June Recap and July Goals

Goal number 1

My June goals were:

✔1. Make progress on my guild challenge project--I'm considering adding words and/or graphics. . .

UPDATE: I took the project to one of my small group meetings. I explained the challenge rules. I talked about my inspiration behind the challenge and the symbolism in my project. When I talked about adding graphics and words, the hands down response was "Stop." "Layer, baste and quilt it!" I took their advice as I tend to over work an idea! It is ready to be quilted!

✔2. Finish Good Fortune. 

✔3. Determine the quilting for "Read," the project for the book, "The Last Bookshop in London."

✔4. Determine the quilting and the backing as well as layer and glue baste the sashiko project.

✔5. Finish my small group challenge project.

✔6. Publish a post of my sourdough bread

Goal number four 

recipe tries.

✔7. Make string blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. This month the color is pastel. 

✔8. Make progress on my rug weaving project. I spent a few days at the end of the month making progress. I think I might be getting the hang of the process!

UPDATE: I spent four days this month weaving. The photo in this post is progress after using one of the flannel pillow cases. The rug measures 15 inches in diameter!

✔9. Begin string piecing bits from the bags that over time I've gathered 2 1/2, 3 1/2, 4 1/2 and 6 1/2 inch segments. The bag is over full. The time has come! 

✔10. Process the leftovers of the backings and battings from Good Fortune, Dash and Beyond the Surface.

✔11. Determine which Bonnie Hunter project to work on next. Will it be a leader/ender or a started project?

Goal number eight

Wahoo. . .I had THREE finishes this month! I have thoughts of a quilting plan for my guild challenge. I made fabric strips and blocks out of strings. It was another great month!

Fabric Accounting:

Current Month:

Fabric in: 18 yards (I bought wide backing fabric)

Fabric out: 29 1/2yards

Net loss for the month:  11 1/2 yards 

Year to Date:

Fabric in: 42 3/4 yards

Fabric out: 116 1/2 yards 

Net loss: 73 3/4 yards 

Best Book of the Month: The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery.  I was

Apron fabric

surprised to learn how solitary their lives are as well as how interesting their lives are.

My July goals are:

1. Make progress on Triple Treat. I cut more blocks to piece at my in person Maven sew day.

2. Piece the string blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge. This month the color is aqua. I've pulled my scraps which aren't many!

3. Spend a few sewing sessions piecing string blocks. The 4 1/2 inch and 6 1/2 inch string bags need emptying!

4. Layer and baste butterfly quilt number four. It was on my annual list last year.

Aqua fabri

5. Document finishing the sashiko project.

6. Make progress on my rug weaving.

7. Make an apron for the youngest granddaughter.

8. Begin quilting the guild 250th/50th anniversary challenge quilt.

9. Figure out what to do for the next book club quilt. Our book is "By Her Own Design" by Piper Hugely.