English Paper Piece - June progress

Here it is the start of another month and the wrap up for the previous month. This month (June) I was able to make some good progress on moving one of my projects forward.

Popsy's Throw - Me - this is the project that I have been focusing on and have tried to make as many motifs as I could over the last month. It has been nice to see that i have been able to get as many motifs made as I did. It was nice to see that I have been able to continue to get the motifs made and once the weather cools down a little bit I think I am going to be trying to add some of these motifs to the throw or at least that is my goal moving forward.

Kitting up progress on motifs - this last month I decided it was time to try and figure out how to manage all the projects that I have on the go. I decided it was time to just kit up each project and maybe see if I can move things forward. What I decided to do was to make a small kit for reach of the projects that I am working on so that I have everything for that that project.

These project boxes are basically a 4 x 6 inch photo box, and it holds all of the items that I need to work on making more motifs. I also have some of these project boxes that are holding motifs that have been made and are waiting to be attached to one of the projects. It is so nice having everything available to work on that step that is related to the bin. For the pictures you are seeing these are the bins that need motifs completed on one of two projects. It is nice to know that I can continue to move these projects forward even if it is a little bit at a time. 

I am not certain how I am going to be able to move these projects forward, but I think once I have got the motifs completed these bins will start to be used for the motifs that I want to add to the various throws. I do know that just being able to continue to get these projects moved forward would be great.

Making motifs is wonderful when we are dealing with extreme heat and that is what we are currently dealing with. As I am writing this on Tuesday evening, our temperature is currently 82F (28C) feeling like 102F (39F) which isn't good when it's almost 11 pm. 

It has been a challenge to at least move something forward in the last couple of days so we will see how things go. I hope to be able to continue to make motifs over the next couple of days and I guess we will see what it looks like at the end of July.
 

English Paper Piecing - June Progress

It is hard to believe that another month has come and gone. June was a busy month and hot so it meant that I didn't get as much done as I would have liked. I hope to be able to get a bit more English Paper Piecing done in July because I haven't got a lot completed.

Kindle Cover - I decided in June that with some of the pieces that I already had joined together that I was going to try and make a cover for my Kindle. I didn't get a lot of work completed on it but at least I now have determined how big the cover is going to be.

If I can sit and work on this piece for a while I should be able to make some good progress on it. Now that I have the size determined I can now figure out how many more motifs need to be made.

I hope to be able to work on this project some more in July and maybe get it closer to being ready to be quilted. I don't think this will be hand quilted, but I would like to see how quickly I can get this piece finished up so that I can start using it.

Other projects - I did make a few more motifs for the border of the scrap quilt but that was all that got attention this month.

As the weather has warmed up quite a bit here in Ontario, it means that I will probably be spending more time sitting on the balcony so that means I may be able to get more progress on my EPP projects, but we will just have to wait and see what happens.

I will be back at the end of July to show you want I was able to accomplish and hopefully I will have something to show for the month.