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 Time for a post dedicated to this quilt-along as we have just completed block #15 this week

Linking to Put your foot down, Off the wall Friday, Patchwork and Quilt, Design Wall Monday, Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday

Céline

 E13 is finished and attached to row E, finally! I had planned to sew it while on holiday over a month ago and progressed it well until I realised I had cut 60° angles instead of 45° for the last 4 pieces for each sides of the outside triangles. It took very little time to draw the correct angle and cut the pieces back but here we are, I only finished the block this morning by the pool while we stayed overnight at a spa hotel.

I modified the block a little compared to the book, it has 26 pieces ...

This week I've been trying to keep up/ catch up with the quilt along.

I finished two birthday blocks #13

and #14 so I am caught up for now. 

And #12 or so I thought but I assembled the pieces in the wrong order ..

and now with the correct arrangement...

And 2 blocks (March ones) for the Ravenbrook Scrap Quilt Along

 Wow it is easy and fast to get behind with quilt-along that have weekly new blocks! I knew I had some catch up to do on the Birthday Blocks quilt-along but I hadn't realised I was already 5 blocks behind. Well I have finally caught up with all of them. I made February blocks in red and March blocks in purple to follow with the Rainbow Scraps Challenge.

Here are blocks #8 & 9 from February

and blocks # 10, 11 & 12 from March

And all 12 blocks together

Linking to Put your foot ...

 Finally caught up, wow! It took a while in the end.
Block #8

 This block definitely felt like being in jail... so many tiny pieces and so many opportunities for issues with all the lines to align. I really tried my best but the block is not perfect...BUT "finished is better than perfect" so I will learn to live with it.

It has been a long time coming since I started it during our holiday in Canada last summer and only finished it this week while on holidays. I had picked it up again at time but it was so hard to align all the pieces that I easily lost motivation. Finally ...

Wow il just caught up with the Modern City Scape blocks as the next one is coming out. 

I had finished block #4 last week and added it to the first 3

And I finished block #5 on Saturday 

But when I prepared to join block 5 to the first 4 blocks I noticed I hadn't assembled block 5 correctly, another one! The panel on the right should have been on the left....

And looking more closely, I noticed the same mistake in block 4 plus the bottom right courber had been sewn upside down....

So there has been ...

 We are back from pour holidays in Canada and the normal rush of work/kids/house is un full speed again... 

Our trip in Canada was really nice, and although I was going to make it to a quilting shop or even a craft store, none of that happened! We visited Toronto and the Niagara Falls and then moved on to Québec for a little tour. Lots of lovely sights and a great encounter with whales and black bears!

Holidays has also meant hand sewing as you might have seen in my previous posts and with that I managed 2 ...

 A long long long forgotten project that I have unearthed recently, kind of randomly... I started the Mischief project when I received the kit from Karen in 2017 but it hardly progressed despite being ready to be picked up any time and on the go. It has been so long ago since I did anything with it that it had dropped all my UFO list a while ago. 

I found some pieces ready to be assembled into blocks

And also some pieces assembled

I picked up all the blue that I found already prepared to progress on this blocks, sometimes ...

 I have been travelling with my Dear Jane again lately and after 3 attempts on attaching Row B to Row C, it is finally sewn correctly. For some reason, I couldn't seem to align B12 and C12 correctly and had to unpick twice. Happy that it is now fixed and my first 4 rows are fully assembled.

 Not much sewing time again the last 2-3 weeks and this has mainly be due to lack of time/too much work... I had completed the train block but wasn't happy with it so I unpicked it and remade it this week. 

I also started on the top row "Harry Potter" and had spent quite some time 2 week-ends ago cutting the pieces with little fabric to spare... only to realise that I had only cut out "Harry"...

This block is actually half of the top ...

Today is the last day of the Mini blocks sew-along and I finished my last block in the morning. That wasn't the plan but the last 10 days have been particularly awful for our family so there had been no time/ energy or willingness to do anything more than the bare minimum... sewing will help healing I hope. 

The curved log cabin, which I made 2 of:

 The Mini Series Sew Along is continuing and I have so far more or less managed to follow the schedule. I have even sewn extra blocks. I only really posted week 1 blocks in details here, so let's have a look at the others. 

Week 2 was about the Courthouse step block and the diamond block.  I had already sewn those in September but here they are

I also made an extra diamond and a distorted triangle this month. 

The next series of block was the pineapple block and the hexagon step block which took forever to sew with ...

The first week of the Mini Series Quilt Along with Alison Glass and Giuseppe Ribaudo. I took part on the original one a few years back (during the pandemic?). I have sewn so little this year that I wasn't really planning to join again. But then I saw some lovely blocks popping up on Instagram including Madeline's ones using Liberty fabrics. So I got some of my Liberty fabrics out ready for the quilt along. Just before cutting in my precious stash, I also found a basket of Liberty scraps, leftover from the Halo blocks (still unfinished ...

For the last 2 weekends, we spent an awful lot of time in the car, travelling long distances across France. My original plan was to continue the cross stitching but my eye sight is no longer sharp enough to stitch in a moving car... I had to swap the cross-stitchinh for some hand stitching instead. I hadn't grabbed much before we left but I had my Dear Jane pouch with a few pieces to be done. 

 The train journey this past week-end gave me the time to stitch...

I completed 2 more applique blocks for the Boho Heart Quilt Along. 

Still far from finishing but I have completed a grand total of 6 blocks this month... my only sewing time

Linking to Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Happy Needle and Thread

Celine

Another trip this weekend, rail trip this time, has provided me with some free time! I had packed my cross stitch. Progress is hardly visible (especially as I did both some stitching and some unpicking!) 

The sparkly linen fabric is getting quite difficult to work with as my eye sight is not improving... maybe a clue to get on with it?

Linking to Design Wall Monday, Monday Making

Celine

 The lack of blogging accurately reflect the lack of sewing sadly... 

Last weekend, we went to visit grieve a few hours away. A road trip meant some quiet time sitting in the car (for me anyway). I took advantage and stitch a few appliqué blocks for the Boho Heart Sew Along, which is now over, even though I'm nowhere near finish... 3 heart appliqué blocks ready to go. 

1 hexie block appliqué

Very little progress but progress all the same...

Linking to Brag about your Beauties, Off the wall Friday, Finished or ...

 These 2 were partially cut already a wrote ago but it's only this par weekend that I finally sat and completed them. 

Block 46 [Hill and Valley]

Block 80 [Single Wedding Star]

Linking to Design Wall Monday, Monday Making,  Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Happy Needle and Thread

Celine

 Not all the blocks yet but a few more, weeks 6 & 7 of the Boho Heart sew-along were dedicated to the applique blocks. There are 18 of them altogether! Some easier and less involved than others. I don't really like the owl or the wonky flowers so I think I will make something different for those blocks.

I had already completed one of the 2 mini hearts, now I have both ready to go

Out of the 6 mini circles, I have half of them completed and 2 more ready to be finished

The orange peel block is nearly ...