MONTH 4 — Share Your Progress Here

[Barbara B.]

Please use this TOPIC to show us your progress. We really want to see all the great quilts as they are being created

[Barbara B.]

Here is my alternative pieced border for Month 4 and what I am doing with my personal Prints version. My Month 4 blog also shows a variation on Becky’s pieced border.

[bonomo]

I'm assuming if we bought on of the kits, we run the risk of not having enough fabric if we don't follow Barbara's instructions on each border. I love the idea of the same border all the way around, but am afraid I won't have enough fabric.

[Pat A.]

Last month was hard. I was delighted to see this month. More delighted that I could use my studio 180 rulers to make both blocks. Here's my tests to make sure the blocks were the same.

[bonomo]

Good to know the Studio 180 tools work for this - I was going to give it try also.

[Margaret E.]

I chose to do just the center of this quilt, which I loved. Reminds me of a Sorry board and I put Monoply squares around it. The photo show it on its side

[Barbara T.]

Packing up to leave our winter place in AZ and head home so I forged ahead without Barbara’s live. I was happy my border fit! I’m reducing to 75% and worry the math might not be right.

[Barbara B.]

I'm assuming if we bought on of the kits, we run the risk of not having enough fabric if we don't follow Barbara's instructions on each border. I love the idea of the same border all the way around, but am afraid I won't have enough fabric.

You are correct. Making changes to fabrics used when working with a Kit means you may run out of some specific fabrics down the road. That doesn’t bother me as Solids are easy to add and the Prints kit is so scrappy it isn’t hard to add new fabrics. But if you want to make the quilt exactly as Becky Goldsmith designed it stick with her instructions.

[lholzhu]

Very fun month. I have to do the corner block. My solids with be just with one border and prints all blocks. I am not sure what one is my favorite.
I added a 1/4 inch to fabrics to allow easier piecing.

[Pat A.]

Okay, now I'm done.

[Ursula C.]

April finished with Barbaras Border. Liked it very much and never used it before.

Wish you all a happy Easter

[Barbara B.]

Good job! I wondered if anyone would be interested in this one.

[Helen W.]

Ursula, It looks great. Great choice of fabrics. HelenW

[Renee M.]

I decided to go out on a limb and finish this Game On quilt from the quilt show block of the month for 2026. The center and one triangle border designed by Becky Goldsmith and I chose the rest of the blocks.

[Barbara B.]

Wow! What a fun celebration quilt. Very Joyful!

[Judith A.]

I like the asymmetry of the borders. Hoping it will be balanced with my color choices.

[Helen W.]

Looking great so far. HelenW

[JANET E.]

this is my month 4. I haven't decided on the other borders yet.

[Helen W.]

What happens if you put Alex's Scrappy Triangles in your Game On quilt layout. Just playing in EQ8.
HelenW
CLICK ON PHOTO TO SEE WHOLE PHOTO

[Carole B.]

Wow, Helen! At first glance I was bowled over as I thought you had made all those blocks. I have EQ8, but haven’t really used it. I’m taking a class on it at Paducah. You are a real pro!

[Helen W.]

Hi Carole, You are going to love what you can do with EQ8 after you get good at it. I have a teacher
that is as passionate about EQ8 as Sue Spargo is about wool applique and beautiful threads.

If you go to On Point Quilter, Kari Schell has years of Saturday newsletters, each with a small project
that she talks you thru. She is a fabulous teacher. She has about 24 months of lessons you can
pay to take, and keep to always go back to to remind you how to do something. She only opens her Tech Know Quilters classes a
couple times a year. It is so much fun. Hope you have a great experience at Paducah. I am
currently taking 6 month of classes from Kari. She makes it doable. Three classes a week, 10
minutes long video and written pdf. There is so much I did not know, that I did not know.
HelenW
PS I am putting Bird Dance birds on my final border of Bloomer.

[Kathryn N.]

Month 4 finished. Didn't love the triangle placements in the suggested border, so re-drafted the foundation papers to make the triangles smaller, they are now surrounded by the white, plus rotate an even number of degrees anti-clockwise between the first (top) and last triangle. If I did this again I'd make the angles of the triangles steeper so that it was more obvious which way was 'up'.

[AmericanQuilter]

I like more symmetry in my quilts. I look forward to next month’s pattern and adding that border to both sides of the quilt.