Ticking Off July’s Stitching Goals

Due to our travels up north this month my stitching goals were rather simple.  You can read about them here.  As we returned home a bit sooner than expected, they were achieved, plus a little bonus.

My One Monthly Goal and the Chookshed Stitchers’ Goal were one and the same, which is something that will probably continue to be the case.  

This month I switched out the Chookshed Goal to align with something portable and am happy to report that I did complete my thirteen hexy flowers that I had prepped. That means that I have sixteen flowers.  I have no idea how many I will end up making and this will definitely be a slow stitching project.  I plan to appliqué them onto six inch background squares…… I think.  Anorina has a pattern in the current edition of Homespun Magazine, which consists of 111 flowers from 1 inch hexies and 8 flowers from 2 inch hexies.  If I want to make that, I have quite a way to go.  We’ll see what  happens.  There are plenty of options out there.  When I get in the mood, I need to prep a heap more.  It will happen at some stage.

I definitely won’t be joining them all together like this, but aren’t they nice and colourful.

I’m linking up over at Stories from the Sewing Room.  Pop over to see what else had been achieved this month. I’ve linked up with Deana.

I did happen to meet my Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects this month as well.  The nominated colour was aqua or teal.  In my haste, I didn’t happen to read the teal bit at the start of the month, which is a bit of a pity, but we still did OK.  

I had completed my split nine patch blocks before we left.

One of my hexy flowers also fitted the bill.

Since we returned home I have made my two Fishy Business blocks, one with aqua for the main body of the fish and one with aqua for the accent.  This is where teal would have suited better, to get better contrast, but we did OK.

One of the fabrics was fairly pale, so I wanted the second fabric to really pop, so selected a bright orange.  However, when I was prepping it, and had the black of the eye sitting on it, before I had cut out the white, all I could see was a prawn. (See what I mean about teal would have been better.)

Once the white was added to the eye it did look more like a fish, but I think I will  forever continue to see a prawn.  Not that it matters.  I reckon you will see it as a prawn from now on too.

I thought it was about time that I laid them all out to see how they look together.  I’m really happy with them.  They will have extra blue blocks between them.  My plan is to make two child sized quilts with twelve blocks each for donation.  They should be nice happy quilts.

I’m linking up over at So Scrappy.  Pop over to see what the others have done this month.

I’m still playing in the sewing room, so hopefully there will be just a little bit more to report at the end of the month.