On a Roll Again, Angel Quilt Flimsy

I'm having a really good week.  Sunday, remember I finished my Great Pumpkin Quilt into flimsy stage.  

In the evenings I have been slowly appliquing the angels on the Angel Quilt, designed by Cheri Payne.  This will hopefully be a Christmas present for our oldest daughter.  I plan to hand quilt it, I think, as soon as I get some batting.

Hopefully I will be able to quilt it a lot quicker than this one,  a UFO I had started hand-quilting in 1997, and finished May 2018! Of course it kept getting stuck in closets and cabinets and it would be out of mind for long periods of time!

Guess I had better figure out what we are having for dinner. 

 I will be hooking up with Clever Chameleon's Colour Party here.

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Making Progress. BOM's Away Monday

I have been slowly making progress on the Great Pumpkin Quilt.  This UFO was from 2006.  I started here in July working on this quilt.

At that time, I had 4 blocks that had 4 blocks that were ready to machine applique, and I got those done as part of my Finish-A-Long goals.

I have been slowly and steadily working on these BOM blocks.  

I have now completed the 12 blocks, and I need to work on the top border strip. I'm really excited to be finishing this. 

Last week in looking for a particular fabric, I came across 4 more BOMs, 3 never started/.  I'm going to be busy for a long, long time!  LOL!!

I'm going to be linking up with What A Hoot, BOM's Away Monday, Em's Scrapbag Moving it Foward, and  Love, Laugh, Quilt Monday Making.

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One Monthly Goal, October, BOMS Away Monday

I'm linking up with Patty at Elm Street Quilts for October One Monthly Goal.  

I've been really gung-ho on getting my Great Pumpkin Quilt BOM finished.  My goal for October is to finish this top at least.

These are the two blocks I finished today.

I have 3 months' worth of blocks  to do on this quilt, and then an appliqued border that goes across the top.  I hope to have the quilt top done by the end of the month.  

I'm also linking up with What a Hoot Quilts for BOMs Away Monday.

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STILL ON A ROLL

  

This week I was able to finish another item on my Quarter 3 of the Finish-A-Long.   My original list was here.  Item 3 was to hand-applique 2 of the Flourishes blocks, by Piece of Cake Designs.  This was an old BOM I had done 6 blocks I think and then put the project aside.  The owner of the quilt shop that used to be in my town knew I liked to applique, and told me she would give me the materials to make a shop quilt and to make mine.  I made the shop quilt, and only got so far with mine.  So I am trying to get mine at long last. 

I achieved my goal this quarter and finished 2 of these blocks.

Several days ago, I was thinking about starting another pumpkin quilt, and had to stop myself, I am working on an old BOM, The Great Pumpkin Quilt by Briar Rose, so I prepped and machine appliqued 2 more blocks.

Then I prepped 2 more, I hope to be able to sew down in the next few days.

I talked about my squirrel problem last time here, getting side-tracked with another project.  I continued working on  my blocks and the base is done, waiting to hand-applique the crows, and flags and beehive on.  This is a Cheri Saffiote quilt called Crow's Feet in a Book called Wednesday's Best.

Right now I am working on my house on Sweet Land of Liberty.  I am working on this with Susan and Edi.

Well guess I'd better get back to the sewing room!

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I'm On a Roll, But Might Have a Squirrel Problem

I was on a roll yesterday.  I finished 1/2 of one of my 2018 Finish-A-Long projects, which was to hand-applique 2 Flourishes blocks, a BOM I set aside years ago.  I finally finished one of the blocks.  I hope to get the second one finished by next week, when I am due to report my progress.

Meanwhile, I have decided to restart Cheri Payne Saffiote's Sweet Land of Liberty.  I had done one block, years ago, then loaned my instructions to someone.  This is my finished block.  Lori@ Humble Quilts was having a quilt-a-long earlier this year.  I have saved her instructions/measurements for the blocks and am planning to work on this.  This is the block I had finished before:

Okay, this is where the squirrel comes in.  I knew I had a bag of fabric in the closet that I had set aside from taking a class years ago.  I thought these would be perfect for this quilt.  They are primitive type fabrics.  What I discovered was that the class was another of Cheri Saffiote's quilts called Crow's Feet in the book Wednesday's Best .  I found that I had 13 out of 36 blocks done.  

Today, I cut and sewed 10 more.  Now I just have 12 more to do, then add the borders, and the applique pieces.

Meanwhile back to the Sweet Land of Liberty, I made 5 of the economy blocks.

I also prepped for my saltbox house.  I need to hold off on this a bit, until I finish my applique on the Flourishes block.

I also prepped 2 more pumpkin  blocks for the Great Pumpkin Quilt.  These will be machine appliqued,  

I tend to sew on my machine, in the daytime, and at night sitting with DH I do hand work.

I think that is all I have going on right now.  Other than laundry.  My machine finally got its new shock absorbers and I have 3 weeks worth of laundry to do.  

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