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April OMG 2017 Goal

Posted on April 1, 2017 | 7 comments

Judy, at Patchwork Times, announced #1 as the UFO goal for April.

I shall be working on #3 as that is the number called for in January, and I worked on #1. Oops.

My goal for the month, then, is to make shopping bags.

My thought is to incorporate some orphan blocks into the project.

This should be fun and easy.

I am linking up to Elm Street Quilts at One Monthly Goal.

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March 2017 OMG Update

Posted on March 30, 2017 | 12 comments

My March goal was to come up with a plan to put together a round robin/friendship strip quilt.

You can read about this UFO project here.

I thought I would unify the strips by adding paper pieced trees to the sides of each strip. This would make them all the same width.

You can see the post about my plan here.

I have completed all of the paper-pieced tree blocks.

And sewn them to the ends of each row.

I wish I had a better way to show the rows to you, but I don’t have a design wall.

I don’t have enough floor space either.

I managed to sew 190 four patch blocks this month, too! They are pinned in groups of 10 (easier for me to count them).

My plan is to sew the four patch units into sashing/border rows to add between the friendship rows.

That may not happen for awhile, since the next number drawn for April, may be a different UFO project to work on.

But I feel good.

I’ve made progress!

I am linking up with OMG at Elm Street Quilts and Patchwork Times.

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Bike Ride – Old Kettle Falls

Posted on March 19, 2017 | 2 comments

“‘Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’ …
‘It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth.’”
—Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

Sunday has proven to be a glorious day…no rain…no snow!

So Hubby and I took some time out to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine.

We packed up the bikes and headed over to Old Kettle for a bit of exercise.

This is one of our favorite recreational areas and we are blessed to live nearby.

There are interesting markers that describe the old town, but for today, we simply rode our bikes and enjoyed a bit of nature, rather than exploring the town history (a fun thing to do as there are remnants of the town and it is easy to imagine what life may have been like).