Retreat-Third Day

 

On the third day of the retreat I pieced together the rest of the backing for the Bohemian Wife quilt. I’m happy with how it looks and that I got to use up so many of the extra blocks and scraps left over from making the quilt top. Thanks to friend Jaye for taking the picture.

It’s just as loud and wild as the front of the quilt, which is what I wanted.

I also made a lot more of the hourglass blocks for the Old Town mystery quilt.

I got a start on my entry for this year’s challenge quilt for BAMQ.

As you can see it’s made with a lot of the fabrics from the Bohemian Wife quilt.

Here’s what it looks like all at once, hanging up on the post in the workroom of the workshop.

I started out at this end, specifically with that big flower. The challenge is to make a quilt without any 90 degree angles on the corners. We will see where I end up with this…

April To-Do

 Here's what my design wall looks like at the beginning of the month. That’s one of my accomplishments from last month’s retreat, the pieced backing for my Bohemian Wife quilt. The sour grass piece I started in the Jane Sassaman class is still up, waiting to be made into a quilt top.

I'm continuing to use the new configuration of my to-do list below, as it more closely follows the database categories that I use to keep track of all my work-in-progress. Note: the use of 🥏👽  by a project name indicates that it's nearly classified as a UFO at this point by age so work on it!

QUILTS

Continue Assembly

Spring Talking to Summer- Finish and turn in for the BAMQ challenge 

Keep working on Sour Grass Grace from Jane Sassaman class.

Old Town Mystery Quilt - finish the last of the clues and assemble blocks.

AG Stamp Quilt - continue to make more blocks using the cut-out stamp block borders and centers from Tula Pink fabrics.

🥏👽 Trim to size and then sew the 12 columns of the 2023 Temperature Quilt together.

🥏👽 Bohemian Wife - sandwich and make the binding. Decide on whether I'm quilting this myself or not.

Pantone Project - work on a overall design, either in EQ8 or up on the design wall.

🥏👽City Sampler- finish putting together a backing, make the binding, take to a long-armer to be quilted.

Quilting

🥏👽 Trinket

🥏👽 Metro Twist - sandwich and quilt.

🥏👽 Slopes - quilt and finish.

Final Steps

 Running Out of Raincloud -  hand sew down the facings, add the sleeve and label.

HANDWORK/BAG/CLOTHING PROJECTS 

Make a Cotton Candy pouch for myself.

Oxbow Tote - cut out and begin the assembly.

Toned-Down Circle Sampler - arrange and appliqué the circles, start embroidering.

Y.E.S. Coat - continue making pieces/blocks. assemble on foundation, cut out lining pieces from the fabric that I dyed.

Snake In The Garden - Finish hand stitching

Kawandii - Finish hand stitching/assembly

Lots of progress in March, hoping to continue the momentum into April.

Aloha April

 Well, aloha to you April, coming in with the traditional "April Showers" and a little hail this morning.  

As I was walking down the Main Street in San Juan Bautista I noticed this wonderful tile work on a building across the street. Of course I had to cross and take this picture.

I then used KaleidaCam to make this image. Wouldn't it make a wonderful quilt design? I definitely don't have those skills at the moment.

Here's the 31 second video of my March from the 1SE app (one second every day).

Monthly I-Did List for March

1. I worked on my Kawandii at Sew Day and am finally nearing the center (and completion)
2. I worked on Sour Grass Grace started in the Jane Sassaman class in February.
3. I made the binding and added it and label to a Community Giving quilt.
4. I mastered a new to me technique of chain pressing.
5. I worked on the Old Town Mystery quilt and got most of the units completed.
6. I bragged about the 3-d printed pin container my DH made for me.
7. I prepared and packed up for the BAMQ retreat.
8. I made and sewed on the facings for Running Out of Raincloud.

Amazing how much I got done last month, as I traveled to Canada with my mom and went to San Juan Bautista for the BAMQ retreat, so I was literally out of the house quite a lot. I went to the Sew Day for BAMQ and posted on Blue Sky 26 times, Flashes 2 timesInstagram 7 times.