Block 17

 Here is Block 17!

These blocks have been so much fun the make.  Here is the main page with all the blocks listed in case you are interested in making this quilt yourself.

Sunday we had some terrible weather, it hailed little pea size hail for about a half an hour.  I thought it would never stop!  Lost a number of plants.  And the poor farmers around here, ugh.

Looks like a snow storm

Total accumulation

My cannas

My roses

My peonies

Plus lots of damage to the vegetable garden.  I was so looking forward to fresh green beans and tomatoes.

July BOM

 My July BOM is complete!

 However, when you compare my block to Sherri's block, they are not the same.  Check out Sherri's block with the directions here.  My geese are going wild!   Sherri's travel in a nice circle.  I'm not going to redo it, I just will have wild geese.  LOL

Block 16

I love the way Block 16 turned out. 

I've completed a number of my Blockhead 5 blocks.  So nice to see some progress.

Skipped Block 14

I skipped Block 14 for now.  Here is Block 15 from Moda Blockheads 5:

I have been really busy the past month.  I have completed a number of blocks which I haven't blogged about.  They will be appearing soon.  

The grands came for a visit which is always so much fun.  We went sightseeing and hung out on the deck.  We even spent time trying to take pictures of fireflies/lightening bugs.  We decided it was best to just try and record them vs taking a still shot.  LOL

June BOM

  June BOM from "A Quilting Life" is complete!

It's so nice to have this block done.  I've also been working on the Moda Blockheads 5 blocks.  I have more done, but I have decided I really don't like doing paper foundation piecing and there is a number of them.  So I have to decide what block I'm going to do in place of those blocks.  Sometimes another designer of the blocks does something different, so I'll check that out.  But slow and steady, right?

An Upcycle

I upcycled my pressing mat that I made some time ago.  For some reason I kind of quit using it.  You can see it  here.    I took the binding off, added a zipper and some more stitching and now I have an iron bag.  The pattern I used was from Lindsay Conner from lindsaysews.com, but I checked her website and I couldn't find the pattern.  😕  Sorry I'm not able to share that, but there are lots of other free patterns and tutorials if you search for "boxy bag".

My travel iron and another pressing mat will fit inside this bag.  It's perfect because this bag has the ironing board fabric inside plus I will wrap my iron in my other pressing mat before putting it in this bag.  Protection for the hot iron and the bag keeps the cord from getting all tangled up. It feels so good to use my old mat this way!  

Block 13

 Block 13 for Moda Blockheads 5 Group 2 is now complete!

I just keep plugging on with these blocks.  I guess getting caught up may not happen, but who knows?