February blocks

Today I planned to finish all the february blocks, but it didnt turn out that way... :o) For some reason I was making a lot of mistakes on one of the blocks, so I had to rip it up over and over again. But just before making dinner I got two of the blocks ready.

And the next two lined up and just waiting for me to sew them....

This is such a clever way to make all the HST for the quilt, doing some of them each month. Then suddenly, almost without realising it, you have a lot of them finished :o) Making all of them at once would be rather boring. But after 2 months now we have made 72.

In some days I will print  the March-instructions and start the blocks for this months, trying to get a bit ahead :o)

I so happy I decided to make the Star Crazy quilt and joined this group, you all are such a great inspiration!!

Have a wonderful day:o)

Wow, another month already!  I can't believe that March is here already.  I just got around to changing the calendars today.  Here are is my update for the month.  I really like doing this one month at a time.  I don't think I would stick to this if I had to tackle the whole quilt at one time.  We have A LOT of half square triangles still to go!

Here is what all of my completed blocks look like together.  I am really liking this quilt so far.

 

See you next month,

Kristin

More Progress

This morning I pushed to finish the February BOM, and now I'm all caught up. Next week I'll work on the March BOM.

Not sure how I'll like those dark blue half square triangle units in the quilt; but after I get a few more blocks finished and can put them all up on a design wall, I'll have a better idea. If I don't like them, it'll only take a little bit of time to make some new ones.

Progress at Last

After a bout of sciatica that put me out of commission for a few weeks, I have finally managed to get the January blocks finished. I never did find a suitable batik for my background, so I settled on a plain ole white-on-white because I was anxious to get started, and I'm just fine with it.

I've completed the two star blocks for February and hope to have that installment done by the end of the weekend; then I'll be all caught up.

I just love seeing everyone's blocks coming together, and I love seeing all the different color combinations. These will all be beautiful!

March Blocks

Finally have a day where I can sew!

Here are my March blocks. These are getting much more fun.
I learned this trick at the fabric store one day. Pin your blocks to the "Cut & Press" pressing side and steam them in place. They hold the shape better, especially if they have lost shape during sewing. Hope this helps someone out there.
From my last post, someone asked if I had any problems with my "Cut & Press" and Ihave not. It is fairly new, though. I have only used it for one other project. (I can't answer on my computer, for some reason. It just hangs there and won't post. )

March instructions

Don't forget the March instructions are now up - here it is the 2nd in the evening and I just now remembered it is March!! where did February go?
Karen
http://karensquilting.com/blog/

February completed!

Another month down! 

I decided to go with a constant fabric in the diagonal lines because my backgrounds are different.  It gives it a little bit of unity.

I just noticed that the bottom right block has a unit that needs to be turned -- better fix that!