Apple Avenue Quilts Block of the Month

I finished my Apple Avenue Quilts Block of the Month and it is ready to be posted.  I should have taken better care of how I made the blocks each month and what fabrics and colours I used because when it was finished I didn't like the way it looked when I arranged it by the months.  Each block represents a month of the year so I scattered the blocks and liked the layout better.

 On the upper left corner is January depicted by a snowflake and February is the heart block but I think they look better separated with the green shamrocks for March in the middle.

April starts the next row then June in the middle and then pink tulips for May. 

On the lower right is the July block and it should be an American flag, but since I am a Canadian I put a red maple leaf on a white background waving in a blue sky as the star points and background.

It measures 52 x 66.  One down and 8 to go.

Peggy

Autumn Breezes

I have been following a blog called Apple Avenue Quilts for over a year now and she always post really nice patterns for the making.  I did the block of the month and am just now putting the final border on it so I will will post pictures when it is finished.  

In October last year the blog editor Jill, posted a wall hanging that was paper-pieced and I just fell in love with it.  I had learned a new way to paper-piece from Amy Butler on the Craftsy BOM website so I thought I would tackle this project.  I picked up the fabric at a small quilt shop in Beaver Bay Minnesota.

Autumn Breezes.

I am quite proud of it.  All the quilting is done

in the ditch because I thought something

else would take away from the  pattern.

I then did some serpentine stitches down the 4 sides.

Peggy

October Blocks of the Month

I have been alone since last Thursday October the 4th (YKW and number one son have gone moose hunting) so I have spent my time doing my October BOM's since I also want to get back to finishing up my Christmas gifts.  So after a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend at Hawkeye Lake at the camp of a friend and her family, I was able to finish the last of them.

Craftsy BOM this month was paper piecing and I have been dreading making this block.  Amy Gibson did a wonderful job on her video showing a different way of paper piecing and so much easier than the method that I was taught.  I just love her method.  It went together so fast I will certainly use this method again.

Block 19

Block 20

Country Junk'tion 

October Block

Apple Avenue

October Block

In Color Order

October Block

I still have to finish My Morning Glory Design Block and my Irish Quilt blocks.  The blocks for the Irish Quilt are so slow in coming that I am going to use some of my own ideas to finish it up.

Peggy

September Blocks

I am busy doing Christmas projects which I will post after Christmas and I have finished most of my September blocks. 

This door hanging I made is actually

called O Canada but I thought

autumn leaves would look really

nice on it too.

Joined at the Hip

All the Blocks of this quilt can be found here.

The gal that has this blog is a little behind so

I decided to just continue on my own.

She has some nice ideas for blocks

and I want to complete this quilt

with her blocks.

In Color Order

This block of the month uses four colours 

in some of the blocks, but this one

only uses three plus the background.

Apple Avenue September 

and we have 4 apples.

Morning Glory Designs

Country Junk'tion

I like this one with the

sunflower and the crow.

Peggy

Getting Caught Up

I was so far behind on my BOM's that I spent the last 2 days doing nothing but blocks.  YKW was up at the cabin and I was alone at home with outside temperatures too hot to enjoy.  So what does one do under these circumstances?   Well you sew, if you are me.  The temperatures the past few days were in the 30C range with humidex around 37C.  Far too hot to be out and about.

Block #15 Yellow Roses

Morning Glory Designs

Block #16 Three Tulips in a Vase

Morning Glory Designs

 

 

Block #15 Ohio Star

Craftsy Block of the Month

 

Block #16 Double Star

Craftsy Block of the Month

 

August Block

Apple Avenue

This block took me a long time to do because

of the small pieces all around

the outside edge.

 

The Letter P and Pretty Pinwheels

Lyn Brown's Alphabet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July Block's of the Month

Three BOM's for July are finished.

Traditional Dresden Plate Block

Modern Dresden Wheel Block

These are both from Craftsy 

In Color Order July Block

Apple Avenue July Block

The center block was suppose to be an American flag

but since I live in Canada I had to change it a 

Maple Leaf.

The Canadian flag has a red maple leaf in the center

with 2 red bars on the sides.

I thought the pale blue looked like the flag was waving in the sky.

Tomorrow Is A New Month

Tomorrow is a new month with new blocks to be downloaded and sewn so I have been busy finishing up this months blocks.  Some of my blocks come out at different times of the month or week so it seems I always have new ones to make.

This is June's block from Apple Avenue.

4 cute lady bugs

June Block from Canton Village Quilt Works.

These blocks come out on the 25th of the month

so I am not behind on this one.

June Block from Joined at the Hip.

I am doing mine in just 2 colours

and not scrappy.

The letter M and Mariner's Compass.

This is from Lyn Brown

her Quilter's Alphabet.

Spring Basket Block #12

from Morning Glory Designs.

Block 13 from Morning Glory Designs

Pink Daffodils.

My daffodils don't look like the ones on the website.

I just couldn't put green leaves where the

pink petals should be.

Getting Caught up on my Block of the Months

I don't like having UFO's so when I got back from Washington I had to get going on all my BOM's for May.  Since I am doing 8 there was a lot of catching up to do.  I hadn't finished April Craftsy blocks since there were a lot of Hexagons to make.  That one is finished and I still have May to do.

Block 1 April Craftsy

Block 2 April Craftsy

Apple Avenue May Block

Morning Glory Designs

Rose of Sharon

Lyn Brown's Alphabet Quilt

Letter I and Ingenious Incredible Iron

Country Junk'tion May Block

I still have a few more to go.  I need to get up to date before June 1st so I guess I will be working overtime for a while.