June PHD Update

Hi Quilting Friends,

School is out, and so one might think that I’d be on a roll with my PHD projects. However that isn’t the case this year, because Susan and I made a last-minute, 2-week trip to Montana on the day after school ended. Montana is beautiful in the summer, and we enjoyed spending time with our parents, visiting with other relatives, and hiking the local hills with our youngest brother.

Here are a few of the beautiful places that I got to visit during our trip!

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Now that I’ve been to the mountains, I’m ready to get settled in for a hot summer of short weekend trips with my husband, much-delayed home improvement projects, daily exercise, and lots of quilty fun! Here’s what I’ve been doing recently.

Project #1: Make the “Southwest Critters” Quilt

My “One Monthly Goal” for July is to get this one done. I have it layered, basted, and ready to quilt. “Southwest Critters” quilt will be wrapped up, by the end of July.

Project #7: Make a throw with my “Diamond Star” blocks

I made six more blocks this month, for a total of 28 (out of 63 needed for my project). Yay! I knew that breaking down “make more blocks” into smaller steps would help with my progress.

New Projects

I’ve finished my six “Mariner’s Star” place mats. This was my “One Monthly Goal” for June, and here’s a photo before I finished stitching the binding down:

And I made a cute trivet to coordinate with my new place mats, using some leftover scraps:

RSC 2021 Blocks

The color for June was PURPLE, and I made two PURPLE Sawtooth Star blocks:

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And eight string blocks with my PURPLE scraps:

Here’s my task list spreadsheet:

And my UFO list for 2021:

Happy quilting,

Sharon

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal July Link-up

Quilting Gail’s June PHD Link-Up