I have the die cutter too and that shape. I should try them again soon.

Thanks for updates on your progress and pictures everyone.

I finished my Bonnie Hunter Unity quilt top. I stopped after part 5 and added the borders. It measures 70” by 80” and will be finished by my church group and then donated.

Tomorrow, I will see my grandson in person with social distancing. He’s 3.5 months old and I haven’t seen him In person since 5 weeks old. I’m excited.

Could you tell me more about the baby milestone quilt? My newest grandchild arrived yesterday :)

Just get it done quilts posted a video about flying geese with the tip to sew from the back...Holy cow! What a difference!
I also made a quilt label for my Quilt of Many Colors (coin quilt)

https://www.google.com/search?q=Baby...hrome&ie=UTF-8
It's a way to take a picture of the baby on a pretty background and the age of the baby is designated.

Just finished this yesterday. King size

Oh I have seen those! What a great idea!

Well, best laid plans. Yesterday I finally decided it was time to replace my 11 year old laptop. Long story short, it took all morning to figure out what I wanted to replace it with and put in the order. Only got a tiny bit of thread painting done on the butterfly. But sure had fun seeing everyone’s progress on their projects!

An amazing thing happened last night. Finished sewing for the day and sat down to the computer. I had an email that my fabric had been delivered to my mailbox at 5:30pm! So I walk back out to the mailbox (rural delivery area) and there it is! I have no idea why they decided to deliver or how it got back to our little local post office from Indianapolis so quickly, but now I can cut the pieces needed for Omigosh today.

It's great to read about everyone's progress! Yesterday I cut out all the pieces I need to make a diaper bag for my daughter. Interfacing, Lining and Main fabric! Today I iron the interfacing on the fabric pieces and then start sewing! Here is a link to the diaper bag I"m making...
https://thecreativethimble.com/shop/professional-tote/

I made some progress yesterday. Got binding stiched onto two quilts so just the hand sewing is yet to be done. Made a couple of masks but have a few more to make today. And got more of the baby quilt top done but need to really focus on that today. My goal is to have the top finished by the end of tomorrow. Part of what's left is applique - my least favorite thing to do. But new DGD will be worth it. Back to the studio for me - have a great Sunday, everyone!

Do you think it's because the Accuquilt cuts them perfectly? I'm noticing on my potholders that the different layer circles all seem to be different sizes!

That's enough of them :)

I struggled with applique the first few times. I am slowly getting more accustomed to it. Stick with it, it can be lots of fun. Looking forward to seeing it.

Love the colors!

taughtbyGrandma-your quilt is beautiful. Love the bright and colorful fabrics

tranum, thank you for the larger needle suggestion. I put in a size 16 jeans needle and it went much smoother. I was able to finish all 8 sets of potholders. Tomorrow I will hopefully get the matching kitchen scarf and hot fingers pads done as well. Tonight I will get them prepped. I thought I had everything ready but realized I cut the pocket fabric for the hot fingers too small. So I get to recut! I hope all of you have had successful days.

Spent some time working on a blue and green quilt for my son and his wife. Since I like the colors myself I am making a secondary one for my spare room. Different pattern but same colors

Loving the progress reports.

I didn’t sew today but I did start putting away the fabric I used for the Unity quilt.

I also got to spend some social distancing time with my son, DIL, and 3.5 month old grandson. It was nice to be in the same room with him and hear him babble and giggle.

I got no quilting done today (ok, I did load a friends small baby quilt on the frame tonight)--spent the whole day mowing pasture, hauling off dead branches, etc. we originally were forecast to have rain late today and all day tomorrow, so today was an outside day. Now no rain in forecast but told DH that cleaning our the garage and staining porch rails will not be this weekend--need to sew!

Not much sewing today. I prepped a flange binding for the charity quilt and cut some strips for the OMG squares.

I finished all the scrap blocks I had cut so I took out an old UFO to finish off. Its very messy ... But I hope it can be salvaged.

I haven't done much quilting lately as my body of work is almost exclusively donations and they are not being accepted at this time. When this weekend is over, I will have completed 56 masks for donation.

Congratulations on completing this quilt! It is stunning! What an interesting pattern.

Making tote bags for a Woman’s Shelter & potholders for a place that helps with relocation of women in abuse.
My sewing room downstairs looks like there was a fabric explosion but I’ll have a bundle of each to donate when they begin accepting again.

I pulled out my Creative Grids ruler to make pineapple blocks. It was very confusing to me at first and then I watched Jenny Doan's tutorial on using the ruler and that helped a lot. I watched the video many, many times!! It takes concentration and a lot of up and down to cut, sew and press but you get a perfect block every time. It will be fun and I am really on a roll now.

Thanks for the updates and pictures everyone, so inspiring. Here is my Briar Rose quilt that I am machine quilting this weekend.

