One Monthly Goal

I have been seeing this OMG logo around blogland lately and wondered if I could join in and be successful. First of all, I have to understand the rules. Set one quilting goal for the month, write a blog post about it and link at the beginning of the month. Then write another blog post at the end of the month to show the completion of this particular goal. I could try it once. I might even succeed.

I found this out on Feb 8th just after the Feb link was closed. Okay, I will aim for March 1-7. Now to choose a doable goal and do it. That sounds easy enough. But what one quilting goal will I choose from the 471 things I am presently doing? It's not like I have to complete an entire quilt during the month. I can choose a doable chunk. I will have to be accountable. My integrity is at stake! Well, maybe not.

So often, I operate out of impulse. I might jump in and start a new quilt because I have all the fabrics and pattern sitting here, forgetting that I have done this a few times in the past couple of years, and  as a result, forgetting that I have many unfinished quilts on the go. When does a work in progress become a UFO? Let's just say, I have a few of each.

Or I operate out of necessity. I committed to completing a specific quilt for a specific person for a specific date. So I put everything else on hold and get it done. Or, I hop on a plane to visit someone and take along a few hand applique blocks. When was the last time I used the sewing machine? Oh, yes, back in November I sewed together all the CCCQ blocks and machine quilted it and bound it and gave it to my aunt for her 90th birthday. That's something I planned and worked towards for a year.

My One Month Goal for March will not be to complete anything. It will be to advance one specific quilt. But which one?   Since I wrote on my 2016 goals to complete, quilt and bind at least one quilt and that being Ben Biggs, then my OMG for March will be to complete 5 blocks that are already started. That is doable. It is machine applique work. Something I cannot take on a plane with me.

These are 5 blocks in progress. I pulled the pictures from my blog.

There will be no less than 4 buds and leaves in each corner of all 25 blocks. That's 100. Each.

I am using a wash-away fuseable called Floriani. I cut out the shapes, pressed them to the back of the fabrics, cut them out, then turned under a scant 1/4 inch and glued the edges under. Yes a lot of work. And I thought this would be a quicker way of doing it.Some of these are already applique down. Now to complete them.

Blessings,
Chris