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I share my work over on Instagram @sarahgoerquilts. Top Nine combs a person's feed from the year to find the nine most popular posts. Here are mine.

1. My Sewcialites quilt along week 1 block.

2. Mini Series Sew Along Week 3.

3. My new board game closet. (Some of my favorite games can be found in this post.)

4. Mini Series Sew Along Week 1.

5. Blackwood Cardigan. (pattern from Helen's Closet Patterns)

6. Mini Series Sew Along Week 8.

7. Project QUILTING 11.3: Put a Heart on It. (2nd in Improv Log Cabin Mini Series)

8. Wonky cross quilt top. Started in a 2016 QuiltCon Intermediate Improv workshop with Rossie Hutchinson.

9. Project QUILTING 11.2: Team Colors. (1st in Improv Log Cabin Mini Series)

 

In summary, people appreciated tiny piecing and community sewing. :-)

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As I reached the end of my 100 Day Project (July - October 2020) I realized that my series of mini quilts was one color short of a rainbow. Therefore, I had no choice but to make my final improv log cabin purple. There weren't many days left, so I opted for quick and easy. I hadn't made a quarter log cabin yet, so that's what I created, alternating black and white prints with purple prints.

I chose two filler motifs for the free motion quilting.

 

In 100 days, I completed these five mini quilts, start to finish. Each is 16 1/2" x 16 1/2".

 

And the full 2020 series:

I chose the log cabin due to the ubiquitous nature of the traditional log cabin. I love the variety of styles achievable with the log cabin. I feel like this series could continue indefinitely.

You can read all about the other quilts in the series here:

This is day 18 of the 31-Day Blog Writing Challenge with Cheryl.

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We are five weeks into Quilting the Countdown 100 day project. There are 63 days left until QuiltCon. I'm spending at least 15 minutes a day working on my Patchwork City blocks (a project I started in 2015!)

I finished 9 blocks this week. Nine! This brought me to 47 out of 75 blocks complete! The finished blocks shown feature Kona Bluegrass, Coral, and Grellow.

I've been avoiding this block, but it's the only one I have (mostly) cut out. I've already finished the other two in this color.

And the next color to cut out is my Kona Charcoal blocks. I use sharpie to label the names of the colors on the selvage edge of my solids. Since most of my solids are Kona I just put the color name on those, and on other brands I include the brand name and color.

I'm getting excited to see all my blocks together. I also want to figure out what fabric I'm using for the sashing so I can start putting the trios of blocks together. The block of the month came with a dark grey Essex linen, but when I pre-washed it... it became a crumpled mess and I vowed not to use it for this project. Right now I'm leaning toward a light grey Kona solid.

 

I'm participating in Cheryl's 31-Day Blog Writing Challenge.

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