It feels good to be Sewing ...

Month 4 of Sarah Fielke's BOM pattern arrived while I was in the chaos of moving everything upstairs, it wasn't until today that I decided to work on it. I pulled my project box out and was ready to go in 5 minutes - I love having project boxes - Hurray for being super organised!!

I got everything out as I wasn't sure where I was with this quilt...

I have finished the blocks for months 1 and 2

 I have almost finished appliquéing the bird block from month 3

 The heart appliqué block is prepped

I have sewn down a couple of the wreath filler blocks

 and prepped the rest

 Some of the star filler blocks have been pieced

and the fabrics cut out for the remainder

 I am still in love with these Liberty fabrics, I bought a few more small pieces while I was up in town a few weeks ago

 I used some of them in the appliqué block for month 4 (I have since added a couple of orange circles to this block)

 I also prepared this month's Hawaiian appliqué block, you can't see from the photo but the design is drawn on the block in silver pen, you can see 1/4 of the pattern from the template; you cut away the appliqué fabric as you come to stitch it, it is all thread basted in place so hopefully will be easy enough to stitch down :)

 I have laid out the pieces for the star block - I really need to make myself a bigger design board!

I am really enjoying working in my new space, I hope to keep up with the prep for this quilt, so I will have plenty to sew by hand when my family visit this summer.