October 350 Blocks Report
Posted on October 31, 2023 by prairiemoonquilts in 350 Blocks ProjectHappy Halloween! It’s our coldest day yet; just in time, as always — and windy, to boot. I’m happy to stay inside and quilt. We don’t get trick-or-treaters here. The first year we were here for Halloween, I asked My Cowboy: “Do you think we’ll get any trick-or-treaters, or will they think this house is haunted and be too scared to stop by?” His reply: “Well, that, or they’ve seen you out in the yard!” Joker!
For the first time in many, many years, I took the entire month to sew for myself. I quilted a few of my own quilts, and sewed like the wind to catch up on lots of projects that are so close to finished. So I ended up with a big pile of quilts that need binding, and 201 blocks!
Of that 201 blocks, 140 of them were for various mystery quilts, two of which I will get to show you later this week. So stay tuned for that.
Six of them were to finish up this Made in USA quilt that I donated to my guild for their Veteran’s Day presentation. It will be presented to a veteran in our area to recognize him for his service.
I made another Pineapple block, another Improv Herringbone block, and 8 more snowball blocks. Here are four of them. I think this might turn out to be an ugly quilt, so I’m gonna make it picnic size so we can drag it around, and I won’t feel guilty for using it up and wearing it out!
I also drug out another old UFO and regrouped on it and started working on it again. I got this pattern from my friend, Cindy, at Live a Colorful Life. It’s called Jammin’ Jelly. I started it because of a guild challenge years ago, so I’ll tell you all about that when I get it finished, which should be real soon because it’s a super quick sew, and I’m making it for a gift that I’ll be giving soon.
And I made another Patchwork City block. If I keep doing one block a month, it’ll only take me another 7 years to finish them all!
The rest of my blocks were for mystery quilts and various projects I’ll show you later. For now, it’s YOUR turn! What did you get done in October?
I have the Project page updated with our totals from last month as I know them. Our block goal for November is 34 blocks, for a year-to-date total of 318. Only two months left! I can hardly believe that.
The prize winner for September is Linda K. She’s up to 531 blocks so far this year!
I hope you get plenty of sewing time in as we head into the holiday season. There’s that feeling in the air!
I have 434 blocks done this year.
It’s been a slow year for me with my husband having a liver resection, but I still have sewn some.
I managed to sew 3 blocks this month. Physio is helping the arm heal but it’s still sore so I’m not going to push it. I’m happy I got to sew a little in October 😊
A bit slow this month (for me). 76 completed.
33 blocks for me. Maine went from 79 two days ago to 40. Happy Halloween
15 blocks for me, Shelly. I feel like I’m still recovering from cold weather in Chicago, even though it wasn’t cold to them. lol
you have been busy! I made 3 disappearing 9 patch blocks, 4 log cabin blocks and 48 blocks for a quilt, 47 of which are the same and 1 was cut wrong and I didnt have any fabric left so I made one more from scraps that kind of work. so in all this month, I made 55 blocks.
Love your patchwork city block! 30 blocks for me in October.
I made 49 blocks this month, so I have a YTD total of 706.
I made 67 blocks this month. I also quilted and bound three twin size quilts.
Moira
Well that made short work of a rather long post! Mutter, mutter…
Short answer: I managed 48 blocks this month.
I have moved in with my daughter. No sewing machine so I work on appliqué. A granddaughter is living in my house and occasionally I get to go home and sew for an hour or two. Made only 6 blocks. Hopefully, I can eventually move one of my sewing machines here so that I can make more blocks.
Love the flag!
198 blocks for me. (And somehow I’m not happy with even that! LOL. Where did the time go?)
Naughty cowboy – but I did laugh. Mine reckons I’m a scarecrow. No trick or treaters here – not sure if any are out down here as it is wet and wild as a storm comes through over the next couple of days – hence lots of sewing time after the animals sorted.
