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June has not been a very productive month in the sewing room really. It started with Mr Cars' First Holy Communion which turned out to be a fantastic week-end with friends and family followed a week later by a workshop on chocolate with my friend, which prompted me to spend lots of time playing with chocolate (instead of fabric!). So I tried to redeem myself towards the end of the month and tried to work through some of my list! Here is what I have managed finally to cross off. 1. Make my  Siblings Together 2   May and June blocks - all done and the bee is over for this year 2.  Mod Mod Along  blocks:  Beads on a string x 10, Star Cross x 3 and Diagonal Bars x 11 - no progress   3.  Finish off my blocks for the You've got Mail wall hanging - need 4 more envelopes - very little progress, I haven't even finished another block 4. Finish Maud's bag and my work bag - no progress 5. Catch up on my  + and x  blocks (12)...

June is nearly nearly finished and until yesterday I hadn't touched my NewFO challenge . I got all the fabric I needed out of my sewing room last night and spent some time cutting. I had chosen to start another triangle after my Mum hinted not so softly that she really really liked the one I made to my friend in April and that she would really really like the same one. I had lots of leftover of fabric anyway so I got back to the cutting board with the leftovers and a few extras from my stash to cut a grand total of 285 triangles. I cut my first row wrongly (well not according to Paula's instructions) so my finished triangles will be slightly smaller than last time that's why I cut more. I have selected a total of 19 fabrics and I have between 5 and 30 triangles of each fabric and I am planning a 19 x 15 triangles quilt this time. I initially thought I'd finish the quilt (or try to) before mid August but that's unrealistic with all the other projects I nee...

My A lovely year of finishes  and Lazy Bums challenge for June was to make a quilt for my grand-Mum's 85th birthday (earlier in the month) with some floral blocks I collected a few years (2010-2011) back as part of a swap/BOM. My Grand-Mum doesn't go in the garden much anymore but she had a huge garden with plenty of flowers when she had her garden. She also lost her husband, my Grand-Dad earlier in the year after more than 65 years of marriage. So I am hoping my little quilt will cheer her up a little bit. I got the blocks out (20 of them, 6.5' squares) and tried to figure out how to use them into a quilt. Although I wasn't planning on a king-size quilt, I knew 20 x 6.5' squares weren't going to yield a big quilt, more a wall-hanging size. Of course I had scraps of fabric left but I wasn't sure how much. So I put my thinking cap on and decided that putting those blocks on point and finding some fillers would maybe work. Because time is limited (b...

So as I said in my post yesterday, June is disappearing at the speed of light and I have hardly touched my sewing machine.... I had great plans for the month but I don't think I will cross many things of my list. Anyway, I finally finished Ana Maria's blocks for the I love Lucy International Bee I also made a block for Aneela to send to Christa and I finished my 2 Siblings Together blocks for Sue for May and the June trip-around the world ones for Teresa I made a friendship star for the Little Blog bee I love how the dots meet in some of the seams: I also made 4 more cat blocks for my quilt: 1 red, 2 yellow and 1 orange. So that's 11 blocks so far for June for the 350-blocks challenge and only a few days left.... Linking to Anything Goes Monday , Building Blocks Tuesday . Brit Sewing Thursday Linky , Needle and Thread Thursday . Celine

Where does the time go? It seems that every month fly by quicker than the previous one. I can't believe that June will soon be over and I have hardly done any sewing at all. The first week-end was our son First Holy Communion, where we spent a fantastic week-end with the family. 17 of us all together for the occasion for the week-end, it was really good but of course, also very busy. So ahead of the big day, I spent quite a lot of time in the kitchen and preparing for my big boy with little spare time for anything else. And after the event, we had family staying with us so I don't think I found any time near my machine for the first 2 weeks of June. Last week-end, I went to a chocolate making workshop with my friend. It was very good and gave me lots of ideas of what to make and I spent most of last Sunday playing with chocolate, quite a pleasant activity... if only there was more hours in the day! and my first ever chocolates with mint ganache And of course ...

Most of my May goals will have to transfer to June because I haven't done much last month. And of course I am not sure about how much I will achieve this month. This coming Sunday is Mr Cars' First Holy Communion so sewing time is greatly reduced! Anyway, let's try as I have plenty of bee blocks to catch up with now. 1. Make my  Siblings Together 2   May and June blocks -  May started 2.  Mod Mod Along  blocks:  Beads on a string x 10, Star Cross x 3 and Diagonal Bars x 11  3.  Finish off my blocks for the You've got Mail wall hanging - need 4 more envelopes  4. Finish Maud's bag and my work bag  5. Catch up on my  + and x  blocks (12) 6. Make more  Farmer's Wife  blocks  7. Finish central medaillon of my Midnight in the Oasis and make more border blocks 8.  I love Lucy international  block (May and June)  - May started 9.  Stash Bee  block (May and June)...

Where is the month gone? I am not sure really! I made a few things but not that many really! I got to yesterday with 20 blocks and 10 more to go to meet the 350-blocks challenge. So I was busy last night finishing my diagonal bars blocks and starting my Cat family which was also my NewFO challenge. Nothing better than a deadline really! 1. Make my  Siblings Together 2   May blocks - started 2. Block for the Lotto  - 2 blocks 3.  Mod Mod Along  blocks:  Beads on a string x 10, Star Cross x 3 and Diagonal Bars x 12 - 1 Diagonal Bar finished 4. Finish off my blocks for the You've got Mail wall hanging - need 4 more envelopes -  no progress 5. Finish my cat quilt -    on   the frame, ready for quilting  -  I will pick this one as my   A lovely Year of Finishes  challenge for May - So glad it is finished and in use! 6. Finish Maud's bag and my work bag - no progress 7. Catch up on my  ...