Elm Street Quilts

Thursday, September 1, 2022

One Monthly Goal September Link-up

Welcome to September!

New to One Monthly Goal? Welcome! To join, share a photo of your project plus, some words about what you want to accomplish in a blog post, an Instagram post (tutorial) or a post on Flickr and add that photo to the link-up. Return at the end of the month and share your results. (Results link-up opens for the last 7 days of the month.)

My goal for September is to make significant progress on quilting my blue improv quilt. Our guild challenge was to make a monochrome quilt with a bit of an accent or neutral fabric. I really enjoyed playing with stripes in week 1 of the Improv challenge, so I played some more!

Now it is your turn to link up - what is your goal for this month? The One Monthly Goal accomplishment linkup will be available on September 24. Make sure you add a link to this OMG post so others can find the OMG link-up from your blog. Let's make that easy - just paste this into your post:

Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal September Link-up

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Have a wonderful day! Patty

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

30 Days of Improv - Week 4 Check-in

I participated in the #30daysofimprovqal hosted by @shannonfraserdesigns and @broadclothstudio. Our final week was all about curves. I confess to not spending as much time with these as I did the other blocks and I'm - no surprise - not thrilled with the results!

But that's ok! I've got plenty of fabric left so I can make more blocks or expand the ones I have! Pictured below are each week's blocks.

After clearing off my design wall, I've started arranging them - you can see what I have so far in the photo below. Improv is an interesting process. While I really enjoy the creating of the piece parts and seeing what unexpected surprises show up, I find the process of assembling into something that looks interesting to be very difficult.