Started Sewing Jungle Magnolia

 Hi all -

I hope everyone is doing well! I always start with a little weather report because that's something we all have in common. We had a nice, warm week here but a front came in last night to drop the temperatures and give us a little snow. It was only about 6", but every bit helps!

This week I started the sewing on my Jungle Magnolia BOM (Block of the Month) designed by Judy Niemeyer. Last week I had done the rough cutting where we cut the needed strips from the fabric yardage. This week I took those strips and cut the needed pieces. 

Jungle Magnolia - Prepared Pieces

These are all of the pieces for Chapter H of the quilt instructions, except for the parts that I started sewing.

Jungle Magnolia - Beginning of Checkerboard Sewing

This quilt is designed to be constructed from the outside in. It'll be interesting to see how that works! There are several alternatives for some parts of the quilt. My version has a checkerboard in the border. These are the pieces that will be sewn into the checkerboard. We're still having problems with the video classes. They did post some more classes about cutting out the pieces, but the teacher mentioned having a video about cutting out the pieces for the checkerboard, but that still hasn't appeared and any questions about it got unanswered, as do my questions about when we will have the promised Q&A zoom session. I decided that I would just go ahead and follow the directions in the pattern and will watch the videos as they appear to look for any hints or shortcuts that I didn't figure out myself. It's really exciting to finally get started sewing on this project!

I also met with my English Paper Piecing group last week so I made a little progress on my La Passacaglia quilt designed by Willyne Hammerstein.

La Passacaglia

I'm still working on my first rosette, which will be Rosette #2 in the pattern. I just have four more pieces to baste to the papers and I will be ready to sew on the next two rounds of the rosette. Work is slow on this, but it's really fun to get back to it every once in a while!

I also continue to make progress on my Peach Sorbet Throw designed by Janine Myska. 

Peach Sorbet Throw

I just love the colors!

I definitely don't need another project, but I had this set of yarn that's been staring at me for a while so I decided to use it. I had bought a mystery project a year and a half ago, but I ended up not liking the project so I still had the yarn sitting around. I decided that I really wanted to knit it up so I found a free pattern that would work for the yarn. This is the Fading Strips shawl designed by Beata Jezek.

Fading Stripes

This is a simple garter stitch shawl with narrow alternating stripes. The perfect vehicle for a skein of yarn and some minis. I'm using the minis from lightest to darkest. I've already used up the first nini, which was a light green. I'll knit until I run out of yarn. I think it'll be cute.

Nancy