AUGUST ROUND BOM

 I made the next parts for the August round of Seattle MQG's Block of the Month for 2023.  

CATCHING UP

 I've put off a lot of my weekly and monthly projects lately.  I got to work on some of them today during our Brave Patch Monday Sewcial get-together.

First was doing this month's Block of the Month with Seattle Modern Quilt Guild.  I made the corner squares so I could attach the borders we made last month.

Then I started on the Art East Quilting Mini Charm blocks.  I think I'm five weeks behind.  I only had time to get one of those done.  If I do one a day the rest of the week, I'll be caught up.

I did get some quilting done on the Solstice Star, too.  

ADDING TO BOM

Here is the next addition to the Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Block of the Month 2023.  

I'm doing mine all scrappy.

 

MONTH FOUR BOM

Seattle Modern Quilt Guild released month four of this year's Block of the Month.

#SeaMQGBOM2023

I made four of these:

SEATTLE BOM #3

 This year's Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Block of the Month (BOM) is called 'Diamond Flare'.  This month's prompt finishes off the square that was started last month.  I'm still using scraps.  

LOTS OF DOINGS

 I finished my Not Joe project this morning.  Then I removed the paper that was covering the other 'Gift' blocks hanging on the design wall to see how the new one went with them.  It works with them really well!

Then, I put the zippers onto the backing I made for Nebula and loaded it onto the longarm.  I put the batting on the machine, too.  Then I thought it might be a good idea to measure the top.  And lo, I discovered that it was 97" by 96".  Good grief.  That means the backing and the batting are too small.  I was so frustrated.  Luckily, the Monday Sewcial group was able to talk me down and I eventually got over it.  I need to make the backing bigger and buy a bigger batting.  No big deal.  Phfft.

Then I made the next month's part of the SeaMQGBOM2023 and added it to last month's.  It still needs a small border around it.  I'll get to that tomorrow.

Then I went onto Amazon and ordered a king-size Dream Cotton Request batting.  It won't be here for 10-14 days.  That will give me lots of time to make the back bigger.  I could even quilt something else in the meantime.  Life is good.

ART EAST MINI & MORE

 It's Monday, so there was another Art East Quilting Mini Block Challenge block dropped.

I got it made during BP-Monday Sewcial.

But, before that, I finished making the first month's Seattle Modern Quilt Guild's Block of the Month 2023.  It's two large triangle-shaped blocks made of really dark and really light half-square triangles.  I'm using scraps from my scrap bins.