July Recap

I didn’t get as much sewing done this week as I’d hoped, but that’s not surprising seeing that I’m heading out tomorrow with Cousin Kim, Cousin Carrie and niece Jenny for a week-long road trip and retreat at Missouri Star Quilting Company. There’s been a lot of stuff to plan and pack up. Although we’re all looking forward to the retreat, we’re a little spooked by the resurgence of the ‘Rona - the Delta Variant.  And we’re going to a state where the covidiots still outnumber those who’ve vaccinated. Hopefully everyone attending the retreat will be vaxxed, but we’ve got our masks (and stuff to make more) and our sanitizers just in case. And we plan to practice social distancing with strangers. 

So, I did finish another scrappy blue quilt this week. It’s nothing to write home (or the blog for that matter) about, but just for the record, here it is.  I had enough navy and white half-square triangles to make four pinwheel blocks and four disappearing pinwheel variation blocks. There were lots of selvage squares and half hexes to chop up and use up, a miscellaneous boat block (donated to Quilts for Kids), plus lots of other bits and pieces. Yeah, so it’s a hot mess. A “creature quilt” with very little design planning other than to slap it together before the end of the month.

The quilting was done on my Bernina and is just loops. It measures 44x48”. That was the fifth and final blue donation quilt for July. They’re all listed under the “2021 Quilts” tab above. There was another quilt - blue, green and red bricks - that I will finish up another month. I ruined it by adding a border that was too busy and fought with the brick pattern, so I’ll be ripping that border off and just adding a plain border. But that won’t happen until sometime in August.

Here is a recap of my dark blue blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge’s Blue July. I’m linking up to the Scrappy Saturday gathering at Angela’s blog today.

The only blocks I didn’t do this month that I’ve been sewing recently is blue four-patches, but in lieu of that I cut up a lot of scraps into 2.5” squares.  I have other plans for them down the road (RSC ’21).  Not pictured in the above collage are the 38 string blocks I made this month. All of them, plus some blue string blocks left over from last year, went into the making of Stringing the Blues (again, see tab above).

Anyway, my total blocks sewn this month numbered 80. 

I was going to take pictures of the three quilt projects I’m taking along to the retreat, but it rained again last night and that meant more water coming in through the basement window. At least we’re prepared for it now until the insurance company can get someone out here to do the troubleshooting. Isn’t that the way it goes, though? If you want rain you just wash your car - or discover a leaky window seal. 

Have a good week, friends!