April OMG (One Monthly Goal) end of month report

Well, here it is another EOM (end of month) and I have completed my OMG (one monthly goal) for the month!  YAY!


Patty has the link-up for everyone here.  You can check out what everyone has been doing for April.


But, if you want to see my finish go to this post.




In peace and pieces,


Sherry


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Memory quilt and pillow for a friend

The mother of one of my friends passed away a little over a year ago.


While she was not able to get many pieces of clothing from her stepfather she was able to get a couple of the favorite shirts that her mother would wear.


She asked me to try to make something that she could use on the couch as a memory.


Here is what I was able to come up with:

Here is another picture of it.  There are 9 squares from the shirts; the rest of the pieces are fabrics from my stash.

I am hoping that you can click on the pictures to see that the center row of squares are actually patterned and not just plain as they appear to me while I am writing this.

The shirt that the center squares came from had a decorative bodice on the front.  Since there were beads and metal decorations on it I was nervous about putting that into the quilt since I was afraid that I might hit the decorations with the long arm.

So I cut that part out of the shirt, added a couple of borders to make it a good size for an 18" pillow form.

I will be giving these pieces to my friend this weekend.  I hope that they bring her some comfort and that she likes what I did.

This was the first time that I had worked on a t-shirt type quilt and, while it was not easy, it was not as difficult as I thought that it was going to be. 

Linking to Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal - April Finish Link-up

In peace and pieces,


Sherry


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OMG (One Monthly Goal) -- Fail or No Fail?

My goal for March was to get the felted wool table runner that has been languishing for about 20 years done.


There was some forward motion on that front.


Here is what it looked like at the beginning of the month:

And here is where it stands today. 

So, technically my OMG was a fail.


However, I have not been idle for the month!


I quilted and bound a quilt top (Turning Twenty pattern in 1930's repros) as a gift to a banker friend that is having her first baby.  Unfortunately, I did not take a picture of it since I could not find my camera and time was of the essence to get the gifting done.


I completed piecing 60 blocks for a Four Patch Stacked Posy quilt.  I don't have a picture of those yet. . . . but I will be able to post them soon.


A quilt top, to be donated through the Hands 2 Help program.  The crazy fabric was provided by a quilt forum I belong to as part of a charity challenge.  I had just enough of the fabric to piece one of the small squares in order to complete the top.

There were also several spool pin doilies made, much like this one:

Not all of them were done in white.  They were given out to some of my friends.


And there was other crochet work done:


This doily was made and sent out as part of a swap through a crochet group I belong to on Yahoo!.

This smaller doily will be given to one of my friends. . . . and I have several more to make.

I sent out my Stash Bee block earlier in the month. . . .

I also completed the body of a memory quilt for a friend of mine that lost her mother over a year ago.  I just have to sew the borders on, get batting and backing cut and then I can get this quilted and back to her.

I had never done a t-shirt type quilt before and I will admit that I was very nervous about cutting into the garments because I did not want to screw up any of the fabric.  This piece measures 39" square at the moment. . . .when I am done I think it will be about 45" square.

There is also a blog hop that I am participating in during the month of April. . . .and here is the block that I will be working with:

There will be more details about the blog hop later.


So, all in all, I am pretty happy with the progress that I was able to make. . . even though it was not on the stated goal project.




In peace and pieces,


Sherry






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