Joining more BOM's

Boy, I'm getting myself in trouble here, I'm looking at two more blocks of the month this month.  I'm in trouble with three of them going and all the UFO's that I want to complete.  What am I doing???  But I can't resist all these beautiful quilts.  There's two at Pat Sloan's quilt site, one's a mystery and I love mysteries.  But the other one looks very modern and is a summertime quilt.  Let's try that one.  

Then there is the Clementine Quilt Along that benefits the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.  I would like to make baby quilts of each block or at least two of the blocks, that way I get to practise the new blocks.

Another great quilt a long is at the Patchwork Posse, who's quilt looks very scrappy, and a great way to get down your stash.  In the end a wonderful design that is original as well.

What can I say?  I can't resist something that beautiful.  But really "What am I doing???!!"

Oh well.

New Goal for February.

Another month gone by and another goal that I did complete.  It's amazing what you can do with fabric.  Almost like painting.  And that's a goal that I made to myself, to paint something then match it with fabric in some way, shape or form.  

But enough of that.  Lets talk about my goal that I am linking up to Elm Street Quilts.  As you saw in one of my other posts for the quarterly finish of the Finish-a-long I have a  number of quilts that I need to complete in three months.  Two are completed (previous post) but I still have eight more to do, and I really want to get them all done (a personal if not realistic goal).  So what's next?  February is a month of Valentine but no quilt that I have to do for it.  But in Vancouver Canada, it is the start of spring.  Someone told me that they saw the irises starting to come up (a picture of one from last year to the right.  )  They can be purple or white (I love the purple ones more).  With that I am looking at my flower quilt.  I have one square to complete, all the other ones done, and the edging to get done.  It's a wool quilt which means hand sewing a button stitch around all of the flower pieces, and then black fabric edging, and then green squares (different color greens) all sewing together to make another border.  Here's what it is suppose to look like

Two flowers left, the top right hand side one, and the pansies.  So the quilt is lap size but it's wool.  So who would put it on their lap.  And I have a different one from before (another BOM) that I don't use because of all the wool everywhere.  Something that I don't want on my bed because of the cat with his hair. I would be concerned about all that hair.  So that beautiful quilt is just sitting in a closet.  I need to consider what to do about it.  But this quilt, because it's also fabric (no I am not using flannel like the last one) I think I will be able to put in on the bed.  So the black around the green (edging) will be a lot thicker, and that means that there will be more green squares around everything.  

Here is what it looks like now....

All the flowers done but one (there are 12 in total)

One on the right, all the vines to hand stitched.  The white to button stitch down.  The leaves to stitch on.  It's quite a lot.

So that's my goal but with a couple of more that I won't mention, because you can only do one.  But I'm trying to clean up my work area so a couple more (Row by Rows) need to be completed.  Also, my Aunt's quilt to finish quilting so I can send it to California.  It will be quite a busy week.

Wish me luck....