Monday, March 3, 2025

One Monthly Goal--March 2025

The beginning of March seemed to come up very quickly, as February just came and went. Maybe it will help if I try to plan ahead a little more, at least as far as my quilting goes. I'm joining in with the One Monthly Goal link-up, hosted by Anne-Marie at Stories from the Sewing Room.


My goal for this month was easy to decide because I have a project with a deadline. The guild that I belong to has been making the Sewcialites 2 quilt as a Block of the Month, and we have reached the end of the challenge. It's time to join the blocks together and finish my quilt. Here are all my blocks together, plus one extra to finish with a total of 25 blocks. By the way, the finished size of my blocks is 3". There are some seriously tiny pieces in these blocks!


Sewcialites 2 originally ran as a weekly block program at Fat Quarter Shop from October, 2022 until April, 2023. All of the block patterns are still available on the Fat Quarter Shop's website


I auditioned several options while deciding on a color for my setting fabric. I ended up choosing to go with the darkest option because I liked the drama of the strong contrast.


My One Monthly Goal for March is to get these blocks joined together into a finished top. The bonus goal would be to also get it quilted and bound, but that is not required for the guild challenge.


Linking up with:
One Monthly Goal at Stories from the Sewing Room
Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Wednesday Wait Loss at Inquiring Quilter


Happy quilting!

Julie in GA

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Stash Report and Stitching Time 3/2/2025

After spending a large portion of my quilting time over the second half of February working on using up some very old orphan blocks, it was a relief to finish turning them all into a collection of placemats. You can find more photos and information in my earlier blog post HERE.


This week's stash report shows 5 yards used for all those placemats, a good total for the week. No new fabric was added to the stash.


2025 STASH TOTALS
Used last week:                     5.0 yards
Used year to date:              22.75 yards
Added last week:                    0.0 yards
Added year to date:             10.50 yards
Net used in 2025:            12.25 yards




Kate's 15 Minutes to Stitch Challenge at Life in Pieces has us tracking how many days each week we get in at least 15 minutes of quilting time. After the orphan block placemats were completed, I quilted and bound a small quilt that is going to be a gift very soon. I'm also working on getting a set of sampler blocks joined together into a finished quilt top. There's a lot going on around here, and definitely more than 15 minutes of quilting happened every day last week.

15 Minute Challenge for 2025
2/23 - 3/1               7 of 7 days
2024 Total            60 of 60 days
Success rate                100 %   


Check out more stash reports at quiltpaintcreate and join the 15 Minutes to Stitch Challenge at Life in Pieces. Thanks so much to Donna and Kate for continuing to host these link-ups. 

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA
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