I worked on several different projects during the month of July. For my friend, Ed’s 50th birthday, I made him a bucket with a paper-pieced carrots using Leila Garduno’s free pattern. The second photo below shows a gardener’s hand shovel, pattern by Liza at Liza Taylor Handmade. The bucket pattern is available through Liza’s Paper Piecers membership.

I finished a Baseball Star quilt for my friend, Peter, and his daughter, Aila, who are die-hard St. Louis Cardinals fans. My quilt looks just like the pattern cover because it featured St. Louis Cardinals’ colors. The back has actual St. Louis Cardinals’ fabric. I will be giving it to them tomorrow and hope to take some photos of them with the quilt. I plan to write a post about this finish in the next week or so and will share photos of it in this post.

I also finished a quilt top for my great-nephew, John, and his new wife, Bekah. I used Modern Handcraft’s Ranges quilt pattern in sunset gradient colors.

I joined in on Kristy Lea’s of Quiet Play Designs free teacup challenge in July on Instagram. The pattern is now available at her FPP Pattern shop on her website. I used some Liberty of London fabric to make a teacup mug rug for my friend, David. He used to be my boss 30 years ago before I moved to New Mexico for grad school. We reconnected in June when I visited Monterey, California, and spent a good portion of our visit talking about quilts as David has been collecting antique quilts.

My friend, Mary, asked me to make a Christmas quilt for her to put on her bed during the upcoming holiday season. She found a quilt kit on Etsy and bought it. I pieced the quilt top in July. The traditionally pieced teeny-tiny half-square triangles just about made me lose my mind!

In July, I found out that some special people are expecting another daughter. They are not comfortable with being named on this blog or having any information shared on social media. I found some adorable elephants on JoeJuneandMae’s Etsy site and put together this 40″ square quilt top below:

For anyone who hasn’t seen the T-Rex quilt I made for my friend, Kristen’s baby boy due later this month, below is a pic and see a link to the blog post here.

Lastly, I signed up for a Tell Me A Story Holiday Block Swap. I have been making some blocks in traditional Christmas colors that I will share in my August recap post later this month.

 That’s about it. For August, I’ll be focusing on finishing up Ranges, Awesome Sky, and Elephants quilts and writing posts about them as well as finishing my blocks for the Holiday Block Swap.