January's OMG Finished!

Can you believe it's almost February! January just flew by!!! But I did get my OMG finished! Originally I wasn't sure I would like the lavender sashing, but after I got it all together I'm very pleased with it.

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal -January Finish Link-up

This top is from Pat Sloan's QAL called Winter Fun. Now to get the back done so I could get it quilted!

Here is another QAL I'm working on...or falling behind on! But these are small block (3") and they go together pretty quickly. Here is what I have so far.

This is Kathryn Kerr's 365 Challenge. Check out her site and the finished quilt! It's amazing!!! The finished quilt is 90" square. Most blocks are 3" or 6" and a few 12" blocks. You have to sign up and you get alerts everyday for the daily block. They are available for 3 months so if you are forgetful or are doing so many QALs you forget where you have to visit you can get your missing blocks.

So that's it for now...next up is Pattern By Jen's Color Challenge. I'm one of the blogger's participating in posting the block and February is my month!!! There is still time to get January's block, so head over to Jen's blog and check it out!

Keep stitching and see ya soon!

Sheila

New Year and New Sew Alongs!

Pat Sloan's SALs starting this month are Out West it's a monthly sew along and she posts the new blocks the 1st of the month. Her next one she's hosting is with Aurifil (I love their thread!!!) They post on the 15th of the month and feature a different designer that Pat interviews. Her regular QAL is called Childhood Games and starts the 29 of this month and runs every Wednesday until May 27. The blocks will be various sizes and will measure 60x70 approximately. I love doing a quilt with different size blocks! And finally she is doing a quick scrap buster that's running from January 1 through the 15 and it's called Traffic Jam. She has a free pattern to use up those little squares! I don't have much scraps yet so I didn't participate in this one.

But I am doing the others! And here is my first block for the Out West SAL!

I chose the Adventure Awaits bundle that was available at Fat Quarter Shop. I just love the teal and peach colors!! This block is called Movies. Some of my favorite western movies were the ones I watched with my dad... A Fist Full Of Dollars, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and pretty much any John Wayne movie!

Well that's it for today. I'll be back with some of the other Quilt A Longs I'm participating in and the fabric I picked for the Childhood Games QAL!!!

Until then, Keep Stitchin'!

Sheila

Welcome 2020

I know it's already a week into the new year, but it's been crazy busy around here. Also I hurt my knee the other day and it's been difficult getting anything done! I had it all planned to spray baste several of my quilts while we had that crazy warm weather, unfortunately I had to sprain my knee first! So no getting on the hard concrete garage floor and basting the quilts...maybe I can persuade my sweet hubby to help me. 

On to the main purpose of this post...January OMG! I'm determined to participate every month this year!

 Patty at Elm Street Quilts hosts this every month and there are wonderful prizes just for participating! 

I love playing along because it motivates me to get things finished and anything that will help finish a project is wonderful! This month I want to get Pat Sloan's QAL Winter Fun top completed. I just have to get the sashing on. I've been working on it this week and finished up the last block yesterday so it shouldn't take too long to complete.

This was the last block I finished. It's actually block #7. I thought I had it done then found out when I was ready to put the sashing on I was missing this block!

Here's a photo of the blocks and sashing...

I love the fabric! It has metallic silver and gold snowflakes and it's Batik!!!! Yum!

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal January Link-up.

 

Start thinking about what you want to complete for next months OMG link up! You'll be glad you did!!!

 

I have more to chat about (2020 QALs!), but I'll save it for another day. I hope you visit again or better yet sign up and don't miss a post!

Happy New Year!

Sheila