So far 4 great granny blocks (Susie Stuklis), and all the units done ready for your block 1. I would have started the units for block 2 but realised my seam regulator thingy had shifted and I was making the units too big. Ugh! Unpicked those needing to be redone (thankfully not all) and Molly the Featherweight is waiting for servicing (pedal issues) and now on Agent Peggy Carter, 201K Singer treadle. Getting a bit of exercise too! LOL!
24 blocks
31 blocks for Oct. Lots of other sewing. Christmas gifts, aprons, pillow cases bind a couple quilts, zipper pouches, 8 placemats for my daughter and needle cases. Machine & I have been busy. even started a big jnitting project for me. Harold is well recoopered from his minor but needed surgery. So for a week I did all the driving & a month he isn’t to lift more than 15 pounds. One full quilt finished from beginning to end.
Hope to have a even better month this month.
October was a fast month for me. First weekend was quilt retreat. I got two quilts quilted for show and tell and finished the binding at retreat on both. Then I put together two other flimsys from blocks previously made.
After getting home started focusing on getting ready for my trip to Ireland. I did make a Halloween table runner that was quilt as you go and appliqué blocks.
Think I can count it as 3 blocks and that’s about what I can recall sitting in my hotel room in Ireland.
Relatively productive month even if a lot of blocks weren’t made.
Good on you taking the time to sew for yourself, having some finishes, and a healthy block tally too! Sorry I haven’t reported for a while – each month I intend to but haven’t been organised enough to get to reporting. However I am all up-to-date now with my counting and recording now! I made 8 in June (I thought I had reported but can’t see that I left a comment) and I made 74 in the months July-Aug-Sept-Oct. Not bad considering we’ve been busy calving and calf rearing!
You had a busy month- happy for you. I was productive this month,.just not making blocks. Did work on a couple of UFOS, not finished yet but did work on them. total for the month -19 blocks. 3 tablerunners and 5 more scrappy rail fence blocks!
I have 0 blocks for October! I did pull kits that I will never complete, mostly small Row by Row kits. Also grabbed out some material I am not going to feel guilty about parting with, about 10 yards worth. Also, downsized my color sorting. Gave my sister some of my scraps about 2 grocery bags -she does EPP and is working on a postage stamp quilt. I managed to create an empty drawer not sure how long that will last! I have fabric pulled for 2 SAL. I have no hope of keeping up! Oh, and I wrapped Christmas, only have a few gift cards / wine to pick up and I am done!
Sounds like busy times for everyone these days. Lots of other projects here too, but pleased to report 42 blocks this month.
I am sew happy for you getting all your projects done. Way to go!! I managed to get 18 blocks done for the two quilt alongs I am participating in and the atomic starburst paper pieced blocks for my own quilt.
I completed 99 blocks in October.
I completed 3 quilt tops at retreat and then added a new puppy to the family, but I still managed 60 blocks for October.
October is always a busy month for me at work so not so much sewn this month. I did manage to complete 16 blocks.
Happy Fall to everyone!
30 blocks completed, and two Halloween quilt tops done as well. One of them was a log cabin quilt made from Halloween print scraps and fun to make!
Sounds like you had a great month! I did a lot of quilting on my domestic, which means a couple of finishes, but only 9 blocks. However, I go on retreat this month, which means November will be productive!
I made 83 blocks this month. Most were just leftovers made into scrappy blocks that were then put together as quilts that I have planned to donate. Got 5 of those done and quilted myself. Smiles!!! Got to use up all that fabric I bought over a 25 year quilting shops tours.
59 for me! I can’t wait to see your mystery quilts. We had one group of cute little trick-or-treaters, their parents pushing strollers respectfully waiting at the foot of the driveway while their children took turns coming to the door.
111 blocks for this month. Most of the month spent on quilting and binding and also sorting/pressing/cutting my flannel into usable/find-able! order. Had no idea how much flannel I actually have!
Yeah, I made some progress even though I was traveling. 102 was my count. Did a variety – pinwheels, maple leaves, grandmother flowers, stars, economy blocks (sq in a sq in a sq), and pumpkins. Most were to finish wall hangings!
