Sayōnara January

 

Working on UFOs in January is like making a resolution to lose weight....everything is hunky-dory for the first couple of weeks, then temptation hits.....  (for a quilter, temptation is a new pattern....see below...)

 

 

 

 

APQ's January Number was 5. "Easy Peasy." she said.  "Whip those puppies out in about a hour!"    😁  My number 5 was relatively easy...a collection of Totes.  But, I was so busy working on the Confetti Star that I never actually got to the Totes....  Easy or not...not done....

River's Edge Confetti Star

Here is a step-by-step tutorial.  Her blocks are nicer than mine...I believe her secret is she's using add-an-eighth ruler and I'm using add-a-quarter ruler....interesting, I did not know until right this moment add-an-eighth ruler even existed!  
And, my excuse is the pattern is not even printed for add-an-eighth.  AND, until I stumbled across this tutorial, I did not have any instructions to follow.  I only had the pattern.  OK, enough with the excuses.

Why does it even matter?  Because after trimming, my blocks measure 6 X 6 instead of 6.5 X 6.5...shucky-darn! 
The finished block needs to be 12.5 X 12.5.  But, we quilters make do.  I made up the difference in the block borders.

Here is my progress so far. 28 blocks finished:

 

Memory Bears  

No Progress on the Bears, except I've washed and prepped the shirts and decided on patterns.
I will see Miss Peggy (and Morgan (daughter) and Maddie (g-daughter)) in Reno in June.... My goal is to take them with me.

BONUS:  Rosie O'Doggie

TEMPTATION!!  Scrolling around the internet, I came across a website that I wasn't even sure was still active:  Silver Lining Originals. 
(If you go to this site, you'll see what I mean.)  But, I found the cutest, paper-piecing pattern for a Border Collie and it looks just like
Rosie O'Doggie....HAD to take a chance and see if I could buy the pattern.  

AND, what to my wondering eyes did appear in my mail box a few weeks later???!!!

 

What a Face!!
HOW could I resist!!! 
(Rosie was a good doggie)

I have pinned this pattern to my work board and hope to get a small wall quilt finished for my daughter's 40th B-day in June.

The goal is to make Progress, right?  I feel good that I've made progress.  Bring on February!!