Jungle Magnolia Month 3 Started

 Hi all -

I hope everyone is doing well! We continue to have a lot of rain up here. Everything is so green! I've been having fun buying flowering plants and putting them in pots on my deck. They are so cheerful! And so far they don't seem to be tasty-looking to the moose, so that's really good! I hope it stays that way, but if not, it was a fun experiment.

This week I received the month 3 fabric for the Jungle Magnolia BOM designed by Judy Niemeyer. I had a long wait to receive my package this month because the post office in Denver decided to send my package out west to Kremmling, CO instead of sending it to me. So what should have taken a day (I'm only an hour from the shop that sends it), ended up taking a week. I have a lot of trouble with the post office in Denver sending my packages all over the place before they come to me. Very frustrating! But I got my fabric on Friday and got started on it this weekend. This month's bundle included two "chapters" - E and D (the chapters are named from the inside out, but we are constructing the quilt from the outside in). I was able to finish the E units:

Jungle Magnolia - E1 Units

Jungle Magnolia - E2 Units

These units look the same, but they are slightly different and they are mirror images. I got these units attached to the previous units. Here is how a corner of the quilt looks so far:

Jungle Magnolia - Corner Units So Far

This quilt really is pretty spectacular! I also got a start on the D units:

Jungle Magnolia - D1 Unit Components

Jungle Magnolia - D1 Unit Components

I was hoping to have this month's units finished for this blog post, but all of the trimming, gluing and removing papers takes a lot more time than you would expect! But I'll be finished with this part soon enough.

While waiting for my Jungle Magnolia package, I was able to finish my Peach Sorbet Throw designed by Janine Myska.

Peach Sorbet Throw

It didn't take too long since I only had a couple more stripes to add and then the border.

Peach Sorbet Throw - Border

The border is thin, but it stabilizes the edges of the blanket and looks pretty.

I've also been wanting to do some cross stitch again. I looked through my stash of kits and pulled out the Flying Beauties kit. I did all of the prep work and got a small start on the stitching.

Flying Beauties

It doesn't look like much yet, but that yellow blotch will grow to be a beautiful butterfly's wing. I wanted to try using knitCompanion (the software I use for keeping track of my place in the pattern when knitting and crocheting) to keep track of my progress on this, but I couldn't get the chart to scan in square so I could set it up in the app. I was too lazy to learn how to clean up charts so I just went ahead and started working on it the old-fashioned way with the paper pattern. But I do want to learn how to do this so I'll have to spend some time on this sometime.

Nancy