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July was busy...

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It's been a very busy July with a few in BC trips.  The best one was Whistler. There's been picture taking every day But I've also done a couple of extra quilts that were not on my Quilt list of things to do this month.  Here they are: The next three are quilts as you go (A course I've taken from Craftsy (Blueprint).  Finally finished that course.  And the results were 3 quilts. And then there was some painting.  This was just one of them. I've also took a course with a quilting place on how to paper piece.  So I did a piece of cake (yes you heard me correctly), and now I'm working on making a tea cup.  That will be in the next blog posting.  Have a great day  :)  Busy July.  Wonder what August will bring?  Now I have to see what I'm going to do for next Month's challenge?

OMG with the UFOs that are OMG challenges!!!!

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Well, I can't believe how much I got done this month what with everything else my husband and I were doing (walks consist of 10,000 to 15,000 a day - boy are my feet tired!!!), all the hikes in different parks, and around the neighborhood.  But in between I was sewing trying to get my scraps down and this is where they all ended up in.  In the Covid Scrap Quilt.  I linked up with Elm Street Quilts who is part of the OMG goals.  Thanks for doing that.   So here's where I linked up to say what I was going to do  and showed an example of a string quilt that I already did.  Then I showed what was completed so far.  (not much).   Why did I start this?  I went through all of my scraps which were four containers and one large container of orphan blocks.  They were taking up so much space in my office that I had to do something.  Thus the quilt.  It started with using the fabric crumbs to make about 2 meters of fabric but I continued on with the crumbs from my scraps, and the crumbs th