Temperature Quilt and Block of the Month Update | June 2024

[@susanowen1709]

First off that teal/purple/blue color combo is to die for. It's so gorgeous that I had to point out how gorgeous it is before I can even say good morning. So. Good morning! (Ha! I just hit the 1 minute 52 second mark, and apparently you were too excited to say good morning first, too LOL). "It's currently 33 degrees..." Me: God, that's cold!! "Celcius" Me: God, that's hot!! While I'm sorry you're going to be broiling the next few days, it does mean more of that lovely orange in the quilt so hey, silver lining? (Digression: Mr O just said they're getting snow in Montana??? In JUNE, that is crazy. End digression.) The quilt is getting more & more beautiful every month, and it's such fun to see the progress on it as time goes by. Question: How did you calculate the amount of fabric to buy for each temperature range, and are there any colors that you think you bought too much or not enough of? Soooo, my projects. The dog blanket is still in timeout for bad behavior; I'll need to get back on it soon before it stops being a WIP and turns into a permanent UFO. In the meantime, I've been making a whole bunch of scrappy QAYG blocks & strips. No clue what I'll do with them when they are finished (although I did make a boxy bag with one really big scrappy rectangle), however Mt Scrapmore really needs to be eroded a bit & this was a good way to do it. I'm stitching them to cut-up pages from a magazine I was planning on throwing out anyway, so at least the paper is being put to good use before it eventually hits the trash can. I can make two 5" squares and one 3" x 10-1/2" strip from each page of the magazine, so I should have quite a few blocks and a much smaller scrap pile in the end. One thing I did learn is that I need to buy more bright fabrics; never realized before how many dark colors I tend to use.

[@fredmakesthings]

I love those colours together, I always have, now I am considering seeing if I can order more of that fabric. It is so beautiful and i'm nearly out of layer cake squares! All of us are sprawled out on the various open floor in the house. I think the only happy cat is Berlioz. He's in the basement with a dedicated fan. The other cats can join him, but I'm up and about so they need to be too 🤣 I say, put the thing you've lost interest in away and come back to it when you're ready for it. I have a quilt top that needs finishing, a half finished embroidery project, several half finished paintings and drawings, a stack of mini cross stitch projects, an untold number of resin projects waiting on finishing touches and a half painted house, and all I want to do is continue with crochet. There's a beam in my kitchen that has been waiting for a gradient since I moved in almost three years ago, I vow it will be finished before my inlaws come for Christmas.

[@fredmakesthings]

I realized I forgot to answer your yardage question. The Canuck Quilter lists the recommended fabric cuts, I dove headlong into a couple of jelly rolls and then bought fabric as I needed more of it. For both quilts I use the 5-20 degree celsius colours the most, needing about half a yard of each colour.