Pretty quilt thimblebug. I sewed the binding on the charity quilt this morning. That flange binding goes on so nicely. I have a couple of little woven baskets sitting on my counter from our last in person guild meeting. I was teaching how to make them, and 2 of the ladies asked me to finish theirs. About time to check that off the to-do list!

I made the Briar Rose quilt as well! Yours is lovely!

I have been sewing day and evening working on this one. I know it won't be finished before the weekend is over but I am making a lot of progress. Here is a picture to show you were I am on my soon to be king size quilt

Well I got the little top done yesterday in-between chores and happy hubby time. Took my pictures here and then stripped the bed and have the sheets in the wash.

The Daisy Kingdom bunny fabric is dated 1996 but I've only had it in my stash about 2 years, it is directional but I deliberately moved the blocks around so I mixed it up. This is pretty much exactly what I saw in the bundle of scrap yardage when I picked it up. One of the scores I give my tops is "how closely does the top meet my mental image" this gets a 10 out of 10 on that. The shiny light blue was given to me, the rest of the fabric just small bits of stash. Just the 6 pieced blocks, top is roughly 43x56 and will be bound with a narrow binding of the blue.

Edit: It is always very challenging for me to use these large scale prints. I know this isn't the first you've seen from me but it is a deliberate "trying to work with large scale" that pushed me on this. I'm much happier with the blenders and calicos in the fan blades than the cute bunnies. One of the other reasons I chose this Lemoyne star was I felt I needed some practice on those set in seams, and I did! I am better now than when I started...

Been following along. Beautiful work. Since tomorrow -Thursday is forcast over 100 degrees. We've been working to get sprinkles working and other things watered. Also read some books. Today I'll sew.

I didn't do any actual quilting today but did prep several small projects to work on after tomorrow's grocery delivery. Laminated some Deb Tucker Blockbusters and put away a few things in my sewing room. All in all, I feel it was a very productive weekend for me. Lately I had been having a difficult time getting motivated to do anything in my room. Finishing the potholders this weekend got me moving again so thank you all for joining me over the past few days! See you the end of June for the next one!

I got the applique pieces all cut out and placed, so will take it to our daughter's tomorrow and hopefully get it all sewn down before DGD's birth on Friday. Other DD asked for a mask with elastic, folds and a filter pocket, so got that done. Made a label for DSIL's quilt that looks like a camper (he's in the RV business). Most exciting of all, got everything put away in my studio and even vacuumed so I'll come home to a nice neat place to start my next project. It was a successful VQW for me.

I did get some sewing in after all. I mostly enjoyed being outside in the sunshine, but today was cooler, so decided to start my spring cleaning this AM, got the living room, bathroom, and laundry room all done. I always wait for the woodstove to be done prior to starting the spring cleaning, and with the cold hanging on this spring, we had a wood fire two weeks ago. It finally feels more like summer around here, and that always inspires me to do a deep cleaning, that and the sunlight coming through the windows always "reveals" what needs to be cleaned. Once I felt satisfied with what I got cleaned, I did some sewing. Once of the cords was sewn Thursday, so it doesn't really count toward VQW, but the other two cords for jelly roll rugs I did in spurts over the weekend and today. Thank you Raggiemom for hosting once again and for inspiring so many to set goals, accomplish them, and enjoy our love of time at the sewing machine.
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This weekend, I didn’t get much done on my list. I did pick out fabric from my stash (except the backing), for the mystery quilt today. I did not start on the mystery, I just did not like the backing fabric. I needed 4.5 yards of beige fabric and only had 1 yard of 3 different pieces of different shades. So I just collected the steps and put it on the bottom of my wish list. I need to buy backing fabric. I picked out the fabric for the 20 masks I need to make. A tomorrow project. I made progress on the 15 day -100 block challenge top. I cut out 6 days of blocks and selected the fabric for the last 3 days. I’m really enjoying this project. I finished by reorganizing my sewing area down stairs. So it was a productive weekend, just no serious sewing done.

I was busy all weekend, just not with sewing. I'm unpacking a zillion boxes from my move. I did unearth fabric & got a lot of it organized. I moved from a 3- bedroom house to a 2, so I have to be creative with storage. My 2nd BR will need to serve as a guest room as well as a sewing room for now. I have vague plans to set up a she-shed for sewing, but that's down the road. I've enjoyed reading & viewing everyone's progress, though. Thanks Raggiemom, for hosting & I intend to join the next VQW!

Well I did it! I got my 10 Farmer's Wife blocks done plus two more. I am wondering why I started this quilt but... I am 3/4 to the finish line, so will plug along. I think that I need to redo the block in the upper right. Not enough contrast. Oh, well, I did it once, I can do it again.

So much progress this week-end by so many on the thread. I am impressed. This kind of concentrated motivation appears to be good for us.

I moved forward on the quilting of a wallhanging. That's progress.