Knitty Quilter: June 2025

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Orange You Glad ....

... I finally got to sew with orange? Here's my version of the Block-of-the-Month that I am following along with Sherri of The Quilting Life blog. We're making 6" blocks and there's a choice of finishing. You can either only make 6" blocks which will finish as a table runner OR enlarge the block log-cabin style into a 12" block which will make a quilt. Here's this month's block:

Most of my time this week was spent SILL CATCHING UP with the mystery quilt offered by my LQS. Have you tried Tiger Tape? My friend gave me a roll to try and it sure is handy for HSTs and stitch-n-flip corners.

And, of course, the cross stitch project continues to get some attention.

I'm happy to see the farmers in our area have finally had a bit of a reprieve from all the Spring rains. Fields have been planted. I hope we have some corn by Labor Day this year! Ha!

My guild's quilt show was last weekend. Thought I'd show you my Awesome Land quilt hanging. I think it's an awesome RSC quilt!

I'll be sharing this post with all my friends, including the gang at SoScrappy. Here's wishing you a peaceful weekend.

Saturday, June 7, 2025

This Week's Progress & FNwF

Sadly I really didn't make much progress this week for Rainbow Scrap Challenge. I did pull my RSC 2025 Tracking Sheet out and discovered that I need to make the May Green Gemstone blocks and now also the June Orange Gemstone blocks. That means there needs to be some green/orange sewing happening soon! I'll sort my colors and start cutting for those.

According to my sheet, I'm behind on A Quilty Life's SAL too. Those are small-ish 6" blocks so I should be able to pull that off easily as well. I didn't realize how far behind I'd gotten until I looked at my sheet. Thank you, Angela, for keeping us organized. You can find the RSC 2025 Tracking Sheet and all the colors so far this year right HERE.

As if that weren't enough, I discovered that I was also behind on the MQAL which my LQS is offering. I was happily making stars and apparently had only cut out point segments for half. Here is my stack of points for the other 20.

That's 80 Background Rectangles &
160 Scrappy Yellow Squares

I'm just about finished with the embroidery of Aunt Jane's Best. Only part of one leaf left to go. With the end in sight, I decided to starch up the cotton pieces in the kit so I can maybe -- just maybe -- finish this up this month?

The Bottom Right Floral was Finished
During Mom's Friday Hair Appt.
The Orange Flowes & Centers for RSC Win!

Bottom Left Needs That Last Leaf Done

Progress was also made on the Georgian Floral cross-stitch project. It's been with me during all the Roland Garros Tennis Tournament TV-watching. As you can see, I made a good dent in it this week! So happy that Coco Gauff won the Women's Singles Final this morning. ❤️

Photo From Last Week

Look How Far I Got!

I've continued to read when I can, especially before bed. My recent finish was "The Waiting" by Michael Connelly. He's a great author and this book was very good too. I recently put my name on the list for Connelly's newest book that just came out this year.

GoodReads Synopsis HERE

In the meantime, my library notified me that I had another book waiting. I've been anxious to read this one, "Winter Garden" by Kristin Hannah. She's a wonderful author and, 50 pages in, I'm enjoying it so far.