New Quilt A Longs and my OMG for the month!

New Year, new Quilt a Longs and OMGs!
First my OMG!!!!

 Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal January Link-up.
   This month I want to get a quilt done for one of my quilty friends from my guild. She has entrusted her beautiful disappearing 4/9 patch quilt. My thought is using different shades of Aurifil thread to do a disappearing stitches on the wide sashing she used to make her quilt more the size she wanted. While in my mind the design is wonderful I can't seem to get it on paper to confirm my vision. Which means I haven't started it yet! Hopefully putting it as an OMG I'll get it done! If you haven't joined in on the One Monthly Goal I strongly suggest it! I like the motivation it gives me to complete or at least make a good dent in a project. And Patty has rounded up some wonderful sponsors to help motivate people in completing projects! Check it out!
 

Pat Sloan has two new QALs, A Flower Bouquet and Out Of This World. I'm excited about both. I've had space themed material for awhile because I wanted to make little T a twin size quilt for his upper bunk and thought an outer space themed quilt would be perfect. It's not babyish, so it can grow with him too, plus being in his teens I wouldn't be able to get away with that! 

Here is block 1 of A Flower Bouquet!

Block 1: Seed Catalogs

 I absolutely love this block!

And here is Block 1 for Out Of This World...

Block 1: The Space Shuttle

This was a fun one to put together! And it surprised me when I started putting together, it's 16.5" square! I am really looking forward to this QAL!

Another Quilt A Long I'm looking forward to is with Patty Dudek of  Elm Street Quilts (yes Patty from the OMG blog). It's hand sewing! I'm not very good at hand sewing even with lines drawn I can't keep it straight! But I've been practicing! I purchased a fat eighth bundle by Kim Diehl and I just love the colors!

Aren't those colors yummy! I better run an iron on them before the QAL starts on January 7th!

Another QAL I'm working on is The Temperature Quilt hosted by Twiddletails.
She mainly guides you on how to get started and I believe we will be posting our progress on instagram. It's been interesting keeping track of the weather and seeing the past highs and lows for our area. This weekend it's suppose to be in the 50's! I think someone forgot to mention to Mother Nature it's winter here!

I'm doing the highs and lows, using a 2.5" x 4.5" rectangle for the highs and a 2.5" square for the lows. I'm not sure if I'll keep the lows at the bottom of the rectangle or have them at the top for the next month. I only have a 8 of the 22 or so colors I'll need for my quilt, but I do have an order in for 9 more. I'll post my color range when I get the rest. I have a weather stamp set and was thinking of using them on some of the days...still thinking that one through! I'm also thinking of having a stamp for special occasions like birthdays and holidays. I think it would help find the date easier. I plan on getting a lighter neutral fabric to have the month put on for another way to distinguish the months apart. Another idea I have is using the Pantone color of the year as the borders, maybe Kona Cottons color of the year too since I'm using Kona fabrics for my temperatures. So that's my run down of how I plan on doing my Temperature Quilt. I also have the weather for the year and area my son was born and plan on doing a quilt for him. He was born in Florida and since hurricanes were a big part of our life there I plan on stamping the days and names of the hurricanes that developed that year, 3 of which had their names retired due to the devastation and loss of life they caused.
Since he loves history and who doesn't love the idea of knowing what the year they were born was like I think he'll really like the quilt. And the Pantone color for that year was Aqua Sky so I plan on doing mostly blues and aquas or use it as an accent color to the warmer hues of the hot Florida temperatures. As you can see I've thought way too much about the weather!
Sorry for the long post. One of my goals is to blog more and Santa brought my a laptop so I can have access to the computer even when my son is home and needs mine!
I'll be back in a few days to tell you about some more things I'm playing in!
 Thank you for stopping by! I hope you'll follow me on my journey through 2019 as I try not to do every QAL! And hopefully have some of my own patterns posted here to share with you.
Sheila