Until I can hold myself to that kind of promise, I won't be holding you to it WMUteach! Sewbizgirl gets things wrapped up fast. I'll let her hold your feet to the fire in July.

NZquilter -- you feeling better, yet, or is it too soon? First trimester isn't done yet, right?

Meet my goal for July.
 

Which one first? Humm.. I need to sandwich them all as my first step. My quilt group has a work day on Saturday and I am not taking my sewing machine. Only taking the 6 or 7 that need to be sandwiched. Then I can quilt and bind. First one will likely be a pink checker board. Another quilt for my Project Linus bin.

I finished one small wall quilt yesterday that was not my work but a UFO given to me from a quilter who passed away. That one was easy, only binding. A second larger quilt has about 36 inches of binding yet to be turned and stitched. Tomorrow will wrap up that one for Project Linus. I am feeling good! Photos tomorrow.

This coming weekend is the next Virtual Quilt Weekend, so I plan on finishing one, I really need to learn to get over hand stitching the binding to the back on the donation quilts. That is what takes time. But I love the hand stitching part of the process too. Ah well!

I don't usually hand bind the binding anymore, I've been doing it on the machine. I get better with each quilt, one day they will line up perfectly. Lol!

I've been sick for the past week, not as bad as usual. I think it's monkeypox... :( I have had these raised red bumps on the back of my shoulder for over a week and last night I finally got fever. I haven't been around very many people at all. News said its community spread now, argh... There's not a whole lot they can do for you, self care is most of it unless it gets severe. Oatmeal baths or soap with oatmeal in it has helped a lot. I'm not sewing or quilting as much this past week, not a lot of energy. I have a few quilts that need quilting. I'm working on it, lol! Hopefully the picnic quilt will be completed soon. It's my old denim jeans and all the plaids or checks I had in a checkerboard pattern. I'm quilting as I go basically. I'm almost halfway there! Woohoo! I've been working on it for a month now, but sickness has slowed it considerably.

Sounds like you're making progress WMUTeach, that's wonderful news.

The quilt projects sound nice, WMUT and LoveOQ... Please share them here before you send them wherever they are going.

I took a wonderful Scrap Quilting class this past weekend. Tho I've been scrap quilting for years, I still learned lots of new ideas. I went through my strip drawers and pulled out the 1.5", 2", and 2.5" strips and have been working on this big scrappy:

Sewbiz, love your color balance in this newest quilt top. Something I need to need to develop to a greater level.

Here is my first UFO finish! I used 704 2.5" squares from my bins of little colorful 2.5" squares.

I have been working on perfecting channel quilting and over two days of quilting I did get my channels more even.

Wmuteach, I have you beat, I have 13 tops, lol. I also just like making them, but not quilting. I think cause I don't want to pay the $$ to send them off,so I have to do on domestic or hand quilt. In progress, well I'm not sure,probably 4. I get bored easily and then it's it's, and then "oh!" another top comes to mind and the UFOS hang around. Since these are not ment for anyone i seem to say "tomorrow" often,but that never comes. The downsize of procrastinating, ugh

Umm- I know last I counted of tops waiting to be quilted, was over 20 . . . and I own a long arm . . .
I keep telling myself that for each top I finish, I need to quilt up two. And I was really good for a while and had them down to single digits, Oh well, retirement is only 4 years away and then I'll have more time.

I'd never finish a quilt if I didn't complete them one by one. I do have one UFO and that is because my machine was giving me trouble, and I had to stop working on it.

Meanwhile, other quilts have been made and the UFO sits alone and unloved on a closet shelf. I feel so bad for it. LOL!

The only way for me to be able to stop thinking about it is to finish it... someday...

Lovely quilt, WMU!! And big hugs for finishing it! On to the next...