February Progress Report

I seem to be all over the place with my quilting progress. But that is the joy in the journey - right? 
This month I have been slowly blanket stitching my wool trees down on my Winter Wonderland sew-a-long quilt top shown here. 

When I made my goals out for this year, I hoped to start hand piecing on Dear Jane. I am putting that on the back burner for awhile because I need to purchase some foundation piecing paper to help on some of the blocks. I am so new to quilting, that I find it too cumbersome to hand piece such tiny little bits of fabric together. After several attempts, I think I need to try hand piecing something larger first before I jump into a quilt as complicated as Dear Jane. There are great tutorials out there on how to foundation piece Dear Jane. If interested, here is a great one.  

I have added a new BOM to my goal this year. It is by a wonderful designer -  Pat Sloan who is so graciously sharing her talents with us! I am really looking forward to participating in this BOM and am currently up to date on both January and February blocks. This is a first for me LOL! I am not usually up to date on ANY of my projects but due to a few much needed snow days off work, I have been having some fun playing in my sewing room. 

Here's January's block:

 Again, I am not a photographer by ANY stretch but you get the idea. I didn't feel there was enough contrast between the two peach fabrics so I added the appliqued heart in the middle to balance it out. I am challenging myself to only using fabrics from my stash so this will be a scrappy quilt. 
Here is my February block which I am quite happy with:

I added a black fabric to the middle and plan on using black throughout the quilt to tie the colors together. I have never made a scrap quilt before so I hope this works! :) 

My friend and I got together on a Saturday to work on ministry quilts.  The fabrics were already pre-cut so these quilt tops went together fairly quick. We pin basted them and are now working on machine quilting. 

The ministry we are supporting, are quilts that are made for children who are victims of trauma and will go in police cars and fire trucks and given to children when needed. 
I am off from work again today so am heading to my sewing room to complete another pillowcase for one of my students at school. 
Blessings, 
Kymber