Return to Calendar Cascade

Whew. I finally got caught up with the Seattle MQG BOM, Calendar Cascade, and made my rows for August, September, and October. If you remember from my earlier post about this project, each month's assignment doesn't exactly match up with the actual month of the year when it's released. But count how many shapes are in a specific row and that will tell you what month it represents - one for January, two for February, etc. So my assignments for the last few months were:

• August - make row for June
• September - make row for September
• October - make row for March

Then in November, we'll have just one more row to make for November.

It helped to cut out everything I needed for all three of the rows I wanted to piece, and then start piecing them. August's assignment was pretty straight-forward, made of QSTs, and a couple each of flying geese and rectangles (see top photo). September was a little more demanding - circles!! Once I was reminded of the technique with the Inset Circle Tutorial (see the August 2024 BOM directions or blog post) by Louise @imfeelincrafty, I was able to move right through all nine of them (see above). Then for October's appliqué assignment, I used a similar freezer-paper and glue stick method to do turned-edge appliqué hand-stitched with Aurifil 80wt thread. (see below)

Also left over from last summer's work on my rows due to running out of fabric, I still needed to add borders along the top and bottom edges of the block for December, so I did that too (see above). But boy it feels good to be caught up on that project. Now back to piecing a big ole quilt back for Minimal Shapes.