One Monthly Goal: March Winners!

Whether you meet one goal each month, or NOT:

If you are quiltin', you are NOT losin'!

With pleasure, I toured the OMG linkup, read, and admired all the projects! I am grateful for all of YOUR inspiration, linked up right here at my fingertips!

I am grateful also, to several sponsors this month!

FOUR names were drawn randomly:

Congratulations Patty, from Elm Street Quilts: 

$20. Credit toward purchase at Bagmaker Supply!

Congratulations Nancy, from Joy For Grace:

$25.00 Credit at Fat Quarter Shop!

Congratulations Lisa J, from Sunlight in Winter:

Machine Quilting with Style, by ChristaQuilts!

 

Congratulations Heather, from A Reformed Heathen:

'Springtime', Custom Fabric Bundle!

Prize-winner emails will be sent shortly!

A quick note about the OMG Flickr Group:
If you do not have a blog, you can still participate with our linkups! To be eligible for prizes, link your photos directly from the Group Flickr Site. If you do happen to link from the location of it's source (your uploads), just visit the Group, and add your photo to the pool. As long as it is in there, I will find it! 

Bloggers:
If you linkup from your blog, you do not have to add your photos to the OMG Flickr Site. However, you may want to share there! It is fun to see all the projects in one place!

Quilty 365: Dots, Dots, and more Dots

I am using my leftover centers!

 Fuse, sandwich, quilt, zip-zip. Attach & Woo-Lah! A 28" pillow for DH!

Welcome to Day #124 on my design wall!
Today's block, Lilac-Girl-Gone-Adrift-on-April-Fool's-Day, belongs in what will be the fifth panel.
The top three panels are finished, QAYG panels, machine and hand-quilted. I will take more quilting pictures next month!
The unfinished blocks making up the bottom section will be panel number Four.
Most of the time, I am working in weekly rows.

 

 Some of the blocks in panel Four are from February.

Most are from March,

I reached for purples, and yellow now and then.

The Desert Buns have returned with the warm, springtime weather.

Cropping my crudely lit picture in PicMonkey, and using the draw feature with my old-fashioned mouse, I created a mock-up of my 1st Quarter-panel.

Rotate, and Save. Repeat twice, and the four pictures can be uploaded in collage setting.
First, the plan as I sketched just after I completed Panel #1, when I began to think about how this was all going to come together...

Switching their placement gives me other options as well!

Option Three:

These are 4.5" blocks when finished, plus 1" connecting strips: 80+ inches as we see here.
Only 324 blocks though. I will add a row to both the top and bottom. That plan will use 360 blocks.
The last six will go on the backside. If I can stop.

I'm looking forward to linking up with Audrey, our Quilty365 host, and checking out other Daily-Dotters!
I hear that layout is all the buzz this week ;)

One Monthly Goal: Plans for April 20

We're talkin' April goals already!

It would be a relief for me to do a bit of catch-up this month. I decided to follow Karen's lead by selecting Daily Dots as my OMG.  I found this fun Lilac Girl fabric, and prepared it for today's dot (#124!):

Sure, having today's Dot ready makes me appear organized, but don't let this fool you! My goal this month is to get these Dots under control, and maybe even ahead! If I prepare some extra frames, May will be a breeze! My next post, this afternoon, I will be linking-up with Quilty365 to share some pictures and a progress report.

Apparently I am not the only one who felt the month slip by!
61% of our goals were met this month, a bit of a decline, but lots of admirable successes and I am sure everyone did make progress! If you are wondering, I did reach my own bag-making goal (sewed the hole closed just last night!), and look forward to sharing 10 things I learned while making the beast sometime over the weekend.

Let's get motivated! In the Kitty for the month of April, from our generous sponsors:

Bagmaker Supply has offered a $20.00 discount to one lucky prize-winner this month!

Fat Quarter Shop has offered a $25.00 gift certificate!

Christa Watson, of ChristaQuilts, has generously offered one copy of each her new book! Co-authored with Angela Walter's, The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting , this book will be hot-off-the-press when it is awarded in April!

I wasn't able to make up a bundle this month, 

however I did win this 5" Amy Butler Charm Pack, (Dreamweaver), at a local quilt show this month! I will add a little something to it as well, I do like to personalize the Happy Mail!

Thank you for linking up, I am having so much fun following along with all your quilty-shenanigans!

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