June OMG & Winner

For the month of June One Monthly Goal, at Elm Street Quilts, I plan to have the cows quilt quilted, bound and on its way to my aunt.  It will only be a year and a half late...

I have had the backing for some time, snagged in the Sew Sisters Quilt Shop  clearance section, which, btw is pretty fantastic. It's Windham Fabrics "Farm Chic" by Kate McRostie.

Then, this past winter I discovered the farm animals in various yoga poses,  "Willow Creek" for elizabeth's studio, so of course, I had to snag a little of that to incorporate into the back as well as some other fun future project!

Besides the OMG goal, I have a personal goal to be caught up on my 150 Canadian Women QAL as well as my three RSC projects which have been sadly neglected since leaving Florida.  I did work a bit on green, which was May's colour, for project #3:

Trying to bring a bit of order to a scrap vortex-looking quilt by doing the opposing corners in fabrics that read solid; multi-coloured ones are going down the centre, framed in black strips.

There's a rogue block, bottom left corner, that was my test block, before I had the idea to calm the crazy a bit.  It takes a bit more thought than I'd realized: do you see how I have the start of 3 more purple squares, another turquoise one, and another green one, even though I have four green corners? That's why I've started leaving one side of the black strip empty so I can hopefully work around this!

And project #2:

I didn't do any April multi-colour blocks/rows for any of the three projects since I just want the rainbow effect; however, my multi-colour scrap challenge was fulfilled when I did the Welcome to Canada quilt.

Sadly, I didn't even make a dent in the multi-colour strips or scraps boxes. 😖

This is just one example of why things are moving at a snail's pace in the sewing department of late:

Pieces from a Freefall cushion cover I am making, for which I made a test block before we left Florida, and also for which I was sure I had cut all the pieces.  Yet when it came time to sewing the last 3 blocks, I was short several pieces. 'How odd,' I thought.  Looked around on the cutting table and the former shoe rack-turned-fabric-shelf that had sat there before I got to have yet another piece of the former kitchen cabinets up here...  Nada.  Weird.  Weird.  Well, maybe I'd thought to wait in case I changed my mind about fabric placement...but the missing pieces had no logical order to what had not been cut.  So I cut those I needed.

A few days later, I pulled the shoe rack out to move this shelf in its place, and what did I spy?  Fabric pieces.  WTH...  Emit another massive sigh...  That shelf didn't end up there; it's in another place.  Yes, I will be giving you a tour of progress up here one of these days.

All right time to announce the winner of Star Blossom, Tish and David's beautiful pattern!  Remember if this is not you, then you have another week I believe to snag your copy at a discounted price!  Thank you to all of you for your wonderful comments and such kind words on my version of their pattern.

There were 76 comments, and the winner is:

Congratulations to Donna W!  This is a first: the first number pulled had an email!  When you make Star Blossom, Donna, be sure to shoot me a photo as well as Tish.