templates/ruler (which I don't have)... so I am using the general block layouts and using flower and leaf designs from a different book.  Progress so far

At which point I ran out of fusible web so currently waiting for more to turn up in the post.

Despite the distractions I have been focusing on the Stitch Pink 2020 sampler blocks this month and this has resulted in a finished quilt top!

I added plain sashing with cornerstones to the 12" blocks, a plain border, then a gingham border, then a thin black border, and then... a wider border using a stash floral which is a perfect match to the block colours!  A win for the stash!

The border floral was always a bit difficult to use... the grey a bit too brown for other projects and the lighter flowers were always either too white or too cream.  They are just perfect this time!!

I have also finished the quilting on one of the baby quilts under construction... and got the binding machine stitched on... now to just hand sew it on the back.

I have committed (in my head if nowhere else) to a group sewalong of the Elizabeth Hartman quilt Aviatrix Medallion.  This is a project I had purchased a kit and pattern... about 4 or so years ago (maybe longer) - then I used some of the materials to make the Patchwork City quilt... and even though this quilt is not technically started as at 1.2.21 - I am going to allow myself to start it when the sewalong starts on Valentines Day.  My reasoning is that I've had it for so long it doesn't really count... and it's a difficult start, so I really need the power of group support to get the first few rounds sorted out.  Once it's started, I am quite happy to just plod along with the simpler and larger rounds of blocks.

What goals do you have for this year?