One Monthly Goal Completed for June

 Well, I got it done, the giant Medallion Quilt.  It's made of scrap white/off white background and a number of fat quarter Kaffe fabric bundles I bought from Dinkydoo (a quilting store in Maple Ridge).  Yes it's bright and gorgeous, "YELLING" look at me!!!!  I started it with the Medallion challenge rom --------------- and I did all my rows.  It was a generous lap top then (65" by 65") but now it's 98" by 98".  OMG!!!    It was part of the Stay at Home Round Robin that was on online.  I found it at Kathleen's site, and the link up is at Quilting Gail's site (click on the link here to see the finals)  if you want to see all the finishes.  They're amazing.

It's a king.  I added another row of 15" blocks of more flowers.  The pattern is from the Block Head series, free.   Stacy Iest Hsu made this block in a 12" size and it is just the cutest, but I made all the flowers face the same way, and I put a 1 1/2" divider between, with a 1 1/2" section either on top or at the bottom, to alternate them in placement so they were not all in a row.  You can get the flower pattern here.  It's part of the Block Heads 3 Block 46 rose alternative.

And every garden needs a cat.  I put a heart in it.

After the 14th flower, I was getting tired.  So I decided to add the bee and the bee hive.  This pattern was on sale at one point from Heather Valentine of the Sewing Loft.  She made a very cute group of blocks (size 6 or 12") of the bee hive, the bee and some flowers that I did not use.  You can see them better on her site at this link.  It's so easy to make and I just loved these bee patterns.  

So I made two of the bees to add on the size of 6" and the bee hive at 12".  Then I wanted to try another quilt block free from the Moda Bake Shop, a block that is part of the Summer in the Garden, another quilt on my list of quilts to do.  I just love this coneflower.  It's by Jen Daly.  It comes in 6" or 12" block and of course I made the 12" one.  You can find this free block on this link.   It's at the bottom of the page.   I put two coneflowers, one on each side.  You can't see the pictures well here, but there are two reds in this one) a different red in the middle, and it just pops.  I GOT to make a quilt of all these flower blocks!!

So that's the additions I made to enlarge this quilt.  Really it looks wonder.  The flowers pop with everything else I added.  I added another wheel for the top, then a line of divider that I used around each row.  The first line of flowers was where I ended it, and the addition you can see at the bottom

At the end of the bed quilt I added another row of log cabins with scraps, and then I added the ribbon, just to add some spice (and quite frankly, I was really tired of this quilt).  I used quilt as you go on all of these additions, because I was using my domestic.  Yeah, you got it my little domestic.  I used the border at the end of each row to add the new row.



And in case you forgot the original center piece, this one takes the cake, the colors that just go crazy.  That's it, that's my finish.

Will be hooking up the UFO challenge finish with Sewing from the Sewing Room.

As for the extras I said I would do, I did catch up with the Christmas quilt from Apples and Beavers.  It's all paper piece as you can see.  There are a number of designs, all 12 1/2 by 12 1/2 unflinished.  The skill level goes from beginner to confident in a building skills level.  I love their patterns, all fantasy, and most paper piece.  Some are stitch and flip.  But see for yourself at this link.  Look for the dragon one, that's a pattern I already purchased and can't wait to try.  There are also free patterns here!!!  Look for the sunflower pattern.

In the end it is suppose to look like the below:

Hope mine looks so good.  

I also did what I said I would do, I sewed up three Cacti from the pattern "Oh My Cacti" by Paper and Pen below.  

It's difficult, with small little pieces as well as I'm doing four different colors, so you need to cut out the right amount for each cacti, then make sure they're all together, and you can find them.  Also there are so many pieces, so it's hard to find the pieces, you need a lot of space to place them all out somewhere to find the pieces.  This  one will really really take a lot of time.  If I do three a month, I'll be happy.  It will be an extra thing to complete each month.  I can only do no more than 2 in a sitting, the pattern gives me a headache.  I love love her patterns, but this one is hard.  We'll see.

Happy with what I've completed this month.  Lets see if I can keep it up.