Happy Quilting Month

     I hope you are enjoying Quilting Month and that you did something special for World Quilting Day. Pat Sloan showed the free pattern from Fat Quarter Shop “Layer Cake Lattice” and I chose to work on it also. I already had a few leftover layer cake squares I planned to use and then pulled from my stash. I found it easy to use 4 ½” strips in my scrap user stash. By Sunday afternoon I had 35 blocks pieced. Here is my layout. Monday morning Pat Sloan shared a neat offset layout but I don't have enough background fabric to do that this time. The blocks were easy sewing for a quick charity quilt.

    Now is the time to sign up to participate in this Hands2Help.  This year it is hosted by the Academic Quilter.  Hope you will join in.

     I spent many hours 2 days sewing to prepare my ball to make a jelly roll rug.  This is my first and the first part took longer than I expected.  A member of my church quilt group will help us Wednesday get started sewing the rug.

 

Progress on my goals for this year continue:
1  finish UFOs

No UFO progress.

2.  decrease stash fabric

Stash fabric used or added:

this past week- Used: 5 yds Added: 0 yd

So far this year- Used: 43 yds Added: 9 yd

3.  control and use scrap fabric

I used 4 1/2” strips and cut a few more for the Layer Cake Lattice.

4. make charity/comfort quilts

I added the borders to finish my QOV mystery “Stop Tossing” from Alyciaquilts.blogspot.com .  It will be donated to my guild QOV group to quilt and present.

Stay safe and healthy while enjoying some time sewing and quilting.