2024 Monthly Recap: July

July was a month full of sewing deadlines and I made all of them!  I was helped by the fact that my husband and all three kids went camping for a week without me so I had a lovely week of sewing and reading and relaxing on my own.

Quilt Tally
WIP List at beginning of month: 13
WIP List at end of month: 13
Untouched in 2024: 4
Active QAL Projects: 1

Quilts Finished

Layer Cake Lily (June 2024)

Baby Shark (July 2024)

Quilts Started
Pebbled Prairie - Halloween version!  This is my newest quilt pattern and I am planning on releasing it at the end of August, in time for National Sew a Jelly Roll Day.  I've wanted to do a pre-cut friendly quilt for a while and this one is absolutely beautiful.

Quilt Progress (6 WIPs touched)

MMQG Sewing (Test Block Sampler and The Rest of the Quilt Back) - It's curves this month!  I used the backs of two different quilts this month - the red is from the Windsuit Mini Quilt and the gray is from the Panda 100 Days Quilt.

Fado Road - This was my "palate cleanser" sewing for the month.  I worked on it in bits and pieces between projects.  All the fabric is picked out, it's only squares and rectangles, and there's no directional fabrics to worry about.  It's a nice project to sew between other things.

Lemon Blossom Mystery Quilt - This quilt is now basted and the straight-line quilting and diamonds between the blocks are done.  With the quilt stabilized, I was able to add the binding as well.  Once I finish hand-stitching that, I'll go back and quilt the colorful parts.

Blocks made for my memory scrap quilt and leaders and enders quilt.

Miscellaneous Accomplishments
Aside from a Throwback Thursday post about a quilt that predates the blog, not much else crafty happened here. Once my boys were home from camp we spent a lot of time doing fun summer things together.  But now it's time to buckle down and get to work on the final steps of my pattern design process!