#2025QuiltingQ2CheckIn

Yvonne/Quilting JETgirl announced the #2025QuiltingQ2CheckIn a few weeks ago, so I guess I'd better see how I've been doing. I did manage a few quilt finishes, none of which were in my mind's eye prior to this quarter.

Quilts

• Vertices - an impromptu scrappy quilt

• Stash Jazz - another previously unplanned project, donated to the Seattle MQG Giving Committee

• Ooh Lucky Baby Log Cabin - a baby quilt I didn't know I'd need until I got a shower invite in the mail

• My Effervescence Sew Along blocks with Yvonne @quiltingjetgirl are now a quilt top! A backing for this quilt is next on my list, and fingers crossed for an early July finish.

• Bee Sewcial - May was my turn to choose the prompt, which was Ode to Joy. I have now received all of my blocks, and am working on piecing the top! SO close!

• The 2025 Seattle MQG BOM, Calendar Cascade, is also underway, though I've done more batch sewing on it than month by month. The block assignments have not necessarily been in order, but here's what I've done so far. 

• I DID participate in the Pantone Quilt Challenge 2025. The result was Brew.

Adding something new and random in the mix, I joined the Summer Scrap Bash, a sewalong where you choose one of four patterns and sew along! I've chosen the 16 Patch (no HSTs!) beginning with an original Cotton+Steel jelly roll. I have a feeling I'm going to be sewing ahead of schedule a bit.....

Sewing

• I revisited one of my Block Studies Collective pieces and created my first wrapped canvas, Abstractions Redux. If you'd like to see all of my BSC projects together, I did write a round-up post.

• Embrace was Émilie's @mili.tra prompt for June, using the Zorn Palette. Here are the blocks I created for her.

Handwork

• Floral Stitches - I finished all the samplers in Season I! You can see all of them together here.

• And I started on Season II with the Echinacea, and have also finished the second flower in the series.

• A Year of Doodles - I'm all caught up on the pre-printed calendar stitchery from Stitchdoodles, and am ready and waiting for July.

Community

• Still regularly blogging and publishing issues of The Scrap Basket. 
• Continuing participation with my local Seattle MQG.
• Open Jar @open____jar, hosted by Jen Broemel and Bob Bosscher. I've continued to create small quilts in response to each prompt offered. Never saw a June prompt, so not sure if it'll be continuing on or not.

SONG | Birdsong

PIVOT | Perspective

So I feel pretty good about how I've met my goals or am in the process of meeting them - some projects are still a work in progress, but that's all under control I think. I'm pretty content to work on them one by one and just see what else the next few months hold.

Linking up with Quilting JETgirl's #2025QuiltingQ2CheckIn.