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The Primary (and A Lovely Year of Finishes) Goal

I'm pleased to have completed my first month of participating and achieving my ALYoF Goal in June. And I'm excited to be making my next goal. It's so hard for me to focus on just one goal. So since I made progress on it last month, this month's goal will be to finish my 4th of July table runner. (Note: I don't suspect I'll actually have it done by the 4th, but whatev.) Here are my 4 completed blocks (9 1/2" unfinished size). I'll be using the blue fabric as borders, binding and backing. I've decided to hold at 4 blocks, since I think it will be the perfect size for our dining table, allowing enough space at the end for the kids to eat.

4th of July table runner in progressb

I'll report back once it's finished being pieced, quilted and has the binding attached. I'm also intending to make my first quilt label a la Kelly at My Quilt Infatuation.

The Bonus Goals

Anyone notice that my to do list is just getting longer?

I'm linking up to ALYoF July Goal Setting Party.

Please follow my progress this month on Bloglovin', Instagram, Twitter or by subscribing by email (to the right, or below on mobile).

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This goal setting thing really works. It was a great help to prioritize my projects. My June Goals post gave me somewhere to look back to when I was overwhelmed by the many options in and around my sewing room.

The Primary (and ALYoF) Goal

Build a Bouquet Flower BagI finished ten lined drawstring bags, 7 were given as gifts, The Girl got one for toys (above), and two are in the "gifts to be given" pile.

The Bonus Goals

  • Decide on my plan for party outfits for the kids to wear at The Boy's birthday party next month. Check. Here's a glimpse of my fabrics (but not that green one, cause it doesn't really work)... more coordinating fabrics needed. The Boy's birthday fabrics
  • Complete the step 12 of my mystery quilt. Check. I made these 99 units from 297 pieces. I even started step 13 to piece the small pieces together to make 9-patch blocks.

mystery quilt progress

Um... I'm loving to see all the completed blocks from others on Facebook as I fall farther and farther behind!

  • Do something with my patriotic orphan block. Check. (Don't you love the metric of "do something"?) At the start of the month I had two blocks. Now I have four. Marji says I should have an odd number... so I guess I have to make one more! Hm... the 4th of July is SOON.

9-inch patriotic blockstwo more patriotic blocks

What I'm doing next on this project is to learn how to do machine applique with a turned edge. I intend to do a small project (or four!) to practice before I dive in on creating some fish and seaweed for the quilt. I've pulled fabric to make a few mug rugs with some small fish and seaweed.

for four mug rugs

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Earlier this month I started seeing posts from blogs participating in the American Made Brand Blog Tour and read more about the new company. I'm so pleased with their mission to be a company that produces "a fabric entirely sourced and manufactured in the United States."

Naturally, I just had to have some!

American Made Brand Solids

Jewels Fat Quarter BundleJewels Fat Quarter Bundle,left to right: Light Red (4), Dark Green (22), Olive (24), Dark Purple (28), Dark Orange (37), Dark Eggplant (46), Brick (51), Dark Rust (72), Dark Tomato (81), Dark Indigo (96), Forest (113).

American Made Brand YardageYardage, left to right: Dark Brown (16), White (1), Purple (27), Periwinkle (85), Orange (36), Lime (18), Gray (6), Dark Gray (7), Black (3).

I'm toying with working on a quilt to enter in their Farm to Fabric Challenge. Somewhere around here I have a sketch of what I'm thinking of doing. Here's a peek at my palette:

Secondary ColorsLinking up with Stitch by Stitch for Anything Goes Monday.