I have made the most of my last vacation in June! I had time on planes, in a cabin (with a well-placed skylight right over the comfy couch to light my stitches) and a surprising amount of success sewing in the car, despite the bumps in the road (and without getting carsick, yay)!
I finished 4 flowers completely (the blue one in the top left that looks a little wonky had three short seams left, which I finished during a webinar this morning), have four more that only need the final two seams, and 6 that are in strips (needing the final four seams). Woot!
I experimented with a new strategy while I was in the car, which was just to sew the first seam to connect two strips (which you can see in the top photo, i.e. the fabric at funny angles) as a way to make it mentally easier to come back later and sew the rest of the seam, since it was already started. I like it! But it takes up a lot of space trying to keep everything organized; definitely a tradeoff. And it requires a lot of needles, which can be pesky.
I also tried out sewing the 4- and 5-block strips together and then the 3-block strip onto that rather than sewing both 4- & 3-block strips together and leaving the pesky middle seams for last (like I've done in all the incomplete flowers in the top image). I will definitely do that again - having the shorter seam for the larger chunk of fabric was helpful.
Based on my quilt math of June 1, I need to finish 3 more flowers before the end of the month to stay ~on track for finishing by the end of the year. But it's very exciting to be 1/4 of the way done with the full flowers! And it's fun to bring smiles to a lot of people who sit next to me on planes. :)
Full flowers: 16/64 (10 started)
- Catherine
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