Kitchen Party BOM - Blocks 3 and 4

I had every intention of not falling behind on my Stash Artists Kitchen Party BOM blocks this year...and yet here I am already playing catch up 😂

In March I went to Nova Scotia for almost a week for my Nanny's funeral, which meant I wasn't home sewing or doing the behind-the-scenes work that goes into a quilt pattern design business. I was also running the Roman Adventure QAL and Devotional Journey at the same time, which really increases the amount of computer work that needs to be done. Between those two things, I didn't get the March blocks made.

April just felt busy the whole month. I was still running the QAL, Nathan had a sports tournament, we went to pick Zach up from university, I wrote two quilt patterns, and fulfilled a huge wholesale pattern order (yay!). Phew! With all that, I didn't get the April blocks made, either.

I was determined not to keep falling behind, though, so on Wednesday, the last day of April, I pulled everything out, put blocks 1 and 2 back up on the design wall, and cut the fabrics for the March blocks (block 3). Then on Thursday I sewed all eight of them.

Block 3 is paper pieced, so of course I used freezer paper to make mine. I always hated ripping out the bits of paper after finishing a paper pieced block, so freezer paper is the only way to go for me! Did you know I have an on-demand Paper Piecing with Freezer Paper workshop? You can learn this game changing technique anytime that fits your schedule and then you'll never have to rip out the bits of paper again either. Seriously, it's like magic!

Block 4 (for April) is an applique block, which was perfect for working on while chatting with my mom on the phone and then listening to a podcast. Sam Hunter and Kitty Wilkin kept me company while I cut out and fused the shapes for the two blocks.

I'm calling them finished for now. I still haven't decided if I'm going to stitch around the applique shapes for blocks 1, 4, and eventually 11, before assembling the quilt top or if I'll stitch around them with the quilting. I still have a few months to decide 😊

This isn't anywhere close to the intended arrangement, but I love seeing the blocks all on the design wall together.

So now I'm all caught up...until the May blocks release on Monday 😆