Mid-week progress

 The watermelon door hanger is a completed flimsy!  Yay!

The vine and leaves and the watermelon seeds are all appliqued.  And they added so much to this project.

It need a good pressing.  The perfect backing was in my stash, and so now this one is ready to quilt. 

 The Circle of Friends block #1 (Carol Doak) is all finished.  There will be 12 different paper pieced blocks in this sew-along, but I'm not really committing myself to making all 12.  I'll decide when I see how each block looks, and they'll only be released once a month so it isn't going to be time consuming to do them all if that is my decision. 

This afternoon I'll be going to a Quilt of Valor award event taking place at a family reunion.  I always look forward to these events as it is an honor to be involved. 

Happy July 4th tomorrow!!!

To Do Tuesday

Yesterday was cool, windy, and drizzling so I'm very glad I took my walk early before the rain.  And that left me with lots of sewing time.   

Happily, this small project is coming together very quickly.

The Riley Blake kit for this door hanger looked kind of complicated, but turns out this was really quick to make.  I still have to applique the flower vine, leaves, and watermelon seeds.  But I'm feeling optimistic about getting that done by next week.  

One Night Vision block is finished in this month's RSC color - aqua.  Two more to go in this color.  But I haven't dug very deeply into the aqua scraps yet to choose more 3.5" by 6.5" aqua pieces. 

And yes - there may just be a small paper pieced block happening.  I've been following Carol Doak's work for several years.  I have her book on 50 paper pieced star blocks for 50 states in the US.  And I've been lurking around her online social media lately.  She began a new BOM called Circle of Friends.  I'm not sure I'll make many of the blocks, but I am working on the #1 block.  I like paper piecing in small increments, but had I promised myself I wouldn't do another whole quilt using paper piecing. 

Design Wall Monday - July 1

 The July 4th week has arrived!  I sure miss the days when we gathered with neighbors and family to set off all the fireworks together. My husband seemed to try every year to outdo whatever he bought for fireworks the year before.  As our kids got bigger, so did the fireworks.  Such fun - even the year he and my cousin (visiting from Minnesota) had to go shopping for fireworks again the morning of the 4th because they fired off too many the night before. 

So, what's on my design wall this week?  A new project is on the design wall. 

The next seasonal door hanger is my priority this week.  It's a watermelon theme, so should be perfect for the second half of summer. This is watermelon growing country after all.   These door hangers are Riley Blake kits.   

I've begun the process of cutting all the parts for the door hanger.  The background and the greens still need to be cut and clipped together with the little alphabet clips.  So far, I've only cut the reds, orange, and yellow parts.  The picture on this pattern looks complicated but now that I've read through it a couple of times I think this door hanger top will go together quickly - except for the appliqued flower stems, leaves, and watermelon seeds.  

The backing for another UFO has been prepped, so this one will be ready to take to a long arm quilter this month.  There is enough of this pink to use on the back of the strawberry bed runner too, with just a little piecing to make it long enough.  

The new color for Rainbow Scrap Challenge is aqua, so there will also be some aqua scraps coming out to play.   And I have plenty of hand stitching to finish on some bindings, and some Big Stitch quilting on a couple of little projects. 

I'm linking up today with Design Wall Monday . . . 

https://smallquiltsanddollquilts.blogspot.com/

& Monday Musings . . .

https://songbirddesigns.blog/