Made only 14 as I spent all my quilt time quilting2 quilts.
I was able to do 15 blocks in October. Eight of them were applique blocks. This challenge helped me work towards completing a really special unfinished project.
Only 2 blocks for me. ‘Got to get more done in the future.
Moira has 48 blocks. I have 48 blocks. We are twinners. Total so far is 687. I hope to be slow-but-steady through the end of the year, maybe reaching 800, but probably not.
0 blocks created in October. 0 kids for Halloween. I honestly don’t know where the month went!
Just got home from a trip, but I had 50 blocks for October – woohoo! LOL
How wonderful that you got to concentrate on your own projects in October! I ended up with blocks for the month.
October has been a super busy month for lots of company and non-quilting stuff; however, though not blocks, I did make about a million half-square triangles for a jacket I’m making. (OK, I may have exaggerated that number a bit but it did ‘feel’ like that many). So, 0 actual blocks for October.
I made 8 blocks and quilted and bound 3 throw size quilts.
9 blocks for me. I’m still focusing on quilting tops into finished quilts. And it’s working.
I was @ quilt retreat made 2 quilts – illusion was strip sets cut & re-sewn no idea how to count it 70×70= 49 -10” blocks. A few other blocks were made for a Total of 94 blocks!
So glad you were able to do some sewing for yourself. I am sure you were pleased to make progress on your quilts. The flag quilt is beautiful!
I did 120 blocks in Oct. Did finish 2 quilt tops and sandwiched and quilted another. Worked on microwave bowl cozies for Christmas gifts. Made 13 of those but didn’t count them in my block counts.
Hi Shelly,
I hope everything is going well with you family and move. You got a lot of sewing done this month. I had 208 blocks in October. 20 celebration blocks, 20 salt and Pepper blocks, 99 Christmas Counterchange blocks, 12 Sew Scrappy Spools, 56 Mini Brick Road blocks and 1 Sherry McC BOM. Thanks again for organizing this fun activity.
Suspecting that I haven’t updated the totals as we were finishing the house repairs and returning to live in it, I will add the block numbers for the summer.
July 11;
August 20;
September 0;
October 60.
Good sewing to all this month!
Connie W.
Not able to give a total black count. Oct 27 I fell and broke my hip. So in November I hope to be able get my counts in. Wonderful counts ladies keep up the great work😀
I completed 4 blocks in October
I have a whopping 9 for October, been a busy fall here and not much piecing done. In other news I have been binding and finishing other UFO’s. Thanks Shelly
I made 92 blocks in November, not bad.
Well it took a few days, but I finally got it totaled.
72 for October.
24 were from my daily embroidery panel. Most of the rest were from my procrastination quilt. (The new sew-a-long I did because I did not want to work on what I should have been doing📍).
But now I have a Christmas Quilt ready to quilt.
I’m so glad you took a month to sew for yourself!
We don’t get trick or treaters either. DH takes the littles into town, and I stay at home for a few quiet hours.
https://zanasninis.blogspot.com/2023/11/october-block-count.html
I made 63 blocks this month, for a total of 1095.
Well, that was super fun to see my pattern in this blog post. 🙂 I’m glad you are doing some sewing for yourself. Are you all settled in yet?
Missed the post and was wondering where it was. I did get a few made, but will count in November with the whole quilt. I am working on UFOs also. Hope to get more done, now that I am back home. Glad to see you are still getting a lot accomplished.
October was full of yukky medical stuffs. But before those appointments started, I got 20 blocks made. Yay for 20. Any is better than none.
I managed to get a total of 12 blocks for October, but they were a mix of everything – microwave bowl cozies to go to Louisiana with my sister Rose’s finished Petunia quilt, some Christmas ornaments made at a guild sew day, recovered large sofa pillows to better match my new apartment, and a pretty cover for my old stand mixer since it has to sit on my counter now.
I love your Made in USA quilt – so inspiring.